Pregnancy Update: Week 38

We made it through Christmas but still no baby. I had a number of contractions on the evening of the 23rd but they stopped after a few hours. Then on Christmas Eve, I noticed I was having them again. I started timing them and they seemed to be occurring every 20 minutes. However, by the time we went to bed they had stopped. We saw Dr. Staud on Tuesday rather than Dr. Ramos since she was on vacation. Dr. Staud said I was measuring almost 2 cm and 70% efaced. Brooklyn has still not engaged, but is normal with second pregnancy. She also mentioned my placenta looked more like a 32 week placenta than a 38 week placenta, which means my amniotic fluid looked great and that baby Brooklyn may want to hang out for a while since things aren't breaking down. I guess all we can do is wait and see.