re: painless contractions
Lynda Seehusen (lyndas@dordt.edu)
Thu, 28 Mar 1996 09:23:41 -0600 (CST)
After reading some of your stories, I don't feel so stupid anymore for
not knowing I was in labor with Emma! My water broke in a "small trickle
here, small trickle there" type fashion the day before she was born.
I never felt one single contraction until 4 hours before she came out.
I got to the hospital and they put me on a monitor and said "yes, you're
having a contraction every 2 minutes" I was? I had no idea!
All of a sudden 12 hours later I had MAJORLY painful contractions and 4 hours
and 15 min. later Emma was born.
With my full-termer, things went similarly. My water broke at 3 a.m. so
I called the hospital to ask what I should do. They said to wait an
hour or so until contractions got harder. Well four hours later I was
still at home with nary a real contraction in sight. They finally told
me to just come in anyway :) It took another 3 hours before anything
happened and then again, all of a sudden, there were majorly painful
contractions and 2 1/2 hours later Shannon raced into the world :)
Lynda, mom to 33 weeker Emma, 3.6 and 39 weeker Shannon, 5.5 months.
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"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom in it--and
stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She
will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also
she will never sit down on a cold one anymore." Mark Twain
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