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“Active” Labor

So most of the night had been a combination of trying to sleep, lying awake questioning if I’d made the right choice, and waking up in drastic pain and needing to go to the bathroom. I finally asked for some meds to help sleep at 2am. That at leas…

So most of the night had been a combination of trying to sleep, lying awake questioning if I’d made the right choice, and waking up in drastic pain and needing to go to the bathroom.  I finally asked for some meds to help sleep at 2am.  That at least helped me sleep for an hour at a time until the contractions/bathroom called my name.

At 5:45 I woke up ready to go to the next step.  24 hours from my water breaking meant I’d be okay with finally getting a cervical exam and figuring out how to “augment” my labor.  Man, I wonder who thought of THAT term. Sarah, the midwife did the exam and assessed my condition as “still not progressing”.  So, we put in a cervical softener.  Holy Shit, has that gotten the ball rolling!!!!  Since then, I’ve been having contractions every 4 minutes (instead of 10 …..