Congratulations, Solitaire! Glad your birth went well.
This is the last thread I am really following on B&B... I feel like I've read all the others before. A few days ago, I chimed in on a thread about estimated due dates, when I really should have left it alone. This wait, and looming induction, have me in an over-emotional state.
Yesterday we had some excitement. My hubby and I had breakfast (and I had my RLT) and we went off to run a couple of errands. By the time we were finished with those (an hour, hour and a half) I was starting to feel kind of discouraged and tearful. When we got back to the house, I decided to take a little nap. When I woke up an hour later, my belly was hurting pretty persistently. I took note of the time and got up. Well, the pain didn't ever really go away. I told my husband what was going on, and well, he started to get kind of antsy. Almost immediately he wanted to call our moms, and the hospital... he started throwing a bunch of stuff in the car... I told him that this might just be the start of things, but I also was concerned that I wasn't getting a break from the pain. So I did make some phone calls to see what I should do. (meanwhile, he was running around like a chicken with its head cut off, LOL)
First I called L&D, and they told me to call my doctor. Called his office, got the voice mail, left a message. I also called the home health nurse through my insurance company, but got her voice mail, didn't leave a message. Doctor's office called back some time later and I talked to the nurse(?), she asked me some questions, but didn't really clue me in if what I was experiencing sounded normal or not. She said she would talk to the doctor and see what he wanted me to do. Probably 20 minutes later (I wasn't tracking time really well) she called back and said they couldn't find me in their records. That's because I see my doctor at a clinic, not his practice. So she has me call the clinic to talk to the on-call doctor. REally?! ugh. I call the clinic, and get the damn voicemail! Lunch break!
Well, by this time I had been having the pain for over an hour. Had some spikes in it, which we tried to time, but it was hard as I wasn't really getting a break. The spikes came between 6 and 9 minutes apart, but it was hard to say how long they lasted. This whole time I had been on my feet for the most part. I was really uncomfortable if I tried to sit down on a chair or my yoga ball, or get in any other kind of position. So I was just pacing around my house, taking off clothes, putting on clothes, trying to tidy up to distract myself, going to the restroom, coming back out because I was too uncomfortable to even do that, leaning on the walls... and so on. I was also drinking water, and ate about half of an apple. Then, with my last change of clothes and a couple of sips of juice, the pain just went away. Relief! I was so glad for a break. Except the pain never came back!
Well, we still hadn't been able to talk to anyone at the clinic, but my home health nurse had texted me to see what was going on. I texted her back what had happened, and that I hadn't had any pain in almost an hour. But she called me and asked me some questions, and while I don't have a definitive answer what that whole episode was, it seems it was Braxton Hicks or false labor. I told her about the tea, and she told me NOT to drink that right now. Said something about how it might cause a hyperstimulated contraction. I only had one cup, so I find it hard to believe that it caused me an hour-and-a-half long contraction, but I don't mind laying off of it.
After all of this, I have decided that I'm just going to try and take it easy. I don't really want to try any more of these home remedies. The baby's gonna come when he's ready, or he's gonna come tomorrow when I have the induction. I'm just trying to be at peace with that.
Sorry for the ridiculously long post! Have a lot of time on my hands, obviously, and also kind of itching to share a birth story. Sorry, this was was just the pre-amble!
Anyway, thinking of all of you. Hope you are doing well today, and hanging in there. Looking forward to the updates to come in the next few days, as we will be having our babies, one way or the other. And once they're here, the rest won't matter so much. Sending lots of positive, calming, comforting energy to all of you. xox
I will use my breast pump, I've done it before and it cause a big BH, so apparently uterus and nipples really do have some connection.
) very happy, will write a proper birth announcement soon 
