I felt my first "practice contraction" this evening. It had to be because it was like nothing I've ever felt before. Like a pain twinge traveling down the center of uterus right to my pelvic bone. Then it was gone. Strange but I was carving the turkey at the exact moment it happened. Tom thinks I am crazy as usual. He said that I only experience all this after I read about in the books. I tried to explain that the reason it is in the book is BECAUSE it is supposed to happen around this time. Silly boy. Mother Nature knew what she was doing when she had women carry the babies.