The Kirkland timer hasn't popped

My belly button has become the "Kirkland timer" according to Jordon. When it finally pops out, she'll be really (we'll see if this is the case).

Yesterday morning I woke up with some horrible, menstrual like cramps. I know sometimes Braxton Hicks feel like cramps and if you get up and change positions that they'll ease off. I got up, walked to the kitchen got something to drink and came back to lay down with little relief. After another 5 or so minutes it did ease off. I didn't think much else of it and drifted back to sleep until the next one about 3 hours later.

I got up about 3:30 to get ready for work and they started coming closer and harder and making me "nasty sick." I hate calling the doctor because I don't want to call for just some stupid cramps that are no big deal and could be normal, but after I started getting sick and started having them about 15 minutes apart I figured I'd better be safe than sorry, especially at only 31 weeks and some days.

Needless to say, I ended up on Stork's Landing...again...to be monitored and "checked" for pre-term labor. I've never had my parents drive that fast and we were all trying to keep each other calm and waiting for Jordon to meet us at Richland.

Luckily, the nurse said I was only a "smidge" dilated and the tests they ran for pre-term labor came back negative. Apparently dehydration is what was causing the contractions and after I'd drank a ton of fluids and the contractions had spaced out some, we got the okay to go home. I still had contractions about 10-15 mintues apart once I got home, but they weren't as hard.

Once I got to sleep, I only had about 3 contractions actually wake me up. This morning I had about one and hour and then they started spacing out and for the past 5 or so hours I've had one and it wasn't hardly anything! Jordon had my mom come "babysit" me today and make me "rest and stay off my feet." I'm so lucky to have my sweet mama who worked on some stuff for Kirkland, taught me how to cross stitch, straightened up the nursery, and clean my house (while I took a nap)! I really don't know what I'd do without my parents helping us, even with things as little as sweeping or helping Jordon get some stuff crossed off the to-do list.

So, Miss Kirkland, it's not time for you to come quite yet, even though your daddy says you were just excited about Carolina beating UGA. Wait a few more weeks until you're bigger and stronger and then we'll be ready to meet your sweet little face!