Correlation Between Carrying Low and Delivering Early or a Short Labor???

[Anonymous]

I am nearing 36 weeks and carrying extremely low. I went to get an ultrasound and was told the baby is so low they could not obtain images of the head. This is my second pregnancy. The first was delivered at 37 weeks.

For the experienced moms out there who had carried low:
1) At what week did you deliver?
2) How long was your labor? In essence, what is the time between when you began feeling contractions and delivery time?

[Anonymous]

I carried very low two times - first time I delivered at 38 weeks and my labor was very long (24+ hours) because I was having back labor. Second time I delivered at 39 weeks and labor was shorter - 12 hours.

[Anonymous]

I was carrying low and delivered at 38 weeks, labor was extremely fast (a couple of hours) even though it was my 1st pregnancy!

[Anonymous]

Carrying low, water broke at 37 weeks, no contractions. After contractions started, labor lasted 6h.

[Anonymous]

12:29 again, it was my 1st pregnancy also and I had my baby with no drugs (not to induce labor either).

[Anonymous]

I always carried low. My babies came at 38, 39, and 37 weeks. Unfortunately I never had short labors. I think it is pretty typical that they are unable to get a got ultrasound of the baby late in pregnancy just because they are getting in position to move down and out.

[Anonymous]

3 babies, carried low each time, (babies at zero station when checked at 36 weeks), gave birth at or near 42 weeks all 3 times. I only did ultrasounds at 20 weeks gestation so I don't know what it would have looked like at 26 weeks. Labors were 12, 4, and 12 hours). I was told that I carry low and wide because of the shape of my pelvis. All three were spontaneously labors, completely natural births.

[Anonymous]

I carried very low and delivered at 38 weeks with my first pregnancy. My water broke, contractions started immediately, and I delivered 8 hours later.

[Anonymous]

I carried very low both times. #1 water broke at 38 weeks, 5 hour labor; #2 water broke 39 weeks 2.5 hour labor.

W/ #2 I had ultrasounds weekly towards the end of my pregnancy and she'd have to "lift" the baby off of my cervix to get the head measurements. That was painful!

[Anonymous]

With my third baby, my Ob/Gyn had been telling me for weeks that the baby is extremely low, will come early and very quickly (she even said that if my husband was not at home when labor started not to wait for him to drive me but to call for an ambulance right away) - she really had me worried, and I grabbed my labor bag at every little twinge. My DD arrived at 39.2 weeks and the labour was exactly as long as my other two - 7 hours. Go figure!

[Anonymous]

Carried low. First child, delivered at 40.5 weeks, induction, took 14 hours from moment hooked up to IV, 11 hours from the point they broke my water.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Thank you all for your responses. DH and I are not at all prepared for our second to come so I was/am a bit anxious. Your replies help.

[Anonymous]

I carried very low, delivered at 40 wks 1 day, and labor lasted 15 hours.

[Anonymous]

My OB/Gyn told me that, on average, the labor for a second child is usually half the time of the first baby.

[Anonymous]

I carried really low my entire 1st pregnancy. Went into spontaneous labor at 40w1 day, and labor lasted 7 hours (though the first hour I didn't know I was in labor.) Of course, I was already at 3+ cm, so I had a head start...