yesterday i went to my weekly NST at the hospital. when the nurse finished hooking me up to the monitor, she left. after 30 minutes she came back to check on me. she remarked to me, “wow, you had a big contraction there!” i did? she asked me if i felt it and i told her i thought it was heartburn!! isn’t that silly of me? you would think i would know by now what is a contraction and what is not….LOL i still can’t get over that.
so she left again and said she’ll come back to check on me. when i was alone, i knew then that what i thought was heartburn was really contractions. they were coming every few minutes and there were another 1 or 2 really big ones!!
the nurse came back and told me that me if i actually go in to labor at this point in time, they’ll just let me because i’m already 35 weeks and a few days. i know i can’t wait to have the baby but i still want to wait another few weeks and i’ll feel a lot better about the whole thing. anyway, she released me after talking with the doctor. i was just told to really pay attention and to go in if anything major happens, ie: water break, bleeding, etc. you know the normal stuff.
as soon as i got home, i told james that we needed to get the hospital bag ready. like seriously. i’m already pre-registered at the hospital, we packed some spare clothes for me and a coming home outfit for the baby, filled out the birth certificate paperwork, and our overnight parking pass. i felt much better! whew!
the contractions wasn’t really painful and they went away, for the most part. i was getting braxton hicks on and off all day today though. i can’t believe i’m really almost there!!! woohoo!
i had to use so much plastic lunch bags the last few days that i got really really tired of them. i hate using them and throwing them away. i saw these last time but wasn’t going to buy any until we’re done with using whatever plastic bags we had. i couldn’t wait. amazon have these as part of their 4-for-3 promotion and i snatch 4 (8 snack packs in all – 1 small and 1 big one per pack) of them. it’s too bad that they’re temporarily out of stock. 
anyhow, i can’t wait to get them and start utilizing them. our lunch bags from pottery barn kids should be here monday too. that’s something to be excited about. 
