Our First Trip to Labor and Delivery

Saturday morning I woke up feeling a bit "off." Then I noticed I was having some contractions, and after a while I figured it was definitely more than 4 an hour (a magic number for preterm labor) and getting a bit painful. Luckily my mom and dad were already on their way over to Logan, so when they arrived they were able to stay with Ben and Erik while Shaun took me to the hospital to see what was going on. It was actually validating to see the contractions on the monitor...I thought at first it was just in my head since I just turned 35 weeks on Saturday and Erik was born quite suddenly at 35 weeks and a few days. But they were real and at first they weren't going away. They were coming every 3 minutes for a while, but finally after a few doses of Procardia they stopped, and they sent me on my way 6 hours later.

Baby's heartbeat was strong the whole time, so now we wait...