mambobb,
for my case kokomi came out really fast, my first boy, hanns was fast too, a couple of hours and out he arrived so for my second gal, i already expected it to be fast, but super fast lor, contraction started at midnight 12 plus, arrived KKH at about 1 am plus, no delivery suite available but i already every 5 mins contraction, so very rush for everyone too and the nurses and dr thought it will be morning before i will deliver but at close to 3am, fully dilated, pushed for 10-15 mins and at 3.23am, she arrived, super fast lor. so once contraction starts, better go hospital, dun wait cos for me, i actually still wanna eat maggi mee when contraction started, thought will be like what ppl said, first is every 1 hour or so but for my case, it is not lor, dun even have time to cook my maggi mee cos find that contraction came really fast. I so worried that will not in time for epidural cos no delivery suite avail for me when reached KKH and the nurse still tried to convince me not to take epidural cos she said second one will be fast and not so pain, but to play safe, I dun believed her

reached KKH already in labour and really damn pain, I dun want to know the kind of pain when fully dilated, cos worry that too pain and i cannot push well
your first one will be a good reference to guage how the second one gonna be. both pregnancy, I walked alot, do alot of bending, climbing due to sales job and then second pregnancy due to taking care of hanns so I guess that helps too.
For me, the easiest is labour, followed by pregnancy and the hardest is childcare

when heavily pregnant,can't wait for them to come out but once come out, worse, more tiring

but once they smile at me, everything is worth it.