Hi ladies so I’m writing this to give some women who are feeling defeated by there bodies a little bit of faith! To start I was due July 16th and got a cervical check done at my 39 and 40 week appointment and I was only a hard 1cm dilated at both appointments with a high cervix. I cried leaving both my appointments when my OB was unable to do a membrane sweep and with my lack of progress. I was so sure I would pop early or at least by my due date as my baby girl had been low and engaged sense week 36! My OB told me every week she checked me “wow shes low, any lower and you will be hearing her cry”. Anyways fast forward to July 21st I’m 5 days over due and convinced I will be doomed to being medically induced because my body just won’t cooperate, I decide to try a last stitch effort to self induce and decide to try out my breast pump 20 mins on each side. Well that gave me my first felt period like Light cramping. Well that stoped after about 4 hours. The next day July 22nd, I kept myself busy went and floated around in a friends pool and even had a few friends over for a bbq. At around 7pm I went to go pee and noticed I had some mucus like discharge and thought ok so finally I am starting to loose my mucus plug. I didn’t get to excited as I know some ppl loose it a month before they actually go into labour. 2 hours later around 830pm I go pee again and this time I’m loosing lots of mucus no blood but lots of mucus like I wiped 8 times! So now I’m thinking ok soo something MIGHT happen within the next day or so. So I tell my husband and he says that if I think labour could be in the near future we should probably try and get a good sleep. So I agree as we start to get ready for bed, I tell him I’m just guna try n poop n then I will be up to bed. WELL after I pushed out the most unsatisfying raisin poo, I stood up and herd a small pop. My water broke it was a small gush all over my underwear. At this point i called my husband in to concur in was indeed my water that had broke and we discussed how my OB said I had 6 hours to get to the hospital after my waters break or if my contractions are 5 minuets apart lasting 1 minuet for an hour. This was at 10pm. So my husband and I head up stairs to nap for a bit before leaving for the hospital. Well by the time I walked up my stairs I felt my first ever contraction. It was irrefutably a mildly painful but real contraction. 2 minuets later another one, 2 minuets later another one this went on for half hour till I decided we needed to go they were not stoping and I was in PAIN. By the time we got to the hospital and the nurses realized I wasn’t exaggerating my pain it was 11:30 when they decided to do a cervical check I was 7CM dilated! I was then admitted and I voiced my want for an epidural they said they would get it in right away as I was progressing quickly. Well by 1230 they had to do another cervical check b4 they put the epidural in, I was 9.5 cm dilated. I insisted I still wanted the epidural so they told me as long as I could make myself sit still they would do it. So I did. The epidural took away most of my pain but I could still feel all the pressure and still had to focus through my contractions. By 230 I was checked again as the epidural had slowed my labour luckily I didn’t have much more to go I just had a bit of a lip. By 3:10 I felt I had to push, and 25 minuets later at 3:35am my beautiful baby girl Blake was born. 7lbs 9oz 20.5 inches long! I laugh now at home at how much I had told myself my body didn’t know what to do cuz that clearly was not the case! Was it the breast pump or was she just ready.... who knows! So have faith ladies I know it’s hard! But my body went from 0-100 with no real warning signs. I wish I would of spent a little less time mad at my body n feeling defeated and more time enjoying the last few days of her in my belly. Next time right! 😂 trust ur bodies ladies they do amazing things! Here’s my little princess born 6 days over due! 💕