Are we there yet?

Well, here we are less than a week away from our due date and feeling very ready for anything to happen! Without going into too much detail, the doctor told us about two and a half weeks ago that baby was head down, way down and I was already very dilated. Then at 37 weeks they said things had progressed further and they would be surprised if we made it to our appointment at 38 weeks. HA! Here we are about to go to our doctor's appointment 2 weeks later. Apparently our child has a mind of his own about these things. With the progress my body has made though, things are very uncomfortable! As a result, waddling around work is no longer a very good option so I started my maternity leave yesterday. Now that leaves me twiddling my thumbs, and both of us feeling very powerless. We've already run the gamut of everything we can try to try to get some contractions started, but nothing is sticking. I've had plenty of strong, even painful Braxton Hicks contractions, but nothing that gets us the result we're looking for. Our next hope is that tonight's full moon will give us a jump start. I know it sounds like an old wives tale, but working on the mother baby unit, the nurses all know that we can expect things to pick up right around the time of a full moon. I'm really hoping that will apply to us this time. Please be praying that the little one decides to come soon and that in the mean time God will grant his flustered parents an extra measure of patience!