Lets see if I can sum it up so far..
Yesterday is when things started to get a little different. I was the most uncomfortable I had felt in a long time, I felt like he or the fluid had grown some just over night. Constant BH contractions, but that wasn't new. Went shopping with Mom and Dad for the rest of my baby 'stuff' (thank goodness!!) and my back was really hurting, and menstrual type dull achyness in my lower tummy. Nothing else was weird or different, had dinner, chilled and watched TV w/ Jason and went to bed. Got up a few times to potty, per usual. The last time I got up to potty was around 6am..
Not sure why it happened this way, but it wasn't until I got totally comfortable in bed, and went to scoot over that I felt a gush.. almost like a heavy period flow gush (yes, I know that's way too much graphic detail). I moved a little more, and felt it again.. my water was breaking/had broken/was about to be a big ol mess right in my bed.
"Honey!! My water broke.. get a towel!"
I think Jason grabbed a towel as I somehow launched myself out of bed (not spilling a drop on the mattress mind you), and waddled, leaking to the bathroom to then sit on the toilet and let it go. Serious relief.. until I realized what it meant. I'm having this baby today!! Yikes!!
I paged my midwife, she's half asleep (it was about 6:15 at this point), and I let her know that my water broke, but I have no contractions.. she tells me to prepare for a long day of 'nothing' happening, and to get some rest or get things done that I need to get done. By this time, and after checking on me about 50 times, Jason went back to bed. I on the other hand had other things to contend with. Like taking a shower, and shaving my legs. Double/triple/quadruple checking that I have my camera/video cam/ and about 100 other things packed and ready to go.
Read on line that it could take 12-24 hours for labor to start.. not sure if I felt a little disappointed after such an OMG moment, or relieved, but that's cool.. I can wait.
Started getting pretty intense period crampy feeling contractions, lower back ache.. was getting going pretty good for a while, timing them at under 5 minutes apart, about a minute in length. Then they slowed down.. to almost nothing. That actually cant be true, I just had one.. but there's no progression yet.
Remembered that I never got any movies for labor (the Ugly Truth, Kung Fu Panda, Neverending Story), so we went to the store. As fast as I'm going through overnight pads already.. had to get more of those. Some donuts for Jason to snack on.. Big lots for a memory card for the camera.
Everything is packed and loaded.. and now it's 1:30, and I wait. Luckily the day has gone by fast, but my labor has all but disappeared other than a constant trickle (or gush when I stand up) of quickly replaced amniotic fluid.
It's baby time! I'll just have to wait.. and hopefully by the end of today, my son will call November 29th his birthday.
We're ready!! (I think.)
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