38 weeks, and still no baby

My hopes that the baby would come far enough before our anniversary to be able to legitimately celebrate his birthday the weekend before our anniversary weekend have not panned out.  With our luck, he'll come tomorrow, on our anniversary.  But we could just celebrate it (his birthday, that is) the weekend before, anyways, I guess...

Actually, now that I've finally given up on working, I'm almost hoping he'll wait until 5/19 so that we can keep his birthday away from our anniversary, we can still make it to some festivities we have planned this weekend, and he'll be born before my OB leaves for Korea on 5/20.  Of course, off work or not, there's still the major discomfort factor that makes me want to have him NOW, no matter what.

Thursday at work I started really feeling some Braxton-Hicks, and being in the car seems to make them worse.  Over the weekend, I found that it didn't really matter if I was driving or just a passenger -- it seems to be something about the movement that sets them off.  On Monday I worked from home, but I decided that since I was having rather strong, painful contractions whenever I was in the car, perhaps the 40 mile drive each way to and from work was not the best idea, and I officially began my LOA yesterday.

Given that I'd been feeling so many strong contractions over the past few days, I was surprised and disappointed to learn at my appointment yesterday afternoon that I hadn't really progressed much -- I'd only dilated another 1 cm or so.  My OB does seem to think he'll come before she leaves on the 20th, but I'm not holding my breath.

In the meantime, I couldn't have planned a better time to be "on vacation".  The weather here has been beautiful, and I've been getting a lot of knitting done.  I should probably be out walking around since that should make things progress faster, but I'm enjoying relaxing a bit too much, I guess.