The long haul to Poppy

Arrived at 8.30pm at Blake 14.....

Alex is here - YAY. And Nessa now comprehends the utter hotness of the boy.

Met "interesting' nurse at 9.00pm and I use the adjective interesting very loosely.....expressionless and sadly somewhat devoid of a personality - kind, efficient, but not exactly chatty which is tough when your patient has a gob like mine and is accompanied by Nessa and Robert and we're all a bit giddy and treating this like a school field trip of some sort. We really were not taking this very seriously at this point.

The examinations begin but at least right now they are being done by Alex - thank God and not for the reasons y'all are currently entertaining but because the resident is a little FLK and looks about 13 and the med student is about 10.

We start the misoprostol well...that made things change...Oh my lord......this is painful. Apparently my baseline was around 12 - and now I am hitting 65..this is all apparently measurements of the intensity of my contractions.....
A mini ultrasound by med student then one by resident to check Poppy is still head down - while I keep cracking that I know exactly where her feet are so I can assure them without the scan of her position!

First serious bout of swearing occurs at around 1.30am (Friday)
Awaiting Alex....awaiting pitocin...awaiting epidural.....anxiously awaiting Poppy
Oh and excuse the profanity but this effin well hurts.

(This next part was dictated to Robert hence the "new sentence" bits
04:30 - Epidural in. Thats a weird sensation, but Fentanyl is my new best friend. Ummm...where do I go next...Ummm... Pitocin started. The epidural is a PCA one so I get to hit it when the contractins really hurt so it is duly christned the "contraction contraption."

New Sentence.

Damn should of had more to eat.

07:00 - Boo hiss. Alex's shift finished. Still only 3 centimeters dialated. But yay, Nurse Qualude has gone home, and my new nurse Connie is fab. Even if she won't feed me. A very long day of increasing Pitocin and trying to make this stubborn child of ours to finally make an appearance.

15:30 - More inducment hardware added, which is impossible to explain, but it involves balloons. Thanks to one of the new attendings the procedure turned out to be quiet amusing.

19:00 - New team of docs seems nice, if not insanely young. New nurse Diane is also fab. Still no baby. Possible this is all just a bad case of gas. Pitocin now maxed out.

00:30 - OMFG! I seem to have actually progressed. Starting to get queasy. Will likely have water broke around 03:30.

Watch this space for details.

PS - Would be demented were it not for my fab hubby and our 'Nessa (who is also fab). Hubby dicatated this, so ignore anything that says we changed our minds and her new name will be Clymenstra Arbitron Kennedy.