Stay, Baby!

I've been having this odd stomach/abdominal pain this afternoon/evening. After a couple hours of "boy, my stomach kind of hurts . . . oh, it's better now" I realized it was coming and going with some regularity. 2 or 3 of them were really identifiable contractions. After a call to my midwife and a half-hour lying down and drinking water, it hasn't gone away so we're headed to the L & D room at the hospital to be evaluated. Hopefully it's just my tummy hurting or something like that. :)

Please send us some baby-stay-put thoughts and prayers. We want her to stay where she is for a couple more weeks or so since the due date is still 4 weeks away.

[Update: Well, I was actually having some contractions but as long as I stay off my feet and take it easy they're not frequent or intense. All the other signs look good for my body preparing for labor in a few weeks but not immediately. So I'm just supposed to take it easy and not overdo it. Thankfully my BIL and SIL (brother/sister-in-law) are here for the rest of the week so I'll have someone else around during the day as well as a cousin the kids' age to entertain them.]