What to do if you experience precipitous labor However, some experts believe whether or not a woman tears has more to do with whether she is working with her body than how fast birth happens.

Physically, a fast labor, specifically a fast pushing phase may increase the risk a mother tearing if her body is not ready to stretch.

Unprepared birth environment: This may not be where you planned to have a baby, but grab some towels, blankets, and a bowl for the placenta!.

Cycle of fear: Fear triggers shorter breaths, and shorter breaths trigger anxiety and panic.

Calm breathing: Remember to breathe deeply and stay as relaxed as you can.

Emotional hurdles: Digesting the situation will cause a rollercoaster of emotions.

Self-doubt: the intensity will cause you to question your ability.

Often times this symptom is not accompanied by contractions as your cervix dilates very quickly. This can also be described as bearing down and feel similar to a bowel movement.

The sensation of pressure including an urge to push that comes on quickly and without warning.

An intense pain that feels like one continuous contraction allowing no time for recovery.A sudden onset of intense, closely timed contractions with little opportunity for recovery between contractions.Other signs that you are having a rapid birth The best thing to do is give in and gently aid your body and deliver your baby without panicking. Your body will react without you helping it. If you are suddenly experiencing contractions one on top of another with little to no rest between them, your body is already transitioning and preparing for the second stage: pushing. Handling these without fear is quite an accomplishment. Contractions seem irregular, unpredictable, too intense, and never-ending. Precipitous labor comes on like a freight train. having a female relative who also experienced fast labors.an unusually small baby a baby positioned extremely well to come out.a well-aligned pelvis, pubic bone and birth canal.extremely compliant soft tissues inside the birth canal.a particularly efficient uterus that contracts with unusual strength.Most published reports suggest that fast labor generally has a physical basis. Have you read my fourth birth story? ( Go READ it!) I didn’t report my experience at all, and I don’t think many women report their labor times. I’m betting the number is much much higher than what was reported. This means 2.26% of these births were express deliveries-and that data is just from women who reported risk factors, procedures or some anomaly. In 2014, the CDC reported that over 21,000 out of 945,180 live births involved rapid labor or express deliveries. This tends to only happen in a small percentage of births. Labor is considered “fast” or “precipitous” when it lasts three hours or less. Let’s talk about the two extremes when it comes to timing birth: Prodromal Labor and Precipitous Labor. In our society, women who do not follow the “normal” pattern are labeled as having ‘complicated labors.’ In all reality, there is no true ‘normal’ for birth, but instead, a normal for each mother and each baby’s birth. So if the average is 12-14 hours, that means half of women will exceed that number and half will labor for far fewer hours. But you understand how to average, right? You add all the birth hours up and divide by the amount of mothers in the study(ies). (First time moms push over 2 hours on average, but that includes medicated mothers and unmedicated mothers.) The true reason is that studies show an average birth lasts 12-14 hours in length.

The first reason being the “dilate a centimeter an hour” thing and another 2 hours for pushing. There are two reasons that doctors will tell you to expect labor to be around 12 hours. I’m sorry to tell you that this is far from true for so many birthing women. You know, the dilating a centimeter an hour, and pushing immediately at 10 centimeters. It seems that the only acceptable vaginal birth is one that follows the not-so-normal bell curve that people assume labor to be defined.

Precipitate labour signs and symptoms