What a tease

My night last night was one of the worse so far. I thought it was going to go great as I was beginning to relax after taking a short bath, and Tyler gave me an upper back/neck massage. During the massage I was nodding off, so I thought when he finished I was going to zonk out and sleep all night with just a few potty breaks. I thought wrong.

Not more than two minutes after he was done massaging, he rolled over and fell asleep pronto, I on the other hand had to pee right away and then began having contractions. I was getting excited thinking that I was going to have contractions all night that would progress into labor. And it seemed as though that was the case, they were pretty good in strength and they were lasting about a minute or sometimes two, they were four minutes apart which got my hopes up. In our birth class though they told us not to notify the hospital that you were coming until your contractions were 2-3 minutes apart. So instead of going to sleep, I stayed up timing my contractions. They never got any closer though. So when I was ready to go to be at about 11:45 (that's two hours after Tyler passed out), my allergies kicked in and kicked hard.

I was up literally all night blowing my nose and coughing up Flem, scratching my throat and being miserable. All of this plus having contractions that weren't progressing like I wanted them to. So after Tyler woke up and went to work this morning and I was still awake at 5:30, I decided that I should try again to go back to bed, even if it was only for an hour or so. I woke up this morning after a little nap at about 9. I didn't get a ton of sleep but it must have been enough for me to want to get things done. As of now, I have already baked homemade chocolate chip cookies, thrown in a load of laundry and begun inputting my handwritten notes from the past few years of history into the computer. That last chore has been a goal of mine for a while and it will take some time to get it done, but at least I am starting it.

Grandma Micki isn't coming to stay with us tonight, she is on her way though!!! She's planning on stopping in Bismarck to stay with her sister Cindy for the night at the hotel and then finish her travel in the morning. Tonight I will be going to watch Tyler play roller hockey again, that's if I can't get a hold of someone to go to Olive Garden and get some eggplant Parmesan 'cause I have been craving it like crazy!! Then I'll come home and pick up the house some more probably, but right now I am planning on taking a nap and then finally taking a shower. Hopefully the little contractions that I have been having throughout the day is doing something to my cervix so that I can have Terri (my midwife) strip my membranes tomorrow to get things going. We'll have to see what happens though.