Labor

Yesturday morning about 6 am I woke up with a bad backache and just had to sit on my ball. (see earlier pics of Aaron). As I was answering email and thinking about a blog entry I realized that this backache was coming in waves. After looking at the clock I saw they were every 5 minutes and lasting about a minute each. Exciting - I thought this is it! And it is , was, still is... 24 hours later and nothing has changed. I am still in early stage labor. I still am having contractions, a little bit farther apart and milder but this I am hoping is because I have been lying in bed for most of the night. Eventually this will have to progress... my back hurts and the rolling discomfort is a little trying. Especially when you are trying to sleep. My Mom and Dad came down last night and planted themselves in the hotel down the street in case of any nighttime hospital adventures. My doula is out of town until today so I'm thinking the peanut (there's one) was waiting for Rachel to get back. Jaime, who was our doula sub, told me that potentially this early labor can last a couple of days. Yuck!! This is not what I had pictured. But I guess the saying goes "Want to make god laugh, tell her your plans!" Aaron has to go in to Zingerman's to place the bread order and attend a morning meeting but is going to take the rest of the day off. If I have to put up with this - then he has to put up with me! :) I do have a scheduled ob/gyn appointment today at 1:30 so if things are still status quo we'll be able to see what she has to say. Although it will probably be a hardy "hang in there". Well that's all the news that is fit to print. I hope that you can check in here in a couple of days and see a picture of the little Pea! And find out the real name...