An update on Patrick

or is it Patricia?

Well, we still don't know. We ended up going to the hospital last night after my contractions were 3-4 minutes apart, lasting 55 seconds for over an hour. I thought for sure "THIS IS IT" and was so afraid of delivering the baby at home that we got out of bed and headed to the hospital around 1:45. After checking me thoroughly (and by thoroughly I mean very painfully...when my mid-wife checks me it doesn't hurt at all but it felt like the nurse was trying to check to see if I had strep throat via my cervix), we discovered I was still only dilated to a 1. I was one of those women that was so convinced I was at least a 3. Nope. Just a 1. The good news is I'm 80% effaced and the baby has dropped to a -2, which is better than where I was at my mid-wife appointment last Tuesday.

After walking the hallways of Labour & Delivery and then Postpartum for almost an hour, she roughed me up again and discovered no progress had been made. So she called my mid-wife who gave me 2 options:

1. Go home

2. Get a shot of morphine and go home

I chose option #2. The pain of the morphine shot (my first ever) was totally worth it, slurred words and all. We got home around 4:30 and I slept until the phone rang around 9:00 and then drifted in and out of consciousness until 12:30.

So now my contractions are 45-50 seconds long every 10 minutes. Some of you experienced this for days before your child finally came along and if I have to endure this for more than a day, well, I'll probably go crazy. CRAZY I SAY. And the hospital said I cannot come back unless my contractions are 60 seconds long, 2-3 minutes apart for an hour and so painful that they are unbearable. Can't wait for that!

By the way, Avatar was amazing. Pat either really enjoyed it or hated all the noise because s/he moved so much the entire 3 hours. But we certainly enjoyed every minute of it and recommend seeing it in 3D in the theatre. I just don't think you'd get the same experience watching it at home, no matter how large of screen you have.

I'll update you if anything changes. In the meantime, I'm hanging around the house going crazy (but at least my suitcase is now packed for the hospital!).