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Re:British Regulator Urges Home Births Over Hospitals for Un... by ars on Monday December 15, 2014 @06:55PM (#8755202)
5 hours is very fast - did they use pitocin (Oxytocin)? Without pitocin, and without breaking the bag of waters, labor takes much longer (so Dr's hate it), but it hurts much less.
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Re:British Regulator Urges Home Births Over Hospitals for Un... by oaktowner on Monday December 15, 2014 @07:12PM (#8755269)
It varies widely.

My wife had two pregnancies: one was 52 hours (with five hours of pushing!). The second was about 2 hours total.

Neither involved pitocin.

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Re:British Regulator Urges Home Births Over Hospitals for Un... by mcv on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @10:22AM (#8757493)
5 hours of pushing? Not to mention the 47 hours of labour? That can't be right. Is that really normal? My impression is that after 2 hours, artificial methods get used (pump, caesarean). And that's in Netherland, the country of natural home births.
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Re:British Regulator Urges Home Births Over Hospitals for Un... by oaktowner on Monday December 22, 2014 @06:54PM (#8786001)
It's right. But it's not normal! After 5 hours we employed a suction device (and would have gone to emergency c-section if that failed after 3 pushes).

Baby was 9 lbs, 9 oz (4.3 kg).

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Re:British Regulator Urges Home Births Over Hospitals for Un... by tarminian on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @11:58AM (#8757945)
There are a lot of variabilities in labour.
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Re:British Regulator Urges Home Births Over Hospitals for Un... by mcv on Friday December 19, 2014 @10:47AM (#8772697)
Labour, yes, but pushing shouldn't take nearly that long.
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Re:British Regulator Urges Home Births Over Hospitals for Un... by oaktowner on Monday December 22, 2014 @06:55PM (#8786004)
Yep. Normally doesn't. She made slow but steady progress the whole time, so they never resorted to any other means (besides the aforementioned suction device in the end).
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Re:British Regulator Urges Home Births Over Hospitals for Un... by fishnchips on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @07:07PM (#8760376)
No oxitocin, no breaking of waters, first birth. Of course, YMMV.
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