Despite my attempts to sit on a birthing ball a lot, stretch in the floor at night, eat pineapple (ok, so I didn't eat much, but the acidity hurts my mouth after awhile), and eat "jump start your labor cookies" this week, the doctor told me today that I am not dilated any more than I was last week (which was a fingertip a.k.a. pretty much nuthin'). Womp, womp.
However, I did jump from 30% effaced last week to 70% effaced this week. I think that is still something!! Maybe she will just keep moving down and down and down and then boom, a few easy contractions and there she will be!
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| "Jump Start Your Labor cookies" Tim made me with cinnamon, ginger, and cayenne pepper |
A girl can dream right?
Anyways, although I have been feeling Lierre move this week, it has felt.... different somehow. Softer? Less often? I hadn't quite been able to put my finger on it. So, thankfully the doctor allowed me to be hooked up to the monitor for awhile today just to be sure everything was alright. After about 20 minutes he came back and said "Well, it's just what I thought... the reason you haven't felt her move so much is because you are having contractions like crazy." Then he and the nurse showed me the chart of the heart rate/contractions (it looks like what they measure earthquakes with, the little spikey needles that jump when something happens) and pointed out one contraction in particular--it went all the way to the top line and stayed there for awhile. When I acted surprised they said "Did you not feel that??" and I said "Well, I mean I felt my stomach get tight, but I feel like I have these all the time at home lately, but no pain with them. Is that ok??" They kind of laughed and assured me that they would get worse eventually, but that some people just don't feel pain with these early contractions. I am beyond ok with this!! Unfortunately, even though I had some big contractions, I also had many little ones and there was no rhyme or reason to the timing or strength of them. Hopefully these will turn into the real deal soon and we will have a sweet little girl to snuggle with.
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| Impatiently waiting at the doctor. Oh, by the way I cut my hair! |
I have been bouncing back and forth between over-the-top anxious, to beyond excited, to exhausted and back. I would also describe the last weeks emotions as feeling like extreme PMS.... so very moody. Happy one second, snapping the next, crying at commercials after that, then fine. If you have fallen prey to my insanity, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!! It is uncontrollable and comes on quickly and then leaves and leaves me feeling like a fool. I'm ready for this part to pass! Poor Tim! Poor family members! I cringe at myself sometimes.
Keep praying that I make progress and go into labor on my own. It will be best for our little lady if I do, and I really want to experience this thing start to finish (hopefully laboring at home for as long as possible). I will keep everyone posted as time goes by!
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