I'd like to announce that in the class ranking of uteruses (or is it uteri?) mine is the slow kid at the back of the class eating paste and giggling to himself.
I could have sworn I was in labor last night! I had contractions, not just cramps! I could time them! They were coming every 5-7 minutes! And then?
Pffffft.
11:00 rolled around, and the baby must have been like, "Ooh, Chelsea Lately is on. Shut up, I want to hear this." Then it rolled over and said, "Eh, I'm tired. How about we reschedule?"
Meanwhile, Kevin has the bags in the car, towels draped across every seat I may or may not use (he must think when my water breaks there will be a flood to rival hurricane Katrina), and his notepad and pencil out timing my contractions. So I felt like an ASS when I had to look him and say, "Uhhh...I think it stopped. Again."
So everything is in an uproar. Elizabeth stayed the night at Grandma and Grandpa's, expecting that her baby brother or sister would be here when she woke up. Kevin tweaked out about work and is now scrambling to find coverage. Grandma and Grandpa planned on going away this weekend and are now waiting to hear what my doctor says at my 2:30 appointment. And...like I said...I feel like a total ass for not being a crunchy granola Earth Goddess and knowing the difference between real labor and this---crap.
And if Dr. Loompa hears my story and then grins his weird little grin and says, "That's pregnancy," I'm going to jump off the exam table and claw his wee little face until the blood runs.
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oh sad. if only babies would cooperate! When I was ready to pop I hated nothing more than when people said "you're still pregnant?" I had to tell my mom to warn my sister-in-law if she said it one more time, she would be the one to need an epidural.
Don't feel bad! I had contractions last thursday for four hours. They were a minute in duration and 2-4 minutes apart... for FOUR HOURS. I kept waiting for something to hit me and say, YOU'RE IN LABOR. But I kept thinking, I'll get sent home... So I tried to sleep them off and they went away.. I just knew it wasn't it because I could feel it everywhere but my cervix, I had sharp pains in my cervix with Hagen for a good 3 hours and asked for an epi.
Hopefully we aren't preggo much longer!!
Ian was a total ass when I was pregnant with him. He gave me those 5-7 min contrax just until I was ready to say screw this, let's go, and then he'd stop. For a solid 24 hours...so much so that when I really WAS in labor, I refused to get out of bed b/c I just knew they would stop again. If it makes you feel any better, I did go in to labor that night and he was born just a few short hours later :)
Babies are such controlling little things... Well I hope it hits today, and stays. I went through that with my first, and it sucked big time. And heaven forbid you not answer your phone then everyone freaks out that you had the baby and didnt call, then if you do call just to chat they pick up saying "youmustbeinlabor,right?!" and you want to punch them through the phone...
You would think the second time around we would have this figured out...if it makes you feel better I went to the hospital yesturday to make them hook me up to the monitor because I hadn't felt the baby move and was freaked out. The nurse looked at the printout for about 3 seconds and said "I can tell you right now everything is fine..." and I of course felt like a drama queen. Aah well, better safe than sorry. That is what your husband must be thinking with all the towels everywhere...
I didn't even know I was in real labor for the longest time. My body is a tard. It's 4:39...where's your update!?!
Good luck!
Ya'll are scaring me! haha. Pregnant with my first. I thought I would for sure know when I was in labor! maybe I'll be lucky and my water will just break for me.
good luck and hang in there!
At just shy of 35 weeks I was in false labor for more then 24 hours. Regular contractions that got stronger and closer together, didn't stop with changes of position or hydration, the whole 9 yards. By the time we went to the hospital they were so intense I couldn't talk through them but my cervix wasn't changing so it wasn't "real" labor. They did think it was serious enough to give me a shot to stop the contractions though.
When my water broke, there WAS a bit of a flood... I wouldn't rush to remove those towels! My husband put about 7 on the caraway for the drive to the hospital.
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