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My second labor was 6 hours too, but there was no time for an epi for me. I didn't want one anyway, but it was the fact that I got to the hospital at 9.5cm that mattered more. I delivered soon after I was checked in... like, within 15 mins? I was just waiting for them to move me into a proper room and set everything up. 2nd time moms tend to have pretty short pushing times, too. I pushed twice!

My mom had three kids though and each labor was longer and longer than the last. You just never know.

I had long labors for both, 31 & 44 hours! Second was longer though. My MW and I thought that may have been due to it being the first time my body had naturally labored as the first was basically induced and then pushed by augmentation. Hopefully next time will be atleast a tad shorter although I've known a good handful of natural moms that had more prodromal labor with their subsequent children. Boo! lol

I will just die if my 2nd labor is longer. My first was 3 days from early labor to giving birth. We finally had to accept pitocin b/c in all that time my body refused to produce contractions that were consistently less then 5 minutes apart -- even after having myw water broken at 5 cm. I'm kind of terrified that the second experience will be just like the first