Earlier today I was throwing out some boxes, tripped on the stairs, and fell really hard on the concrete. I skinned my right knee, and bruised my left side.

Because the baby continued to move regularly afterwards, and I know many women fall while pregnant and are fine, I wasn't too worried. But to be on the safe side, I gave my hospital a call and the nurse suggested that I come into the hospital for some monitoring. If something was wrong and I hadn't gone to the hospital, I would have never forgiven myself.
Once I got there, they hooked up a monitor that tracked the baby's heartbeat, contractions, and my heartbeat. I had contractions so light that I couldn't even feel them -- but it was freaking me out watching the baby's heartbeat on the monitor go up so high! It was a glimpse of how anxious I'd feel once I'm actually in labor.
The baby turned out to be fine, and I'm now also 1/2 a centimeter dilated -- I wasn't dilated at all at my appointment last week. That doesn't really give any indication of when I might go into labor though.
I do tend to be a little clumsy, so I'm glad that I'm not going to be pregnant once it starts snowing! I've also been doing too much again lately, but I've really learned my lesson now and am going to take it easy the rest of the pregnancy.

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