First off a little about me...I have 4 girls and the last 3 of them I have had electively induced with pitocin and no epidurals or pain medication of any kind. I am 39+3 pregnant with baby #5 who is a boy. I have very fast labors. They have progressively gotten faster with my longest being 6 hours and my most recent was 3 hours. This makes me nervous because I am gbs+ and have to have time to get antibiotics.

So at my 37 and 38 week appt's I was 2 cm's and 60% effaced. On Thursday(2 days ago) at my 39 week appt I was 3 cm and 70% effaced so she stripped my membranes to try to get things rolling. I started having longer contractions and more vaginal pressure.

Yesterday morning around 10:15 I had bloody show. Last night around 9:30 I suddenly started having contractions that were consistently 2 to 3 minutes apart and I was feeling them in my back so I thought ok this is it. I went into L&D; for them to check me out and I had progressed from 3 cm to 4 cm since the day before. They said they would watch me for a while and check me again. Continued having regular contractions every 3 minutes. They checked me an hour later and still the same. They wanted to keep me another hour to see if I would progress. Another hour of regular contractions and still 4 cm.

They sent me home to continue laboring and told me "come back if they get more intense".

I have a very bad feeling that when they get "intense" it is gonna be time to push and I won't have time to get antibiotics for the group b strep. That is my biggest fear with them sending me home this far along already.

I guess they want me to come in when he is crowning because that is what I feel like is gonna happen. With my last baby girl, I went from 4 to 6 cm in 5 minutes and from 6 to 10 about 3 minutes later and she was out in 2 pushes. I don't think they understand fast labor.

Then I feel like I am "crying wolf" because my parents are on stand by, my ex husband and his wife are on stand by to bring my older 2 girls to the hospital so they can be there for the birth, and to see my husband SO excited thinking he was for sure coming last night cuz they actually put us in an L&D; room instead of triage, and then to be sent home and see the disappointment on his face...its like "oh just kidding guys!" I feel like when it is the real deal no one is even going to believe it's actually happening, including me, and then we are going to be flying down the road risking our lives trying to get to the hospital!