i'm just done.
yesterday i started to get labor contractions at my parents' house at 6:30pm. i figured they were probably nothing, but decided to go home anyway. i called dave, who was out, and let him know what was happening. started to time them at 14 minutes apart. when they got to 10 minutes apart, dave decided to come home. i called my midwives, and midwife anne told me to wait until they were 3 minutes apart and then call back. in the meantime, she wanted me to relax, take a bath, etc.
in the past, baths have stalled out my contractions (yes, this is not the first time i've been to this rodeo). so i reluctantly took a bath. dave got home and made me tea, and i stayed in the bath for a while. the contractions started to calm, but then they came back on stronger and closer. ok, good! when i got out we started to time them, and we eventually got to about 3-4 minutes apart. so i called back anne. she told me to wait until they got stronger and more painful, and if that happened, then we could go to the hospital. this was at 11:30 pm.
well, i laid down and watched tv as my contractions got closer and more intense. they were never horrible, but then i also have a much higher threshold for pain than i used to due to the migraines. so i couldn't tell what "painful" meant at that point. i could say that i couldn't tell the time difference between them anymore -- it felt like one long contraction instead of several in a row. eventually i decided that since i didn't know what was happening, and they seemed awfully close, we should go in.
we get there, anne meets us. of course, my contractions started to peter out by the time i was in triage at 3 am. the baby was sleeping a bit though, so they wanted to run an IV to wake him/her up. i got stuck twice because the one in my arm didn't work, so that was horribly painful. of course the baby woke up right away, but my contractions went down to cramps and i got sent home. we got to bed at 6 am.
i'm not calling the next time until i'm writhing on the floor and can't speak. or until the baby's head is crowning. whichever comes first.
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There are no words left to say except you're doing great and hang in there. =( Love ya Nic.
Nicole, hang in there, he/she wants to have the same Birthday as Mommy!! :)~ It sounds like your doing all you can. Love the Polimeni gang...
Ugh, I'm so sorry, Nic. You should just invite one of the midwives to come live with you so you don't have to deal with the hospital scenario again. =)
Oh Nic Sweetie...Hang in there...any day now..maybe as your own incredibly b-day miracle!!!
love you and baby block..
Tara
You know what nic, even though it wasn't "IT", it's still progress. You have never been at this point before. So you are making progress. The next tme will be it.
Hang in there hun
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