Amene

The plan for tomorrow stands as this: First thing in the morning my poor body gets to wake up with the glory of an enema, performed by yours truly. Hopefully that will start some contractions that have some form of regularity and once I get through 30 minutes to an hour of contractions, we call Pooja who will come to the house and break my water. She doesn't think there's any reason why I won't go into labour after all that and the only unpleasant thing about all this is that I'll have about 15 minutes of lovely bowel movements to deal with. I can handle that... I hope!

I asked why she simply can't break my water and I guess in this region it's been agreed upon between the OBs and the midwives that breaking a woman's membranes without the woman already contracting is actually inducing labour and inductions are only performed by the OBs. This is a way for midwives to allow a woman a labour and birth that is as intervention-free as possible and allowing them to stay at home as long as possible too. I think it's a brilliant compromise because if the enema doesn't work I just wait until the weekend when I'll be admitted to hospital anyway and have my water broken by an actual OB. If it works, I get my homebirth and Pooja delivers. Everyone wins.

Yeah, so if the enema doesn't work tomorrow at least I'll be cleaned out for labour. I have an ultrasound including biophysical profile and non-stress test on Thursday morning. If that's all clear and baby is still doing well, I have a consult with the doctor-on-call at the hospital on Satuday to discuss her breaking my water. If the u/s and BPP aren't favourable, I'll be heading in to the hospital on Thursday to have my membranes ruptured. At 4cm there's no reason why an AROM shouldn't put me into labour but everyone's sort of been shaking their heads up to now over why I haven't dropped this kid out yet. Nothing surprises me anymore.

I'll update in the morning. Hopefully it'll be with news that I'm completely cleaned out and in active labour. Too bad I don't have a laptop so I could live-blog from the crapper!