Warning: This is my longest birth ever. Part 2

5:30 AM Friday

We “woke up” and everyone took showers. We ate breakfast (snuck some to Lisa so she would have the energy she needed.) We met OB #2 and got a new nurse. Lisa and Ryan were ready to start some pitocin. That was started by 9:30 AM. It is upped nice and slowly 2ml every 30 minutes. We had lunch around 12:30.

1 PM Friday

Lisa finally needs to relax through the pressure waves. YAY!

4:20 PM Friday

Lisa gets her first vaginal exam more than 33 hours after her water broke! I was thrilled that they patiently waited that long. She was 3cm 70% -2 station.

Lisa is a little disappointed she isn’t more. But I reminded her that really her birthing time hadn’t started until 3 hours earlier when she had to relax through her pressure waves. She was just starting active birthing time!

5:20 Friday

Lisa is getting tired and frustrated. She had been alternating walking and rocking and sitting on the birth ball for hours. She loses a bit of focus and it having trouble relaxing through her PW and is not very comfortable. We decide Ryan will read her a script while Lisa rests in the chair. I am sitting nearby watching while he reads the Hypnobabies Script and it looks like she has fallen asleep, I honestly thought her PW had stopped and I went to check the monitor. She was still having them every 2-3 minutes. Gotta love Hypnobabies! Lisa said she thought maybe they had stopped too, but then realized they were just comfortable now.

Her 3^rd OB and nurse came in during this and saw the strip with the PW and saw how nice and relaxed she was and gave a big thumbs up! (These are nurses and OBs familiar with Hypnobabies)

8 PM Friday

Lisa gets another Vaginal Exam. She is now 4cm and 80% effaced. Her nurse is so encouraging! You are entering a new phase of birth! You are really going to start progressing quickly now. Lots of positive comments from all the staff the whole birth!

I am realizing I am probably not going to see this baby be born. Alison is called to come in as back up doula.