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Monday 29 July 2013

It's Time Honey

Last night I finally got to tell my darling partner, they are 1 min long and 12 minutes apart. All was going well and the contractions were getting longer, stronger and more frequent. We were thinking now is the time. I finished packing my hospital bag and called the midwife to let her know and then just played the waiting game until I was ready to be taken to the hospital.

They tell you to rest while you can especially if it is at night. So what do I do, I crawl into bed and attempt sleep. It worked, I actually managed a fair amount of sleep; the contractions seemed to be mild enough to let me do that. Now a few hours later at 6am they seem to have come to a standstill and almost stopped. Sure I get the occasional one but nothing as strong as last night when I went to bed. 

Oh the irony, you sleep to conserve energy for the further stages of labour and birth and your body up and decides, it has had enough and wants a break. Not that I'm complaining they were really starting to hurt. 

Current stats: 39 Weeks 4 days,big, fat and uncomfortable. 

Before all this contraction business started I had begun the nesting bug. For the past week I have cleaned, cooked and sewed. Sure I had days of rest and my house still looks like a bit of a bombshell and I don't have kids to mess it up just yet, only a partner who owns too much stuff, but it is cleaner than it was. I did originally predict that I was going to give birth a week and a half ago but it just didn't happen. A week of boredom was my allotment in life instead. 

Come on baby we are ready...
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