38 weeks

Well, this week has been a bit more eventful. I had my doctors appointment on thursday which I went to solo with Damon by my side. He was a champ and just sat quietly while I was being checked. They found that I was dialated to a 3 and 50% effaced. So, from that information, my doctor told me that she would be surprised if I made it through the next week. That nights rest provided some contractions that would wake me up during the night. I wasn't timing them at first, but when it got to the point where I couldn't fall back asleep before the next one started.. I felt that I needed to start timing them (at about 5am friday morning). I timed them for a couple hours straight which averaged about 5-10 minutes apart. After all of that I decided it was time to get up and make sure everything was packed and ready to go to the hospital. For whatever reason, by me getting up and moving around.. it made the contractions fade off a bit. So, I made a quick decision to go retouch my hair while I had the chance (or at least the part that is visible in photos). Contractions continued throughout the day/night and would get more like 5 minutes apart at closest and eventually got to the point where it was getting pretty uncomfortable. I thought FOR SURE that we would be having the baby in the middle of the night. We actually did a temple endowment session in the evening and I didn't wear a watch into the session like I had originally planned to. I lost track of how many contractions I had while in there, but continued to time them after we were done. Eventually they calmed down a bit and I was able to get prettymuch a normal nights rest. I think I only had like 2 or 3 contractions during the middle of the night. Next morning, we had a few things we needed to do around the house like setting up Christmas lights, cleaning, and wrapping Christmas gifts. I thought FOR SURE that being so busy would put me into FULL labor. NOPE. I had basically nothing the whole day. I even lost my mucus plug on Saturday around 1pm. I researched and that could mean I could go into labor right away or it could mean that it'll be another week or something! The mucus plug basically can regenerate as well so who knows! I wonder if my body was contracting on Friday in preparation to release the mucus plug and once it did.. it has been smooth sailing since. So I have no idea what my body is doing. My next doctors appointment is on Thursday the 7th. So we'll see if anything progresses before then. I may update a few times in the last week or whatever I have. So, stay tuned!  My belly is out of control.. everyone I talk to just kind of laughs at me because it's all straight forward and basically invisible from behind... plus HUGE. Come on baby girl!!!