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Night before last I had lots of lower back pain accompanying my normal braxton hicks contractions. Then yesterday in the late afternoon to early evening, I had *different* contractions - the kind I sort of forgot about, from the beginning of the late miscarriage I had and bad period cramps, where the tightness and pressure radiate into your thighs and your lower back. I had them every few minutes for hours, and around 8-ish they were actually hurting. I called my sister to put her on "Possible Alert", and they continued on from there. They only let up at all when I started doing slantboard and pelvic tilt excercises for a long time, to get this breechling to turn. Apparently there is something about being inverted almost to the point of a handstand for 20 minutes that stalls contractions. After that, for the rest of the night, they were BH again.

And BH when I woke up. I don't normally get them in the morning. And then more real, back pain-inducing ones as it became afternoon. And now I'm just trying not to pay too much attention, and wishing the baby would flip.

As I maniacally cover the Moses basket in fabric and get the changing table together and clean the dust out of the fan in our room and make lists of things to pack in my bag, and wash all of Isaac's diapers, just in case.