Just Practicing, (We Hope)

Yesterday's post mentioned the "first official contraction".... well, when I was at the doctor's office, she had said something to the effect of "I hope you start having a few more contractions here and there soon"... and I think she jinxed me. Yesterday, all afternoon was spent timing and keeping track of fairly mild-medium strength contractions. They were basically deemed to be practice ones, until water breaks or they get stronger & more frequent, I'm supposed to rest and call the nurse if I notice any changes. So I stayed the night at a friend's house and she was in charge of driving me to the hospital if anything happened, since Andrew will be out of town till late Friday night.

This morning, so far, two more, but one was really quick and short. Now that I'm home, I'm going back to bed and "grounding" the twins. They need to know they aren't allowed to come out and play at least until Andrew is home. I'll certainly keep you all posted if anything else happens. I'm pretty sure these are just really bad Braxton-Hicks practice runs, but who knows? It's about the time twins usually come (they average 3 1/2 weeks early) and I was pegging that date as June 10, so it wouldn't be unusual. Since they're so big, if it was a factor of labor, the doctors don't even think they'd have to spend any time in NICU. So that's good. Twins are different that way-- they mature earlier than single pregnancies, probably because nature knows you can't get much bigger after a while.

Anyhoo. Back to bed.