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Very healthy pregnancy (exercised 3x a week, ate well, gained an appropriate amount of weight), and super easy labor and delivery. This time, I have not been so healthy and am pretty inactive, I hope it doesn't really negatively affect the labor/recovery process.

Very unhealthy pregnancy (HG), very long and complicated labour and delivery.

With LO1 I did CrossFit every other day until my due date and I ate paleo. Labor was 51 hours and recovery wasn't easy. My whole pregnancy my mom insisted I that exercising would make labor worse. That wasn't the experience of the other CrossFitters I worked out with.

With LO2 I walked and ate fairly healthy and labor was two hours and easy. Recovery was easy too. I guess most of that is due to being baby #2.

I had a pretty unhealthy pregnancy in that I didn't exercise at all (high risk pregnancy + conservative MFM recommendation + exhaustion kicking my butt), then went on bedrest for 6 weeks prior to delivery. My L+D was complicated, but it's hard to say how much of that is because I had twins. My recovery was very easy though, easier than a lot of people I know, even though I had a vaginal birth and csection at the same time.

We're vegetarians and have an active lifestyle - gym, ice skating, swimming, walks, etc. At 20 weeks pregnant I was thinner than I am now. But by 28 weeks I started to develop PIH and was told to take it easy, but 37 weeks I was on hospital bedrest, then strict bedrest at home with pre-e. I blew up with water weight/swelling. Never had any pre-term labor (at least that I could tell), water broke while waiting for induction and I felt his whole body turn and drop down. He was posterior and brow out, they tried to turn him but ended up episiotomy and vacuum.

I would say I was super healthy with my first and pretty healthy with my 2nd. Both deliveries were very easy.

I was pretty healthy. Only gained 29.5 lbs, played tennis the entire pregnancy multiple days a week, was playing pool volleyball the day before we went to the hospital, etc.

I developed pre-e at 37 weeks and had a long (and ultimately failed) induction that resulted in a c-section. But my recovery was an absolute breeze!

I was sporadically active-my back gave me a TON of problems this time, and I was frequently sick, but I ate pretty healthy. Pregnancy sucked but delivery was easy

I voted other--moderately active, good diet (enforced by developing GD), but she was breech, so I had a c-section!

I'm very active (physically demanding job), but did not work out during my first. I jogged up until 32 weeks with my second. I ate whatever I wanted and did not focus on healthy food since I was nauseous all the time. Both labors were uncomplicated and under 8 hours.

I am the poster child for avoiding exercise and healthy food, and I had two very straightforward and easy L&Ds.