This morning I woke from a reasonable sleep (wow!) to a feeling of "trickling" from my vagina. Not fully awake, I thought to myself, hmmm... that's weird... wonder if my water broke. Tried a little cough and it seemed that the trickling increased slightly. Hmmmm.... That's funny.
No contractions.
Bed felt dry under me. Must be my imagination.
But the feeling stayed.
So I decided to get up and go to the bathroom.
And had a heart attack.
My underwear was soaked with bright pinkish red blood. It was still dripping a little, and after I cleaned up and put on a pad, I discovered I had bled on the bed and dripped on the way to the bathroom too.
Bean was quiet. Wiggle, Bean, wiggle!
Called the midwife who was already at the hospital. (full moon - they were packed full! No room available for us.) She said come right in and she'd check what was going on.
Woke DH, and called MIL to watch the girls, and packed the bags very quickly, and were on our way in 15 minutes. Didn't feel too much leaking any more. Bean wiggled. (hurray!)
Midwife found us a corner to stay, since they were full in L&D, and checked baby and cervix, etc. Baby was happy, cervix still undilated and long, no gush of fluid, but a fair bit of bloody mucous. She told us to walk around for 30 min or so, and she'd recheck. So we did. And at second check, same story. No more fluid, small around of bloody mucous. We were told we could go home - nothing happening right now. Might be pre-labour, and things could pick up in the next 24 hours, or it could be a week or two.

So what was that? Has anyone else had that happen? What came next? Labour? More waiting? I've never had this before, though this is my fourth baby. I thought for sure it was my water breaking!

My whole family is supposed to be coming over to stay for the weekend I don't want to be feeling like I could go into labour any second when they're here! (no, they are NOT going to be there for the birth!) And I am planning a homebirth (if that GBS swab comes back negative tomorrow). If something happens, I'll have to kick them out... or just go to the hospital instead.

I just wish I knew what was happening. Any thoughts?