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@Espion: Hope everything is going smoothly!
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Good luck! Hoping everything is going well and you've got little flipper in your arms soon (so loving your nickname for your LO!)
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Wishing you the best of luck!! Can't wait to hear how you get on!! Come on Flipper, we want to meet you!!!
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Well, after a sleepless night and some scattered contractions, my cervix is more anterior, soft and still fingertip dilated. It is sort of moving in the right direction, so I'm a little confident that the pitocin will help things progress.
They let me hop in the shower first and get refreshed before starting the drip, which was nice.
Also, I got nearly zero sleep last night. Another "prepare for labor tip" might as well be sleep on the floor for the last two weeks of gestation. It will prepare you for the rock hard beds in the hospital. I swear, I flipped from side to side so often that I felt like a rotisserie chicken.@swedishfish: Ha! Not weird at all.
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Thank you so much, ladies! I totally feel the vibes.
Things will hopefully get a lot tougher soon.
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@Espion: you're getting there! and YES on those beds, I kept flipping over and over until one last turn my water broke.
Hope you have a good day today! You're almost there
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@Espion: I hope things go well today - I'll be checking in!
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@Espion: yes, exactly, rotisserie chicken. Hooray for progress. Hang in there!
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@Espion: The rotisserie chicken comment made me laugh because its really true!!
Good luck!
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@Espion: Good luck! Sounds like things are moving in the right direction!
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I'm excited for you! Go, Mama, go!
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Good luck today!!
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Okay, beginning of sh*t got real. I had to have a Cook catheter placed (google image has a good pic of what this is) which actually wasn't too bad. Basically felt like a tougher contraction. But it has made all my subsequent contractions more serious. Not unmanageable, but, Flipper has officially gone from, "Hey, hey guys? What's going on out there?" to hitting the roof of my uterus with a broomstick and yelling at us to "Keep it down!"
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Also, my contraction monitor slipped, so it wasn't recording my contractions. I'm totally feeling them, and i looked at the monitor and its completely flatlined. Is it weird that I got pissed for making it through a contraction and then getting zero credit for it?
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@Espion: Totally understandable! You deserve that credit
Go go go!
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Good luck good luck good luck!! Will be thinking of you this morning - hope you go fast and furious and are holding your lil flipper ASAP
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@Espion: Thinking of you!!
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@Espion: I bet the nurses will give you extra credit if you ask them! Good work!!!
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@Espion: I love the narration of Flipper's thoughts, haha
Hope everything continues to progress!
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Go Flipper go! Excited to hear about baby's arrival!
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Thinking of you! I know you're a champ, can't wait to see an update!
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Just checking on you! Hope things progress well from here!! Go baby flipper!
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Just checking in! It sounds like you are making amazing progress - go mama go!!!
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Good luck, girl! Hope you're holding baby in your arms soon!
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Only 2-3cm after 2 hours w/ the Cook. Actually good progress. Pitocin contractions officially suck. I'm going to try and hang until the next check before the epi. But they had to turn down the pit. Too fast and too much .
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Hang in there, mama. You're doing well! You can do this!
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@Espion: Hang in there! You are doing great!
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@Espion: Yay for progress! It took me a lonnng time to get to 3cm, but once I did it moved really fast (admittedly mine was without pit or the Cook).
Good luck Mama!
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You are doing great. The discomfort will end and you will be holding your baby soon!
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@Espion: You're doing great! Definitely try moving around if you can, even if just on the bedside (squat, hands & knees, leaning over the bed while swaying hips, etc). Staying in bed sucks majorly pit or not... I can imagine it's worse with it!
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@Espion: that is great progress though! Stay positive! Come on, Flipper, you can do this!!!
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@Espion: We are all cheering you on!
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Good luck!!
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@Espion You are doing an AMAZING job!! Keep it up
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@runsyellowlites: OMG, yes, I cannot imagine how laboring women managed lying down. It was straight up horrible to lay back for the checks.
A crackerjack anesthesiologist put in the epi and now we're cruising. The leg weakness feels like being on roller skates too long and the pins and needles are absolutely crazy.
Super plus, as soon as I shifted, my water broke on its own!
Ladies who do this without pain meds, I humbly lay myself at your feet. We've got a ways to go, but we're getting there!
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@Espion: woohooo! now is really go time - you'll have that baby in your arms in no time
thinking of ya!
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@Espion: Sending good wishes your way!
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Hang in there! You're doing great.
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@Espion: great update! You're almost there!
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Yay!! Excited for you!! You'll be holding your baby before you know it!! Keep up the good work and can't wait to get the baby update!!! Good luck!!!!!!
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