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I had a nice long talk with the midwife today which helped my mental state more than anything.  I love that the appointments are 30 to 45 minutes each, as long as I need, really.  We talked about stripping my membranes if things had progressed a certain amount.  She did an internal exam and was shocked at how low the baby’s head is — zero station — which basically means I have a head directly between my hip sockets.  Because of how low the baby’s head was, she decided to let nature take its course and did not do anything to any membranes.  I’m glad, though, because I hear that it hurts!

I’ve been warned to monitor the intensity of the contractions more than the frequency because an hour or two of really strong contractions 15 min apart could do more than 6 hours of weak measley contractions 2 min apart because this is our third baby.  At 80% effaced and 2 cm dilated, I was already in the hospital with James due to having contractions 2 min apart (but they weren’t doing anything!) but he wasn’t born until 12 hours later.  I’m just praying that the intensity allows us enough time to get there and still labor for a bit and not the other extreme: having the baby in the car!  eek!

So we could have this baby tomorrow or a week from tomorrow.  Still a waiting game and anybody’s guess.