Painful and regular contractions (notice no capital CON) started around 10am, waking me up on Sunday morning and continued every half an hour till 1.15pm when we decided to head down to the hospital. Some CONs in between.

Must be the placebo effect for the dang contractions stopped then. They put a heart monitor to gauge the heart beat of BB and measure the contractions. His heart was racing. To my surprise I was having 1 contraction (no longer CON?) in 10 minutes although in the 1.5 hours I was there, I only felt one moderately painful one. Dilation was disappointingly only 1cm although my cervix was softer. But the doc did say I was in established labour because of the latter and reckoned I'd be back tonight or tomorrow.

So we came home. My folks brought mother's day lunch to me and we ate up hungrily. Watched telly till about 5 with no contractions till they returned at 6.18pm when I was dozing. Another arrived at 7.18pm and continued every half an hour to forty minutes all through CSI.

Anxious to avoid another having to come home thingy, the hub examined me (still 1cm - dang!) and has gone to sleep (around 2am) while I forge on with the annoyingly more regular painful contractions since midnight (every 15 minutes) and now edging along 10-12 minutes. The contractions seem more bearable when I sit up, so I am sitting on my squidgy cushion and surfing to distract myself.

The contractions (those even worth logging) range from ho-hum to back-breaking howlers (that being me). Let's see how long I'll hold out here...