Pregnant woman called wolf….
Yep, I called/cried ..you name it wolf….
So after a few days of feeling like things were coming soon, having all the impending labor signs - .Monday the contractions got to a point where I was timing them.
They lasted 2 hours easily 5 mins. apart but weren’t necessarily the most painful. Around 8:30 I figured they were easing up so I took my unisom and headed to bed. At 11:15 I woke up to major contractions & pain so went to the bathroom and then tried to sleep them back off thinking they couldn’t be strong enough at first. Well they got worse and I gave in, woke up DH and called L&D. They told me to come on in and get hooked up to see if we were in active labor.
When I got there I was consistently having them every 5 minutes and increasing in pain, checked me and I was at 3cm but close to 4cm (I was at 2cm @ 36 weeks/2 weeks ago). She told me to walk around a bit and they’d check me in 2 hours. Well after an hour and 1/2 of walking the halls, stopping when the contractions came because they were definitely noticeable and hurting..I gave up walking and just wanted to lay down a bit. I got hooked back up on the monitor and yep they were 3-4 mins. apart increasing in pain. She checked me again @ 2:30 and NO PROGRESS WTF!!!
She called my midwife back and I was given 3 options 1) go home with a mild pain killer to try and sleep but come back if it got worse. 2) walk/lay in L&D for another 2 hours to see if things got stronger 3) get morphine to let me do “tranquil therapy” basically, see if my body could rest and maybe it’d kick into full blown labor. Well, considering how quick my active labor was with my 1st DS, we decided I’d stay at the hospital and try the morphine then she’d check me at 7:30 to see where we were.
7:30 rolls around and no progress…I’m frustrated, tired and sore from all the internals. (I have a very hard to reach uterus so every one was painful!) I get sent home to rest and it’s a waiting game. If I was 1 week further they could’ve broke my water or started pitocin but nope….I’m just under the bubble. (today I hit 38 weeks and would be in the clear most likely for them to “augment’/break my water/start pitocin if it happens again)
I’m so done and ready for this all to be over. I went back to work on Wed., continuing to work this week away and have been just doing the good ol’ waiting game. I get a feeling things are happening then bam…it all stops again.
This baby is seriously testing my patience before he comes into the world and boy is he a stubborn one already…or maybe it’s just my body being a pain in the arse!
The thing is - my contractions were more painful this time and looking great on the monitors/timing close together but my body just wasn’t progressing yet. I had stronger contractions then I remember from being induced with my 1st so I thought for sure we were good to go…boy did I feel like the pregnant woman calling wolf!
