What Makes Labor Longer or Shorter?

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My Essential Birth

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4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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We know you get to hear ALLLL of the craziest birth stories while you're pregnant and you're probably wondering, "How do I make sure my birth isn't like THAT?" Well, today we're answering your questions about what causes a longer or shorter labor and what you can do to have some control over it! Don't forget to follow us on Instagram @myessentialbirth and for even more great info head over to www.myessentialbirth.com to check out our totally FREE Pregnancy Guide & other incredible downlo...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the My Essential Birth podcast. I'm Courtney and I'm Stephanie and we're professional
0:05.5	doulas, childbirth educators and the creators of My Essential Birth, the holistic, empowering,
0:11.3	online childbirth education course helping mothers everywhere confidently achieve their best
0:16.3	birth. So join us each week as we share tips and advice for all things pregnancy, birth and beyond.
0:22.2	Be sure to subscribe to the podcast so that you can be the first to get new content.
0:27.2	And head over to www.mysentialbirth.com for more information about our birth course
0:33.8	and to join a community of mamas just like you.
0:41.0	This week's podcast reviewer of the week is meagle Beagle. I love that name. I know. She says, informative and fun. I absolutely love
0:48.8	listening to this podcast. It makes me laugh, think, and informs me. You're welcome. It's not just one-sided, but gives you the pros and cons or many other options so you can
0:57.9	then decide for yourself what is best for you.
1:01.1	I have recommended this to all my Prego friends and will continue.
1:04.3	I haven't found a better birth podcast that has prepared me for birth.
1:07.5	Thank you, meagle Beagle.
1:09.1	I'm very curious as to what her actual name is. I'm going to go
1:12.0	with Megan, Megan, maybe. I don't know. It's cute either way. Yeah, but thank you so much. I love it.
1:18.8	Laugh and form makes her think. I feel like that's what we're here to do. That's it. We got a really
1:24.0	great question on Instagram the other day. She asked, what are the factors that govern the timeline of labor and delivery? Are there things you can do that land you with the two hour version versus the two day version? Yeah, because you're reading all the time on Facebook or Instagram or, you know, you're hearing from friends or relatives or whatever and they're giving you these variations of what labor looked like for them.
1:45.5	And I think sometimes we just sit there kind of wide-eyed, like, holy crap,
1:48.6	how do I make sure that that's not my story?
1:51.1	Or how do I make it more like this story?
1:53.0	So I think it's an excellent question.
1:54.3	I feel like especially when you're hearing stories about the really long births, right?
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