Contractions are Here...my familiar friends
I guess I am more comfortable with contractions than with the disabling cramps. This is what I usually do in pregnancy. It is nerve wracking...painful...endless...and I always have to use prayer and "instincts" to figure out when these contractions are actually making cervical changes...because that requires one of the fun hospital stays with nasty meds to stop the labor.
From past experience, it never fails when I go to the hospital to have a cervical check that they hook me up to the contraction monitors and FREAK OUT and act like I should be shocked that I am contracting every 3 minutes. Uh...no surprise to me...it is MY uterus and stomach that has been doing it, right?!?
Anyway, I guess I'm already moving into familiar territory. The bummer is that all the weeks of contractions make my tummy muscles ache, like I've done a million crunches...so where are my rock hard abs?!?!? LOL UNFAIR!
From past experience, it never fails when I go to the hospital to have a cervical check that they hook me up to the contraction monitors and FREAK OUT and act like I should be shocked that I am contracting every 3 minutes. Uh...no surprise to me...it is MY uterus and stomach that has been doing it, right?!?
Anyway, I guess I'm already moving into familiar territory. The bummer is that all the weeks of contractions make my tummy muscles ache, like I've done a million crunches...so where are my rock hard abs?!?!? LOL UNFAIR!
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