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[quote=Anonymous]if you need proof of your "progress" towards labor, just look at your 9 month pregnant belly and compare it to the belly you had when you first found out you were pregnant! the entire pregnancy is progress! i know it is tempting to want to see visible "progress" towards the end, but there's so much happening in your body that you can't see, and that no doctor or midwife can see either. a mucus plug (which it sounds like yours was) is a great sign that things are moving towards labor. i know its hard not to feel like a failure when waiting for a baby. but normal gestation can be 42 weeks or even longer. no one stays pregnant forever and if we are patient, women go into labor. so i don't think in most cases it's a failure of women to progress, but rather a failure on the part of providers (and ourselves) to wait. i know it's hard when you just want it to happen and you want proof that it will ... it takes a leap of faith to believe that your body will know what to do, and that labor will begin. my first was born at 41 weeks 5 days and while the waiting was exhausting and stressful, i was glad i waited! [/quote]
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