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So, late Wednesday night/early Thursday morning, I woke up shivering and nauseous. I eventually decided to go back to sleep thinking if it was actual labor, I would either wake up in more pain or with my water breaking, or that I would not be able to sleep because of it. It wasn't real. Yet.

I took it easy with my sister yesterday, we went to get a pedicure, lounged around during lunch, then went to my house to see my cats. I took a nap on the couch with one of them. I woke up around 4 feeling nauseous again but burning up, not shivering. This time, I could also feel contractions, occasionally. With Jason still being out of town, I wasn't able to concentrate on how many I was having or how far apart they were. I grabbed my hospital bag and went back to get my sister. We decided to go to triage to see what was going on.

I was having irregular contractions but with an average distance of 5 minutes apart (some were 4, some were 5 and a half...). I asked the nurse about it and she said that they don't always come at regular intervals in the beginning. I once again, couldn't feel them, well, I could in my lower back, but not in my stomach, and I could talk through them with no problem. She then did an internal, and Monday, when I was just over 1, I was now at 3cm. So, since I'm 36 weeks, they don't want to do anything to speed it up. Especially since I can talk through them and am not in too much pain. So, they sent me walking for an hour. If I was in labor, there probably should have been some progress after an hour of walking the halls of the hospital. There wasn't, I was still 3. Contractions were now irregular with an average of 4 minutes. So, they sent me home. But, the nurse basically told me to ignore the preterm labor discharge papers (the same ones that I had gotten every other time), and told me to come in for certain signs, including when the pain is so much that I can no longer talk through it.

So, there we have it. However, the nurse thinks it will be sooner rather than later. She was to be off until Tuesday and it sounded like she expected it to happen by the time she came back. The full moon is Monday, so who knows, perhaps! But, I don't think I'll be lasting to my wishful thinking birthday of 8-9-10. As long as he's ready though, that's all that matters.