False Alarm?

OK, last night was another night of contractions... I slept for 4 hours in total I think.

We wait until Alicia's gone to school and drive off to the clinique - I'm having a c-section so what's the point of contractions we think....

45 mins of more monitoring - 5 contractions after 8 contractions in the car enroute to the hospital (half an hour's drive) and they tell me that the contractions aren't strong enough and to go home.... and here's a suppository to calm things down a bit (this is specifically emphasised as I'm English and they are not sure that I would know what to do with a suppository....) It's nice to see that the mid-wife and receptionist yesterday and the mid-wife (male and called Lionel) today are the same ones that were there 4 years ago with Alicia...

Tonight no contractions at all in bed - just a few on the sofa after dinner.

Monitoring...

So the in-laws arrived last night - I had 4 or 5 contractions between dinner time and bed time... and then woke to have contractions every 5 minutes from 2am to 3am and then a very achy belly this morning.

My appointment with the mid-wife is at 2.30pm - we arrive late as we've been buying clothes for Alicia and got delayed... then baby decides (whilst the monitor is on my stomach) to jump around loads and I have 5 contractions in half an hour's monitoring.... the mid-wife decides to send me downstairs 2 floors to talk to the gyne... then calls first. He is very busy and tells her to do an internal exam. By this time we've sent grandad home to collect Alicia from school....

Nothing has moved and baby is still high - if the pains get worse or I get more contractions I'm straight into the clinique.... any-which-way, apparantly I won't be waiting until next Monday for the c-section.... arrgggh.