Otha Monnerjahn says...
My labor was 16 hours long for my first child. I went to the hospital for a stress test, and at around 10 I asked the nurse if I was having contractions(they werent bad at FIRST!), she told me I was, so I walked around for an hour. After that they gave me the pitosin, and I started having worse and worse contractions. My daughter was finally born at 2 the next afternoon. The short labor could be that its not their first child, so the labor goes faster. Another reason could be that they waited to go to the hospital, or maybe they were just lucky and had a short labor. It is different for all women, some are lucky!
Posted on January 17, 2011