A Week Ago Today...

At 10pm tonight, a week will have passed since I went into labor. Ryan and I had gone to bed to read around 9, and as soon as he shut out the light an hour later, my first contraction hit.

Lisa: Ryan, I think this is it.
Ryan: Well, then you should just go to sleep.

Now, to be fair, he was simply parroting the instruction our Bradley Method Instructor gave us, that in early labor, you want to sleep, shower, eat, on rotation, as long as you can. That is because first time moms typically have 8-12 hours of early labor, before the onset of active labor. As soon as that first contraction hit though, I knew this was going to move more quickly.

So I let him get his sleep; he'd have a long night/morning ahead of him too, and went to take a shower. The pain was already severe enough that I knew this was going to go very quickly and that I wouldn't get another shower in for a while. I was right. I dried my hair then went downstairs to start hydrating myself and timing contractions. 3-5 minutes apart, 40-80 seconds in length, and the pain started to be unbearable. I had to wake Ryan up for his help at midnight.

That is where I will leave it until tomorrow, which will be one week since the birth of my beautiful baby girl.