It's April 18th and according to my internal exam my cervix has come down a little (but is still high up there a bit), about 2 cm dilated and about 80% effaced. So what does this mean?
I'm already in labor -- Early Labor . . .
but I still have to wait until I'm about 4-5 cm dilated to get admitted to the hospital. I've been having mild (and bothersome) contractions during sleeping hours last night (or early morning), and then they became a bit more painful when I walked around the neighborhood for about a mile when I was really awake. They sort of feel like a muscle cramp or "charlie horse" that I get when exercising -- but it felt much stronger and tightened my entire abdominal area. I continued walking through the pain and breathed deeply like I would when I get a charlie horse, but it didn't go away until a few minutes after I stopped walking.
I thought it was funny when my midwife encouraged David and I to "go home and have fun" -- in other words, have David help me naturally induce labor. How fun!
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