Well we had an exciting yet disappointing day. Started by going to breakfast with friends and then to walk around the swap meet for an hour. Went to Home Depot and on the way home, at about 12:30 I felt a gush of fluid. I raced home to check and I had soaked through to my pants. So I called the hospital and they said to come in and get checked out.

We got there around 2pm and went to triage. They used a special q-tip to check for amniotic fluid and it seemed to have registered on my undergarments. So I was strapped to the fetal and contraction monitor. My BP was 191/96 so they were very concerned about that and set me up to have it recorded every 15 minutes. It took an hour or more to come down and it never got below 136/81. They drew blood to check for the onset of pregnancy induced hypertension. That took an hour and half to get back and they said they were ok. The on-call doctor advise to send me home as I was not leaking any fluid and hadn’t in the 3.5 hours I was there. My contractions were sporadic and not consistent. I am 1/2-1cm dilated and 70% effaced, so there has been some progression since Wednesday. I had a couple painful contractions while there so they think I could be in early labor but not enough to admit me.

We’ll keep everyone posted if and when anything changes.