Working up to labor

Thursday afternoon, January 15, is when my body began preparing for labor.  I had a little big of the runs, plus my doctor checked my dilation and said I was between a 3 and 4.  I went home that night and my body just kept cleaning itself out.  Joe and I went to eat at Buffalo Wild Wings after I had taken a bath and just spent the evening relaxing and begging our son to come out!

Friday at school I had more of the lovely diarrhea.  I didn't feel very good, but I thought that the baby was going to be stubborn since I had absolutely no sign of labor.  Sara took Joe and I out to eat at Olive Garden and I felt like I was eating my last meal out before I had the baby.  I was right!

Saturday I woke up pretty early, but after being up for only a couple of hours, I got really tired and went to lay down.  I pretty much slept until 3 o'clock that afternoon when I had to get up and get ready for church.  We went to eat dinner at the Smith's after church and watched the movie Baby Mama.  We kept saying how funny it would be to go into labor after watching that movie!  We went home and I was super tired and my back had been aching throughout the entire movie, so I decided I was going to go to bed.  I felt like I was having really bad menstrual cramps, so I decided to time them just in case...