They're getting worried because it's been ten hours since my water broke. The same amount of contracts that I'm just not dilating. Watching the monitors like a hawk all night and doing routine checks I stayed up the rest of the night. This morning at seven the nurses will change shifts. The nurse is an older lady who is very knowledgeable about everything that happened during the night. She checked my dilation, I'm making progress, it's seven centimeters but the nurse wasn't like the baby's heartbeat. He put in an internal monitor and told me that once I hit the twenty-four hour mark with the amount of fluid lost and the baby's heart rate, they would need to prep me for a c-section if the baby didn't arrive soon. As stubborn as I may be, I won't have a c-section, I haven't read anything about it, no one has said a word to me before. I asked many people about their pregnancy stories, nothing like this happened. I was starting my twenty-seventh hour of labor, the nurse came in with a mask and gloves and said, "Now is the time to do this, we keep missing the baby's heartbeat and this won't make my case worse." look” He checked my dilation: I was only nine centimeters. He said he was going to perform an old trick that he had never done