My mother recently told me that she went to see a play on the night that my sister was born. She couldn't get comfortable at all and then later that night, her water broke. Tonight I arranged to see the Master Builder at the Irish Rep here in town with my folks. I had trouble staying awake - and my legs needed to be outstretched constantly. I enjoyed it but was totally disappointed that nothing seemed to be happening. When I layed down to go to sleep tonight, however, I heard a POP!, then I felt pain for about 30 seconds and THEN, hello, mucus plug (totally, totally disgusting by the way). And because I thought it an odd color I called the doc on call. While I was waiting, my water broke. The color of the mucus plug is not a problem but I did tell him my water broke. He said I needed to come in for an exam to check things out. So, looks like things may actually be progressing, one way or the other (and I am trying to avoid going in too soon - even though I know that they want you in promptly after your water breaks because of the infection risk - while a midwife would not be quite so anxious - I'm trying not to be a total idiot and play Russian roulette here either - but I also don't want to go in too early ). So, thanks Henrik Ibsen. We won't be naming our son Henrik or Ibsen - but thanks all the same.
***UPDATE***
So, right, I'm back home. I'm only 2 cm dilated, 50% effaced and the contractions are irregular. So, they sent me home. Oh, and the water breaking? They don't think that it did - and, um, we shall never speak of this again . . .
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i hope you are already at the hospital. you are not supposed to walk around or with your water broken! itcan cause cord issues. and b/c my water broke an dmy labor quit porogressing-i got an infection.
i bet you are holding him already! but still, you are scaring the heck out of me.
thinking of you.
xoxo
exciting! hope you're off bringing your little one into the world.
good luck!
XO
Oh boy oh boy! Hope everything's gone quickly and painlessly in L&D :)
Can't wait to read the next post.
Woo-hoo, Baby day! My water broke at home, too, and I stayed home another six hours or so, until I was getting pretty miserable. All of our parents thought it was insane to not go to the hospital right away, but I was so glad I waited (especially since both the OB and the midwife OK'd for me to stay home for a while). I hate hospitals, so the less time there--the less anxiety for me.
I am sure you are holding your little man in your arms now. Very excited for you, A. What a long journey.
Soon!!!
Good luck!
Hooray! Congratulations! I am looking forward to updates! Much good luck.
LOL - I saw the first part of the post on Bloglines, and the amendment when I got here.
But, it'll be soon!
just found your site through stirrup-queens...and so glad I have...reading your post almost makes me tear up with tears of joy for you and tears of hope for me ... i have had four miscarriages and i too have MTHFR and am Rh- and I have PCOS and high natural killer cells also. You give me hope by reading your post that your about to give birth! Hope you dont mind if I add you to my blogroll! April :0)
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