“False” labor? I prefer the term “practice”

No baby yet, in case you’re wonderin! Though we experienced a 3 hour “practice” labor in the middle of the night on Saturday, which was soooo much fun. Really, though, I’m grateful for it! I remembered those feelings and how the body kinda figures out what it needs. In my case, it was to sit with my back near the heater and hang on to a towel bar during a contraction. Again, sooooo much fun. The midwife speculated that I progressed to 3cm that night, fwiw.

I finished Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth and have officially changed my birth language to replace “contractions” with the word “rush” (cause that is SO what it is like and doesn’t take as much energy to say) and the word “false” with “practice”. I even read that it’s normal to start labor 4-5 times and then stop again (indefinitely) before it comes on strong enough to complete the birth process. Somehow that makes those hours starting/stopping labor seem less futile 

We had a lovely easter: Ethan got a small basket full of organic lollipops (he specified that he wanted FIVE, with an OHMYGOSH-that-is-more-than-I-can-imagine look in his eyes, lollipops from the “easter bunny”), along with his own Sigg bottle and a wind-up catepillar toy- he was totally stoked about all of that. We did the church thing -which, in our case, is really nothing like it sounds, and finally found new training wheels for Ethan’s bike so he was super excited about that.

We then had burritos at Laughing Planet in the EcoTrust building and walked the Pearl and over the Broadway Bridge to the Rose Quarter to pick up the Max to return home. It was like old times, all that walking. There was something nostalgic about how hubby and I’s conversation just went on and on, and Ethan having to pee in the bushes, and all of us bundled together to get relief from the wind. Though at this point our walking also brings on lots of contractions — but I talked through them and enjoyed the “stretch”.

Back home, I made a lamb/asparagus stew (with fresh lamb meat from a local farm selling at the farmer’s market, gotta love it!)  for our community house dinner and we shared a dessert variety platter, courtesy of the Holberts, to celebrate Hubby’s b-day (which is today). There was some lovely Easter viewing of No Country for Old Men, but at some point I knew my limit and retreated to my room to get the senseless killing stuff out of my head! I believe that after a hot shower, prenatal yoga, reading a book, and listening to Shane&Shane, I was able to sleep without thinking about people getting shot up, lol. I’m bad with those movies –way too visually and emotionally involved!

One thing we did NOT do was remember to let the boys run around and find the easter eggs they painted the day before that Hubby hid around the yard. So they did that a day late this morning

I had a midwife appointment this afternoon (last one before official due date) and the hubs and I are going to do something out and about later this evening for his b-day today.

Otherwise my week is pretty darn boring- I have lots of work to do but I’m having to take it a day at a time and see what I can handle.

Okay, that’s the update! Gotta get going!