エルザ・ホスクさんのインスタグラム写真 - (エルザ・ホスクInstagram)「An essay on birth❤️Part 2/6 My labor started a few days before her due-date. I had contractions that felt manageable for 2 days before the active labor phase started, but they would wake me up every 10min during the night so i didn’t get much sleep for those 2 nights. We falsely called our doula in the middle of the night on the second night when the contractions were 3min apart but once she showed up they slowed down again. She stayed with us that whole night and day and took me through many excercises and positions to try to induce labor again, we walked around the garden, did yoga poses, tried pumping breast milk. I was exhausted, but we didn’t want to do another night of no sleep and no baby because I desperately needed the energy to be able to push the baby out. By the evening when the contractions still were 10mins apart and still no change in dilation of the cervix we called an acupuncturist who came over to try and increase the contractions and start active labor. Right after she left I went to bed to try and sleep and I felt a pop in my belly and some water started to come out. I texted Tom who was working in the other part of the house “baby, I think the water broke” and in that instant I felt the strongest contraction I had felt so far. And they kept coming. I assumed this was active labor. The cervix was starting to dialate. The pain was strong and the only relief I could think of was getting in the warm shower. Tom is sitting outside the shower ready to assist me with what I need. Sometimes I come out when I don’t know what to do with myself and the pain and he squeezes my back with all the power he’s got. An hour or so later we call our doula , who probably had just gotten home to come back. Once she arrived I was already making a lot of noises and the thought of leaving the shower now and not having the comfort of the hot water is unthinkable. I lie down in the shower between the waves to rest and gather myself and once the contraction came I need to be up on my legs and hold onto something to get through it.」2月17日 7時23分