Originally Posted by gills8752

Well - I'm home After being in the birth pool for nearly 2 hours - it really is lush, got a bit of kip in there hehe - my contractions have stopped. I'm still 2cm with a totally thin cervix so things are happening but I'm classed as early labour as it stops and starts with a bath. So we're home to have a sleep and some food and hopefully the contractions will pick up again soon.
It was getting quite sore I have to say so I don't think I'll be drug free the whole way, I was in tears at one point...

We'd got into the midwife unit at around 2am after 2 hours of regular 3min apart, approx. 1min long contractions that was mighty ouchy. Was examined etc and found to be 3/4 thinned cervix at just 2cm, so carried on with the pains for a bit. She left us for about half an hour and came back to time them again and she thought they were still mild and not quite 1min long but I was in a lot of pain as bubs keeps moving back to back. So she gave me a paracetamol and another hour. After that hour the contractions had become less frequent, now one every 10mins but they were definitely over a min long and really quite sore. I was crying through them this time. She offered the birth pool to try help the pain so I jumped at the chance and had a blissful hour then the contractions really slowed down, an hour later and they had pretty much stopped. Midwives swapped over and the new one did the whole timing and exaimined me, still 2cm but fully thin at least - not great progress for nearly 5 hours So we decided best to go home and get some proper sleep whilst the pains are minimal. Hubby was struggling and kept falling asleep when I was in the pool. So we've had a big greasy maccy d's breakie and now am going to go get some kip.
I've a list of instructions on when to go back into hospital so fingers crossed after my nap, the contractions will start up again and be real labour this time. I've a feeling this could go on for days though

Thanks for the well wishes ladies. Hopefully I'll be posting pics of my little beauty before the weekends out! (or i'll be going really crazy!! )

Originally Posted by DueMarch2nd

Found the other thread and it said to find the "new thread" for updates and had no link, so I have actually made an effort to read this.