My water broke! 38wks 4days

Yesterday I continued to have the same off and on contractions, nothing special, except that there were definitely 3 or 4 that I had to breathe through. Makes it weird when you're trying to be all professional at work and the baby's doing acrobatics and I have this nice strong contraction and I really really have to pee! But, in all, nothing to indicate labor is approaching.

On the way home from work, Baby Kee and I had a nice long talk about how smoothly we want this labor to go, how we're both ready for it, and if she wants to come tonight, that's alright with me.

So, off to bed we go. A little after 2am, I have to pee, so I do my walrus dance to get this body out of the bed, and realize that my underwear is wet. Hmmm...not a huge gush, but enough to know that I didn't pee on myself. My water broke.

Poor Dan. I yell out to him from the bathroom, "Honey?"
"*sleepy mumble*"
"I think my water broke!"
Sounding a little more awake, "For real?"
"Yeah, for real."
Lights go on, and instantly he's there, "What do you need me to do?"

He's so sweet.

We already had a doppler rented for our trip to WVA, so a quick check of heart tones keeps me from having to wait to feel if the baby is still moving. She sounds beautiful. I have some pH paper that shows whether this is truly amniotic fluid, and it is. The fluid is clear, which is a good sign.

So, I call the midwife, and while I'm waiting for her to call back, Dan and I pray together about the labor and the baby and most of all for God's will in all of this. JoAnn is the midwife on tonight, and we talk a bit when she calls back. She laughs at how I don't need to come in to document rupture of membranes since I did that already, and gives me the normal precautions. It's so sweet to have coworkers and colleagues as my midwives, because we talk about how disappointed I am that my water has broken before labor starts, and she understands my concerns, but is very reassuring.

So, now I'm all excited, but have had a whopping one contraction in the last hour. I'm going to finish drinking my juice and head back to bed. It's a perfect time to call Annelise, since she's already awake, but no answer in Uganda right now. Oh, well, hopefully labor will get started after a good night's sleep.

Prayer requests -
For labor to start SOON!
For safety from infection (which is the main risk when your water is broken)
For our little girl to make it safely into the world, no matter how she does it
For her mama's strength and endurance through all of this
For her daddy's sanity :)

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