The Story

Friday we went to the Dr. for Katherine's regularly scheduled appointment. He did an exam and reported that at some point in the past week, Katherine had developed a small leak in her amniotic sack. Not a big problem, but it was time to have the baby, especially because we didn't know when her water had broken. And like that, we were on our way.

So off to the birthing room we went.

Five hours later, Katherine was having contractions, but they weren't really that productive (you know...down there) so Dr. Sankiat changed things up and had her go upstairs to rest for a few hours, then tried another method to get things going. The night was bad, Katherine had lots of back pain to go with her regular contractions, so she got about 20 minutes of sleep. I slept 2 hours.

Saturday morning at 6:00 am we were back in the birthing room with Kate, who worked wonders on Katherine's back and got her more comfortable. Strong contractions continued, but at least she had a break between them without the constant back pain. A check at 10:00 am showed no progress to show for the pain.

Diana and Alan came over after breakfast and we all went for a walk.