Getting Closer

I'm so awful about updating this sometimes. Wednesday I finally met with the new midwife at the civilian hospital. She asked if I wanted her to check my cervix while I was there, and I thought, "Sure, why not? I'm already here."

So she does.

I'm 3 cm dilated and 90% effaced with the baby's head already pretty low in my pelvis. She seemed almost shocked that I was not waddling like crazy and had managed to get so far without really noticing it. I mean, I had felt him drop, but I would have never guessed I had progressed that far. She rushed me into filling out all the necessary paperwork for registration and delivery, saying I could basically deliver any day now.

I'm honestly worried I'm going to go into labor and not realize it. My dear friends Heather Lynn and Mrs. R. have to laugh as I sit there, calmly prodding my stomach, proclaiming, "Oh, I think I might be having a contraction." I honestly can't even tell I'm having a contraction unless I physically feel my stomach to see if my uterus is hard. How am I suppose to time these things if I can't even tell I'm having them?

As my doula put it, they may not be painful but apparently they're doing something, otherwise his head wouldn't be so low and I wouldn't be so dilated already.

I'm beginning to think I might have this baby in my sleep.