Still in labour guys 
Cx'ns are about 4 minutes apart and have been all night so typing is hard...so bear with the short forms.
At the 36 hour mark I decided to try an enema which one of the mw's had said could help if labour wasn't progressing well (I was still 8-10 mins at that point). So did the enema and immediately went to every 4-5 minutes and all of a sudden the cx'ns hurt like hell! At around 4am after 2 hours at 4 mins apart I called the mw cause I just had to know. She was at another birth at the hospital so said I could get the other on call mw (buffy) to come and assess me or I could go to hospital for an outpatient assessment and then decide what to do. Buffy is the mw I switched from because she hits my emotional hot buttons so decided going to hospital for assessment was preferable.
So I went in and Debbie checked me, urine fine, bp great, Niamh's hr a steady 120. Then she checked my cervix and I was at 2cms (sigh). She stayed in during a contraction just to see how my cervix was responding and as I started to say "ouch ouch ouch" which is how I had been doing most of the contractions since the enema she could actually feel my cervix tense up so she asked me to try to keep my breathing nice and deep and when I did that she could easily stretch me to 3 so she said "Keep doing that"
She asked if I wanted to be admitted or just go home and I decided that I would go home since we still seem to have a long road to go and plus I hate the hospital...just the smell of that place makes me tense up (though I must say that the height of the toilets are heavenly LMAO!) Before we left she put her hand on my arm and said "You can do this Steph"...I know she probably says that a lot but I keep clinging to those words.
So we came back home and I went to bed. Even though I was waking up every 4 minutes to breathe through the contractions I feel surprisingly rested right now. Definitely more pressure in my pelvic area and I can no longer picture myself doing this for another 10 hours LOL so I just do each contraction as it comes and I figure the rest will take care of itself...I figure though that is a good sign that the contractions are being productive enough to get some work done. Hopefully I will have Niamh today but I do feel rested enough at this point to keep going if I have to since we are both doing fine.
Steph
Cx'ns are about 4 minutes apart and have been all night so typing is hard...so bear with the short forms.At the 36 hour mark I decided to try an enema which one of the mw's had said could help if labour wasn't progressing well (I was still 8-10 mins at that point). So did the enema and immediately went to every 4-5 minutes and all of a sudden the cx'ns hurt like hell! At around 4am after 2 hours at 4 mins apart I called the mw cause I just had to know. She was at another birth at the hospital so said I could get the other on call mw (buffy) to come and assess me or I could go to hospital for an outpatient assessment and then decide what to do. Buffy is the mw I switched from because she hits my emotional hot buttons so decided going to hospital for assessment was preferable.
So I went in and Debbie checked me, urine fine, bp great, Niamh's hr a steady 120. Then she checked my cervix and I was at 2cms (sigh). She stayed in during a contraction just to see how my cervix was responding and as I started to say "ouch ouch ouch" which is how I had been doing most of the contractions since the enema she could actually feel my cervix tense up so she asked me to try to keep my breathing nice and deep and when I did that she could easily stretch me to 3 so she said "Keep doing that
"She asked if I wanted to be admitted or just go home and I decided that I would go home since we still seem to have a long road to go and plus I hate the hospital...just the smell of that place makes me tense up (though I must say that the height of the toilets are heavenly LMAO!) Before we left she put her hand on my arm and said "You can do this Steph"...I know she probably says that a lot but I keep clinging to those words.
So we came back home and I went to bed. Even though I was waking up every 4 minutes to breathe through the contractions I feel surprisingly rested right now. Definitely more pressure in my pelvic area and I can no longer picture myself doing this for another 10 hours LOL so I just do each contraction as it comes and I figure the rest will take care of itself...I figure though that is a good sign that the contractions are being productive enough to get some work done. Hopefully I will have Niamh today but I do feel rested enough at this point to keep going if I have to since we are both doing fine.
Steph
I am thinking of you today! 
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Another one here, too! 41 weeks and going strong! 
