The beginning?

****Scroll down for updates!!! Last:4:30 pm****

6:22 am:

We woke up a little early this morning…around 5 am…because Melissa was having contractions! After calming down my initial butterflies, we started timing them and I, secretly, began running through my mental checklist of what I had to do.

Its 6:22 am now and they are happening about every 10 minutes… If they vary in length, its false labor…if they remain steady and/or increase in frequency, its the real deal!

If I don’t post again, you’ll know why

9:10 am:

The contractions have slowed down to 15 minute intervals, which means we had somewhat of a test run. Melissa has now fallen back to sleep after an early wake up call At one point, they were as soon as 7 minutes apart, which is only 2 minutes of the 5 minute benchmark of “get to the freakin’ hospital now!”.

I’ll try to update here as the day goes on.

10:55 am:

Things have calmed down now…the contractions are now irregular and over 10 minutes each time. Melissa is up and about, and now watching some TV. I guess this mornings events were natures way of giving us a little taste of what’s coming. As my buddy Aaron stated: “warming up the engines”.

Melissa says the pain isn’t too intense, but enough to cause discomfort. So when she has a contraction, she walks/waddles to ease the pain. Movement is key! Laying in bed seems to increase the pain of the contraction. But while I had my initial butterflies and was bruising my brain flying through the “things to do before liftoff” checklist, Melissa was calm, cool and collected.

What a great girl.

4:04 pm:

Quick word here! I think its time, Melissa has been at 5 minute contractions for over an hour and we are prepping for a hospital run! Wish us luck, hopefully they won’t send us back home with an “its too early excuse”!

The trick that got her to 5 minutes was a warm bath! Very good trick!

Gotta go!!!

4:30 pm:

OK, so we called the hospital before leaving like they tells us to, and Melissa speaks with the nurse who asks us to stay home for another hour to ensure the contractions stay at 5 minutes or less.  Because its possible that they stop all together and Melissa will have to start all over again.

So she’s in the bath again working out the contractions and we’ll see in about 40 minutes!

Sorry about the panicked post…but I was well really excited!