My little Lucky Charm

I have asked a couple women if their last pregnancy was harder then their first ones. Thinking to myself that this is my third pregnancy and I have already done it twice before it should be cake! WRONG! Each woman said that the more pregnancies the harder it was but the easier the recovery is. I remember telling people that I felt better in my second trimester of pregnancy then not being pregnant at all. This time is a different story. Starting from the beginning I was so sick, had food poisoning, stomach flu three times and lost 16 pounds. Once that was over the time has flown by according to me, I can't believe it is already May! To Trent, however the time is going so slow LOL. I have been having braxton hicks contractions throughout this whole pregnancy starting very early, well yesterday they were getting stronger and to the point it was taking my breath away and hurting a little bit. I called my dr. telling them I think it could be a uti that was causing it. (When I wasn't pregnant it was so easy to know the minute a uti hit me, now the only symptom I get is stronger contractions that I notice, I never had uti's during my other two pregnancys but I used to get them a lot when I wasn't pregnant. This time I had one about two months ago) They told me to go into labor and delivery to check it out. When I got there my neighbor who is the nurse there was my nurse! They did a test to see if I would go into labor in the next couple weeks, but some of my friends had that test turn up positive and not go into labor till full term. She told me I was a fingertip dilated and that I def. had a UTI. The baby kept kicking the monitor off and making it really loud when she would move. I must say I love macrobid, it is like candy to me.. .it makes everything better!! I was crossing my fingers that it was only a uti because there is no way I could go on bed rest with two kids and everything I am doing. I do get a wave of energy where I just have to clean clean clean and today I tried to stop the urge to do things that make me feel overwhelmed. I decided to lay down and try to take a nap while Trent watched the kids. I woke up an hour later came out of my room and saw toys and lucky charms spilled all over my front room and kitchen floor that I had just cleaned the day before. I can take one day off but other then that I don't know how women do it!! The only thing that scares me a little bit about this pregnancy is that I won't make it to the hospital on time, she is so low and it took us around 45 minutes to get to the nearest hospital with no traffic, by the time we found someone to watch our kids!