how was your second birth compared to the first?

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i’m 34 weeks and getting nervous 😅 this is baby #2 for me. 
my first was so freakin easy. i got induced, slept the whole time, woke up when it was time to push and he was out 23 minutes later. i’m scared since that one was so easy this one will be more difficult haha. 
i know everyone is different but if you’ve had more than one, how was the subsequent births?

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My first was a little tougher because he had  his hand up by his head when he was born and was legitimately stuck for quite a while. My 2nd was much quicker and smooth even though I had back labor the whole time.

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My 1st and 2nd birth were amazing. Quick and easy. (Both fully unmedicated/no interventions). My 3rd birth was hell 😩😂 (induction).

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Awful, loved my first birth thought it was easy, screamed the place down with the second 11 year later and I can still remember that pain 😬

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Traumatic, mostly because staff. My first was traumatic because of the birth itself. Birth 3 was better though. Hoping the fourth is more like the third.

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Induced with my first, epidural, 5 1/2 hrs from 2 cm to pushing. She was face up. I pushed for an hour, 2nd degree tear. 
Spontaneous labor with my second. Zero pain meds. 2 hrs from 4-5 cm to pushing. 3 pushes and he was out. Came so fast he re-tore everything sister had previously torn. 2nd degree again. Recovery was much easier, less painful, and faster with him as well. 
OB is scared I'll have my next baby at home, labor tends to be very fast for me.

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My first was easy, was only at a 4 when I was admitted. Got the epidural and laid around until it was time to push. 45 minutes of pushing but didn’t feel like that long. Didn’t feel a thing and was talking to the doctors the whole time , at one point they said just let my body push her out. My second happened so fast. I went into labor at 36 weeks and I was in denial about it. At 3am I got in the shower thinking they were just painful Braxton hicks every 20 minutes and then it went straight to extreme pain and pressure. We had to drive 45 minutes to the hospital and got there at 5:40am and he was born at 6:05am. No meds no IV the doctor on call barely made it. Extremely painful. He came out so fast though. He ended up in a 2 weeks nicu stay.

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Both were about the same for me. I'd say my labor was a bit more intense and went a bit faster but everything else was about the same for me

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Quicker but a billion times more painful. Baby 2 is now 3 years old and still anytime I see a video of a woman with contractions I flashback to the pain of his labor. But I’d still do it a thousand times over lol

how was your second birth compared to the first?

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