So last Saturday Hollis and I had our Labor and Delivery prep class. During the class, at the beginning of the section about pre-term labor, I started to feel very uncomfortable and kept getting up to try to alleviate my pain. It was a few more hours before I started to consider that I was actually in labor (only after my sister-in-laws informed me that I was). I called my OB and we met at the hospital. Yep. In labor, having contractions every 2 minutes. And only 35 weeks along.
So I got a shot of tributylene and a pill of nifedipine to try and halt the labor. While my contractions lessened in intensity, I kept having them. My OB went back and looked at my first ultrasound information and decided my due date could be adjusted from September 1 to August 24. So like magic I was 36 weeks along. But full term isn't until 37 weeks so we were still trying to stop the labor. I got booked into the hospital on Saturday (July 28). I was at 3.5 cm and 100% effaced, but I stopped progressing on Saturday night. I never stopped having contractions, but I didn't progress after Saturday, so I was released on Tuesday on bed rest. I had to keep taking the nifedipine and stay in bed as much as possible until the following Monday. Our baby had other plans.
I had been home about 24 hours when my water broke (about 2:15 PM). Naturally, the bag of waters broke 15 minutes after I had taken a nifedipine (a contraction blocking pill). So I assumed that it would be a while before my contractions got painful again (instead of uncomfortable and somewhat painful that they had been since Saturday). I called Hollis and Carol (my sister-in-law/doula) and Liz drove me to the hospital. When I got to the hospital I was at 5 cm.
As soon as everyone got there, my labor really kicked in. I was planning on using the jacuzzi tub in my room to alleviate pain while I was laboring, but I actually never had time. The contractions came closer and closer - I was getting a 2 minute break in between each one, max. Then I felt like I wasn't really getting any break. The main thought I remember having was "they lied to me!" because I had been told about how labor is long and how you get time between contractions to rest. And I wasn't getting any break! But it was okay and at 6:58 PM our little bundle of baby was born.
The tired mama:
Excited and hungry papa:
And our ecstatic doula and baby's aunt:
So I got a shot of tributylene and a pill of nifedipine to try and halt the labor. While my contractions lessened in intensity, I kept having them. My OB went back and looked at my first ultrasound information and decided my due date could be adjusted from September 1 to August 24. So like magic I was 36 weeks along. But full term isn't until 37 weeks so we were still trying to stop the labor. I got booked into the hospital on Saturday (July 28). I was at 3.5 cm and 100% effaced, but I stopped progressing on Saturday night. I never stopped having contractions, but I didn't progress after Saturday, so I was released on Tuesday on bed rest. I had to keep taking the nifedipine and stay in bed as much as possible until the following Monday. Our baby had other plans.
I had been home about 24 hours when my water broke (about 2:15 PM). Naturally, the bag of waters broke 15 minutes after I had taken a nifedipine (a contraction blocking pill). So I assumed that it would be a while before my contractions got painful again (instead of uncomfortable and somewhat painful that they had been since Saturday). I called Hollis and Carol (my sister-in-law/doula) and Liz drove me to the hospital. When I got to the hospital I was at 5 cm.
As soon as everyone got there, my labor really kicked in. I was planning on using the jacuzzi tub in my room to alleviate pain while I was laboring, but I actually never had time. The contractions came closer and closer - I was getting a 2 minute break in between each one, max. Then I felt like I wasn't really getting any break. The main thought I remember having was "they lied to me!" because I had been told about how labor is long and how you get time between contractions to rest. And I wasn't getting any break! But it was okay and at 6:58 PM our little bundle of baby was born.
The tired mama:
Excited and hungry papa:
And our ecstatic doula and baby's aunt:
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