Almost 38 weeks!

I can't believe it. We are SO close to meeting this baby girl. I am excited/nervous/scared/overwhelmed/ready! The past month has really been a blur and I feel like it's flying by. Things are pretty much ready. We have to install the car seat bases in our cars, finish the pack and play set-up and we are waiting on the stroller to arrive. It should be here next week. Everything else is just waiting for sweet Emmeline! Updates... -Went to the doctor last week before my 37 week appt because I was leaking fluid and didn't know if my water had broken. It hadn't, thankfully. I am a worrier. But during the NST, the dr. said her heart rate had dipped low at one point and she wanted to send me to Labor and Delivery to monitor it for a couple hours. If it did it again, they may induce me. Oh, Ok! No problem! I called Rob, he freaked out a little bit, but then came to meet me and we just hung out in the hospital for a couple hours and watched TV. They let us go home and told us everything was good. We met some more nurses and they were all very nice. -I am 2 CM dilated and about 60% effaced. These stats don't really mean squat, considering some people go from 0 to baby and some people walk around dilated for months. I guess I am glad that we are progressing, less to get through at the hospital? -Doctor told me I still needed to keep gaining weight. This has been so weird for me during pregnancy. Some people tell me I'm huge and about to pop. Others tell me how cute I am and how I only look pregnant from the front. Oh well. I am eating as much as I can and have gained about 30-35 pounds. -I will be so glad to have my body back, or something closely resembling my former body. It is such a pain not to be able to bend, stretch, or even sleep... -Sleep is downright PAINFUL some days. I am so uncomfortable and toss and turn and wake up sore as can be. I go back to the doctor on Tuesday for my 38 week check-up. I am glad they made it for earlier in the week. Like Rob said, I probably won't even make it in. I'll think something else is wrong with me before Tuesday. Yes, I've been a bit of a worrier towards the end of the pregnancy, but I have to assume thats normal for first time moms. I mean, I don't know what anything is supposed to feel like or what's supposed to happen and google only helps so much. Most of all, I just want to make sure our baby girl is healthy! I can't believe we've made it this far after our scare at 33 weeks. I am also officially off my Procardia which was the medicine to help calm my uterus/contractions (By the way, I don't think this really helped much) But yeah, the doctor doesn't want to stop any real contractions that may start, so that's exciting. The countdown is on... When will she come?