I'm back from the doctor. Here's the update: blood pressure fine, urine clean, weight unchanged from last week (still holding at a 28 pound overall gain), still 5cm dilated although she could stretch it easily to 6cm and the baby is still at +1 station and when she pushed on his head he didn't move back up. So, she stripped my membranes again today to see if she could get things started. Then she proposed a plan. If nothing happens today or this weekend, and since Sunday I am officially 40 wekeks, I am to check into the hospital at 7:30am Monday morning. At that time they will start the IV antibiotics I need for Group B strep. That needs to be in me for four hours before they can do anything else. So, after that four hours, she is going to break my water and labor should start then. I'll be able to move around, walk the halls, etc. since they are going to take the IV line off me after the one hour it takes to get the antibiotics in. I'll just have the hep-lock on my hand so if more IV drugs are needed later, I would be ready. They'll monitor me periodically to check contractions, dilation, heart rates (both of us), etc. This is it! If the baby doesn't come this weekend then he will come on Monday!

Hopefully this will give Annika a little time to get over her cold too. And I'll make sure I get lots and lots of one on one time with Annika this weekend. This is it! There is a baby coming very, very soon!