update

Val was first checked around 10:45am (5cm) and she's been walking around and having more contractions (those don't seem like fun at all). The midwife will check her around 12:15 to see if she's progressing at all.

Emmy our doula won't be able to make it until about 2pm but the backup doula Trina is here with us.

Background:
Contractions started around 1am Saturday morning. By 4am i had talked Val into letting me call the Emmy since the contractions were about 4-5 minutes apart. They were only lasting about 30 seconds though and Val said they weren't really terrible and it was something she could handle. I had predicted baby girl would come on the 24th so we thought it was a good sign that she was listening to daddy so early on. However after 6am, they started to slow down and then were much further apart throughout the day. Val was able to get a little sleep between them which was good.

We mostly lounged around the house on Saturday and she had contractions every half hour or hour. Saturday night we tried to get some sleep but contractions kicked up again at about 1am so Val didn't get much in the way of sleep. She let me sleep several hours though so i was decently rested and didn't get up till 6am. Val, however had been up most of the night.

We started talking with Emmy again in the morning and she had us call the midwives around 8am to see what they thought we should do based on the contractions and such. They had us wait and call back in an hour.

So eventually we got to the point where Val was really ready to go and we made it to the Birthing Inn around 10:30 where we've been since.

So far I'm really impressed by Val. She's awesome and is handling the pain admirably. I know it's going to get much worse and it's really hard to watch her in pain but she's doing really well.

The shower seems to help ease things for her a bit as well. It's also giving me a chance to update all of you and play some music for Val in the process. As you all know, Val really loves her music.