Precipitous 5th Delivery

This is my 5th pregnancy and delivery.

My 1st - First contraction was with water breaking @ 4am baby born at 10am, with epidural.

My 2nd - First contraction was 9am and baby born at 1pm, with epidural.

My 3rd - First contraction was 1am and baby was born 4am, no pain relief due to rapid labor.

My 4th - First contraction 1130pm labor purposely slowed with early epidural and baby born 5am.

My 5th final - First contraction was 638pm and I lost my plug, I put my 5, 3 1/2, and 18 month old to bed. 8pm confirmed with midwives to come in to slow my labor. 845pm arrived at labor and delivery 5cm. Waiting on anesthesiology to come up for epidural … at 9:30pm I was checked 6cm, and anesthesiologist walked in 9:45pm. I leaned over for them to clean my back and prep the area and my water ruptured on the floor. With the next contraction I told my midwife I had to push. One hard push with the contraction and baby was completely delivered head first into the midwives hands, with me sitting up on the bed and only one left rested on the bed at 9:50pm. I went from 6cm to delivery in 20 minutes with out pain relief, total labor time of under 3 hours. Those last 20 minutes were so painful I had mini panic attacks at the peak of the contractions.

Precipitous delivery is labor that starts and ends in delivery in under 3-4 hours.

So why do I uniquely have fast labor? The shape/angle/side of the opening of my pelvis is ideal, my children were all around 6.5lbs (med/small size), and my uterus is very well toned making contractions much more effective in moving labor along.

Leon - 2/3/15 - 5/14/15 (👼🏼)

Oliver - 7/14/16

Karoline - 1/29/18

Clark - 11/1/19

Aurora - 8/20/21