How long was your other half in labour.

bulletv1 · 28 Jun 2017 at 11:42

My wife was 48 hours. Started labouring Thursday at 9pm, waters broke at 1am Friday, at hospital 4am told to go home as only at 1 cm and to be back in 24 hours if no progress. Labour stopped so spent the day walking and all the exercises they suggested but no luck so got 4 hours sleep and back at hospital 4am Saturday and put on hormone drip at 7am. and baby out was at 9:28pm on Saturday. Had gas and air and an epidural (which didn't take on the left). Only thing on the birthplan that didn't change was the name if it was a girl.

Must add the midwife we had was brilliant, only left her side for 40 min over a 12 hour shift. And she was back in the next afternoon when we left so managed to get her some flowers and sweets.

darael · 28 Jun 2017 at 12:28

After birth...

eatcustard · 28 Jun 2017 at 15:31

24 hours first one, thats from waters breaking to sprogg popping out
2nd was about 11 hours

Admiral Huddy · 28 Jun 2017 at 15:33

5 minutes each time.. I was really like she had just bad wind..

kefkef · 28 Jun 2017 at 15:37

Went in at 10pm on a Friday night. She got sent home at midnight as she wasn't dilated enough. She went to bed and slept until 11am. She started feeling funny so I took her back in. Walked through the door of the maternity ward, she got about 10 metres down and collapsed, put on a bed in nearest room and they examined her and she was fully dilated. About an hour later the little one popped out.

Only my wife could sleep through labour!!!!

N0ddie · 28 Jun 2017 at 15:37

The wife was in labour for 8 hours with our wee boy and didn't get the chance to go into labour with out Abby as she was emergency sectioned 5 weeks early.

All good though.

oldestgregg · 29 Jun 2017 at 00:22

kefkef said:
Went in at 10pm on a Friday night. She got sent home at midnight as she wasn't dilated enough. She went to bed and slept until 11am. She started feeling funny so I took her back in. Walked through the door of the maternity ward, she got about 10 metres down and collapsed, put on a bed in nearest room and they examined her and she was fully dilated. About an hour later the little one popped out.

Only my wife could sleep through labour!!!!

My wife slept through hers as well! She had plenty of drugs and they had to wake her up to push then she would snooze in between contractions! Took about 6 hours altogether.

Angilion · 29 Jun 2017 at 00:33

xdcx said:
We are consultant lead just now (first pregnancy) and I think we are essentially going to be asked whether we want a section or not.... As opposed to them telling us what they suggest!

Would all of you who have been through this jump at the chance to have a section scheduled if offered or would you and your other half's take the chance of natural birth if it was possible? In proper limbo about this.

I'd leave it entirely up to her. There are many ways in which a partner is part of the process, but the physical aspect of the birth itself isn't one of them. That's all her. Even if it's a c-section and she's not really involved in it, the direct physical results will be all her.

I think there's a trend to see a c-section as an easier option, but I'm far from convinced that's always the case. You need a wide and deep cut to get a baby out - it's quite major surgery, much closer to being a controlled disembowlment than a minor thing.

EdwardTeach · 29 Jun 2017 at 00:59

Not more than a couple of hours each time. I almost missed the birth of my second child as I had to drop my daughter off at nursery, made it with 15min to spare, in which case it wasn't much more than an hour.

TacticalFish · 29 Jun 2017 at 10:04

Mine's been a Labour supporter all her life.

cheesyboy · 29 Jun 2017 at 10:16

xdcx said:
We are consultant lead just now (first pregnancy) and I think we are essentially going to be asked whether we want a section or not.... As opposed to them telling us what they suggest!

Would all of you who have been through this jump at the chance to have a section scheduled if offered or would you and your other half's take the chance of natural birth if it was possible? In proper limbo about this.

I think you'd have to be insane to opt for a c-section unless there was some medical reason. Labour doesn't seem much fun, but Mrs Cheesyboy was bouncing around pretty well quite soon after, especially after the second one which she had at home. C-section and you're ****** for a few weeks.

Clearcut · 29 Jun 2017 at 10:41

Not long enough.

dr_volki · 29 Jun 2017 at 11:29

this thread reminded me of this article. not sure how true it is, however if you go along (with the article) it'll mean C-section will become just the standard way of giving birth.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-38210837

nantucket66 · 29 Jun 2017 at 11:48

21 hours, other than the actual birth and a rough couple of hours in the middle it was ok

MarkeR · 29 Jun 2017 at 12:11

45 mins both times.
Nearly missed the first one as I could smell the curry from the hospital cafe and went to get one, with permission of course!
Came back and the head was there.

Second time, the doctor said about another 3 4 hours. She said no way it's coming, 20 mins later tada!!!

She never had any major symptoms of labour, waters broke. We went to hospital, no major contractions apart from birth.
Midwife had t seen anything like it before.

Vonhelmet · 29 Jun 2017 at 12:13

dr_volki said:
this thread reminded me of this article. not sure how true it is, however if you go along (with the article) it'll mean C-section will become just the standard way of giving birth.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-38210837

You apparently didn't read all the way to the end of the article...

a real doctor said:
There are limits to that. So I don't expect that one day the majority of children will have to be born by [Caesarean] sections.[/qupte

The IPB · 29 Jun 2017 at 12:14

cheesyboy said:
I think you'd have to be insane to opt for a c-section unless there was some medical reason. Labour doesn't seem much fun, but Mrs Cheesyboy was bouncing around pretty well quite soon after, especially after the second one which she had at home. C-section and you're ****** for a few weeks.

Mrs has had 3 kids, the first 2 natural birth, the last one c section (went into labour 2 months early and he was breach). She would happily have another child naturally, she would never want a c section again.

But then she had the first 2 without even using pain killers or gas an air, she's a mentalist.

C section meant she took ages to heal, didn't get to hug her baby straight away, ended up with a dural headache due to a botched epidural, it just ruined the whole birthing experience for her, I'm just glad her and my son were both ok.

dr_volki · 29 Jun 2017 at 12:59

Vonhelmet said:
You apparently didn't read all the way to the end of the article...

no i didn't

find it hard to believe in the first place.

kefkef · 29 Jun 2017 at 13:20

oldestgregg said:
My wife slept through hers as well! She had plenty of drugs and they had to wake her up to push then she would snooze in between contractions! Took about 6 hours altogether.

The wife was gutted, when she got on the bed she asked for drugs for the pain but they wouldn't give her anything other than gas & air!

Angilion · 30 Jun 2017 at 00:25

dr_volki said:
this thread reminded me of this article. not sure how true it is, however if you go along (with the article) it'll mean C-section will become just the standard way of giving birth.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-38210837

That's the opposite of what's said in the article.

From the article:

"The pressing question is what's going to happen in the future?" Dr Mitteroecker said.

"I expect that this evolutionary trend will continue but perhaps only slightly and slowly.

"There are limits to that. So I don't expect that one day the majority of children will have to be born by [Caesarean] sections."