Sentences with phrase «first labors tend»

«First labors tend to be a lot longer than second labors,» says Penny Simkin, doula and author of The Birth Partner: A Complete Guide to Childbirth for Dads, Doulas, and All Other Labor Companions.

Not exact matches

And labor tends to go more quickly (sometimes a lot more quickly) than in a first pregnancy.

First - timers laboring without an epidural tend to push for about an hour.

-LSB-...] My Birth Story: The Birth Of Fern Winter — I had fully prepared myself to be laboring for a long while — days even, since everyone says that first babies tend to take awhile (20 hours on average), but this seemed so fast!

This particular supplement tends to dull real labor pain or help the pains of non-real labor go away...... She told me to take more of the calcium supplement every 15 minutes for an hour so we could nip this in the bud and get it to stop... She called back after the first 2 times of taking it, and I was still having contractions, now at 9 minutes apart.

And honestly, if they can't afford a hospital birth, chances are they can't afford a homebirth midwife — who are generally not cheap, who will not generally make payment arrangements (or rather, will not make the same type hospitals make, payable after the fact and in small monthly increments for years; midwife payment arrangements tend to be along the lines of «Half the fee at the first appointment, and the other half a month or two later»), and who will not deliver a baby without having been paid in full prior to onset of labor (I don't have a statistic, but it seems most midwives have this particular payment policy, and payment is non-refundable).