If you have 2+ children, was it the same regarding whether your labor was early or late? (daughter, natural)

[AfternoonCoffee]

#1 7 days before due date
#2 11 days before due date
#3 4 days before due date
#4 3 days before due date

[WellShoneMoon]

Baby #1: 6 days after projected due date

Baby #2: induced, because obstetrician was going on vacation the next week (!)

Baby #3: born on projected due date, which happened to be the same birthday as Baby #1! So I have two kids born on the same date, seven years apart.

Edited to add: each labor lasted five hours, almost to the minute. I'm much more fortunate than my Baby #3, who, when she gave birth to my granddaughter, was in labor for over three days and ended up having to have a C-section.

[Aery11]

#1 1 week late (23 hours labour)
#2 2 weeks late (20 minutes labour)
#3 1 day late but doctor was going on holiday and decided to try to induce me, didn't work so he did a C-section for which there was likely no real medical reason. I suspect #3 if allowed to go to natural term would have been at least a week late.


As others have said though, don't judge by those of us listing these things here. Every pregnancy, mother, baby, doctor, etc. is different. Predicting 'due dates' may have improved over the years but it is still just a target that has a number of rings around it. Usually the baby has the final say in when it chooses to arrive and some of them just darned well want to take their time.

[JanND]

Originally Posted by LoveCoffee

Just curious, trying to make travel plans for the birth of my soon-to-be 2nd Grandchild

If your first baby was overdue, was your second baby also overdue?

Thanks!

Every pregnancy and every delivery is different.

How far are you traveling? Is there a chance that you can buy your ticket and then change travel plans, paying the additional fee, at a moments notice? I think that is what I'd do.

[christiner81]

baby 1 - 4 days overdue
baby 2 - 1.5 weeks early

[stan4]

Son early.
Daughter early.

By like 2 days. So really....both on time.

[JustJulia]

#1: a couple days late, induced because I was 4 cm dilated and effaced and doc worried about quick delivery
#2: same scenario, induced when I was a couple days late
#3: induced a week early due to signs of pre-eclampsia and I was again dilating/effacing with no labor

First baby took six hours start to finish, second baby took four hours. Third baby took 15 minutes!

[dmarie123]

My first was 2 weeks late, 36 hour of labor, induced, threats of C-Section. My second was born exactly on the due date, 1 hour of labor, shot out so fast I couldn't even get an epidural.

[gouligann]

2 kids, both 2 weeks overdue and I had to be induced for both.

[Ginge McFantaPants]

I must be the only poor sap whose labor got longer with each subsequent child