Baby Update

Nope, no baby yet...but also no contractions today! Whoot Whoot!
Now I don't know if I am unusual....but I don't mind being pregnant. Sure I have my days where I could scream, but I am like that non prego too:) I get very mildly sick in the beginning, my boobies look great, and I actually enjoy the growing of the baby bump. I also don't mind the huge awkwardness it grows into during this last month. I think it is so cool when the baby is SO big that you don't feel kicks anymore, you just feel rolls and can see arms and legs sliding across your belly. Now that being said....I don't want to have another early baby. Chloe came at 34 weeks and 2 days, no warnings, no pre contractions, no reason, she just wanted out. She still weighed a hefty 5 lbs 13 oz, we were in the NICU for 5 days and then home on bili lights for 3. It is so painful to not be able to cuddle and bond with your new baby! My heart aches for those moms who have to wait weeks and even months.
Back to I don't want another early baby...but this little boy needs to make up his mind! Or my cervix, and uterus need to communicate better, one or the other:) I started having contractions again on Sunday night....every ten minutes....all back labor....I did not sleep at all! Seriously not one tiny little wink. By the time Taylor got home from work Monday night I just broke down in tears, officially exhausted! I called labor and delivery and they told me to come on in. By this time I was contracting big strong contractions every ten minutes and smaller ones every 3 minutes in between. No cervical changes though. They sent me home with some pain medication which was much appreciated and I got a GREAT nights sleep. About seven in the morning I rolled over and could feel a contraction start, awesome, the medication was wearing off, dang! My cute friends had planned a baby shower for me that day, and at this point instead of hoping these contractions meant that "this was it" I was hoping that I could make it until night time. Which I did....and the shower was great (post about that soon I promise). I was still having horrible back labor all day. Didn't sleep again Tuesday night, Wednesday during the day the contractions just kept getting stronger and stronger. The only time I got out of bed was to get in the bath for some pain relief. (don't worry, my little sister has become a live in babysitter during this time, she takes care of ALL of us). At about 3 I called Taylor to make sure he would be home RIGHT after work so that we could decided what we needed to do. I hopped back in the bath and tried to relax, but the contractions just kept coming harder and faster. So I called him and told him to come home NOW. He came home and we headed for the hospital with bags in tow. Contractions very regular and strong, every 4 minutes. This had to be it right? Nope...labor isn't measured in amounts of contractions, it is measured by cervical change. Back home with some pain medication that didn't work as well. I still didn't sleep very well, but the contractions are only one or two an hour now and aren't as painful. Imagine that moment when you tell your nurse you are ready for your epidural and she tells you the anesthesiologist is with another patient and will be in in a half an hour or so...and that half hour is killer! That is the amount of pain I have been experiencing since Tuesday night. I cannot do that for 5 more weeks...and then push out a baby! So if the contractions stop....bring on month 9 of pregnancy! If they continue to be all the time and super painful....bring on delivery!