get some rest

I went to the Doctors on my due date and she said everything looked fine and that I should be delivering some time soon. I was in so much discomfort. My sleep was constantly interrupted by a kicking baby or needing to go to the bathroom. Ugh, I was at the point where I just wanted it all to be over. I wanted this baby to be out!

His uncle has given us pagers so that if the need arose that I needed to contact him for the baby. It was friday and I was experiencing discomfort. nothing too bad just troublesome every half hour. Then the discomfort got more frequent. It was now every 15-20 mins. I thought this is it. I called him at work. He wasn't at this desk. I paged him, he was not returning my page. I called again at work. They told me he was upstairs roaming and probably talking to people. I paged him again, with the message "call home". Nothing.

Where could this man be, didn't he know I was dying in pain? He finally nonchalantly arrived at home 4 hours after my initial phone call. He asked me how my day was going and I started yelling. Where were you, where have you been? why haven't you called, who were you talking to? Why was I not the most important thing in his life at that moment. He was stunned and confused, he looked like he was being bombarded like the battle of Normandy and he could not find cover.

"I'm in labor" I yell.
He gets excited and then says, "why didn't you tell me?"
"WHAT!!!! I've been trying to tell you for the last 4 hours but you haven't called me back. Did you see the page?"
"Ohh yeah I saw that when I was getting ready to come home so I just came home. So are you ready to go now?"
"I was ready to go 4 hours ago!"

We got in the car. I with some urgency and he happy as a clam. I was mad, how could he be happy when I was so miserable. We tried playing a word game on the way to the hospital to take my mind off the pain. It was my turn and I was in the middle of a contraction. "Come on honey that's an easy one", he said.

My eyes turned red, I swear that my pointy ears came out and my voice sounded deep and rough, "You idiot can't you see that I'm in the middle of a contraction."He shut up and decided it was best he stay quiet 'til the hospital.

At the hospital they took me in, asked me questions and then they examined me. "Sorry, you're only dilated to a two. It's probably false labor. Go home and get some rest." What do they mean get some rest. How was that possible with discomfort every 10-12 minutes. I was already 1 week over due and they are going to tell me to get some rest. Don't they know I've been trying to get some rest for the past  month! Home I went to "try and get some rest".