Journey with You

April 28, 2009. I was 40w1d and no sign of labor. I went to have my routine prenatal appointment and had another non-stress test. Everything was normal. However, the doctor insisted to schedule the inducement in a week just in case I did’t go in labor simultaneously before I reached 41 week mark. I didn’t want to be induced at all so I wasn’t exactly happy with the arrangement. Deep in my heart, however, I felt the baby was coming soon. According to my ovulation date, my due date should actually be 4/29/09.

I was planning on keeping working until last minute. I had a lot of braxton hicks that night. I double checked my hospital bag and went to bed.

5am on 4/29/09, I started getting contractions. Not too frequent and not too painful. I was considering taking the day off. I lay in bed for another two hours. Based my last experience, I felt I still had about 12-24 hours to go. DH didn’t want me to take a chance and thought I should just stay home. Cyrus was going to school anyway and DH had an scheduled appointment. I told him it’s not going to happen in a few hours so go ahead.

To help the labour progress, I decided to run some errands after I dropped Cyrus off at the daycare. When I was cashing out at the COOP, the cashier asked when the baby was due. I told her probably tonight!

I then watched a movie while I kept track on my contractions. It lasted about 40 seconds and 10-15 minutes apart. After DH came back, we went to a coffee house for a lunch. I also took a walk with my old neighbor who I happened to bumped into after lunch. The contractions were more frequent when I was walking but the walking motion actually helped reduce the pain. The breathing and relaxation techniques I learned from the Bradley Method also helped a lot.

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