False alarm...

Well, I woke up this morning around 4:30 to a little contraction. No big deal. Then another one about 30 minutes later. Then another a little after that. They were pretty irregular so I didn't really start timing them for a while. Finally, I started to write down each time I had one.

They were still pretty erratic, sometimes there'd be ten minutes between each one, then I'd have one a minute for the next three or four minutes. This went on for a little over two hours, and then we finally decided to go ahead and head up to the hospital, just in case (I am due in four days, after all!). So of course, on the way up there, they began slowing down and weren't nearly as strong as they had been all morning.

When we got there, the nurse said they were going to go ahead and check everything just to make sure, but that most likely this was a false alarm and I was going to end up going home. Boo! Actually, I'm a little relieved. On the way up there I was hoping it was the real thing, just because I knew I'd feel silly if it wasn't. But once we were headed back home, I realized that there's still a lot of little things that need to get done before she shows up-like laundry, for one!

As soon as we got home, Mother took all the tags off of all the onesies and bibs, opened up the sheets and burp rags and everything else and started washing everything with Dreft (which we also had to go buy this morning, because we still hadn't done that!).

So, now I'm just hoping these contractions don't continue all week. They've definitely slowed way down, but I've still had a couple since getting home. Supposedly, if I continue drinking a lot of water, these (not-so-little) fake ones will go away, then if I start having them again, I'll know they're the real thing this time.

Tomorrow we're going to finally start getting the furniture set up in the nursery-it was finally finished being painted today! Cutting it pretty close, huh?! It's so cute already, I'm so excited! And I really can't wait to get the mural done, it'll definitely be even cuter once that's finished! :) I'll put up some before and after pictures of the room soon!

Goodnight!