Labor Looms Large

Yes­ter­day we went to see the doc­tor for one of those reg­u­lar­ly sched­uled preg­nan­cy check­ups.

It went real­ly well, but it was kind of fun­ny at the end. The doc­tor had fin­ished explain­ing what to watch out for and Paula said, “By the way–what’s this feel­ing on my bel­ly right now?”

The doc­tor felt it and said, “That’s a con­trac­tion.”

“Oh, I’ve had three of those since we’ve been here.”

And the doc­tor gave Paula some med­i­cine to slow the process down. Time to pack the bags and get every­body’s num­ber in my cell phone…

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