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So what had happened wuz...

So here's how it went down.  Saturday night Dale's parents were here for dinner, and all through dinner I have having contractions.  They were only coming about every hour so I figured, just like the weeks before, this would be another night just like the rest. Around eleven o'clock, Dale and I were watching a movie and I had a couple of good, strong contractions about ten minutes apart.  I wasn't alarmed, but I was hopeful so I told Dale that we might need to start timing them.  With our history of labor Dale wasn't alarmed either, but went along with me thinking it was probably another false alarm just like every other night of that week when I mentioned that I had had a contraction.  I had been reading up on every possible method of self-induction so I did everything I had been doing everything I could to get labor started.  If this was it, I wanted to see to it that if this was it that it didn't stop.  I sat on the exercise ball, ran up and down the stairs,