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.

9:30 PM Friday

New Blood!  I think that having a fresh alert doula arrive at 9:30, helps Lisa and Ryan move forward in their birth with some new energy.

10 PM Friday

I am exhausted and am home by 10 PM.  I finish packing and am in bed by midnight.  I am hoping I will wake up to a text saying baby is born!