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.
First babies generally take their time. The average length of active labour for a first baby is about eight hours, so it could be shorter or longer than that, but it's unlikely that your first labour will be longer than 18 hours (NCCWCH 2007: 141) .