The nurse (who I think originally thought “what is this girl complaining about… she can’t be in labour YET!?”) was clearly pretty shocked when, after struggling to walk over to the bed, she checked me and I was already at a “solid 7cm”… all in less than an hour. We called in the nurse around 6pm as it was getting crazier and crazier. I was freaking out as there was no build-up to anything – it just went from zero to a hundred and was so intense right off the bat. They were lasting a minute long and were barely a minute apart. Dan started timing and totally couldn’t believe it when I kept saying “it’s starting again”. I hopped into the bath, which relaxed my body enough for me to realize that there was actually a pattern to them. I didn’t believe that it was contractions to begin with as there was no letting up, and I started to panic about what was happening. Basically as soon as they walked out that door I started to get the craziest cramping. They left to go home at about 5:10pm – we would page them when labour started. Worst case, nothing would really happen and we would re-assess in the morning about more cervadil or breaking my waters. Well, obviously that was all my body needed to kick things into super high gear! The cervadil went in at 4pm, and I sat on the baby monitor until 5pm to make sure all was good with our baby boy. The midwives advised us to eat, try and get some rest, and that I would probably wake up in the middle of the night in labour. The birth story? We went into hospital to try to jump start things with cervadil, as I was approaching the 42 week mark. You can’t ever plan anything, especially when it comes to birth and babies, so this was just another reminder of that! He was so worth the wait, though. Maya had come only a few days past her due date, and so I assumed that James would be more or less on time as well. If you follow me on instagram or facebook, you might have noticed that we welcomed a new little fella into our family! James Hudson Timothy Brodhead was born on Monday February 15th at 9 lbs 1 oz - and yes, 11 days overdue! Holy mama was I ever large and SO ready to give birth by that point.
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