THANKFUL FOR...

CONTRACTIONS! Or I am I?

Saturday I got up and went to the gym with Meredith-I decided that it was a good idea to do a little workout and maybe go for a walk. After our workout-I came home and cooked pancakes and eggs fro me and Brad. They were yummy!

I laid on the couch all day-we decided that tonight might be our last night before Braden so we decided to go eat at Cheesecake Factory. I had every intention of eating a piece of cheesecake-but just felt very weird-my back was hurting so bad-almost felt like I pulled a muscle in my back. Maybe it wasn't a good idea to do squats and step-ups!! We left there and went to Wal-Mart-I wasn't sure I could walk any more-I hurt so bad. So I came home and laid on the couch- went to bed and felt horrible.

I woke up every 2 hours with pains but nothing that was too painful -THAT IS UNTIL 5:30am. I could not stay still-I got up and came to the couch-turned on the heating pad and was in and out-finally at 7:30am I called my mom in tears! I HURT AND I MEAN HURT!! The back pains were only on my right side and would sort of roll around to the front to my stomach and tighten so tight that I thought it was smothering Braden. She told me to call the Dr-I called and she said I was definitely having contractions but did not need to come in until they were patterned at 1o minutes apart, HA!

I have been timing them since then and they are anywhere between 20-45 minutes apart-sometimes 15 minutes but nothing patterned. Braden is so uncomfortable in there-after each contraction you can see him stretching trying to get out-I feel him tapping down low-I just wish he would break my water and things might go faster.

Mom has stayed with me all day-just to keep me company-Brad is at work. I didn't call everyone because I know this could last for days!

Well gotta go! Feel another one coming on-that one was 20 minutes. ugh!

Later
Mandy