busy night, still no baby to show for it...

Most of you should know well enough that I like to take my time with things. It took 6 years to graduate college. I'm still working on this MD thing. I like to go slowly and deliberately. I like to be prepared, practice, make sure I get it right. And sometimes, on occasion, I can have a tendency to put things off until the last possible moment. Why should my uterus be any different? There was certainly more progress last night and I'm happy to report that things seem to be moving along well, but no, there is no baby today.

I started more contractions at 12:42. They were regular every five minutes. Totally painless, just hard and kind of neat to watch. They lasted about 30-45 sec. At around 2am we decided to get some sleep. At 5am I woke up with more contractions that were different. As in, they actually registered as somewhat uncomfortable, maybe a 2 or 3 out of 10 on the pain scale. They were still only 5 minutes apart and lasted only 45 sec, maybe a minute. But the good part is that they definitely felt different. I lay in bed just practicing breathing and relaxing. That probably lasted less than an hour. Confusing the situation was that I was starving so there were hunger pangs mixed in with the crampiness. So Donavon got up with me around 6 and made me eggs and toast and juice. SO tasty. By then, there were still contractions but they were back to being totally painless. After our breakfast, we decided to go get some more sleep and stayed in bed until 10:45! I woke up a few times with more of the totally painless contractions. I'm glad we got the extra sleep as I can tell we are approaching the big day...whether it is today or not I'm not concerned. I just know we are making progress.

I'm planning to stay busy and active today, much like yesterday. We will do more slightly unnecessary errands to get out of the house and keep me walking and distracted. We've already taken the dog for a walk in the miserable rainy/sleety weather. But there are presents to wrap and things to do before the family gets here, beginning Sunday night. So, I'm just going to keep going :)