Hello, reality

Last night, I woke up to find Sacha squirming behind me.   I blearily asked what was wrong and she said her back was hurting and had been periodically for the last hour.  In my mind, I saw the pre-term labor posters at Kaiser and periodic back pain is one of the items on the checklist.  Kaiser is on this campaign to prevent preterm labor, so they have information about it everywhere in the OB offices.  Was she having contractions?  Was her back just hurting at regular intervals?  We decided to have her drink a lot of water and see what happened.

After a little while, things settled down and we both fell back asleep, although there was a lot of nervous tossing and turning going on.  It never even occurred to us to call the doctor or labor and delivery in the middle of the night, but it turns out that that's what we should have done.  Sacha called this morning and they were like, if this ever happens again, you call the hospital right away.

Luckily for everyone, they checked her out this morning and pronounced everything, inside and out, perfectly normal.  Happy baby inside a nice happy and closed uterus.  What a relief!  It did give us some pause though, and not just at the idea of preterm labor on the verrrrry cusp of viability and the question of what we would do (which is a huge question and we have no idea what we would decide), but at the thought of having to rush off to the hospital at 2 am with two small kids sleeping in our house.

We probably would have called Apa, who assured us tonight that we could always do that if necessary, or started calling relatives and friends, but wow, it wasn't anything I had even thought to consider yet.  I figured we'd figure out some kind of phone tree sometime close to the due date, but not now!

Anyway, we think Sacha just overdid it yesterday and for some reason her uterus got irritated.  She took the day off of work today and slept almost all day, and we'll go back to making it a priority for her to rest when she gets home from work.  And, we'll be extremely, exceedingly grateful that last night was just a false alarm and that our Drizzle is still exactly where she should be.