https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:35:10 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pregnancy-vs-labor#post-2893765 Tue, 06 Aug 2019 21:40:26 +0000 Umbreon 2893765@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Easy pregnancy and easy labour. No issues! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pregnancy-vs-labor#post-2893748 Tue, 06 Aug 2019 18:49:17 +0000 SweetCaroline 2893748@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So I had MS for 23 weeks. However, the rest of my pregnancy was pretty much par for the course. Because of the MS, I wouldn't rate it as a easy breezy pregnancy, but it was free of complications. </p> <p>I labored for 40 hours (all back labor) and pushed for over 2...baby was posterior. That sucked. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pregnancy-vs-labor#post-2893733 Tue, 06 Aug 2019 15:25:37 +0000 mrsrain 2893733@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Pregnancy was the worst. I voted the labor was easy, but I was actually induced the second time around due to PIH. That said, it was a dream induction where my body took over and I needed minimal intervention, and in both cases the actual labor was pretty “easy” in spite of hurting like hell. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pregnancy-vs-labor#post-2893730 Tue, 06 Aug 2019 14:46:13 +0000 mdf106 2893730@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had no correlation, although pregnancy and labor were not especially bad for any of the three them. Each labor was significantly easier than the previous, even though my second and third were induced with pitocin. Pushing was the worst part each time, and it got much easier each time. My second pregnancy was the easiest by far. My first I felt worse in the first trimester, and with my third I felt worse in the second and third trimesters. I had a lot of extra monitoring with my first and third (for high bp and age, respectively). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pregnancy-vs-labor#post-2893729 Tue, 06 Aug 2019 14:12:08 +0000 Sams Mom 2893729@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So my pregnancy had it's fair share of issues, then some, in the the last 19 weeks. I know in theory my pregnancy kind of sucked, that it was probably stressful (or should have been)... But wasn't the worst (no bed rest or anything like that). Then I had a scheduled c section, which I thought was great.... Soo not really sure. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pregnancy-vs-labor#post-2893728 Tue, 06 Aug 2019 13:59:48 +0000 Ajsmommy 2893728@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Both pregnancies were easy... I was induced with both and that part sucked! But then once I was dilated and ready to push it was easy (a little hard for lo1 bc they had me try to push before I was fully dilated...but after waiting longer it was easy)</p> <p>The only hard part for me for both was the being stuck in bed for 24+ hrs hooked up to machines while being induced </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pregnancy-vs-labor#post-2893722 Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:06:42 +0000 erinbaderin 2893722@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don’t know how to vote either - two easy pregnancies, two c sections due to breech babies. They weren’t what I wanted but they weren’t that hard. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pregnancy-vs-labor#post-2893708 Tue, 06 Aug 2019 10:58:04 +0000 pachamama 2893708@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I must add, mentally I was a fucking nutcase!. I always joke that's how I made up for such good pregnancies! 🤣 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pregnancy-vs-labor#post-2893707 Tue, 06 Aug 2019 10:56:48 +0000 pachamama 2893707@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had a shockingly easy pregnancy both times. Just some pelvic pain with the second pregnancy and some sciatic pain with DS1. No heartburn, no swelling at all, slept great, no carpal tunnel etc. I was fit and exercised throughout both pregnancies, I think that really helped.<br /> Both labors and delivery were unmedicated and super easy. I was even induced with pitocin for DS2 😱 and cytotec for number one.they came fast and very efficiently. Labor was 5 and 3 hours respectively and I would say while definitely excruciating, I felt literally 100%normal immediately after. Healed quick and 6months pp I feel like I did before kids! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pregnancy-vs-labor#post-2893704 Tue, 06 Aug 2019 10:29:10 +0000 KT326 2893704@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With DS1, pregnancy sucked. I hurt all the time, my pelvis felt like it was going to split open the last few weeks, I had high BP and was borderline pre-e. Delivery sucked as well. 3 hours of pushing and I had to have a forceps delivery. </p> <p>DS2 was the opposite. Pregnancy was easy, I went to a chiropractor and stayed ahead of the pelvic pain. Delivery was a breeze. I really think it’s because I was way more active (had a 4 year old to keep up with) and I gained less weight. My blood pressure stayed perfect. I delivered 5 hours after active labor started and only had to push 3 times (doctor pretty much slid in to catch him and that was it! The nurses almost had to deliver him!). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pregnancy-vs-labor#post-2893700 Tue, 06 Aug 2019 10:23:44 +0000 skinnycow 2893700@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Both of my successful pregnancies were easy. My labors were about four hours with minimal pushing so I guess those qualify as easy as well! I did have some slight complications after labor with my first daughter, though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pregnancy-vs-labor#post-2893692 Tue, 06 Aug 2019 10:14:33 +0000 graceandjoy 2893692@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I feel like I don't fit into any of the answers.<br /> I guess all my pregnancies were "easy"; but I had GD with both and most likely will with this 3rd as well. So does that make it not easy? I don't know, lol </p> <p>With my 1st, I was induced. Labor wasn't bad, it was just LONG and I also pushed for 2 hours. But I also don't consider that BAD. 2nd was much faster, gave birth same day I went in, pushed for 20 min. But I happened to be sick (infected myself after my water broke), so that part and that baby had to go to NICU was hard. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pregnancy-vs-labor#post-2893686 Tue, 06 Aug 2019 09:44:26 +0000 josina 2893686@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My pregnancies were both easy, and labor was as well, BUT I was induced (Pitocin) with both. I was already dilated and had plenty of non-painful contractions prior. Labor with both was 6 hours, would've been faster with LO2 but she had her hands on top of her head. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pregnancy-vs-labor#post-2893683 Tue, 06 Aug 2019 09:37:11 +0000 nana87 2893683@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I voted that they were both a breeze, but that's not really true--they were both hard for both my girls but in normal, not-extreme ways. W/ lo1, I had morning sickness that meant I lost a lot of weight in the first 20 weeks, and then had a couple issues that meant extra monitoring and stress during the last half of the pregnancy, but it wasn't like I was on bed rest or worse. W/ lo2, I had totally different digestive symptoms (bad gas pains and heartburn) and normal aches/pains (esp since she was overdue!) but otherwise pregnancy was pretty easy. both labors were long inductions (36 and 16 hours) but only really hard for a couple hours of that time--I resisted getting an epi both times until I'd been on pit too long since I wanted to move around, but once I got the epi I was fine and I only pushed 40 mins w lo1 and 5! w lo2 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pregnancy-vs-labor#post-2893680 Tue, 06 Aug 2019 09:28:11 +0000 Mrs. Toad 2893680@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't know how to vote. Only issue with my pregnancies was morning sickness. 8 weeks with my first, 12 weeks with my second, and 11 weeks with my third. Otherwise, they were easy. All three labors were easy, even with 2 inductions. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pregnancy-vs-labor#post-2893675 Tue, 06 Aug 2019 09:02:13 +0000 Mommy Finger 2893675@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was talking with a friend the other day and we had a theory that if you had an easy pregnancy, you had a tough labor and vice versa. This was the case for me. With DS1, I loved being pregnant but the labor was the worst thing I've been through. Ever. With DS2, I was so sick the entire time both with nausea and pregnancy induced rhinitis. But labor was so easy! I basically slept the whole time. </p> <p>What was your experience? </p>