Psyche...
So.... We almost had the baby last night but apparently he decided it was too cold outside. It's been a really bizarre and frustrating past 24 hours.
I started having contractions at midnight last night and couldn't sleep. So I wandered around and sat on the computer and just waited to time them and such. I was having them every 5 minutes, from the beginning, for an hour and a half. So I called the insurance advice nurse hotline thingy like the doctor had said to do Thursday, told her what was going on, and she said to go ahead and go down to the hospital.
I call Mum and her and Mimi and Rach came - Mimi and Rach staying here while Mom went with Ben and I. I had regular contractions the whole way there and figured this was it.
We got there about 2, they put me in a (really freaking nice) room, hooked me up, checked me out and I was dilated to 1. The nurse called the doctor on call for the night and he said that wasn't very much and to check me again in an hour and a half. So we waited and she did and I had only gained about .5cm. At that point the doctor said he would be in at 6 to check me himself. All three of us fell asleep for a wee bit then he came, and not much had changed...
So he tells me I'm not really in labor and to go home and come back when my contractions are closer and continue getting stronger.... Ok fine. Whatever. Well, I get home, lie down to go back to sleep and had my last serious consistant contraction around 7. Since then I've only had 1. I slept for a really long time, which was nice since I hadn't slept since Friday morning. But it was really frustrating to deal with the "Oh! Nevermind. Maybe I'll wait a little longer."
*sigh* Well at least now I'm on my way. No one knows when I could start up again but I'm hoping it will either be today/tonight or tomorrow. Because now I'm all paranoid. I wonder why he changed his mind about coming today...
I started having contractions at midnight last night and couldn't sleep. So I wandered around and sat on the computer and just waited to time them and such. I was having them every 5 minutes, from the beginning, for an hour and a half. So I called the insurance advice nurse hotline thingy like the doctor had said to do Thursday, told her what was going on, and she said to go ahead and go down to the hospital.
I call Mum and her and Mimi and Rach came - Mimi and Rach staying here while Mom went with Ben and I. I had regular contractions the whole way there and figured this was it.
We got there about 2, they put me in a (really freaking nice) room, hooked me up, checked me out and I was dilated to 1. The nurse called the doctor on call for the night and he said that wasn't very much and to check me again in an hour and a half. So we waited and she did and I had only gained about .5cm. At that point the doctor said he would be in at 6 to check me himself. All three of us fell asleep for a wee bit then he came, and not much had changed...
So he tells me I'm not really in labor and to go home and come back when my contractions are closer and continue getting stronger.... Ok fine. Whatever. Well, I get home, lie down to go back to sleep and had my last serious consistant contraction around 7. Since then I've only had 1. I slept for a really long time, which was nice since I hadn't slept since Friday morning. But it was really frustrating to deal with the "Oh! Nevermind. Maybe I'll wait a little longer."
*sigh* Well at least now I'm on my way. No one knows when I could start up again but I'm hoping it will either be today/tonight or tomorrow. Because now I'm all paranoid. I wonder why he changed his mind about coming today...