it WAS the night

but not for puking. last night was the night for water breaking. so, twice now i have had my water break but not really. its a very strange thing. something happens. and i am aware of it but its not the sort of blow out that comes to mind when you think about water breaking. in fact, both times the water break was so non-existent that they do this test to see if it has broken - it had - and then end up breaking my water for real - and there ain't no mistaking that break - about 24 hours later. so odd.

by the by, i am cheating and writing this one month later. i am going to do my best to recreate the first few days/weeks way after the fact. i just haven't been in the mood - and i'm still not - but i don't want pk all over my arse.

anyway, tuesday - ahem, today - was a strange day. i called the doctor in the morning to tell them that something had gone down at about 3 AM but i wasn't sure if it was the real deal. i felt like a fool because i had been through this before and should know what is going on, right? wrong. so they tell me to see if i'm still "crampy" at 10 or 11. and i wasn't. then at noon, the cramping started up again. it seemed pretty random so i wasn't that worried. by the time 3 PM rolled around, i was getting a little worried. but i still wasn't sure that i was in labor. it seemed like it should have been worse.

oh, a minor addition to the day is that michael showed up at work - after his first sick day ever - to find out that his boss and several others had been fired and that we were no longer going to chicago (can you even believe this?) because they were giving him new england as his territory. just a little bit of information to digest between contractions.

thankfully i was on the phone with agpie's mom - i should really have these references as links but i don't remember how to do it - telling her that we weren't moving who took it upon herself to track when i had to stop conversation because my stomach hurt. after about 20(?) minutes, she says 'alright, that's 3 times in 20 minutes. call your doctor. i'm calling mom and telling her to get out there now.

good thing she was on top of things. the doctor told me to come in immediately. ut oh. my mother was 1.5 hours away and michael was working away. i tell him to get home IMMEDIATELY. immediately seems like and eternity and i try to clean up a bit and get everything ready for my mother's stay here with bridget. it didn't go so well since the contractions now made me stop in my tracks. a little late for nesting but what can i say.

we finally head out - in traffic, thank you very much - and my mother ends up beating us to the hospital. they admit us and off we go to have baby #2.