To cite this page: âAmish Population by State/Province, 2016.â Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College. http://groups.etown.edu/amishstudies/statistics/population-by-state/.
During a first-time birth, a first labor lasts 16 hours on average, however, this can vary tremendously. Labor can be divided into three stages. Stage one, where the cervix dilates, is subdivided into three phases, early, active and transition.
In my first birth, with a 12-hour labor, the after-birth took 5 hours to deliver and an even longer 12 hours for the second birth, which was ironically a lot shorter duration of 4 hours labor.