I am getting dangerously close to being the last person in my birth prep class to give birth. Kiff keeps reminding me that this is NOT a competition, I know, but STILL... Let's get this labour started! I have eaten Indian food, taken my black and blue cohosh tinctures, made pots of raspberry leaf tea, gone for long walks, taken baths. I am reading my pregnancy books' birth chapters like a college student cramming for exams. (the long deep breaths or the short shallow breaths? Squatting or lying down?) Something is happening, I feel different and impatient and crampy with sporadic contractions, but who knows when it will speed up? It's a long process. Soon.
