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At 3 pm that day I was measuring at 3 cm dilated, 75% effaced. I knew this didn’t mean much about when I would go into labor, but I couldn’t help but notice a shift in my contractions and started to think I was heading in the right direction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea0f3084f0e574bd6ab6dda/1627399936958-VZBFN3K92USTRDDXYUHD/Duke-120.jpg Blog - Duke’s Birth Story While driving to the hospital, our gas light came on, of course. Still, plenty of gas to get us to the hospital, but man the irony. Before we pulled into the hospital, my husband noticed a rainbow and said “I don't remember it raining today”. For those who do not know, Duke was our rainbow baby, so this felt just about right. We arrived at the hospital at 635pm, I was able to talk and walk around without any issue at this point. In my head, I could tell I had stalled. When they checked my cervix again, I was at a 3.5-4 (so very little change in approximately 3.5 hours). They gave us the option of breaking my water to help speed up the process, but with my goal of allowing my body to go into labor on its own, I decided to opt out. Eric and I left the hospital to grab food (and gas) and further assess if we should hang close to the hospital or go home for the night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea0f3084f0e574bd6ab6dda/1627400265591-B6KBB659M74J0Y8DK76O/Duke-74.jpg Blog - Duke’s Birth Story While getting ready to leave, I began shaking like crazy (a sign of transitioning), I was freezing and my teeth were chattering uncontrollably. This was very hard to overcome as I tried to get out to the car. We arrived at the hospital again around 335am. At this time of night, we had to enter through the ER and wait in triage. I was the only one down there and I remember the side-eye I was getting from the male receptionist as I moaned through each contraction. If he only knew. A nurse came down to get me and we walked up to the L&D department, stopping along the way to get through each contraction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea0f3084f0e574bd6ab6dda/1627400685617-PR0FE8P6HXEQ16IU9AXP/IMG_0029.JPG Blog - Duke’s Birth Story My midwife had informed my doula that I was in labor, however, she lived 20min away and was not going to make it in time. What a bummer. At this point, the contractions were so intense that I had a hard time surrendering to them being upright. I almost felt like I was fighting each one while on my feet. I knew I had to find a position to let me relax into each one. For me, that position was in sidelying. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea0f3084f0e574bd6ab6dda/1627408207949-06W1ADXF0KEX79SQRN26/IMG_0007.JPG Blog - Duke’s Birth Story My husband, Eric, announced the sex and immediately said “Hey there Duke”- a name we had picked out even when our first boy was born (thank goodness because we still did not have a girl name picked out). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea0f3084f0e574bd6ab6dda/1627408244507-N4CH999GHG18823IF6Z7/IMG_7496.JPG Blog - Duke’s Birth Story Although I was unmedicated, I remember feeling numb in the moment, not physically numb (I could feel EVERYTHING going on down there) but mentally and emotionally numb. I think my mind and body were in shock from what had just happened and from it happening so fast. I checked into the hospital at 335am and Duke was born at 409am giving me very little time to process everything that had happened. My doula arrived shortly after and spent time helping us with Duke. 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