T plus 2

No baby no baby no baby no baby.

Went to the midwife's for the "stretch and sweep" yesterday, which consists mainly (without going into too much detail) of irritating the cervix.

Which I'm told is a good thing.

And it worked. It was irritated. It let me know so by sending cramping pain messages all afternoon.

Which again, I'm told is a good thing.

Around 5 pm, I started getting realllllyyyy uncomfortable. Felt terrible, with headache, super sensitivity to sound, light and smell (weird) and hot, feverish feeling. Struggled to feed Mela her dinner while alternately wiping my face with cold cloth and leaving the room to cry (most likely due to crazy hormone surge). Increasingly uncomfortable contractions holding steady at about 8 minutes apart.

When Chris finally got home, took a cold shower (in the dark) and laid down (in the dark) and breathed through the contractions.

Finally felt calm enough to socialize and watch a movie together (in the dark), while breathing through the more uncomfortable contractions.

Laid down at 10 pm to rest up for the big labour and delivery.

Woke up every 2 hours and timed the contractions. Around 5 am, they spaced out to 10 minutes apart and stopped being painful.

Now they're gone. And I'm just sore.

Apparently the lesson here (AGAIN - for those who missed it over the past couple of weeks) is that you can have several, very real bouts of labour and STILL, your body / the baby is not ready to go all the way. I honestly never knew it could be like this.

I'm starting to feel like a cautionary tale to others.