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Nope, no baby yet. Had our most recent midwife appointment last Thursday, where I found out I was 1 centimeter dilated and 75% effaced. Not that you can really tell anything with that information...it could either be hours or weeks at any point. The baby had rotated a bit to the "wrong" side (back should be towards my left, it was towards my right). My midwife gave me a whole series of exercises to do to try and rotate the baby--rocking on my hands and knees (2 sets of 15 minutes), bouncing on the birth ball (2 sets of 30 minutes), laying on my left side (as much as possible), squats, and lunges (anytime I'm not sitting, I suppose). I'm not an expert, but I think I can feel the back on the left now...we'll see on Thursday when I go back. Lucas has been my coach, making sure I do the exercises. I am running out of self motivation, so I suppose that's a good thing.

My friends Zandy, Blair, and Christina threw a baby shower for Lucas and me over the weekend. It was a lot of fun. Below is Zandy, me, and Christina with the amazing cake they made.

Blair and her baby girl.

I plan to upload more shower pictures on our online album today, so when that is done I'll put a link up to them. I also have pictures of the nursery, but I'll save them for tomorrow so that it seems like I am updating more frequently =]