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.
No one can accurately predict how long it will take to induce your labor, or how long the labor will take once it starts. Sometimes it takes just a few hours. However, if the cervix is unripe (hard, long and closed) it takes many hours or even a whole day or multiple days for an induction to work. Just like natural labor, induction takes longer for women when it is their first baby. If labor does not occur on the first day, you may be sent home. You and your clinician will decide if you need to return another day for another attempt, or wait for natural labor.