trying to make it to 4cm

Phaedra needs to get to 4cm before the epidural. Contractions are about 2 minutes apart and hitting a 7-8 on the pain scale. I'm doing my best to be a duola and providing imagery to get her mind off the labor. Since she's a marathon runner we're going with that type of imagery. I was explaining this to Phaedra and our labor Nurse Raina added some imagery of her own. She said since it was Phaedra's first baby this was like a marathon, but instead of the runner being Phaedra imagine an out of shape smoker at mile 6 with 20 to go. hehe