Monday, October 29, 2012

False Alarm

We thought this was it... contractions had been going on for several hours and were 5 minutes apart, so we went over to hang out with Mesha & Reggie at their house for awhile to see if something was really going on.  We took a few trips around the park with the family and dogs in tow and just hung out waiting.  Finally after a few hours we decided to go to the hospital, they took her back to triage and we waited while they hooked her up to the monitors and did a series of tests to determine if this was the real deal or not.  They checked her cervix and she was 2cm dialated.  Well she was definitely having regular contractions, but when the nurse asked Shamesha on a scale of 1 to 10 (ten being the worse) her pain level and she said it was a 2 the nurse told her that no woman had ever given birth at a level 2 for pain.  So they sent her walking up and down, in and out, back and forth all around the hospital.  While her and Reggie did that, the rest of tried to sleep as best we could, it was beyond midnight at this point.  After about 2 hours of walking they checked her again but there was no change so home when went to await...
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