Take my breath away

It's been clearly established that Biscuit likes my right rib area. She hangs out there and parties a lot. While it's not the most pleasant feeling to have a foreign object pressing against your ribs, I have grown to accept it.

In addition to the rib party, I've been having Braxt*n Hicks contractions or "pre-labor" on and off for a bit. My stomach gets hard as a rock, my back aches a little and sometimes I feel like I have the flu. Then it passes. I haven't really been phased by this, I notice it and then it's over.

Today, I had a feeling I hadn't had before. It was a, WOW! I really can't catch my breath feeling and I was in a meeting, running the meeting and speaking. I had to stop talking for a second and tell the group that I was having a tad bit of trouble breathing hence the odd manner in which I was speaking.

I put my hand at the top center of my belly and it was hard as a rock. Up to this point the hardness had been more in the front and sides of my belly. I don't think it was a contraction, but what the hell do I know? I honestly think my girl was pushing off with her feet to get into a more comfortable position.

When the feeling finally subsided she proceeded to shimmy and shake and do some sort of belly breakdancing and, she's been at it all day. Dancing queen.