Part 2 of the saga... Amy woke me up at about 3:30 am today to let me know that the contractions she had been feeling before we went to bed were about 4-5 minutes apart. Still not very painful, but they were keeping her from getting back to sleep. So she did the checklist of things to see if they lessened - go to the bathroom, take a bath, have a snack, etc. At 4:30 am things hadn't really changed, so I called my mom and she called the doctor. The doctor was still in the mindset to try to stop the labor, so he went ahead and told us to come in.

We got to the hospital around 7:00 am. The contractions had slowed down a little bit by that time, about 8 minutes, but they were thinking about trying some medication. We decided to wait a little longer instead. By 8:30 am they were about 20 minutes apart and they sent us home.

So we're back at home now. With orders to stay at home until the contractions get painful, and are really progressing. In other words, they are definitely not going to try to stop them next time. Which is fine with us, because we don't want any more false alarms! But it could tomorrow, next week, who knows?

As they say with any good trilogy, the third installment changes everything. So next time will be the third time we've gone to the hospital thinking we'll have the third baby. Hmm...

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