39 weeks, 1 day
At 3AM, I started having contractions every 10-12 minutes. This went on for an hour and a half so I woke Anand up just to let him know. Then we both fell asleep until about 5:45AM. At that point, he became wide awake and started recording the time of the contractions (still 12 minutes apart, 30 seconds in duration) . This can go on for days, but we're still very happy and excited about the progress. At this point they feel like weak to average menstrual cramps but the strength of some seem to be an indicator of things to come.
38 weeks, 5 days
August is finally here! The month of August, that is. Baby August is still taking his sweet time. Now and then she gets into the right position, facing my back, head towards the ground. Then she kicks a kidney, punches the liver. It was much more comfortable when she was in her old favorite position, head towards the ground, facing my right side. The midwife said August is at the -2 position and I was possibly 80% effaced. Our doula was quite surprised. She said some of her clients have gone into labor at -2. Other signs that August is on his way: I lost weight (1-2 pounds), had some bloody show this morning, and August got really excited about some of the practice contractions. The contractions are quite small though. If I'm busy, say, reorganizing the junk drawer, I barely notice.
