So last night, seemed like any other, we watched Alias, and Lost. Played some XBox, etc. Standard same old same old. At about 11:45, my wife got up and said she was not feeling right. I was still up because I'm a night owl, and I can't seem to go to bed before midnight for some reason.
I went upstairs, and we tried to figure out what was up. She had serious abdominal and back pain. Since she is only 30 weeks into the pregnancy, we knew what was going to happen. We'd call the nurse line, and they'd send us to the hospital.
After the on-call Doctor called us back, we were getting dressed and headed to the hospital, I was pretty sure that it was overkill, every time I've called the nurse line they are convinced you're going to die. "Ummmm hi... yeah, I've had this headache for a day now, it's not bad, but should I just take some aspirin?" Nurse: "Ummmm no, you need to get to a hospital right away, this could be brain cancer!"
You get my sarcasm, I hope. So after calling a dear friend to be at our house from midnight (she had to get up at 5:30 AM to get to her job) to be there for Katherine, we were off to the hospital.
We went into the ER, and they sent us up to the Birthing Suites. They put Dawn on a monitor, did some tests, and after about an hour and forty-five minutes, they determined she was having small contractions! So I guess it was good we went in after all.
Well, it was too soon for Jake to join us, so they gave her a shot in the arm of (Phynetnyl?) to basically stop the contractions.
By the time we got home, it was almost 4 AM. I'm a tired one today. But, I'm very glad that we went in and that everyone is doing ok now.