Longest labor?

[Anonymous]

How dies hours of pushing happen? You are dilated to 10 but the baby is still high?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How dies hours of pushing happen? You are dilated to 10 but the baby is still high?

In my case baby was sunny side up and needed to turn. He was not high. At least that’s what they told me.

[Anonymous]

I don't think they let you go more than 24 hours after your water breaks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My active labor was longer than this. C-section was never mentioned. Baby was never in distress. Had waters broken but eventually needed respite epidural to sleep. The hardest part was pushing on exhaustion. I had been up a few days before in prodromal labor (all back labor- mostly standing) In truth I should have tried to labor at home longer and rest more. Extended pushing is no joke. 3+ hours.


Does your friend have a doula?

No, active labor doesn't mean what you think it means.

I was 6cm dilated when water was broken. Significant intense contractions. It was active enough. I was almost entirely on my feet. Awake for 3 days.

[Anonymous]

51 hours for me, induction that failed to progress and ended in a csection. The baby wasn’t in distress and it wasn’t an emergency, just collectively decided he didn’t seem to be coming out that way given the stall in dilation.

[Anonymous]

Don’t tell anyone when you go I go labor to prevent people from bugging you. I went radio silent in labor and notified everyone (aside from my parents) a few days later.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My active labor was longer than this. C-section was never mentioned. Baby was never in distress. Had waters broken but eventually needed respite epidural to sleep. The hardest part was pushing on exhaustion. I had been up a few days before in prodromal labor (all back labor- mostly standing) In truth I should have tried to labor at home longer and rest more. Extended pushing is no joke. 3+ hours.


Does your friend have a doula?

No, active labor doesn't mean what you think it means.

I was 6cm dilated when water was broken. Significant intense contractions. It was active enough. I was almost entirely on my feet. Awake for 3 days.

Brutal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t tell anyone when you go I go labor to prevent people from bugging you. I went radio silent in labor and notified everyone (aside from my parents) a few days later.

This is really good advice especially if something takes a turn for the worse. It's bad enough to experience it first hand, having to update multiple people would make it that much worse.

[Anonymous]

I was in labor for probably close to 48 hours with my first. About 24 hours of them were really “active” labor (painful contractions) and only 18 of them were at the hospital. Last 4 were the most brutal, 3 hours of pushing and then a forceps delivery because baby was in distress. Other than the assisted delivery/distress, I think this is pretty common for a first timer. Media depicts birth as being really fast and for most women, it’s not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was in labor for probably close to 48 hours with my first. About 24 hours of them were really “active” labor (painful contractions) and only 18 of them were at the hospital. Last 4 were the most brutal, 3 hours of pushing and then a forceps delivery because baby was in distress. Other than the assisted delivery/distress, I think this is pretty common for a first timer. Media depicts birth as being really fast and for most women, it’s not.

3 hours is long, even for a first birth. After 2 hours of pushing the chance of complications goes up. Labors are lengthening in general probably because of advanced maternal age, obesity and overall worse health.

[Anonymous]

My first and second pregnancies were both 18-hour labors. The first was an induction with pitocin and a balloon. I only pushed twice though. I had my membranes stripped with my second. There were water bags over my baby’s head, but once they broke it only took 45 minutes for my daughter to come. It was too quick. I only pushed for 5 minutes with second (I probably pushed 6-8 times), but my second child was higher up when I started pushing (I had to get her out, since she was hitting the umbilical cord on the way out and that was dangerous).

I think they’ll let you go for quite a long time in labor provided there isn’t an infection and the baby’s vitals (and your vitals) are fine. I don’t understand why women who can workout during pregnancy choose not to, since you benefit so much from being in good shape during labor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was in labor for probably close to 48 hours with my first. About 24 hours of them were really “active” labor (painful contractions) and only 18 of them were at the hospital. Last 4 were the most brutal, 3 hours of pushing and then a forceps delivery because baby was in distress. Other than the assisted delivery/distress, I think this is pretty common for a first timer. Media depicts birth as being really fast and for most women, it’s not.

3 hours is long, even for a first birth. After 2 hours of pushing the chance of complications goes up. Labors are lengthening in general probably because of advanced maternal age, obesity and overall worse health.

Also most places dont allow you to push correctly. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1804305/ and are using outdated techniques.

[Anonymous]

I know of two people who had ubsurdly long labors (about a week on the hospital so 3-4 days in labour). It sounds awful — I’ve been lucky to be on the short side of average. ~24 hours from first contraction to baby for first kid, ~9 hours for my second. Props to all of you who suffered through rough deliveries!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How dies hours of pushing happen? You are dilated to 10 but the baby is still high?

4 1/2 hours of pushing here. It happened because baby was posterior (head first, but face turned up instead of down -- they're supposed to go down the slip 'n' slide head down). Common reason for getting stuck. Midwife had to reach in there and turn her. Yes, it hurts as much as you imagine, even with an epidural. Once the baby was turned it took like 3 pushes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My first and second pregnancies were both 18-hour labors. The first was an induction with pitocin and a balloon. I only pushed twice though. I had my membranes stripped with my second. There were water bags over my baby’s head, but once they broke it only took 45 minutes for my daughter to come. It was too quick. I only pushed for 5 minutes with second (I probably pushed 6-8 times), but my second child was higher up when I started pushing (I had to get her out, since she was hitting the umbilical cord on the way out and that was dangerous).

I think they’ll let you go for quite a long time in labor provided there isn’t an infection and the baby’s vitals (and your vitals) are fine. I don’t understand why women who can workout during pregnancy choose not to, since you benefit so much from being in good shape during labor.

Love the insinuation that long labor is because you are out of shape or didn't work out! In my case it was partially because the baby was posterior and he had to flip. I ran until 31 weeks and then walked vigorously until delivery. Also pretty sure Gwen Jorgensen, the gold medalist in the triathlon had a horrendous delivery with her son that involved the vac. But thanks for perpetuating the trope that women with tough deliveries are responsible for it.

http://www.gwenjorgensen.com/blog/stanleys-birth