According to Doctor # 3 in my doctor's office, I'm 3 cm dilated and 50% effaced. Hmmmmm....here is how my last three weeks of stats have gone:

36 weeks (false labor appointment): - 1 cm. dilated, about 30% effaced (Dr. 1)
37 weeks: no check (Dr. 1)
38 weeks: no dilation, Dr. didn't feel any presenting parts, so she had to do an ultrasound to make sure baby was still head-down. (Dr. 2)
39 weeks: 3 cm, 50% effaced, and head-down (Dr. 3)

If you follow the baby's movements through this little list, you'll see that he's obviously going to be a jock. He's doing pull-ups inside of me. Or push-ups. I can't wait to see his little (or big) guns when he's born. He's been working hard in there.

Or...since the whole "dilation check" is not an exact science, you can argue that with the difference of doctor at each visit, he's been hanging out in the same place for the past 4 weeks, and each doctor has different ways of "telling" for dilation and effacement.

I know he's ready to be born. He moves as though I'm cramping his style. I get into a semi-comfortable sitting position, and he's knocking on the left side of me: "Excuse me...you made me move my arm...can you please go back to standing so I can curl up comfortably for my nap?" I don't have the heart to tell him that he's pretty much cramping my style as well. But only Kenny gets to hear me complain about that: I wake him up every night just by trying to get up and go to the bathroom...or just by turning over. Because that, in itself, is an Olympic sport.