Contractions

Monday morning I was woken up around 4am with sharp contractions. These definitely weren't the typical braxton hicks from before, this was the real deal and I knew I needed to time them. They were coming every five minutes, then two minutes and back to five; as well as lasting more than a minute long. We went into the hospital and went through all the paper work and I was hooked up to the machine. Of coarse by the time you get to the hospital everything settles down, no matter how bad it was before you got there. I even timed them for more than an hour before I told Phil that perhaps we should go in, especially since I was already dilated from the fall I had two weeks ago and my last child came rather fast. Long story short, I ended up with a urinary tract infection, which actually causes pre-term labor. So they gave me a shot to put a stop to the contractions and gave me a prescription for the infection. I was told to eat more, drink more, and stay down more.