Nearing the Finish Line

The last few days have been filled with a lot of running around. Now that Yi-Hua is back, I'm finally released from house arrest! However, over the period of just these last 3 days, I can actually feel my body changing.

I had been complaining bout lack of good sleep before, but yesterday was probably the worst. It actually wasn't due to baby kicking, but rather, minor contractions mebbe? I'm not sure... or it could just be the Braxton Hicks thing. hah, the first time I had heard of that term was in an episode of "Friends" where Rachel is pregnant. haha

For some reason, I thought that contractions would be something like the whole stomach area cramping up... but so far, it's just been like those cramps that you normally get during your period. (Except longer and more often). They kinda started yesterday night while we were @ the movies. Then progressed through the night and most of today. Right now, I'm getting these supposed contractions for about 30 seconds every 12 minutes. But all my readings say that you don't need to go to the hospital til the contractions last about 60 seconds and are as close as 5 minutes apart. Man... that's not gonna be fun.

The vocab I keep running into these last few days have not been pretty... bloody show... mucous plug... cervix dilation... water breaking... pain... etc. I have like a million websites bookmarked although they more or less say the same thing.

So I think it's decided that our baby boy is gonna be named Cliff. It wouldn't be my absolute 1st choice, but I spose I can get used to it.

We're all set to go to our clinic. I've showered... taken off all my jewelery, have a suitcase packed, and a set of clothes I can change into in case the need comes in the middle of the night.

I don't know why, but I feel strangely calm. What's the point of being nervous, right? It won't help except make things stressful. Anyway, if I make an "I'm in pain face," Yi-Hua will get all worried and ask if I need to go to the clinic. Okay it's not funny, and I know I need to stop doing that otherwise it's gonna grow old real quick. So mostly I just try to take a couple of deep breaths each time these contraction things come along and not let anyone know.

Kinda sleepy now, but don't feel like crawling into bed just quite yet. Mebbe in a lil bit. ^^