Oma's Trip ~ 12/20/02 #2 -- False Alarm Dateline: New Orleans, LA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1:18pm Apparently early labor... but she was ready... even walked up the 3 flights of stairs at my place to pick me up on the way to the hospital. She had called the doctor's office and they told her to go to the hospital so we took a rather leisurly drive across the greater New Orleans Mississippi River Bridge and on to Lakeside Hospital. When we were almost there, she said "NOW THIS DOES'T HURT, but they're about three minutes apart." ~ STAY TUNED... She went to admitting and then we headed upstairs but stopped for a picture with future great grandmother. ~ They hooked her up to all kinds of monitors, checked the baby's heartbeat, Stacey's blood pressure and for labor pains, etc... When the doctor came in, he said it was early labor and that the baby was "high as a kite" and she wasn't ready... unless she wanted to induce, they could go home... so we headed out the same door we came in -- with discharge papers in hand.