First Night in the Hospital

Well, we are here. We got checked in at 6 today. I knew they would put one of those stupid gowns on me, but I didn't realize they would be monitoring me all night while I "slept". I have 4 bands wrapped around my stomach that monitor the baby's heart and my contractions. Then I have a blood pressure cuff that goes off every fifteen minutes wrapped around my arm. They gave me an ambien at 11:30. Said it should knock me out. .....Flashback to my sophomore year on a airplane coming back from Hawaii when my dad gave me an ambien. I acted a fool. It had an adverse effect and made me ack like a drunk fool. I kept thinking that the storage containers were flying at me and would talk extremely loud because I didn't think anyone could hear me. Mark said it was one of his most embarrassing moments and then got worse when I tried to sleep on the floor under my seat.... Now I am in a hospital room and the ambien has done nothing. I am wide awake. And in a really funny mood. Ambien is not meant for me. It's 2:30 in the morning and they are waking me up to start everything at 4:30. So, here's to hoping this ambien does what it is meant to do and that I get at least two hours of sleep. I wonder what childbirth would have been like if Eve hadn't bitten that stupid piece of fruit?....