Contractions?

Been feeling many different sensations the past 2 days, in increasing frequency.

1. The tightening-relaxing type, which sometimes makes my belly look really tensed and odd-shaped. This is sometimes painless, sometimes painful.
2. The wave of period cramps in the lower abdomen and lower back.
3. Short waves of “stabbish, numb-ish” pains down my lower back, to the tail bone, or down the pelvic bone to the upper thigh.
4. Gastric pain /period cramp types, higher up the belly.

Checked it out and it seems like people experience contractions differently – and all 4 descriptions were similar to various women’s descriptions of contractions…
*Jitters*
Does this mean it’s gonna be soon?

On one sleepless night, I thought I’d prepare myself by finding out more about the labor process. I foolishly went on youtube to watch labor vids.
Bad move.
The crowning part looks really scary. How can something the size of a baby’s head actually emerge from there? And the episiotomy….. ERKS!!!
Now this wasn’t the first time I watched delivery videos. I remember watching them when I wasn’t pregnant. But somehow this was different. It’s so different watching and knowing that it’s gonna happen to me, probably within the next 7 days!!

Gruesome as it looks, must admit that it is also miraculous.
When you think about it.
At first, it’s just gruesome.

I decided to be evil and make Munch watch it the next morning.
“It’s training,” I insisted, “Since you’re gonna be there with me, you better make sure you can take it.”

After watching, Munch decided that I should go on epidural.
He said that even if I could take the pain, he couldn't bear to see me go thru it. (awwwwww...)

And after watching the vids, I tend to agree with going on epidural.
Forget about trying to save that couple of hundreds.

Even for a scrooge like me, that money ain't worth saving.