Prova generale

Last night my parents had a little trial for day X -with only three weeks to the due date I guess it was a wise thing to do. The results of the trial was that my dad passed with honours, but my panettone-mum (see picture) has to refine her part a bit before the big moment!
Well, last night my mum got a shooting pain in the fundus of the uterus (or somewhere close to it at least). She knew it wasn't a contraction, for they don't create constant pain, but not knowing what it was that caused the pain, and not being able to do simple things such as lie on the side, stand up from the bed, close the door of the car or even wipe herself at the toilet (!), she and my dad decided it would be right to have someone take a look. So they went to the gynecology & obstetrics-ER at the hospital -which is basically where I'm going to be born quite soon. The midwifes monitored me with a cardiotocograph and found out that I'm very well, then they did an ultrasound and saw that all was ok and so my mum was sent home with the words that whatever it was that caused the pain it didn't seem to have any negative effects on the pregnancy. Actually the midwife that monitored me thought that my heartbeat could be heard a bit low in the abdomen for a podalic baby, so when it came to the ultrasound part she, the other 2 midwives present and my dad betted on whether I was still podalic (the theory being that the pain that my mum was experiencing might be related to the fact that I had finally turned). But I'm more stubborn than that, and of course I was still podalic!
My mum thinks that the pain might be related with the fact that at the prenatal course earlier that day, the mums were practicing active pushing for the birth, and maybe she pushed a little too hard with slightly wrong muscles..! Anyway, after a rather sleepless night, my mum is now up and feels much better than yesterday (which makes her happy, for she was planning to make Sarah Bernhard's cookies today) and both she and my dad are happy that they've had this little prova generale of going to the hospital. As I said before my dad passed the test without problems, but my mum didn't...she managed to forget to take her pregnancy-history with her (she took an empty backpack -leaving the pregnancy folder on the kitchen table!!). But it serves her as a reminder for day X.