Pain was more intense... still coming and going...

Once, we were sure that this was the real contraction. The nurse then called our doctor, Prof. Dr.Somboon Kunathikom to ask for his recommendation. As we planned, we needed to just wait because both of us really wanted to have the natural birth. We don't want to have the synthesis oxytocin to speed up the process. Tai wanted to have intermittent rather than continuous EFM. Sometimes, she just walked around to ease her pain. I massaged her and the nurse provided us a boombox to play nice and calm music.

I also called up Aj Satit, my colleague that I won't go to the university. Now we needed to wait to pass the first and second step of labor. During that, the nurses just came in and out to observe and ask for the cervix examination.

It was about 4 pm that the nurse found that cervix was 3 to 4 centimeters dilated and the progress started to accelerate. From that time, Tai found that the active labor was really got rolling. The contractions became more frequent, longer, and intense. We asked the nurse to check whether Prof. Somboon would have no problem to come in time. The nurse said so.