WOW, what a night

Mostly everything is READY for this new little baby to come, but WOW, we weren't ready for last night. To our surprise our little one was ready to make his/her arrival at only 34 weeks along. At about 1:30 in the morning I was awoken to BIG contractions. I have been contracting for months now but these were much more intense and were coming about every 1-3 minutes. I woke Mikey up and "gave him the news...scare." He called the hospital and they said to come in. So we quickly packed a bag, camera included "just in case" and Tara came over to be with Calder. We were both in shock as we sped to the hospital with flooding memories of Calder's arrival going through our heads. But even though we were in disbelief I still couldn't help but say " sorry babe if my water breaks in your car." Mikey gave me his look and we got a little laugh in before we got to the hospital. Mikey wheeled me up to labor and delivery as I was breathing through the contractions. With the first check they said I was dilated to a 2 and about 80% effaced. They then did an ultrasound and found that the baby was head down. The doctor left the room and said she was going to talk to our doctor and ask to see if he wanted to do anything to stop labor. Again in disbelief Mikey and I looked at each other and we were both thinking "labor!" Since we are only 34 weeks our doctor really wanted to hold off labor, as we did, as much a possible. They started me on a IV and pumped me with meds to start controlling the intense contractions. From about 1:30 to 5am we continued to work through heavy labor and finally at 5ish things started to settle down. They were able to stop labor and then continued to monitor us until about noon and at that point decided it would be ok to send us home on semi bed rest.

So luckily we are now home and resting,still pregnant and trying to avoid going into labor again for at least another 3 weeks. This little baby is an excited little one, it was such a relief that though all of this stess, it was going great, tons of movement and heart rate was totally stable. Also since I've been resting I've been getting more movement than I have felt in a week. Calder also luckily didn't know any different and didn't feel neglected because he had the best morning with Bebe, had outside play day at school and learned all about firemen and then spent the rest of the day with Grandma Patsy doing everything he loves. Huge Thank you to Tar, Mom and Patsy for loving him so much!!

So the surprise and guessing is still out there... what do you think... BOY or GIRL?