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DD1: Came on her own at 40w3d. Labor was 15 hours.
DD2: Came on her own at 41w4d. Labor was 22 hours.

I'm very concerned/curious about this. I am also newly pregnant with #2 so it's a long way off. My water broke at 6:30am at 39w6d with baby #1. Got to the hospital at 8:30 am in a lot of pain and he was born at 1pm. So labor was like 6.5 hours from water breaking to baby, really like 4.5 hours of contractions/pain. Soooo I'm obviously worried that baby #2 will be born in like an hour or something.

LO1: 40w6d 9 hour labor
LO2: 38w6d 4 hour labor - and only 9 min at the hospital so no time for epidural!

DS1- 40+3 and 13 hours labor
DS2- 40 weeks, induced, 7 hours labor

T - delivered spontaneously at 38+4 (on bed rest for early dilation though from 30-37 weeks). In hospital for about 12 hours before he was born.

R - induced at 38+2 due to size (on modified rest due to contractions from 30-36 weeks). Water broken at 1 pm, no pitocin, born at 10 pm.

G - delivered spontaneously at 38+1 (HOWEVER I'm fairly certain I was only 37+3 due to conception timing. No bedrest at all in pregnancy...had tons of contractions in third trimester though). Arrived at hospital at 5:30 pm right when contractions were becoming intolerable, born at 9 pm.

Both came at 40w 3d. Ds1 was 24 hours of labor ds2 was 6 hours...

1st- 40w4d- 24 hours from first contraction to having him. Took one hour to push.
2nd- 40w1d (only 35 minutes past midnight and barely missed his due date!)- 9 hours from first contractions to having him. I pushed him out in 3 contractions.

1st 38w3d
2nd 39w5d

Sooo, despite my not so secret wishes that baby two would be fairly early too, she came just a couple days before her due date.

I shouldn't read this thread, it's going to give me false hope in the last weeks of pregnancy!

Kid 1 came at 39 weeks exactly. Water broke in bed, 8 hrs labor.

Kid 2 came at what OB said was 38w5d but I think it was actually also 39w exactly. Water broke in bed, 8 hrs labor.

Sounds exactly the same on paper although I actually had to get pitocin with kid 2 (or else they threatened to send me home from the hospital). He arrived maybe 1 hr after they gave me the pitocin, so it might have been longer if I had pushed to go naturally.

DD1 was born one day before my due date. Long slow Labor but it didn't really intensify until the end.

DD2 was born on her due date, super fast birth. Less than four hours from "hmm maybe this is Labor" to baby in arms. No time for an epidural but I definitely didn't need one since it was so fast (and I didn't have one with my first anyway).

@mrsbubbletea: I was convinced my second would be early since "second babies always come earlier!" So when my due date came around I felt like she was already late! But at least Labor was way faster.

for those of you posting...did you at least have some idea that baby might come early? Like at your doc checks...were you dilated and effaced and all of those things that might suggest labor was happening earlier than the due date?
I was induced at 41 weeks and still wasn't dilated or effaced on induction day so i sorta knew baby wasn't making an appearance early
With number 2 i feel so in the dark!

@Littlebit7: with my first, there were no signs. I never had even the Braxton Hicks stuff. I had my 39 week appointment a day early, and I was 1 cm dilated, but the doctor said that doesn't really mean anything and it could still be weeks. But I was in labor 24 hours later.

The second time, I started having braxton hicks/prodromal labor around 36 weeks, so I asked to be checked at my 37 week appointment. My practice doesn't typically do checks until 38-39 weeks, but I told them I was carrying so low I wondered if I was already dilated. I was already dilated to a 3. A week later, I was a 3.5, and I had been having serious prodromal labor that entire week. I told my OB I was having trouble sleeping and he suggested I drink a glass of wine at night "to relax the uterus" so I could sleep, haha.

The next morning, I went to work and finally the prodromal labor turned into real labor and then it all happened SUPER fast from there.

But my water never broke either time.

Baby 1: 35+4
Baby 2: 36+3
Baby 3: 38+0

So each of mine came later than the last. I will never go to 38 weeks again though, because I had a partial placental abruption with my third, and they have you deliver earlier

1st: 41+2- had to be induced, 24 hour labor and ended up with csec bc she refused to come out.

2nd: 37 weeks- contractions started at 2am. Got to hospital around 3. Baby was born by 5. No time for epidural bc he came so fast.

3rd: praying I don't have this baby on the side of the road somewhere.

@misolee: with my first two I had appointments the day of and was closed up too! My first one, my water was already broken, but she checked me and I was “maybe” a fingertip lol.

DD1: Born at 39+6, 7 hours of labor (1.5 hours of that was pushing)

DD2: Born at 40+3, 2 hours of labor (6 minutes of pushing, according to my doula's notes )

Wow! Really interesting! Thanks!

DD1 spontaneous at 38+1 - 15 hours of labor (pushed for 1.5)

DD2 induced at 38+5 and barely 1cm when we started. 4 hours from start of pinto in, pushed 3 times. Went from 3cm to crowning while getting my epidural. She was comfy in there, but once they broke my water she flung herself outta there!