from the hospital: abbey’s birth (8)

Currently:

The nurse just came and checked Beth – congrats, we are at 7 centimeters!

Only three more to go until we start pushing.

Once the pushing starts, it will probably be around 2 hours until Abbey makes the big appearance (I am getting butterflies just typing about it).

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I took a video to explain why the nurse said, to Beth, “you’re a real woman!”

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She was also really impressed by the length of Beth’s contractions.

They peak for around 1.5-2.5 minutes – sometimes as long as 3 minutes.

This is yet another reason why the comparison between Beth’s uterus and an edamame pod squeezing out a soy bean is shockingly accurate.

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Note: these recent posts would not be possible without the invention of the modern epidural – but once the pushing starts you will just have to watch old videos and scroll through past rewilsons posts until the pushing stops and the parenting begins!

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Earlier updates:

from the hospital: abbey’s birth (1)

from the hospital: abbey’s birth (2)

from the hospital: abbey’s birth (3)

from the hospital: abbey’s birth (4)

from the hospital: abbey’s birth (5)

from the hospital: abbey’s birth (6)

from the hospital: abbey’s birth (7)