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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

I feel like I don't fit into any of the answers.
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

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.

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.

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!).

I must add, mentally I was a fucking nutcase!. I always joke that's how I made up for such good pregnancies! 🤣

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)

The only hard part for me for both was the being stuck in bed for 24+ hrs hooked up to machines while being induced

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).

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.

I labored for 40 hours (all back labor) and pushed for over 2...baby was posterior. That sucked.