35W1D = False Labor #1

2:00 a.m. - lower back pain wakes me

2:30 - contractions start

2:34 - next contraction

2:37 - next contraction

They continue at 3-4 minute intervals for 30-40 seconds each.

3:30 - call DR (guideline is 5 minutes apart for 60 seconds). He says they are not intense enough yet. When they get to 60 seconds and I cannot breathe through them, come into hospital.

3:30 - 7:30 contractions 3 minutes apart, 60 seconds. Same intensity as before.

10:20 - arrive LATE for regularly scheduled DR appt. Find out have gained NO weight in last month! Yahoo! Also - 50% effaced, 0 cm dialted. Baby dropped all the way down by this time and DR can feel him.

Diagnosis: false labor, go home, do not pass go.