For most of the night and day yesterday, I had contractions.  Every half hour or so they’d come and go. For a while, they were even 10 minutes apart. Well, it came time to go to the NST, and I was kind of interested if one would show up on the paper print out. As you are all hooked up, a machine has a stereo that lets you hear the heartbeat and prints out the heart rate in one line and the contractions below it in another on a long half sized paper that has red graphing on it. In between the two  are dark tick mark lines for when I hit the button for- hey he moved. Well, he wasn’t moving much. Resting I suppose, but I had a contraction.  The nurse came back in and goes,  “Oh,  you had a big contraction. ” I said, “Yeah I kind of noticed; they’re a bit uncomfortable.” I got to go even though baby wasn’t moving. I was reminded AGAIN when to call the doctor – 5 minutes apart or less for an hour for your first child, when you water breaks, any bleeding through one pad, excessive vomiting..blah blah. She also added headaches, blurred vision, and (she used a different word I didn’t’ know, but she meant what I thought) bad indigestion (is there any other kind?). I’m not sure why. I suppose she meant all those all together because I get all three of those separately anytime.

I keep waiting to just have my water break. That would be so much easier. Waiting around for these contractions that seem so frequent now is going to be forever. Jay didn’t come home until late because he’s concerned baby is coming sooner than later and wanted to get things caught up at work. I keep telling him I could have contractions like this for quite a while- ask Stacie. It does take it out  of you though. Only a few woke me up through the night – aside from bathroom breaks. It doesn’t really slow me down any- just a bit uncomfortable. I got up and did some laundry and fed the pets. Vacuum.

When we had our baby classes, the one nurse had told us that there’s a look a woman should have when she comes to check into the hospital- breathing heavy and can’t walk through a contraction. See, we’re all just too afraid to give birth on the sidewalk. In any case, I do feel things happening. My cervix is really starting to feel sore and achy sometimes (like at the end of the day yesterday), and I think I feel him dropping more- but he still can give me a whack in the right rib now and then. I make people nervous at work when a make a face sometimes when I’m having a contraction. They all stop fork mid air at lunch and wait to see who’s going to be the one to drive me. Oh it would be quite the battle. Anything to leave school with kids who are 14 days or so from the end of the school year.

My classroom is pretty much ready. There are still some Bulletin Boards need taken down, but I can’t do that now. Portfolios are almost done. I’m just waiting for one more assessment to come back from the district. Permanent CUM  (as in cumulative not the other word) folders need put together for the year, but I have to wait until the end of next week to finish grades, do the report cards and then file all the end of the year things in the CUM folder.  However, everything is organized, all the lessons are done, everything is ready to go for a sub at any point. I’m ready; (looks down) COME OUT!

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