Contractions

On Tuesday night, I was laying on the couch and started getting Braxton Hicks contractions. No big deal, I get them quite frequently and didn't think anything of it. Then, 10 minutes later I got another one, and 10 minutes after that... And they started to hurt a little bit. I told Lyndon I wasn't feeling great so I was going to lay in bed.
For almost 2 hours, I was having these contractions 10 minutes apart. At 9 PM, I told Lyndon it might be a good idea to go to the hospital. I told him if they stopped on the way there we could just turn around and come home. It is a 25 minute drive to the hospital and I was having them every 8 minutes. They weren't too painful, just very uncomfortable.
When we got to the Emergency Room, they sent me straight up to Labor and Delivery and got me in a room. I was hooked up to 2 monitors. One to check the baby's heart rate and one to track my contractions. During the 3 hours we were there I had them every 15 minutes and they slowed down to every 20 minutes. The nurse checked my cervix. I wasn't dialating and my cervix wasn't thinning at all so the contractions weren't doing anything.
I was told that I was dehydrated and that is what brought on the contractions. They made me drink water and it seemed to help some. They sent me home with strict instructions to drink lots of water and rest. I can't do much. It's extremely hard for me to lay around, but it scared me, so here I am resting.
Now that I am resting, I'm not sleeping well at night. I didn't fall asleep until midnight last night and was up at 5 this morning. Plus, I have to figure out how to teach dance and tumbling without exerting tons of energy.

That was the excitement around our household this week. I will keep everyone updated! :)

Stacy