They are worried because it has been ten hours since my water broke. The same number of contracts, I just don't expand them. Watching the monitors like a hawk all night and routine checks, I stayed up the rest of the night. The nurses change shifts at seven this morning. The nurse is an older lady who is very knowledgeable about everything that happened all night. She checked my dilation, I'm making progress, I'm seven centimeters but the nurse didn't like the baby's heartbeat. She inserted an internal monitor and told me that once I hit the twenty-four hour mark with the amount of fluid loss and the baby's heart rate, they would need to prepare me for a C-section if the baby didn't arrive soon. . As stubborn as it may be, I will not have a C-section. I haven't read anything about it, no one has told me about it before. I asked many people about their pregnancy stories, nothing like this happened. I was about to go into my twenty-seventh hour of labor, the nurse came in with a mask and gloves and said, "Now it's time to get this done, we keep losing the baby's heartbeat and this won't make me worse. look" She checked my dilation, I was only nine centimeters. She said she was going to do an old trick that she hadn't done