35 weeks

Okay so it's long past time for a pregnancy update I suppose. Just been too miserable to actually put anything in writing. My frequent contractions have progressed into prodromal labor and it's really wearing me out. Everything I've read about it says that the contractions should be no more than a minute long and will rarely be more frequently than 7-10 minutes apart. I guess I'm just lucky or something because mine have topped out at over 2 minutes long each and as close together as every 3 minutes, rarely further than 5 minutes apart. This goes on for hours each day and needless to say I am so tired. Baby dropped 2 days ago as well so my hips are now killing me. And as of tonight we can add losing my mucous plug and bloody show to the list of signs. Looking at it all written down it'd seem the end is very near but after my pregnancy with Bella I know this could continue on for weeks.

Anyway all this is causing cervical change just at a very slow rate. My OB hopes I can make it at least one more week. I'm a week further now than when John was born so we're definitely doing good and I'm getting more confident that we'll avoid a NICU stay this time. My OB's advice is to rest more, I just have to laugh at that since I already spend 23 hours a day on the couch (the other hour usually in the bathtub.)