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We will definitely be having a May baby, although we came really close to an April baby this week. Wednesday afternoon I started having contractions again, so when I got home from work, I drank a lot of water and just laid on the couch. By dinner time, they were getting more regular and by 8:00 they were stronger and about 4-5 minutes apart.

We spent all Wednesday night in the hospital battling the fuzzy line between not stopping my labor and not helping my labor along. Long story short, they really want the baby to be older than 37 weeks, so they ended up pumping me full of fluids, giving me pain meds and watching me all night.

Since I didn’t make any progress and they managed to at least scale back the contractions with the pain meds and fluids, they sent us home about 8:30 the next morning hoping to buy a few more days. As of Saturday the baby will officially be full term, so until Saturday or my water breaks, we’re just in a holding pattern. We’re still on the books for another ultrasound on Tuesday to check on the baby’s size and amount of fluid, but my doctor didn’t sound quite convinced that we were going to make it that far.