False Alarm :)
January 8, 2009 by admin
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I don’t think it’d have been a proper pregnancy if we didn’t have the false alarm. I really thought we were going to avoid it because we KNEW that labor isn’t like the movies. It’s atypical for a mother have her water break on it’s own (only 13% of people do) and even then, there’s not a mad dash to the hospital. Ideally, Jacquie and I would have noticed she was in early labor with mild cramps, watched movies for 8-9 hours, then really start seeing contractions. About then I’d pre-load the car and head back upstairs to start timing the contractions, waiting until they hit the 5 minute interval mark. That’s when I’d help Jacquie to car, we’d calmly drive to the hospital, she’d push for a few hours and presto! we’d have a baby.
I didn’t account for the fact that we have NO idea what real labor feels like. And by “we” I mean her…
On Wednesday (Jan 7th) I get a phone call around 9am. I figured it was Jacquie telling me that she was on the way to the city with her mom to pick up our video camera. We had ordered it online but decided to go pick it up in case Jacquie went into labor before it arrived. Well, it was actually Jacquie saying she thought her water broke. It wasn’t the “gush” we’ve heard about so we did some research while her mom went to the city by herself. The research said that the amniotic sac could leak instead of breaking, which sounded about right, thus we called our doctor. Of course we knew the doctor’s default answer — go to the hospital — so we obliged. I left work, stopped for gas, came home, waited for the camera to arrive, loaded the car and then went to the hospital.
Once we arrived they processed our paperwork while I sat there wondering if I was going to need a crash course in video camera operations. And we took pics of ourselves 
They moved us to a room…
I took another pic of us…
They hooked Jacquie up to a fetal monitor…
(where her cool socks were exposed)…
and then told us the news we had come to expect: it wasn’t water that broke (and for those wondering, no, she did not wet herself as is common. Well, she hasn’t yet, I’ll let you know if she does). They gave us some tips and then discharged us.
We just had our first false alarm In case you’re wondering, the amniotic sac only leaks if your not full term; full term water breaks are the fabled gush of water.
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