(August 7, 2016 at 1:01 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Does it help to say that the second one usually goes a lot faster?
Yeah, a lot faster, in my experience. My ex was in labor with our first child for something like 20 hours, if I recall correctly. Our second girl practically had rocket-propelled roller skates on when she came. The hospital staff literally went from, "Oh, you're at about 4 cm. This will take a while," to 30 minutes later scrambling like hell because the ex was fully dilated, was begging to push, and the OB/GYN we'd been seeing was nowhere to be found. Allie was actually delivered by a doctor we had never met, which freaked out my ex considerably at first. In the end, though, it was good since his bedside manner was vastly better than the guy we had been seeing, who had always struck me as a bit of a douche.
