I really am trying to become more regular with this whole thing but any new habit takes time to form right?

So this week I am 30 weeks!  I really do wish I had been more diligent to blog every week but, alas, I was not.  I am officially in my third trimester and feeling very very ready to have this baby.  I had two wonderful baby showers this week.  I was genuinely surprised at how many people came and how much they showered us with.  I really thought it would be about 8 people at the co-ed one on Saturday and I think over 20 came!  Then we had a ladies shower on Sunday and a ton of people came to that too.  So many creative and fun gifts!  I am working on the Thank You cards but this is gonna take a while!  I actually still have one more shower this week from Josh’s side of the family.  Most of them live down in southern Colorado so we are doing a separate one farther south so they don’t have to drive as far.

As far as how I’m feeling…

I’ve been having lots of random Braxton-Hicks contractions which is good.  It’s just my body practicing.  But I’ve had a few times where I’ve had them at regular intervals for few hours.  They never were closer than 8 minutes though.  I told my Dr. and she said I don’t need to be concerned unless they are closer than 4 minutes for over an hour.  On Thursday night Josh’s mom picked me up to go see a school play at Josh’s younger brother Jesse’s school.  Josh had been in N.Y. since Tuesday and was coming home Friday night.

During dinner at Linda’s house the contractions started.  They became more and more frequent so I started timing them.  I had them during the whole play for a total of about 3 hours but they never got closer than 5 minutes apart so I wasn’t worried.

Friday I went to my Mom’s house to bake cakes for the shower with Lindsey.  Our friend Morgan posted pics of the cute cake we made on her blog here.  Jaque dropped by later and helped us put together the pack and play and travel system my parents bought me.

Around 5pm I started having random contractions again.  At about 6 pm they had become a bit regular but I wasn’t timing them.  I got really tired and went home to rest at about 6:30pm.  I relaxed on the couch and watched some TV, trying not to focus on the contractions.  At 7:45pm I left the house to go pick up my husband and his co-worker Boone from the Airport.  On the way there I realized I had two contractions during the same song and thought “maybe I should be timing these”.

That was when I realized they were about 3 minutes apart.  I started to panic a bit but what could I do?  I was on the freeway half way to the airport.  I just assumed they were not going to be that close together for that long and I just focused on picking up Josh.

At about 9pm when I picked him up they were still about 3 minutes apart.  I told him that when they got in the car but I told him I thought they would stop soon.  We decided to stop and get some dinner.  But during dinner they started to become more and more intense and had become about 2 minutes apart.  So finally at about 9:30 I decide it was time to call our Doula, Patience.  If you don’t know what a doula is, go here and read all about it.  I think every pregnant woman should have one!  I didn’t want to bug her but I knew I was in trouble.

She suggested I have half a glass of red wine, take a bath, and go to bed.  If the contractions were still going an hour after going to bed, I need to call my Dr.  So since we were already at dinner I ordered a glass of wine.  It’s been so long since I’ve had wine it made me a little bit buzzed! (haha)  But by the time I finished drinking it the contractions had slowed.  I was so exhausted though that when we got home I just went straight to bed.  But by the time I finished getting ready for bed they had stopped completely.

She said I was not drinking enough water and that was why I was having these.  I already knew I wasn’t.  In fact, on Wednesday I had written a note to myself by the front door that said “DRINK WATER!!!”, because I knew I wasn’t drinking enough.

So water is now my main focus.  It’s harder to do than it seems because I’m busy and I already have to pee every hour anyways, but I’m trying.  I still have one to two random contractions here and there but nothing like last Friday!

I’m sorry this post is pictureless.  I haven’t gotten my pics yet from my mom of the showers but I will do another post when I can.  Tonight it’s time for knitting!