Still here!  Yesterday and last night, though, I think the baby started to drop. I just felt weird walking around, even my pool class was more challenging than ever, and there was lots of new pressure and stretching happening. I could NOT get comfortable in bed, at all, and I tried pillows and more pillows, until I finally went to the couch at around 2, where at least I wasn’t making myself more antsy trying not to bother Dave. (As it was, he didn’t even realize I was gone until several hours later.)  I don’t know that it was contractions so much as just new muscles getting stretched — it felt like I had a rope tied around my waist, and under the belly that was squeezing everything, and getting comfy was just impossible. I also peed about twice as many times last night as any other night, so, there’s stuff starting to shift.

I had an appointment scheduled today anyway, and there was nothing regular about the discomfort, so I wasn’t worried, but it kind of freaked Dave out. I’ve been relatively spry up until now, according to others, anyway, my classmates keep saying each week "wow, you’re still moving right along!" and stuff, so to have me really wiggling around trying to get comfortable freaked him out. Also freaking him out: feeling the hiccups of the widget not on the side of my belly, but by sliding his hand between my belly and my thigh. The hiccups have moved down, for sure.

The appointment today involved my first non-stress test, which baby and I passed with flying colors — heartrate around 170, average, and no contractions while I was there, so that’s good. I also had my first cervical check — cervix is "starting to soften" but otherwise "Long, Closed, Tight, and Posterior" which means there is no dilation or effacement happening yet. The head is at -2, still fairly high, but definitely lower than it has been, I think.

The weirdest part was that I was given the carbons of my chart today. I didn’t quite get it, until the midwife explained that I would now be bringing them in at each visit to be updated, but that if anything happened between visits, I take them to the hospital with me. Oh. OH. WHOOOAAAA. Very weird.