At the hospital
We’ve been at the hospital for a few hours now. It seems pretty nice for a hospital. Anna has not had any real food for 12 hours. They will only give her food after she pops out a baby…a cruel reward program.
The process to induce labor has begun. So far it’s been a whole lot of sticking things in…well, you know. The goal, of course, is to soften the cervix to force dilation. In the morning (around 5:00 AM!) they will use the drug Pitocin to really kick things into gear by forcing contractions to begin.
We just met with the nurse in charge of the Epidural. She was pretty cool and let us know that Anna will have total control of her Epidural flow via a button to increase the amount of pain killer as needed.
Tags: delivery, hospital, labor
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