Made some progress

I had my weekly appointment yesterday. The doctor said I'm now 2cm dilated 75% effaced and still -2 station. According to her, I'm ready and Dino is ready but we just need him to come out. I ate some spicy food last night hoping that would kick start the process (I'll take any old wives tale at this point). All it did was give me heartburn all night. I went on a long walk this afternoon and that seemed to be helping for awhile. My back was aching and the baby kept settling lower. I had a couple of small contractions too. Alas, when I got home the only thing that happened was a good poop. I guess I should be thankful, but I'm not. Maybe if it was diarrhea, which to my understanding is a sign that your body is cleaning itself out for labor, but it wasn't. *Sigh* Too bad we don't have any stumps to dig up or broken cars to push down the street. I guess I'll have to settle with doing laundry and emptying the dishwasher for manual labor.

Here's a couple of diagrams that help explain dilation, effacement, and station: