what's on at three in the morning?

Absolutely nothing. I had the lovely experience of being awake all night last night with false labor. I have been having contractions off and on since the Dr. stripped my membranes on Tuesday. By about 10:00 last night they started picking up and I knew it was going to be a long night for me. So my night went like this. Lay down contractions start and and get worse and worse. I change positions and they slow down and stop only to pick back up again. This is very frustrating. I knew it was false labor because this exact same thing happened with Owen. Only then I didn't know they were false until we went to the hospital at 3:00 am only for my contractions to stop while we were there. I was not going to be fooled into going to the hospital this time.

So I turned on the t.v. hoping that there was something on to distract me. Nothing, unless I was interested in buying a Bowflex. I decided at about 3:00 in the morning that I would call my Dr. in the am and see what he wanted me to do. He told me on Tuesday that I was dilated enough that if my contractions were even remotely close together to go to the hospital.

The most frustrating part of the whole false labor thing is when the contractions drop off completely. That started at about 5:00. It is now 10:00 and I am having very few. I'm thinking to myself - "I just went through hours of misery only for my body to stop?" So today I am even more exhausted than usual due to the fact that I got oh, about 45 minutes of sleep last night.

I decided I would still call my Dr. just to see what he would say. It's a little embarrassing though to tell the nurse that well, no I'm not really having any contractions right now, but last night it was terrible. Do you believe me? And oh by the way I am in misery. Luckily my Dr. has great compassion and told me he would help get things moving along this afternoon. That is a relief. I really don't think I can go another full night with false labor and zero sleep. Part of me is disappointed that my body doesn't seem to be getting it and I am resorting to a little pitocin to keep the contractions going and the other part is jumping for joy that I can now see the light at the end of the pregnancy tunnel.

So I am now waiting for L&D to call. I guess I had better pack my bag.