Up All Night

It's 3am and I haven't slept a wink because I am contracting up a storm. My feet started swelling a couple days ago... to the point that I no longer can see ankle bones. The feet pain made it hard to sleep, so I was already awake when the contractions began at about midnight. At first, they were about 5 minutes apart and now they are 3 minutes apart. They may be bad enough that I cannot sleep through them, but not exactly bad enough to rush to the hospital about. I called the midwife and we figured that if I could talk through them maybe I should just keep trying to get some rest and come into the office in the morning. Of course, if I feel like I need to go in, I can. I don't want to call for backup with the kids and make the trek to Athens for nothing... so I am up, getting something to eat, and then I'll see if I can't get a little bit of sleep. It's not like I'll be able to catch up tomorrow...