Back Labor Pain?

Ouch! All day Saturday, which was July 18, 2009. I was having a really bad pain on the left side of my back. From reading " What to Expect When your Expecting" my symptoms seemed to have been similar to the ones they had to described as the baby being on your sciatic nerve. I tried everything possible they had listed to helped ease the pain, like heating pad, warm bath, and even tried the swimming pool! Nothing worked.

Finally, I decided enough is enough. I needed to seek doctors advice. Since it was Saturday, I had to call the Doctor on call, to make sure if what I had come up with was true. Dr. Walker, was the doctor on call. Had told me that what I was describing was probably the baby being on my sciatic nerve, and told me to do basically what I was doing. Michael was such a help during all of this. He was doing everything that I had asked him to do, since the pain was enough to keep me in bed. He brought me lunch and even dinner in bed!

At 4:05 a.m, and that is exact just ask Michael. I woke him up saying " Michael, I think my water broke!?" Waking him up from his deep sleep, he jump up and said " What!". I was not sure exactly what had happened, but I do know this time at my normal potty time my mucous plug had came out. I do know that definetly happened, but I did realize there was a little bit of fluid that had came out as well. So I thought the smart thing to do was to call the doctor again. Dr. Walker had called me back some time after 4:20 a.m, and that seemed like the longest ten minutes. I described to him that my mucous plug had came out, and he had asked if my water had broken too. From what I had experienced I thought it had, and he insisted that I went to the hospital to get checked. My response to him was " Right now" and he said " Yes, Right now". lol I was just so shocked.

It was about 4:30 a.m when we left, I had gotten together a few things to bring. I had not yet put together my hospital bag, at this time I was only 34 weeks. We arrived at the hospital, and the little old lady at the hospital reception had told us to go to the Labor and Delivery Room 7. There I was given the not so attractive hospital gown, had to sit in the bed and was asked a ton of questions. The nurse had to get a swab sample, and get it tested for amniotic fluid. The test results came back about thirty minutes later, that it was indeed fluid. At this point I was already one centimeter dilated...