Around 5:30/ish I realizedI'd been having very crampy, close together contractions. DH and I timed them for a while, and decided that tonight would be the night. A-gain, we called the grandparents to pick up DDs 1&2, set up the birth pool, turned off the phone ringer, set up birthing supplies, throw chux pads over every surface I may fancy to labor/birth on, put birthing soundtrack in stereo (we are so nerdy like that) etc.
Contractions were going about 3/4 minutes apart for about two-three hours, we took a walk...I decided it might be a long night and sitting around just timing ctrx would drive me nuts, so we put in a movie. Aways into the movie I realize the ctrx are getting spaced apart...by the end of the movie (Philadelphia) I am having NO ctrx. It's 11 PM. We go for another walk...Nada.
I have lost trust in my body
. It's not like I am birthing a child for the first time, dammit!
Argh!!!
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Contractions were going about 3/4 minutes apart for about two-three hours, we took a walk...I decided it might be a long night and sitting around just timing ctrx would drive me nuts, so we put in a movie. Aways into the movie I realize the ctrx are getting spaced apart...by the end of the movie (Philadelphia) I am having NO ctrx. It's 11 PM. We go for another walk...Nada.
I have lost trust in my body
. It's not like I am birthing a child for the first time, dammit!Argh!!!
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Sorry. I had one night of prelabor too that kept me from sleeping. I bet that bout helped prepare your cervix though! 
:. Is there validity to the notion that boy babies like to hang around the womb a bit longer than girls? I've never made it to 40 weeks till this one, and we did not want to find out the gender. My other two are girls, born @ 37 and 39 weeks. Although a boy would be way cool, I aint too keen on being preggers for 41 weeks, let alone another day
. I'm going nuts here.
I had 2 days of that before she finally decided to come. Hope it's soon mama (and all 3 of my girls were at least 7 days overdue!)
