My 1st was a very long, natural labor (over 24
hours of active labor) plus 4 hours of pushing that ended up in a c - section.
At the
beginning of active labor you'll need to make your way to the hospital or call your midwife if you're having a home birth.
Soft music decreased both sensation and distress
of active labor pain in the first three hours and delayed increases in the distress of pain for an hour.
The first kitten should arrive within an hour of the
start of active labor, and subsequent kittens will take anywhere from 30 to 60 minutes.
But many doctors recommend that first - time moms don't leave for the hospital until the initial
stages of active labor.
I just want to clarify something, I'm a labor and delivery nurse and 4 contractions in one hour is not
sign of active labor.
The one with epidural was definitely easy, breezy, but the natural one, though painful, took only 30 to 45
minutes of active labor.
Many hospitals, midwives, and doctors may also ask you to wait to enter the water until you are 5 cm or more dilated in the
period of active labor.
CHRISTINE STEWART - FITZGERALD: Well you know talking about the sort of the delivery actually kind of taking a step back when moms are you know just arriving getting at the hospital from the kind of the
point of active labor, how do you approach the delivery process?
Your midwife remains with you from the onset
of active labor through the duration of your birth, monitoring your vital signs, assessing fetal well - being, and watching over the progression of your labor.
Thankfully, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists released new guidelines in 2014, redefining the start
of active labor as dilation to 6 centimeters (rather than 4) and urging doctors to allow women to labor longer, so long as the baby is not in distress.
I was nervous and disappointed and disheartened when I heard the word pitocin but all of the things I did in preparation I believe gave me 9 hours
of active labor only with NO epidural or pain med!
I SWEAR by RT as it made literally did the pushing for me as I lay in warm water tub juz deep breathing and less than 2
hours of active labor contractions and 20 mins of my body doing the pushing for me my 2nd baby was here?.
I see if as payback for a horrible pregnancy and 48 hours
of active labor, then a c - section.
Explaining the pain
of active labor: the importance of maternal confidence.
The second was an attempted VBAC but the baby never engaged and I never dilated past 4 cm after 25 hours
of active labor.