Lara went from 10 mph to 100 mph in what seemed like seconds. It was such an intense, sudden pressure, an almost overwhelming pain that she could not hope to endure. The onset of contractions and the pain associated with them was supposed to be like a tea kettle set to simmer and slowly coming […]
She is getting the epidural now.
Looks like Lara is very close to active labor. A lot of pain and pressure, which is not letting up. She’s on nitrous. This came just after 5:00. Midwife Margaret and nurse Elizabeth and here. Lara my smack the midwife if she keeps giving encouragement. She went from 2.5cm to 4.5cm in about 30 minutes.
The last ten hours have been busy but I think we are turning a corner. Fife-Myers is moving down the birth canal and after 40 hours of Pitocin, she’s reached at least 2 cm of dilation. More on what that means later, but it indicates that the treatment is working and everyone is moving in […]
Sending this out now instead of last night. Many things happened overnight, I’ll update in Day Nine. Lara discussed her treatment strategy with Margaret the midwife and the her sister-in-law, Amanda Fowler, who is also a midwife with a practice in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Specifically, they discussed the approach to epidural and treatment for nausea. According […]