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Originally Posted by Shanatink  You guys are making me nervous with these 12/27 predictions. I really really really hope it doesnt take that long, I so dont want to be in labor for more than a day(of course no one does, Im sure!)!  ! I know it can definetly happen but I sure am crossing my fingers that I deliver on the 26th, lol. Im so impatient, I cant imagine being in labor for more than a day, yikes!  |
I'm so nervous and excited for you! LOL It's coming up so fast now!
Do you know what time they want you to be there? As early as possible would be good if you can pick the time. It takes so long for them to hook everything up and do paperwork, blah blah blah.
With my first, my water broke at 3 am. and i was 2-3 weeks early on my due date. I was not dilated whatsoever when i came into the hospital. They were hoping my contractions would start on their own but they really didn't. So at noon they started hooking me up to the pitocin to get the labor started. He was born at 4 pm. So I can say that I only had about 4 hours of labor which was awesome but they told me that that wasn't the norm. In fact they told my whole family to leave and have dinner because i was no where near ready to pop the baby out and i'd be there all night. Within 20 minutes of him saying that I pushed the baby out. They told me that once i get into hard labor i go really fast and that if i ever had another child i shouldn't wait at home and they were right. So it is different for everyone and I hope very much that you have a quick uneventful delivery. I will say that the pitocin can bring on very hard contractions very quickly and if you want the drugs take them as soon as they'll let you. I was not able to have any drugs with either of my babies because they came so fast. With my first they hooked me up to the drugs finally and then I started to push within a few minutes and they took them away. LOL How annoying that was!