Well, I came home on Wednesday night around 7:30 from a training class I’m taking for work. Wifey was passed out sleeping on the couch. She never takes naps as she hates the groggy feeling she gets after waking up.
I should have known that something was amiss.
I started getting busy around the house and settled in at my computer in the home office. Around 8:00pm wifey woke up and decided to get some dinner. She happily ate on the couch and was watching some tv when all of a sudden she called out to me telling me she was having a bad cramp. She had been having some cramps on and off for a few days so I didn’t think much about it.
The cramps kept coming periodically and we were concerned that something may be wrong. I whipped out the doppler monitor and we checked the baby’s heart rate. Normal. Nothing to report. We decided this was fine and decided to go about our night.
The cramps kept on coming and around 9:30pm wifey went to the bathroom. She suddenly yelped and called me in. There she was on the toilet holding toilet paper that was full of orange/red blood. Continue reading ‘Alex is born 4 weeks early!’