Irritable Uterus, or irritable Mama?

Since this is my fourth child, I feel like I know a lot of what there is to know about this pregnancy business. You know, I've been down the road a few times before. So, when I started noticing frequent Braxton Hicks Contractions in the past few weeks, I was just like, yeah, warming up, whatever. Then, on Thursday they were more regular, and Friday they were very frequent, and getting crampy. Lovely. Luckily, I had an OB appt. that afternoon, so I just asked the midwife about it. She thought it would be better safe than sorry and told me "You just got yourself a ticket for some observation time in L & D". A cervical check showed some effacement, but no dilation, and a forward cervix- but nothing alarming. Phew. They strapped me up to the monitors and ran a urine culture. Baby's heartbeat was super, and the monitor showed sporadic, irregular contractions. Drinking the huge jug of water they provided and sitting with my feet up really seemed to slow them down, a good thing ( : My cultures all came back good, just a little bit dehydrated, the midwife thought. So, I left with instructions for how to care for my "irritable uterus", which I thought was the funniest term ( : It's apparently just cranky with me, so I'm going to try to baby it over the next month or so with LOTS of fluids and taking it easy when it starts talking back to me too loudly. Hopefully baby will continue cooking for at least 4 more weeks and the irritable womb won't make for an irritable, tired of contracting Mama!