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Birthing with intensity.

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After a few hours of regularly spaced practice contractions during the afternoon of May 28th, I woke at 12:45 a.m. finally having some real feeling contractions. I had tons of practice contractions throughout my pregnancy with Zander (including four different episodes earlier in May that lasted several hours each with contractions every 5 minutes or so, but not with that real-feeling edge to them).

When I greeted these contractions in the very early morning, I felt a distantly familiar sharper edge to them and a sort of "sick" feeling as they built and peaked, instead of the gripping tension of practice contractions. I decided I needed to use the bathroom and spent 15 minutes in there considering whether something was really happening or not (loose BM's made me think I could possibly just be feeling "cramps"). I was disappointed that I had no "show" or any promising discharge at all.

I told the baby that it was okay to come out and we were ready for him. I finally left the bathroom and paced around the kitchen watching the clock on the microwave and wondering if it was too early to wake up Mark. At 1:30 a.m., I woke him up to tell him, "Something is definitely going on!" I got out my birth ball and we worked through about...

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