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Lightning birth
Since someone could hardly wait to see the light of the world: In just 120 seconds, the little Brody was born - and set a record!
With her fifth child, the 35-year-old Australian Mary Gorgens sets her personal record: in just two minutes, the little Brody was born, 3.9 kilograms, 52 inches tall. Many mothers can only dream of such a lightning birth - because births take on average between 13 (first birth) and eight (subsequent births) hours.
However, none of Gorgen's children has ever adhered to these statistics. Max, Ava, Sienna, Mila and Brody were all in a hurry: The longest childbirth lasted only 90 minutes! It was followed by 50, twelve, ten and now just two minutes - a marathon of lightning births ! No wonder then that only one of the Gorgens children was born in the hospital - the rest saw the light of day in the car or bedroom.
Too little time for pain
"I had no premonition, felt no pain. Brody arrived two days early - I did not expect him that night! "Said Mary Gorgens of the Daily Mail Australia. "It did not hurt and there were no complications - because there was no time for that!" Says Gorgens. But how can that be?
Birth duration begins when the opening labor begins, and ends with the birth of the baby. Labor is used to open the cervix. They come at intervals of 10 to 15 minutes, which is according to the principles of midwives: The pregnant woman needs for every centimeter, the cervix opens, about an hour. At ten centimeters, the cervix is completely open.
90 times faster than usual fall birth
In the so-called fall births, the cervix expands much faster, a rush of labor begins. If a woman has already had several births, her tissue and the birth canal are already pre-stretched - the body is almost 'used to' giving birth. If the baby is still optimally in the birth canal, the birth can go much faster. Some women have a low sensation of pain, so they barely notice the contractions.
However, such fall births are very rare: only about two percent of all natural deliveries fall under the term 'fall birth' - which includes any birth that takes less than three hours. It's still 90 times the time Mary Gorgens needed to bring Brody to the world! But regardless of whether the birth takes several hours or just 120 seconds: the love between mother and child can not be outweighed by anything.
