Best Friend is definately having a time of it. I got a call saying she was in hospital, but that things were progressing slowly (I'll not give details), so I should wait 'til they got "more exciting." A couple of hours later, I got another call: they kicked her our. Her doc said that this "phase" could last for hours, and she would be more comfortable in her own bed.

She has been in "this phase" (I know next to nothing of childbirth, short of what I looked up this morning) since 11 o'clock this morning. Her poor kid is gonna go through life with "I went through more than 24 hours of labor to bring you into this world" hanging over his/her head.