Guðrún took the pills from the hospital every two hours as instructed, this started at 15:00 on the day before and lasted until 05:00 in the morning. So she woke three times during the night to do this, so she was rather tired when I went to work but still, there was nothing. She did have some mild period pain but nothing significant. I, therefore, went to work on the 1s told her to call if there was any change. Our appointment was at 14:45 and we hoped to get more news then.
I was pretty calm and thought there was at least a day until something would happen. I was just looking forward to meeting our little Panda — FYI: That’s not her name, just what we have been calling her instead of the baby.
At 14:45 we went in and met the midwife. We had not met this midwife before but like always she was very nice. Again Guðrún was hooked up to the monitor. Like I said, I thought nothing was going to happen and even assumed that I would go into work tomorrow, there were still some assignments that I wanted to finish and I had not written the out of office reply. But that was not going to happen. We noticed that there were some contractions on the monitor but Guðrún didn’t feel them that much. Still, according to the machine they were very regular. When the midwife came back in she was very calm. She checked the uterus and told that we would be called in as soon as someone was free to take care of us. This didn’t quite register until she said: “I hope I don’t see you tomorrow because it will all be over then.”
I was going to be a dad and most likely within 24 hours. The both of us were in a bit shocked. We walked the length of the hospital and it was almost like a dream. All I could say was: “Huh.” We took a taxi home and started to prepare everything that we needed. I had to call mom but I barely could say a thing. She, my mom, took the new very calmly and asked us to keep her informed. Guðrún sent a Facebook message to her sister, mother and nice. Her sister would be in Copenhagen the next day so she might actually get to meet our little girl which was exciting.
Neither of us expected to be called in until the next day. Most of all I just wanted to lie down next to Guðrún but just in case I said we need to have everything ready. So I got to work filling up our hospital bags and making sandwiches. This was good on my part because they called at 16:56.
We were both really excited and had to finish making the sandwiches before calling a taxi. Not that it mattered as we were at the hospital within 40 minutes. There we went into a room and were greeted by a new midwife, which was also nice. She tried to burst the water but needed help from a colleague because the baby was too far up. So help came in the form of another midwife and together they burst the water. Guðrún felt it and said it was very weird. Lots of water was leaking down but she wasn't peeing.
Everything looked good but we needed to walk to get the contractions going. So we walked to the end of the hospital which is pretty far and then back on the floor above. We went out to the huge patio and walked there while listening to the first chapter of the audiobook we had decided on a few weeks earlier (A Gathering of Shadows by VE Schwab). We walked on and measured the contractions with an app and listened to the book or talked. After that, we had a dinner at the 7/11 at the hospital. I bought a bagle which was unbelievably dry, so I threw it away and got the same thing as Guðrún, a cajun wrap.
After the dinner we went back to the midwife ward, I don´t think that was its name but it sums up what they did there pretty well, and were told to wait. We were both tired and we thought it would be a good idea to relax until Guðrún got the drip, so she lied down on a bench/ couch. Right away the contractions lessened so she walked more. there was a small veranda by the waiting room where she walked back and forth for about half an hour. While there we looked at the live score for England v Croatia in the World Cup semi-finals, which Croatia won.
We had been in the waiting room for 45 minutes so I went to the front desk and I asked if we needed to wait longer. They said they couldn't be sure but that it shouldn't be much longer. I suggested that we take a short walk which the receptionist said was a good idea. This was not popular with Guðrún because the contractions were still weaker and she wanted answers and was fearful for the baby. But we decided to walk a bit more as it seemed to increase the contractions
After a 45 minuets walk we came back to the ward. Guðrún hadn’t felt the baby for a while, was sore in the shoulders, fingers swollen and her pelvic bone hurt. We got a room and waited. We were put into the monitor again and checked manually. Things were moving along.
We were asked to take another 15 minutes walk and then asked to go to the waiting room and wait for our midwife who just delivered a baby and should be free at any second. So we sat down and zoned out with our phones. We knew it was important to conserve our energy which was difficult since we had already walked for 3 hours which was the longest Guðrún had walked in the last trimester. We waited for an hour until we got frustrated and went back to reception. apparently, our midwife had to attend another labor that had unexpectantly come in so we had to wait longer still as our labor was to be induced and therefore we could wait.
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