Yesterday I had painful contractions, 10 minutes apart, all day long. Accompanied by the worst backache ever. They stopped last night (bummer!), but now I'm convinced their whole purpose was to flip Baby Bean around. So, the day of pain was not in vain. Ha, i'm rhyming. I'm in such a good mood! The sunshine is even out!!
What else is new? I have another appointment on Friday- the Dr. wants to "stretch" me to get things moving if they don't happen by then. We're trying to get this baby out while it's still on the small-ish side, to make delivery as easy as possible. I want the most natural birth possible, so I still want to look into this stretching business. I haven't heard of it before. Anyone else experienced this?
Well, I have the nesting urge. I need to go clean some more. I even broke out the Q-tips to deep clean our ensuite bathroom this morning. I'll leave you with a belly shot..
I don't know if this is what your dr is talking about, after all my experience was 16 years ago.
I had been dilated to a 3 for about 2 weeks, my daughter was about a week overdue. I went for my doctor's visit and he thought if he stretched me I would go into labor by the next morning.
In the office he used his fingers (excuse the bluntness) to manually stretch me to what he said was a 5. It was a bit uncomfortable, but if you were already experiencing contractions probably not anymore than you have already experienced. I didn't start labor by the next morning as predicted but I did by the next morning.
Good Luck!!