Yay for progress!

After sitting in an exam room that felt like a sauna for an hour, I finally got to see Dr. No Eye Contact. By this time, my butt was so sweaty it was stuck to the paper covering the exam table and my bladder felt like it was going to explode. As you can probably imagine, a cervical exam was about the last thing I wanted at that point.

But! I got some great and encouraging news which made my sweaty wait worthwhile.

**Drumroll, please**

I am: 2 cm dilated, 80% effaced, and Camden is at -1 station. What are stations, you ask? Or, at least I assume you're asking yourself this because I had absolutely no clue that stations even existed up until a couple of weeks ago. My understanding is this: stations range from -3 to +3 and are reflective of where the baby is located. Once the baby is at 0 station, he or she is said to be fully engaged. At +3 station, the baby is crowning. In a nutshell? My feeling that Camden has been trying to head-butt his way out over the past week or so is pretty accurate.

Now, I'm a pretty realistic person. I know that, feasibly, I could be "stuck" in this phase for another couple of weeks. But guess what?! I won't be. Know why? Because, at the very latest, they will induce me the Monday after Thanksgiving. They would hope to induce me the Friday after the holiday, but it will just depend on the doctors' vacation schedules. Even as Dr. No Eye Contact was talking induction with me, she said that she really thought Camden would come on his own in the next few days.

So. If I'm still pregnant next Wednesday, I will go in for an ultrasound and NST (fetal non-stress test). Then we'll schedule the induction for either Friday or Monday. Let me repeat: if I'm still pregnant. Hopefully I won't be.

Either way, though, my sweet little boy will be here very, very soon. Yay for progress!