Waiting for Rhiannon

So, I didn’t realize this would become a waiting game.

Saturday morning at 3am Yamaya woke me up because she needed help timing her “surges” - those of us following the Hypnobirthing plan of natural child birth refer to contractions as surges.

This was exciting – from dead sleep to 100mph – ready to grab the bags and hit the door. Luckily, we already knew that waiting was the key. Don’t get to the hospital too early – they will just turn you right back around.

So, we laid in bed for the next hour timing the surges with the stopwatch feature on her iPhone. We freaked a little bit when the first two surges were 4 minutes apart, but when the next one wasn’t for 14 minutes and the one after that 7, 14, 29 and then nothing until 7 am, we realized this wasn’t the big one.

All day yesterday we went about our business, took shoes back to the mall, bought a Christmas tree, and called the midwife to get a handle on how to time the surges accurately and which surges to pay attention to. Occasionally, Yamaya would stop, hold her stomach and stare into the distance – unresponsive. She would eventually look at me and acknowledge the surge. The midwife thought we would be having the baby very soon – so going into Sunday night we expected to wake up in the middle of the night with more regular surges …. but I’m writing this blog entry instead.