The Pregnant Lady Who Cried Wolf

Wednesday night I had a contraction right before I went to bed. After several weeks of having painful contractions a few times a day, I have to say that right before bed is actually the best time to have one, because you can think to yourself,"Hey, go to sleep! If this is actually labor it'll wake you up."  Except I had another one, even more painful, 20 minutes later. And then every 20 minutes for the next two hours or so. So Jeff and I got freaked out, started trying to scramble and find someone to come stay with Nathan in the middle of the night... and then of course they stopped. 

Then all day Thursday I felt supercrampy all day and right before supper was convinced that my water had broken. With Nathan, I was not sure, but this time, it seemed like it for sure.  So we called a friend and ate our supper (I was glad I had made enough french onion soup to share, because that way we at least fed the friend) and trucked off to the hospital.  Obviously my water hadn't actually broken or I'd be telling you about the baby by now, but instead I just got my mother (who wasn't planning to come out til Thursday) all freaked out and rattled.  And I felt really stupid.  On the plus side, we got a preview of the hospital, and they got all my data entered. 

My new plan at this point is to ignore any labor-like symptoms if I can. If I can't ignore them, I'm probably actually in labor, but if I can ignore them, the past two days show they will just go away. 

I keep thinking I'll be more relaxed with my second newborn. But if I'm as jumpy about the newborn as I am about this last month of pregnancy, I'll be wrapping him in bubble wrap.

Comments

[Grumpaw]

Freaked out and rattled? Well, you got you Dad jumping through hoops to change all her flights, cancel my trip (that starts Sunday) and then undo it all and hope you last till the 18th. Tell that baby that the 18th is FAR more convenient from Grandma.

[hannah]

To be fair, I *told* Mom not to change any flights until we knew for sure what was going on!