39 Weeks, 6 Days

Sitting here at the hospital -- not in labor. After a crazy October snow storm, we're without electricity at the house. CL&P doesn't even have an estimate for when West Hartford will get power restored. That's not comforting. We had our weekly checkup today (never thought we'd make it this far!) and all is basically as we left it. After contracting every 5 minutes for several hours on Friday night... but not progressing... we're still in waiting mode. I'm contracting as I type, so maybe today will be the day! Who knows. But hubby has gone to work and my dad and I are sitting in the hospital cafeteria enjoying internet and electricity as he gets some work done for the day. I'm catching up and random internet blogs and googling "what causes labor to start."