![]() He knows how far away we live and how at this point I was a walking baby-time-bomb. He again gave us options – membrane sweep or schedule an induction. We had a big breakfast (believe it or not, the hospital food is delicious there) and coffee and went up to the appointment around 7:15.Īt this appointment, he checked me again (per my request) and said I was a solid 5 and almost 6 cm dilated and completely effaced. We walked and walked and just spent time together. We decided to sit in the lobby and bounce on my ball/walk the halls until my previously scheduled 7:30 routine OB appointment. I didn’t think laboring at home would be a good idea given I was already 5cm.īy the time we got to the hospital an hour later, I wasn’t having any more contractions. I knew I didn’t want to risk delivering on the side of the road and my last delivery I didn’t have any painful contractions until transition. I woke up my husband and told him we needed to go to the hospital. That night at 2:30 AM I was woken up out of my sleep with a painful contraction. My mom flew down from Virginia on Tuesday evening. My sciatica had gotten so bad that I was afraid to drive because my legs would unexpectedly feel like lava was being poured down them. The next few days I couldn’t leave my house. (I did not have this with my first pregnancy.) After collapsing to my hands and knees about 5 times and having to explain to the crowds that I was not in labor although I was 39 weeks pregnant, I decided to leave. When I got there, I felt OK, but about 20 minutes into walking around my sciatica pain flared up like it never had before. Two days later I attempted to go to our local “Boo at the Zoo” with my daughter. The doctors determined I had a stomach virus, gave me 2 bags of fluid and some anti-nausea meds and sent me home. By 4:30AM we had called my husband’s mom to come watch our daughter and we headed to the hospital. Only this time I started to get nauseous around 9PM and by 11 I was having full blown flu symptoms. That night I started to have false labor again. I really wanted a spontaneous labor this time. I live an hour away from the hospital, so he wasn’t rushing me or my birth, he was just offering some choices because he knew my first labor/delivery was fast (2 hours, 20 minutes) and said this one could go even faster. He asked if I would like a membrane sweep or schedule and induction and I declined. I don’t think I knew you could just walk around that dilated and not be in labor. I was surprised when he said I was 4-5 CM and 85% effaced. I had had three nights of false labor before that, so I decided to ask my doctor to check my cervix. I was 38 weeks, 5 days when I had a routine OB appointment.
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