My Kingdom for a Bed

By 8:30 a.m., we were in the room we'd call home for the next 24+ hours. Two hours later, Stacy was receiving Pitocin [labor inducing drug] intravenously and we were on our way!

The induction process is a much slower process than I imagined; which has its good and bad points. Introducing the drug slowly into Stacy's system was good. Every woman responds differently to the medication, so it was important to increase the dosage a small amount every few minutes to achieve the desired contraction strength. The bad part about this is that it took all day.

In addition, the babies had to be constantly monitored to ensure the contractions weren't stressing them out. For the babies this was great, but for mom and the rest of us it was a continuous annoyance trying to keep them under surveillance.

Saturday ended and we had gained some ground but not as much as we'd hoped. To be in top form for the delivery, we opted to stop the Pitocin for the night and get some rest. We would try again in the morning.