This morning at 3:50am I woke up to turn and thought that I felt some contractions, so naturally I couldn't fall back to sleep because that was all I could think of. I was feeling pain like hell in my lower back and also in my left abdomen, and it was about every 5-10 mins. Sometimes the pain was strong and sometimes just really light so I thought that I was having contractions. I laid in bed and fell back to sleep after about an hour and woke around 5:30am and I had a huge shooting pain in my left abdomen that made me think "okay this is really a contraction" so I got up and took a shower.
After the shower they were really soft again so I laid back down with Danny until about 7:15am and at that time I called my parents house and Amanda came over so that Danny and I could go to the hospital. In the back of my mind I didn't know if I was going to be admitted because the pain was only on the left side but some people only have back labor so we went.
We got there around 8:30am after having to drive through crappy connector traffic and checked into labor and delivery. The nurse hooked me up and checked me, I hadn't changed in dilation or in effacement and the monitor showed no contractions. She was concerned that I was having pain but that they weren't contractions so she checked my urine and said that there was white blood cells and I might have a UTI so she wanted another sample to confirm. Dr. Klomp wasn't ready to admit since I was technically not in labor but if I walked around and had a change he would, at that point Danny and I walked around the hospital for an hour. When we came back to labor and delivery the nurse said my second urine sample came out clean, in other words no UTI. The explanation for my pain is 'ligament stretching' because she is lowing in my pelvis.
I was let out around 11am and Danny and I drove back home so that Danny could go to work. What a fun morning, right?
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