Greetings all.
So we're on round three of the Cytotec. After round 2 Dawn (from church) showed up filling in as a last minute doula and totally served Kimberly greatly giving a crash course and massage. I ran for lunch with the Millers and Kimberly's family.
Right when I got back from lunch I immediately walked into Kimberly hunched over on her side, breathing and chanting as contractions really started hitting her hard. They came with about 3 min on and only 10-15 sec of relief. This went on for about an hour and half. Dawn was really great coaching her through this. My parents arrived at the hospital from Arizona in that time and got to quickly visit with Kimberly.
Soon though the pain became very hard to manage, so we began to have conversations about having an epidural. After talking it over with friends, anesthesiologists and a really sweet word from our nurse Nikki, we decided to go ahead with the epidural.
Kimberly responded greatly with it and immediately felt much better. After this she got to "eat" some more, and had a nice family visit with both sides including my brother and his wife (sans little Olivia, since she's too small to visit) in the roomy room that we're in and then. We then had Dr. Eppes visit to check and administer round 3.
We had a brief time to rest quietly and then Beth (Kimberly good friend since high school) showed up to fill as Dawn's "replacement".
Mood is again rather calm and we are still taking everything one step at a time.
We will lose Nikki at 7:30, we'll miss her, she's been great.
Sorry for such a matter of fact. I don't really have much time or energy to go into expository writing. I'll leave that to Kimberly who has really turned into such a great writer...
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