102 degrees + NO A.C + 38.5 weeks pregnant = @$#$%@

Our friend the contraction

Since our first night of contractions they have been hard to take serious even if they are 4 minutes apart and one minute long. At this point there have been serveral sleepless nights of contractions. The longest lasting 12 hrs. As of this week thought they seem to be showing up more regularly. Also lets not forget that its the hottest day on record in Seattle. Anytime this little one wants to show up it welcome to. The sooner the better. So now we wait ....

Almost?

As we get closer to the due date our list of todo's is slowly going down. There is still plenty to do. So i was vary surprised when I found myself taking Wendy to the hospital at 1:30am on the 30th. That evening around 10pm she started to feel cramps that were feeling more like contractions. After a soak in the tub the cramp were not really going away. Hoping that they would go away we headed back to bed. 45min later they were clearly contractions and were about 5 mins apart. We have learned that random contractions without pattern are normal and not labor. These were not too random at all. After speaking with our doctor we got up to head to the Hospital to have it checked out. Asgard and Maggy (the dogs) new something was up. We didn't want to stick them in the back yard because they might bark so in the car they went. Right up until we went into the parking garage Asgard thought we were heading to the dog park for a late night game of fetch. The hole time I figured that we would be there very long. After all we have 5 weeks until the due date right? The nice thing is that we got to see the route to the labor a deliver wing. After getting checked in quick Wendy got changed into the complimentary well vented rob and was hooked up the the monitoring machine. Right away I could see the contractions on the paper print out. They were now 3.5 minutes apart. Out doctor/ Midwife Tracy showed too. It was great to have her there. After seeing the contractions the general consensus was that the baby might be showing up much sooner. I started to think putting the dogs in the car was not such a good idea. Maybe a car seat would have been better. If the contractions progressed and she started dilating they would be stopping the labor. at 34.5 weeks er are close enough to being full term at 35 weeks. The UW doctor checked to see if Wendy was dilating. Fortunately she wasent. The contractions continued though. We waited for another hour and a half for tests to come back and to check to see if Wendy was dilating. Thankfully the tests came back clean and another check showed no dilation. So with the contractions still happening we were told we could head home.
Once we got home and got to sleep the contractions faded away. I would have been great to meet our baby but it was a big relief to have a bit more time to get ready. Thankfully the baby and mom are healthy. In the end the baby is gona come when its ready and we are not going to ready.