Well, I'm still pregnant. FFS.
Contractions strong enough to need a bath, TENs, breathing etc, kicked off at about 8pm last night. By 5am they were 4 - 5 minutes apart, and pretty consistent, but not speeding up. They'd got stronger (hence need for TENs), but not closer. Had no sleep by this point, and decided to do some proper walking/bouncing/dancing to move things on... and then it all slowed up AGAIN. Went to bed, managed an hour and a half sleep with TENs machine still on low - contractions still happening but erratically at this point.. 7 minutes, 3 minutes, 2 minutes, 8 minutes etc. Phoned doula at 8, and we decided on nipple twiddling, walking and things to get it going - none of which has worked. I phoned delivery suite and cancelled the induction appointment for 4pm today, even though they said they'd keep it for me anyway when they heard about contractions.
So here I am at 3pm with less 'background' pain going on the whole time, but stronger contractions, just less often - every 7 minutes or so. Have no idea whether stuff done so far will have dilated me further than the 3cm I was yesterday afternoon or not, but don't want to go to MAU until I have decided on a plan for escape of the induction appointment. I don't need to be induced today, as am already as far as the gel would get me by tomorrow anyway, so could potentially go in for them to break my waters tomorrow, or not. Loads of mucus/bloody goo going on, but nothing alarming coloured, or watery enough to suggest leaking waters yet. Baby still kicking away like normal, heartburn still here like normal, can't breathe properly, same as always. Can't actually go out and have a life because can't walk very far without having to lean on things or have wires hanging out of clothes from TENs.
This is beginning to piss me off.