Spoke too soon...

Definitely jinxed myself Sunday with the braxton hicks comment. Monday morning I woke up at 5:00 a.m. (5:06 a.m. to be exact when I checked the clock) from pain. I started watching the clock and Gary moved so I told him that I was having pain and it was continuing to get closer together the last 30 minutes. I stayed in bed until sometime after 6:00 a.m., still tracking it and noticing it getting closer to 5 minutes apart.

After moving to the couch and over an hour later I told Gary I thought we should go in to be safe. I hated having to make that choice. For some reason in my mind I did not want to overreact about any of this and whenever I did start into labor I wanted to stay calm and not rush to the hospital and have a false alarm. I wasn't thinking this was labor, but at the same time it wasn't stopping, so I really had no clue what to think.

We arrived at Wesley just shy of 8:00 a.m. and checked in. Got back to a room and hooked up so they could monitor Cadens heartbeat and my contractions. While we were there the contractions got to be 2-3 minutes apart and weren't tapering off so they gave me some Tylenol, Benedryl and an IV of fluids to try to help slow them down. They also took some blood samples to make sure I didn't have any infection, since I guess that can cause early contractions/labor, and that came back fine as well. After being checked (talk about fun...not!!) I wasn't dilated so eventually after about two hours there they sent us on our way with the recommendation to return if the contractions got worse or Tylenol didn't help, or of course if any other labor signs happened.

We went home and crashed. I woke up with pain still, and still have it, but have been taking Tylenol which does help. The nurse said this could just be how it is until he actually does arrive. Well, talk about confusing!!

Gary's mom came over in the afternoon and brought some flowers which was so sweet of her! And with the help of a heat pack, Tylenol, some back rubs I think we can make it through until our little guy arrives! Not saying it's going to be a bundle of fun, because I certainly don't anticipate that now, but at least he's not coming too early. Looks like taking a step back and slowing down is in order until Caden arrives!