False Alarm

I've been instructed by the doctor to rest. I thought I went into labor last night. At about midnight I started getting a lot of contractions. I timed them, and they were regular and the time between them was steadily getting shorter. I stopped timing once they were 5 minutes apart. At that point, I got up and walked around. Then the contracts were pretty much constant. But they didn't hurt, so I wasn't totally sure if I was in labor. After about a half hour of that, I was sure enough that I started calling people to try and find someone to take me to the hospital and watch Chloe (it was 2:00am by this time). I got a hold of my friend Ryan, and she came and picked up me and Chloe and took us to her house. The contractions still weren't hurting, and my water didn't break, so we didn't really need to go to the hospital yet. However, on the car ride to her house, the contractions pretty much stopped. I laid down once we were at her house, and I only had one contraction after that, and then I fell asleep. So, it obviously wasn't labor. But I went to the doctor today, and the baby had dropped, and he said her head is really low and that I'm dilated 1-2 centimeters. And then he told me I need to rest and drink lots of water so I don't go into labor. So I guess I better get started on that resting business. (if you haven't done so already, check out my sweet before and after post I did last night.)