About 2 1/2 weeks until my due date. I'm definitely starting to feel some anxiety over the impending labor. I wish I could have just hatched an egg in my closet nine months ago. That would have been a much more civilized way of dealing with this whole thing.

My doctor's visit last week revealed no actual progress, though- the baby hadn't dropped, and I wasn't at all dilated. Now, who knows what's happened since; I certainly can't tell what's going on. I'm feeling all sorts of aches and pains, but I don't know if those aches and pains are related to dropping/dilating/or what. The dilating thing is weird. You can be dilated for weeks before you actually go into labor. You can be going about your daily business- working, grocery shopping, etc- while all the time just dilating away. You can be eating dinner while dilating under the table. Now that's disturbing. Don't you think?

Anyway, we're getting there.