Owen's Birth Story
Trying to figure out what just happened! With this pregnancy, I was told that labor would most likely be shorter, and my baby boy might come earlier than last time. Both of these sounded amazing- I had a fairly short labor with Landon, and I would love to not be almost 2 weeks late again! With these things in mind, a few weeks ago, I started having more Braxton-Hicks contractions. I would have several mild-moderate contractions each day, but they never formed a pattern. We moved into our short-term, furnished rental home over the first weekend in November and I had a few days to settle into the space and put our things away. After everything was settled in the house, contractions started becoming more frequent. Nothing regular, but definitely stronger. I took Landon to story time on Thursday, and contractions were coming consistently 10 minutes apart. At that point, I really wanted to wait until my mom arrived on Tuesday, the 10th to have the baby, so I rested and tried to stop