It should take approximately 24 hours in total.
A lioness is typically in labor for 2-4 hours before giving birth to her cubs.
When performing this procedure on a person you can lose the mother that's giving birth, or the child in which birth is being giving to.
parturition labor
You can tell when a molly has finished giving birth when she stops actively pushing and all the babies have been born. The birthing process usually takes a few hours, so if she has been in labor for a while and no more babies are being born, it is likely that she has finished giving birth.
Kitting, or labor
A rabbit's birth process is called kindling. :)
It's called labor & delivery.
In order to begin the process of giving birth to a baby, the women goes into labor for the baby to move downwards into the birth canal ready to push it out.
When a woman goes in to LABOR it means that she's about to give birth . Which means that her baby or babies are ready for delivery.
Work, activity, job, chore, strive, or sweat, for labor as in work. Childbirth or delivery, for labor as in giving birth.
to labor = amal (עמל) or avad (עבד) labor (noun), as in work = avodah (אבודה) or melachah (מלאכה) labor (as in giving birth) = leidah (לידה)
Question should be: Can a rat in labor delay birth if it's preoccupied with the first pup?