Un-plugged

[diana_of_the_dunes]

Apparently my body has NOT forgotten it's supposed to go into labor. I lost my mucous plug this morning. It didn't look at all like what I was expecting, but there's no doubt in my mind that's what it was.

No other real signs of labor yet. I've been having erratic contractions all day, including one whopper that really hurt. Did some walking, rolling around on the birth ball, and just tried to rest.

I got a little scared for a while today, though. I mean, I'm really going to do this. I'm going to birth a baby. At some point in the not too distant future, this big, lumpy, squirmy thing in my belly is going to need to come out, and I'll need to get it out. It's just so overwhelming, since I've never done it before. I can read all the books and birth stories in the world, and know intellectually what's going to happen, but actually experiencing it will be something else entirely, you know? Okay, deep breaths...

Oh, labor, just start already so I can stop thinking about it!!

[2boyzmama]

Yay for mucous!! Mine is still stubbornly lodged in there

I hear you on the fear...this is my third, and I'm still scared! But you know what? When labor started with my other two, my fear was gone. With my first it was pure excitement...for about 30 hours then it was just misery, the fear didn't hit until I hit transition, that's when I realized that I actually had to PUSH a baby out, LOL!

Same with my second, there was no fear until it was time to push, until then I was fully occupied by the contractions and in "labor land", it wasn't until it was time to push that I suddenly freaked out

You can do it, you WILL do it, and immediately after you'll be on such a high that you'll feel like you just conquered the WORLD!!! Seriously, even after my first which was a horrible horrible experience, I was SO HIGH right after that I wanted to scream from the mountains that I had DONE IT!!!! We lived overseas when he was born, and it was the middle of the night in America, but I called Every. Single. Person. anyway and just could NOT stop telling them all what I had just done!!!!!