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How long did you push for?

  1. skipra

    pomegranate / 3350 posts

    I thought 15 minutes but DH said half hour. Either way it was just 3 or 4 pushes. I hope its the same this time!

  2. Bao

    GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22276 posts

    I'm jealous of all of you who pushed less than 30 minutes!

  3. pinkb

    pear / 1599 posts

    20 minutes, hoping to be as lucky with #2.

  4. MrsStormy

    clementine / 818 posts

    1 miserable hour! Pushing was so much harder than I expected! I kept asking if they could vacuum her out and how much longer it was going to take.

    1 hour is nothing compared to some of these, but it felt like forever, and I really hope next time is shorter! In relation to my entire labor it was a huge percentage of the time!

  5. heffalump

    GOLD / wonderful grape / 20289 posts

    1 hour with #1. I dont know with #2.... probably a little less then a half hour.

  6. Periwinkle

    pear / 1879 posts

    A little over 2 1/2 hours. I had an extremely quick labor before this and the pushing was definitely the hardest part for me.

  7. DigAPony

    pear / 1787 posts

    About half an hour. My whole labor was 3 hours.

  8. Grace

    cantaloupe / 6730 posts

    2 hours and LO didn't move even a centimetre. Thank goodness for c-sections.

  9. Honeygold89

    nectarine / 2527 posts

    I started pushing at 9:15pm and he was born at 9:36pm so only 21 minutes it went so fast

    @Mrs. Champagne: @LovelyPlum: you guys never know this was my first baby and natural and the pushing was the shortest and best part for me. Good luck!

  10. yin

    honeydew / 7917 posts

    Almost 3 hours with my first and probably 15 - 20 minutes with my second. I also had a very long labor with my first, and my second was less than 4 hours!

  11. Mrs. Bee

    admin / watermelon / 14210 posts

    first was csection. second was vbac and i pushed for about 15 min. she was tiny but i still had to get so many stitches!

  12. .twist.

    pineapple / 12802 posts

    2 hours! Thought I did pretty good until I came into this thread! Lol!

  13. cascademom

    coconut / 8861 posts

    Ugh, I can't remember. DH remembers my 14 hours of labor being long, but said pushing was quick. He thinks it was an hour or less. I was watching the morning news before they set up the table to push and did that after a few pushes. They stopped it right when I was ready to push him out, the urge right at the end to be ready for him.

  14. Running Elley

    coconut / 8681 posts

    20 minutes for #1, less than 10 minutes for #2!!

  15. MrsRcCar

    grapefruit / 4712 posts

    With my first lo I pushed for 3 long long hours.
    With my second lo I pushed about 25 minutes. However lo#2 was nearly 5 weeks early.

  16. birdofafeather

    pineapple / 12053 posts

    45 minutes. i am kinda crying for you who said 3+ hours! OMG.

  17. MrsKoala

    cantaloupe / 6869 posts

    25 minutes!

  18. matador84

    papaya / 10560 posts

    A little over an hour DS
    Like ummmm 30 seconds with dd

  19. Rainbow Sprinkles

    eggplant / 11287 posts

    1.5 hours with #1
    25 torturous minutes with #2

  20. MaisyMay

    GOLD / cantaloupe / 6703 posts

    From the time we asked our families to leave the room until little girl arrived was 42 minute. I think pushing was 30-35 minutes.

  21. shopaholic

    bananas / 9973 posts

    20-45 min? DH and I have different recollections. lol! The nurse had me do practice pushes a couple of times and then made me stop because the baby was right there. Doctor came and I think I pushed about 20-30 min?

  22. Sapphiresun

    nectarine / 2220 posts

    I think 15-20 minutes.

  23. luckypenny

    grapefruit / 4582 posts

    20 minutes

  24. mjane

    apricot / 444 posts

    @MusicaV: Same! 40 minutes.

  25. Caly

    nectarine / 2765 posts

    30mins or so for the first, the second came out 10mins later. The dr said I was a good pusher, I just wanted them out at that point. We were team green so that was another incentive. It was exhausting but not as bad as I'd expected.

  26. LuLu Mom

    GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts

    2 and 1/2 hours before getting a fever and LO's heartrate went sky rocket...so we headed off to OR for c-section.

  27. Rubies

    hostess / eggplant / 11068 posts

    D1: 20 minutes
    D2: 10 seconds? She was so fast, she flew out on my first push.

  28. HLK208

    pineapple / 12234 posts

    1st: 2.5 hours
    2nd: 15 minutes

  29. BeatlesFan629

    cherry / 187 posts

    20 minutes. Actually more like 15-17 because they had me stop for a few minutes in the middle of it

  30. MummaColston

    olive / 50 posts

    20 minutes

  31. annie624

    cherry / 241 posts

    I think right around 45 minutes. I felt very fortunate!

  32. Pumuckl

    pomegranate / 3601 posts

    My birth protocol says 30min but I was birthing a head and a hand It didn't feel that long either...

  33. bunnylove08

    grapefruit / 4442 posts

    4 hours and then we did a c section because DD was stuck

  34. 2PeasinaPod

    pomelo / 5524 posts

    2 hours before emergency C-section since he got stuck!

  35. LuLu Mom

    GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts

    2 1/2 hours and then went to emergency c-section due to her heartrate and my fever.

  36. MrsB2012

    nectarine / 2466 posts

    40 minutes. I wasn't a very good pusher though. If I had gotten the hang of it sooner I probably could have had her out quicker. Next time

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