Labor Begins
We've been in "Early Labor" since around midnight last night, Dec 20. I got up a couple of times because my lower back hurt, and I thought it was an insistent poop. But nothing was going on. At 2 am, I got up resolving to take care of this problem once and for all and noticed a bit of blood in the toilet. I haven't seen blood since last March and it was like an old friend, dropping in to say hello. Yay period blood! (Or in this case, Yay Bloody Show!) This meant our baby would likely come in the next few days! My thoughts went "thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou..."
Then the period-like cramps started as soon as I got into bed. They ran every ten minutes or so (or every six to twelve minutes to be really specific) all night long. Some hurt more than others and after a couple hours I discovered that rotating and rocking my pelvis helped with the pain. The pain is in my lower back. But the top of my uterus is what contracts. I don't feel that though, other than I can tell it's tight - and if you touch it you can tell too. I did wake Dirk up to let him know they started and told him to keep sleeping, which he did. There was nothing anyone could do for me anyway. I couldn't sleep for a few hours because I was just too excited. I got up several times and looked at the snow and lights outside. By 4:15 am, I started drifting to sleep in between contractions. I had little dreams and awoke every ten minutes for my contractions. At six am, one was particularly bad, so I got up, turned on lights in the other room and started perusing the books for what turned out to be very limited information about labor. Dirk got up and the moving around and then the physical warmth and support of curling up with Dirk gave me a 45 minute reprieve. Eventually they started again - about seven minutes apart - and eventually we got up.
Moving around the house stopped the contractions for awhile, or at least made them less frequent and harder to notice. Now, at 11:45 am, they feel stronger to me, and bending over is not something I feel too comfortable doing. I think Blueberry has moved down lower, but it's hard to say. He moves around in between contractions here and there. I wonder what it's like to be him. I can't believe I'm going to meet somebody soon that is going to change my whole life. How often can you know that something like that is coming?
Then the period-like cramps started as soon as I got into bed. They ran every ten minutes or so (or every six to twelve minutes to be really specific) all night long. Some hurt more than others and after a couple hours I discovered that rotating and rocking my pelvis helped with the pain. The pain is in my lower back. But the top of my uterus is what contracts. I don't feel that though, other than I can tell it's tight - and if you touch it you can tell too. I did wake Dirk up to let him know they started and told him to keep sleeping, which he did. There was nothing anyone could do for me anyway. I couldn't sleep for a few hours because I was just too excited. I got up several times and looked at the snow and lights outside. By 4:15 am, I started drifting to sleep in between contractions. I had little dreams and awoke every ten minutes for my contractions. At six am, one was particularly bad, so I got up, turned on lights in the other room and started perusing the books for what turned out to be very limited information about labor. Dirk got up and the moving around and then the physical warmth and support of curling up with Dirk gave me a 45 minute reprieve. Eventually they started again - about seven minutes apart - and eventually we got up.
Moving around the house stopped the contractions for awhile, or at least made them less frequent and harder to notice. Now, at 11:45 am, they feel stronger to me, and bending over is not something I feel too comfortable doing. I think Blueberry has moved down lower, but it's hard to say. He moves around in between contractions here and there. I wonder what it's like to be him. I can't believe I'm going to meet somebody soon that is going to change my whole life. How often can you know that something like that is coming?
posted by Skye Xyan @ 12:35 PM
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