Momma's Trail...continues

I have started feeling contractions today. It’s like period pain, but it comes and goes. Pain pain pain pain pain pain….. Then it fades away and relieeeefffffff…………… then pain pain pain.. and the trend continues. It has stopped now, I hope it doesn’t come back. I have 19 days more to my due date. I thought it wasn’t supposed to start so early. And I’ve heard so many stories of people …. Oh dear it’s coming back ………………………………………………………………………. Ok, gone now. I haven’t gotten my period for so long that I’ve nearly forgotten how period pain feels like. Okay, where was I? Oh yeah, stories about people turning up at the hospital with false alarm pains. And they’re sent home. But I can’t help thinking, okay, what if I’m a special case and I get the ‘real thing’ 2 weeks in advance? Would I still sit around typing in the office controlling the pain, telling myself “It’s a false alarm, it’s a false alarm”….. and only start to panic when my water bag bursts right here. Gosh, that will be a bad sight.

Anyhow, I started to feel a bit nervous this morning, when the pain started. I was thinking of the pain of delivery. I mean, that is probably the most painful thing I’m going to endure in my entire life. That’s really pretty scary. And the best part is that I’ve always prided in the fact that I’ve got high pain threshold. I don’t roll in pain during my periods (or maybe I’m just one of those lucky ones…) and I’m okay with eyebrow threading! I always tell myself when the threading lady goes on with her work…. “If you can’t endure this, how are you going to go through labour?” So basically, I thought I was ‘preparing’ myself for future pains. Only time will tell….