<font color="cc0099"> Hubby said cancel all of today's plans, BUT I'm having my "last" girl's lunch out soon!
ALL thanks to a most lovely friend! The sweetheart is driving over to JURONG WEST from the East to pick me up!!!
She's adamant tt being 4cm dilated, there's NO WAY I'm getting on the train. *I feel so so blessed!!!* THANKS, MY DEAR!!!
Thanks
EC_Mum, bubu~, qi, kiki~, split! No real progress since yest. Except that I'm more paranoid about each contraction.
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Contractions
It's a question that keeps coming up from various ppl. I've been having
lots of contractions, but dismissing them all as Braxton Hicks cos they haven't persisted nor increased in intensity/frequency with time. I realise I've been waking to pee with a rock hard bump (the top half anyway)... But I kept thinking it was my sleep position that probably squished bb's bottom against my bump like that. So I'd just kinda tap tap, stroke stroke it and go back to bed. *oops*
> Anyway, obgyn and nurse both said look out for increased frequency and intensity... once it gets to 10min apart, time to head in. But nothing like that yet. So should be ok. Unless water breaks of something. I just chucked a sanitary napkin into bag today JUST in case anything happens in public. At least after the initial cleanup, I can stick on a pad to suck up the rest. *heehee*
kikismom, abt epi: I've heard & read in various places... and my own obgyn says at any point, pain relief from epi comes within 15 min of it being administered. It's just that they all concur that if you managed to get to ~7cm without needing it epi, why spend several hundred bucks just for only a couple hours' relief before you're fully dilated and ready to push? I'm wondering if I can really try without... but bit concerned tt by the time I think I need it, it may be too late to make that choice. *hmmm...*
jam75, I think in terms of pain caused by dilation, there's a difference whether you dilate as part of 1st stage of ACTIVE labour vs if it's part of PRE-labour. For me now, it's pre-labour, and as far as I know, usually pre-labour symptoms aren't painful. If dilation begins as part of active first stage of labour, then the contractions already started first so can understand tt your friend needed it. Ob-gyn says if I want, take it right from the start when I'm admitted to delivery ward Mon, otherwise, not much point. In my mind, I was going to 'tong' until 4cm, then ask for epi. So now a little undecided leh.</font>