STM+ was your labor like your mother's?

hiketheworld · August 2014

I spoke with my mom about how her labors went and I was wondering if the experience seems to be at all genetic? How similar have your previous labors been to what your mom went through?

soulcupcake · August 2014

Mom's labor with me: 3 hours (her first)

(she had a scheduled c-section with my sister due to breech presentation and IUGR)

My labors:

Dd1 - 3 hours

Dd2 - 47 minutes

Ds1 - 1 hour 40 minutes (took a while to really get into active labor due to mechanical issues associated with severe polyhydramnios)

Ds2 - Couple minutes? I didn't "labor" at all, really. He was born after 4-5 back to back contractions inside of about a minute.

So it was indeed smart to plan a homebirth with my third and fourth. I really wanted to birth at home with my second, but there wasn't a midwife that practices homebirth in the area I lived at the time.

ShelleyElla22 · August 2014

Ours were nothing alike. My first two labors weren't even similar to each other.

The only commonality is everyone in my family has gone overdue (my mom went naturally with all 4 of us 1-2 weeks late, both my sisters and I have had to be induced with a total of 5 babies

)

angelajo19 · August 2014

Nope! My mom went into labor 2 weeks early with me. I was 3 days overdue with DD1. My mom had no clue she was in labor until she went to a regular dr appt and was told. My water broke in the middle of the night and I immediately went into intense labor. I had aspirated and had to be life flighted to a hospital with a NICU and was there for 2 weeks and my mom went into shock after delivering me. I had no complications during L&D with DD1.

PandaCon · August 2014

Nope. My mom was three weeks late with me (her first) and ended up with a c section due to my position.

She had both of my brother via c section at two weeks and one week late.

She never went into labor.

She was in the delivery room with me for DS which was great for her to see what labor is really like. She was shocked actually. Who knows if she had gone into labor what it would have been like.

tigerpawie · August 2014

My mother' labors were pretty quick. I cannot recall the hours for each of us (3 kids) but she said something like 3 hours for mine or maybe less?

Mine
DS1 - about 4 hours
DD1 - about one hour and half after being induced.

Sister - she had long labors with her first two. She apparently was in labor for couple of days with her first and was laboring for 12 hrs with her 2nd until her OB got fed up and sent her in for a c-section. It was a full moon that night and they needed the delivery room. Her 3rd was a scheduled section.

It seems I do take after my mother but my sister didn't. It really depends on individuals and every birth is different.

Maelara · August 2014

Nope. My mom went into labor naturally and I never went into labor. She had 2 natural births and I had a csection (complete breech baby).

ccam · August 2014

My mom went into labor naturally with all four kids and had vaginal deliveries. I was induced at 41 weeks and ended up with a CS.

kimberly_ann81 · August 2014

Not a clue about my mother's labors but my sister and I had completely different.

I had med-free births one 3 day early and one 4 days late. My sister was induced with my nephew who was a week late. Ended up with a CS and then my niece was a scheduled CS a week after due date (she wanted a VBAC but never went into labor).

mamatohne · August 2014

My mom had 3 babies, a 2 5 lb babies and a 2 lb baby, I came on my due date, sister 1 month early and brother 2 months early. I didn't go into labor and had a 9 lb baby. My experience was more similar to my mil with dh.

MuchlyGen · August 2014

Nothing alike!

Her first labor, her water broke and her contractions didn't start, so she was induced.

Her second (me!) her contractions were unrelenting, right on top of each other, and I was posterior. She ended up having a C-section.

Where, as a fun anecdote, the doctor apparently slipped and fell on her stomach while trying to pull me out. Woo, go doc! Lol. And this the OB my mom enthused about and tried to have me go to when I was pregnant with son #1, before I decided on home birth.

My first was gradual, easy, 7 hours active labor, one hour pushing. Water didn't break 'til pushing stage.

Second was intense precipitous birth, 3 hours start to finish, about 8 minutes of pushing. Water broke just prior to pushing... I literally felt his head drop into my birth canal like a bowling ball. SO FAST.

mslynn2012 · August 2014

Nothing alike:

Moms labor with me: 28 hours, dr had to break her water, no epidural, 4 weeks early.

Moms labor with little brother: 22 hours, dr had to break her water, no epidural, 3 weeks early.

My labor with DS: 12 hours from water breaking naturally to er csection, 3 days early. Pitocin and epidural after 5 hours of labor.

mrsodonnell12 · August 2014

Mine were slightly similar - pretty fast and overdue.

meeshybee · August 2014

Nothing at all alike. My mom had 5 kids and all her labors were pretty fast. We often joke about my youngest sister nearly being born in the elevator. She wasn't really, but by the time my dad dropped us off at the sitter 5 minutes away and got back to the hospital she had already been born.

My first labor was over 18 hours from the time my water broke in L&D triage to when DS finally appeared. My shortest was DD1 at about 8 hours.

wildflower75 · August 2014

I'm the only woman in my family that needed a c-section due to failure to progress. Everyone else had natural births.
My grandmother - 4 kids
My aunt - 2 kids
My mother - 3 kids
It makes me sad since I wanted a natural/ vaginal (med free) birth but not much you can do to control these things...

mb314 · August 2014

hiketheworld said:

I spoke with my mom about how her labors went and I was wondering if the experience seems to be at all genetic? How similar have your previous labors been to what your mom went through?

My mom had the twilight sleep so she has no recollection of it. I went med-free, so I think our labors were really different.

musicalmommy3 · August 2014

My mom had my sister in an hour and a half and me in 45 minutes.

I had DS in an hour and a half and not sure how quickly this one is going to come! Knowing her she will take longer.

PennyLane26 · August 2014

Yes! Both my labor and my sister's labor was very much like our mom's FIVE labors. Vaginal and very quick, all of us pushed for less than 15 minutes, 4-6 pushes and done! (We did labor for 15-25 hours beforehand, but the delivery itself was just minutes). My sister and I got the epi and my mom delivered four natural, one with the epi.

I loved my labor experience, I was induced and responded very well to the pitocin. Fast labors are great, but my experience was that the tearing was terrible because my delivery was so fast.

TXPyroMom · August 2014

The only similarity between my first birth and my moms births was weight. We have big babies w/o GD. My brother was 9#5oz, I was 11# 8oz (the dr was very impressed) and my daughter was 9#11oz.

My current dr is very interested to see how I do at my 1 hour GD test on Friday.

ETA All births were vaginal

MrsDL · August 2014

I don't think there is much that is hereditary about the actual labor process (early, late, length, pain tolerance, position of baby) and most women I know don't have the same exact or even similar experiences with different children of their own, but more other factors that also contribute (frame/pelvis/hip size and size of baby - either you or DH) to how labor goes can be hereditary.

My mom had 4 of us, all where different. I was breach and came early, 12 hours total from the time she started contractions until I was delivered - she said pushing was difficult and lengthy with me. DS - regular contractions started and lasted 2 days before I had to go to the hospital Even then I was only 1 cm dilated. I had Pitocin to jump start things and it was another 11.5 hours before it was time to push. I only had to push for something like 17 minutes and he was out.

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