Wife is in labor with #1 right now. She's been having contractions for 22 hours
She was not amused at hearing about your 2 hour wonder. At all.
Not to trivialize what your wife is going through, but the short labors are usually FAR more intense. TANSTAAFL and all that. It's not like you just take 20 hours off your wife's experience. The sub 1-hr labor with Thing 2 was
almost enough to put her off having any more kids. She was totally out of control and completely lost her ability to cope. The 2 hours was still incredibly intense, but far better on the coping scale. She still didn't really get any breaks (less than 30 seconds at a time) from the contractions for the last 45 minutes or so.
The worst part of those long labors seems to be the exhaustion from not being able to sleep. Seems like 4-5 hours is about ideal.