Well its taken me a week to get around to Morgan’s birth story.. But here goes!

“Labor” mostly started at my 40 week doctors appointment Thursday February 11th.  My OB decided to do another membrane sweep as I hadn’t really “progressed” from the week before (3cm/70% effaced) .. The membrane sweep was.. quite uncomfortable to say the least. Okay, it hurt.. But mostly in my back.  But within the few minutes it took to leave the doctors office, I started feeling crampy and yucky in general.  It felt like I was coming down with the flu or a cold.  Hot yet clammy all over and just nauseous.  Mike and I went to work after my appointment and I could just tell something was going to happen and soon so I finished up some things at work, left some instructions for the temp covering me while I was out and we left at 1 to head home.  We decided it might be a good idea to stop at the store and get groceries to last us a couple of weeks just in case the baby came soon, we’d want to have food to eat without having to run out for fast food.

While we were at the store, I started having very noticeable and almost painful contractions.  Enough so, that I started timing them.  A few of them even made me have to stop and catch my breath.  Things were getting exciting and we were getting nervous!  We got our groceries and got home as soon as we could.  But of course, after a bit the contractions tapered off and just came ever so often, but nothing substantial.  I did however continue to feel flu-ish.