Generally true, and I picked up on that too, but my wife's 3 went from under
an hour on the first (the docs said get a hotel room across the street on
the next one) to 7 hours on number 2 and 18 hours on the third,
so it is not always the pattern.
Drew
In a message dated 11/6/2008 8:46:47 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
lisakvperry AT gmail.com writes:
Each labor is usually, but not always, shorter than the last. By example my
first born's labor was 12 hours, second born was 4 hours. If Ms. Palin's
fifth child took 9+ hours to be delivered, her first born must have been a
very long labor.
Pure speculation, but it is the thing that my mind got stuck on when I heard
about it.