I think I only got to 6 cm when they broke my water and hoped that would have me progress more, but I didn't, so then the midwife began manually dialating me (yes, she stuck her hand up me and used her fingers to keep stretching me farther and farther open...she learned how to do this 20+ years prior in England). Had I been in a hospital, I would have been labeled "failure to progress" or "pelvis too small" or whatever and been C-sectioned (especially as my state had a 30% C-section rate for first births that year, the highest rate of any of the 50 states).
So I guess our son was trying to keep the door locked, too!
