Adventures of 1st Time Parents!!!

Maybe even this blog is too soon because we aren't even parents yet. We had an interesting experience over the weekend. Poor Summer was up all night Saturday having pretty consistent contractions. Mind you this was during the Junior Fall Classic, so we didn't want to go to the hospital. I kept telling her it wasn't real, but she had been having contractions for over 4 straight hours so we went. We got to triage and the first nurse was a grump and a few minutes away from the end of her shift. She checked Summer and said she was a 2 and 80% effaced. The next nurse was really nice and so excited for us. She checked after the first hour and said Summer had progressed to a 3 and 100%. After the next hour everything was the same but the nurse said this baby is for sure coming later that day. She said we could stay or go home and rest for a little bit. We went home. Later that night, Summer had very strong regular contractions for a full hour every two or three minutes. We went back to the hospital. After two hours of regular hard contractions on the monitor, she still wasn't dialating so we came back home. She is doing very well today. At least she gets a few days off from work before the baby comes.