False Alarm

Well I just got a little taste of what's to come! The Other night after work I was experiencing some pretty harsh back pain. I didn't think much of it except for the fact that nothing I could do would relieve the pain. I just thought my 12 hour shift at work really did me in. By 3 o'clock in the the morning and not a wink of sleep, I called in to work for the next day. 11 am I called my mom crying about how bad my back hurt. She suggested I call the doctor because it might be a kidney infection. So we went to the doctor and they hooked me up to their fetal monitor. Surpriseingly enough I was contracting every 2 to 4 min, and that back pain was actually back labor. When they told me that if my cervix was changing they would keep me and we would have our baby, I will admit I got a little nervous. Meanwhile Mike is shadow boxing every item in the room and pretending to shoot things with is fake rifle and sound effects. Unfortunately my cervix was holding study and I was sent home with some Ambien. The Ambien helped me sleep and I have been feeling much better since. If that was a taste of it, I don't want to know how bad the real thing is going to be.

I am now 75% effaced, and 1 cm dialated. Time for a massage and maybe that will kick start something. Knowing my luck I will be overdue and this whole situation had nothing to do with impending real labor. This will drive me nuts! Every twinge or weird feeling makes me think "could this be it"???