NOTHING!!
And I can't sleep since the insomnia hit at 2am. All that I'm getting are really strong BH, a baby that is alternating between kicking me under my ribs, stretching its little legs ALL the way to my side and hiccuping.
I was so hopeful last night that I would be holding my baby today. How can I be 80% effaced, 3cm, baby's head lower than 0 station and not be in labor? What's holding this kid in?
Larissa, she stripped me knowing how uncomfortable I am and it was the least intervenative (is that a word?) way to try to get some labor going. She really can't believe I haven't gone yet. She will only do this or break my water to encourage labor - nothing else for which I am thankful. It was with this practice last pregnancy when I was using the midwives and they mentioned pitocin!! That was when I switched to home birth. Funny how an ob can be more "midwife minded" than some midwives!
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My OB with Rosalie (and also with Aaron) was very much like that, Janet. But even with my hands in the pain they were in ... he wouldn't do a single thing to help get things going. He told me that if he tried to do anything, he feared that I wouldn't get the results that I wanted. (I was in so much pain from my hands that I was close to agreeing to have him pull Rosalie out of my ears!) LOL
But - stripping the membranes is a much better alternative to pitocin!
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