Chloe was born at 41.5 wks, after having to be induced, so I had no intentions of just having contractions.
So I go to work sunday ....(I work 4 days a month) and about noon I start having some subtle cntx. No biggie, I've been getting the braxton hicks for weeks...but its super busy..and I push it off and off and 4 pm rolls around and I realize, I've been having them for 4 hrs, they are not going away and they are getting longer and closer.
Convieniently, I work in the hospital...so I head down to labor and delivery and they put me on the monitor...yup, cntx. They left me on for 20 min, had to stay on my side in bed. (Made me remember just why I chose homebirth)
thankfully, the contractions died down and the ending strips showed an irritable uterus. Once I was in bed, they weren't like they were when I was upstairs working.
They wanted to do an internal..but I refused..had they found me even a lil dialated they would have HAD to admit me, I just went home, called my midwife and took a nap...no more labor
So I noticed other july mamas having cntx too..and funny thing my midwife, who does about 10-12 births a year...had 2 births on sunday, and me calling with preterm contractions...she said the moon was in a phase or something...cuz it was unreal for her to get so many calls lol
So I go to work sunday ....(I work 4 days a month) and about noon I start having some subtle cntx. No biggie, I've been getting the braxton hicks for weeks...but its super busy..and I push it off and off and 4 pm rolls around and I realize, I've been having them for 4 hrs, they are not going away and they are getting longer and closer.
Convieniently, I work in the hospital...so I head down to labor and delivery and they put me on the monitor...yup, cntx. They left me on for 20 min, had to stay on my side in bed. (Made me remember just why I chose homebirth)
thankfully, the contractions died down and the ending strips showed an irritable uterus. Once I was in bed, they weren't like they were when I was upstairs working.
They wanted to do an internal..but I refused..had they found me even a lil dialated they would have HAD to admit me, I just went home, called my midwife and took a nap...no more labor
So I noticed other july mamas having cntx too..and funny thing my midwife, who does about 10-12 births a year...had 2 births on sunday, and me calling with preterm contractions...she said the moon was in a phase or something...cuz it was unreal for her to get so many calls lol
