I was 10.5 lbs, 22 1/4". Hardest labor for my mom even being 6 of 6 kids. My wife is 5'. Our girls were 6.9 and 7.1 lbs. Her first labor, 2 pushes after they broke her water. From the first time they said "push" ...2 minutes. Second labor, they broke her water and she pushed..."waaaahhgg!" 45 seconds. Y'all must be doing it wrong.
@midnightmoon05 not really. She just got lucky. No one can explain it. The whole staff, for both births, had never seen labor so short and easy. During the birthing class a nurse said to the whole audience "latinas are the worst. They moan and wail so loud it seems like they're going to wake up the whole hospital." That pissed my wife off SO much! She decided that she was going to show that nurse. We had to do pain control exercises. Hold a handful of ice and just breathe through the pain. Everyone else took one handful, my wife took two. She did the exercise twice their and would practice at home.
it seems that when the pain gets to be too much women tend to push before they are fully dilated. that causes the mouth of the cervix to become engorged with blood and makes it harder to fully dilate. my wife resisted the desire to push, breathing through the pain. and when the said push, our 1st daughter was 2 pushes. our second daughter was 1 push. i may be wrong in how this works but i don't care. my wife had two of the shortest labors that a total of abut 12 staff ever witnessed. that's what she did. hopefully this might help others.
My oldest daughter (now 25) was born very premature and only weighed 1 lb.11 oz... My second/last daughter (now 22 about to turn 23 this month) was born just a few weeks early and weighed 6lbs 5 oz
My wife gave birth to 3 children. The first was 9 lbs 1 Oz. The second was 9lbs 6oz and the third was 10lbs even. I don't remember how long they were though
