Ohhh I would imagine. Though I really shouldn't say much, I got off lucky. 4 hours total in labor from the start of contractions til he was born (literally 1 minute to push, hooray!) and I didn't even gain 20lbs during my pregnancy. Really my only struggle was it screwed with my blood sugar some (Interestingly, white/Asian pregnancies increase the chances of gestational diabetes. Found that out through some research) and it made my anemia worse, but they loaded me up with some heavy duty iron pills and it wasn't too bad.
Never hope for a girl, it wont happen, especially with kids close in age ;-)
My eldest 2 are 2 days short of 12 months apart, my next one was born when my middle son was 18 months and my next one is due when my current youngest is 17 months old.
Having kids under a year apart is much easier when theyre the same gender, means toilet training and stuff is easier.