![]() When I asked my doctor about it, he said she didn't come through the canal slow enough to squeeze all the fluid out of her lungs. She did have fluid in her lungs and would start choking in the middle of the night, which was terrifying. I tore terribly with my son who was 7 pounds. With the first time, I didn't fight the urge to push, she came down just enough to break my water and it was on! Five pushes later, she was out. Then they checked me and said "Go get the doctor!" They then moved me and I just couldn't hold her in anymore. They still made me change, get weighed, take my temperature and all that. They didn't believe me when I said she was coming out. I was fighting the urge to push to make it to the hospital. My second was an hour and that was much longer than it needed to be. I had a pretty fast first labor with my first. I have been told I will be kept in hospital beginning in early November to make sure I give birth in a hospital rather than wherever I am at the time. My third baby is due in December 2013 so wish me luck. Love and respect to you other moms whose labor wasn't as good as mine, and hope for expectant moms that it will be as easy for you. I have had good, fast labor and little pain with it, so if anyone comments on your labor being easy just because it was quick, just tell them about mine and they will have a real reason to be jealous. The whole of my labor consisted of eight contractions and two pushes, with no stitches needed, no abrasions, and the total labor length was 18 minutes. When the baby was born, he weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces. He was also vacuuming the house for when the midwife would visit. My second birth was on my own in the (disappointingly lukewarm) bath, with my husband on telephone to the ambulance crew. They went through eight of them because they wouldn't stick to her head, (she had loads of hair). All they were bothered about was trying to monitor the baby's heartbeat with the long probes. Needless to say, I had loads of gas and air for that (ouch). I had my first baby beginning to end in three and a half hours. When I told them about my previous deliveries, they said it wouldn't be like that this time. ![]() I went back to the hospital where I was told to go home since nothing was happening. ![]() I was told to go home to take in the sad event, but on going home, I began to bleed. I have never had stitches and on the second and third, never had pain- just felt "odd" until the actual birth! My fifth and last pregnancy ended in miscarriage at five months after finding no heartbeat at my five month scan. My second was delivered by my husband at home on our sofa, the third in the hospital lift and the fourth was induced at 38 weeks on the bed, as it happened too quickly to get to the delivery room. My daughter was born healthy and happy, although she had fluid in her lungs that would cause her to cough and choke. I had dilated 5cm in under 10 minutes and the pain was absolutely excruciating, even though I have a high pain tolerance. I am so relieved to have read this article! My first daughter was born in under an hour from the starting of my contractions. I really do not want to give birth before I reach the hospital and I am nervous about possibly going through complications. Now in researching precipitous births, I'm afraid for this second pregnancy, since the subsequent pregnancies are said to be likely to be precipitous. ![]() I was lucky not to tear much or hemorrhage. My first was one month pre-term so she was small. Unfortunately, I was ready to push by the time I asked for pain relief so I was not given any. With my first birth, I thought to attempt to give birth without any sort of pain relief, but when the onslaught of contractions kept hitting me, I asked for it. Looking at the monitor she would say, "All right, you're going to have a break now." But a few seconds later, I would be hit with another contraction. My mother-in-law was surprised that my contractions were so close together. I am currently pregnant with my second child.
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