Have been having contractions more or less steadily now since Friday afternoon! Yesterday had a great midwife appt. Everything looks great. Baby's heartrate is fabulous, size is healthy, movement is fab...and I look robustly healthy too. Baby is def. all the way dropped...down as low as he/she can go without more dilation occurring. Left the appt...and had contractions pick up a little to the most intensity I've felt so far this pregnancy...so DH suggested we head to the mall for a long walk. We alternated climbing stairs, strolling the halls and trips to the bathroom and got ourselves well exercised. Every trip to the bathroom I had lost a little more mucus plug (but all creamy with no color to it) and contractions kept up strongly. Headed home and put DS to bed then sat up reading together through more contractions. Went to the bathroom again and lost more mucus plug...the biggest chunk so far, this time finally with brown old blood in it. My midwife gave me the okay to check my own dilation as long as nails were carefully trimmed, I was gentle and slow and I scrubbed up with hot soap and water first. So, have been checking that...I started on Friday at just slightly dilated (I'm guessing a 1?) and not really effaced much if at all...still very thick cervix. Then last night checked again before bed and was definitely more dilated...open now to the diameter of a penny or so (a 2?) but still not very effaced. It got to be 11 last night and we decided to try to turn in and get a good night's sleep so went to bed and I hoped I'd be able to rest and not stay awake from excitement but also hoped things wouldn't die off completely in the night. We all slept soundly and this morning I'm still contracting although not as frequently as when we went to bed. Went to the bathroom and checked my dilation this morning and I must have been still contracting in the night even though I slept so well because I'm now slightly more dilated (maybe a 3?) and quite a bit more effaced. Also, I lost more mucus plug this morning, and now it had a little fresh red blood in it, so things are happening, no question. I've effaced enough that I can now reach through my cervix and touch the amniotic sac with my fingertip and can feel the baby's head right through it. So cool girls! So...DH is still sleeping but when he wakes up I have plans to make love, eat breakfast and then take a little walk down the road together to see if we can get things going stronger again. I'm way geeked!!!! We're having a baby!!!! Maybe not tonight or even tomorrow but I bet sometime this week I'll be holding my little one in my arms!
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