So far the Hypnobabies thing is working for me pretty well! And I'm still really excited that my water broke on its own! |
I was pretty happy last night when, shortly after my last post, my water broke on its own. My doctor came into the room about 15 minutes later to break it, so the timing couldn't have been better.
The contractions were about 4 minutes apart after that and I'm up walking around in the halls and (at the moment) bouncing on my birthing ball. I even managed to sleep quite a bit last night. The pain is definitely still manageable, which brings me to a conversation with Paul yesterday, while walking around Macy's (the mall has been a major center of walking for me since it's been so cold outside! It's in the 20s right now! And while I love the cold the coughing fits don't help my progress!).
Me: "Oh. There's another contraction. What was that? Two minutes and thirty seconds since the last one? Under three minutes now. I just wish they really hurt. If they hurt I'd know. I'd know it was time to go to the hospital."
Paul: (chuckles to himself)
Me: "What? What are you laughing?"
Paul: "It's just that you've spent months listening to that lady telling you every single night, all night that labor isn't going to hurt. And then you go into labor and it doesn't hurt and you're worrying about how it doesn't hurt enough."
Yeah... he's right. I would put my current hypnobabies track on the computer and listen to it on a loop all night long. And yet I find myself looking to how painful things are as a reflection of how they're going.
In other news, things are actually slowing down this morning and while I've already refused the epidural three times (since I've been admitted), but am realizing that I may lose the pitocin battle soon. I've already refused pitocin once, but since the contractions have spaced themselves out (walking or not now) I think it's a battle I'm going to ultimately lose.
Ah well. Sadie's labor was pitocin + no epidural (not by choice that time... the epidural caused her heart rate to plummet) and I survived. At least this time I've spent time mentally preparing for non-medical pain relief. Last time I was quite simply shocked that the epidural wasn't going to be an option.
Now, on to have this baby. And to glare at Paul's back. I do this when he's asleep and I'm awake (like he is at the moment). I especially glare after hearing words like: "I think you're looking at this as some kind of competition in suffering" followed by some words about why he needs more than the seven hours of sleep he just got last night. I'm not particularly sympathetic to the varying levels of comfort on the recliner in the room (guys, word for the wise that's something you might not want to comment on while your wife is in labor...).
At least this blog post bought him another half hour of me not bugging him so I'll have someone to talk to. I'm a little bit bored at the moment. I guess I'll go search for more memes like this one (my favorite of this morning's search):
Hurry up Patrick and lots of prayers from here!
ReplyDeleteI'm praying for you. I hope labor moves along so you can hold Patrick in your arms.
ReplyDeleteI can commiserate with the husband sleeping during labor. I had a doula with my first labor and I was so annoyed when she told my husband he could take a nap while I labored. Not fun being in the transition stage and listening to your husband snore loudly.
So excited for you! Actually I stopped by because I was thinking about our conversation re: sewing car seat covers. Have you seen a car seat canopy? Or a cover that goes over the top (like a shower cap?) with a hole for the baby's face? Those would definitely be more generic-shaped. Okay, I'm sure you're not thinking about sewing right now...I'm just shopping for a friend and found some stuff on ebay and thought of you.
ReplyDeleteI'm praying that you won't need the pitocin... nasty stuff. Your body will go into active labor eventually without it. Doctors are so impatient! Baby boy is almost here!!! Soooo excited for you!!!!!
ReplyDeleteMore prayers for you and Patrick!
ReplyDeleteI don't get the meme. Not everyone's a Christian. I use BCE and CE myself.
ReplyDeleteThank you to everyone for the prayers!
ReplyDeleteAnd as for the meme... whether or not your a Christian, our calender is based off of Christ's birth. That's what we've been counting up from. The meme poked fun at the fact that people use the system (I do understand that there's not really an alternative in our Western culture) while calling it something else. In other words, there's no other reason for the calender to start the year it does...
C.E./B.C.E. is easily my biggest pet peeve in academia. Lazy punks don't want to come up with a new datum point for their years but don't want to recognize the significance of the existing one.
ReplyDeleteThey could just as easily use A.U.C. (Datum of B.C. 753) which is the founding of Rome. Or, heaven forbid, they come up with something new.
Plagiarists.
Well, we could always use the Hebrew calendar :)
ReplyDeleteBest of luck in the delivery!