Full on Bed Rest

I was laying on the bed today when I started to notice that I was having regular contractions. I grabbed my watch and started keeping track. Sure enough I was getting a minute long contraction every 5 minutes. I recorded them for about an hour before I called Devinder in to call the midwife and we were off to the clinic, hospital overnight bag in hand, just in case. After checking my cervix I am luckily still just 1cm dilated, but the baby has dropped even lower into my pelvis. I left some of my blood and urine at the lab which will help in ruling out anything such as a urinary track infection which can sometimes mask early labour. We have been sent home and I am no longer on modified bed rest but full on bed rest. I had dinner in bed tonight, how fancy! The only thing I am allowed to get up for is to pee and to have a bath as bathing can often slow labour down. Hopefully I can keep the baby in there another 11 days so we can still have a home birth. If we go into labour prior to me being 37 weeks we will have to deliver the baby in Nanaimo, 1 hour south of here as the hospital in town does not deliver premature babies.

So yes, we may get to meet our baby WAY sooner than planned. I am not excited about this. I would way rather the little bambino stayed in there a little longer. And it's slighty confusing trying not to go into labour when I have spent the better part of the last 8 months learning all about how to labour quickly and pain free and all that. I have been learning to listen to my body and now I have to try to not let it do what it really wants to do.