My neonatologist friend actually let slip that the industry parlance is that any pregnancy, first or not, after age 35 is defined as an "elderly pregnancy."
Lovely.
I'm sure with most women, each subsequent birth is less stressful because you've got a better sense of what's going on.
However, I was also of the impression that often with each subsequent birth, the whole labor thing (generally) tends to get shorter not longer.
So unless her first labor was like 40 hours? By baby #5, I wouldn't be betting on making it through an 11 hour plane flight plus a drive to a hospital.
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Date: 2008-09-01 09:33 pm (UTC)Lovely.
I'm sure with most women, each subsequent birth is less stressful because you've got a better sense of what's going on.
However, I was also of the impression that often with each subsequent birth, the whole labor thing (generally) tends to get shorter not longer.
So unless her first labor was like 40 hours? By baby #5, I wouldn't be betting on making it through an 11 hour plane flight plus a drive to a hospital.