Oh geesh...
The things we go through ...
I'd had surgery for a bad Pap many years back, so with my first, they did more internals than usual to make sure that my cervix was tight throughout my pregnancy. So, one day I go for my appointment, and my nurse says, "It looks like you're due for an internal exam today -- go ahead and get undressed from the waist down." So I do... and I'm sitting there FOREVER on the table with the little drape around my waist... when the oldest doctor in my group practice comes in (and he had a really dry sense of humor... hardly ever gave you a real smile) and says, "So why do you have your britches off today?" I was like HELLO!!!! Your nurse told me to!!!!
Makes a good story anyway...
BTW, don't get discouraged with any reports of little progress in your cervical area... I knew one woman who was 3 cm. for almost a month before giving birth... but when the time came she didn't even make it into a delivery room! (Sheila probably remembers her from class... she was religious about coming and was always at the front of the class. After her baby dropped,her tummy was at such an angle that she looked like her baby would fall out on the floor, she was carrying her so low!)... but then so much more often, women will be told that little or nothing is going on, and then all at once they'll go from a cm. or less to full blown labor in one morning.
I was tempted to forego internal exams this time around because with my first, I was completely in tears when, the day before my due date, the doctor told me that nothing was happening yet. I thought I'd never have that baby... he was born the day after my due date!!
Anyway... you are certainly in the home stretch now!
Susan
