It's almost baby time!

Happy Saturday!
    Well, I am 38 weeks and 1 day pregnant.  Baby girl is scheduled to arrive on July 18th, which is one week from Monday!  My blood pressure has been up since I hit 36 weeks and 1 day and I felt awful for the whole week, until yesterday.  I went to my appointment for my non-stress test (NST) and everything was great, baby was very active and her heart rate went up with movement and back down when she stopped which is what the doctor's look for.  Also, my BP was good 132/80 so they sent me on my way.
     I go on Monday for another NST and pre op appointment to go over everything (since this is my 3rd c-section, I'm pretty familiar.)  So unless I go into labor, we only have 9 more days to meet this little baby girl.
     The boys are pretty different.  Clark is really excited, he has asked about holding her, he was ready to wear his bigger brother shirt and when there was a false alarm (where I was sent to the hospital for what ended up being monitoring) he was running around the neighborhood telling everyone! Charlie on the other hand has no clue and says he is excited but really he is just excited about everything.  I wish I could bottle up the joy he has and contain it somehow.
     Now back to the if I go into labor part, that scares me.  With this being my third, I do feel the BH contractions a LOT more.  They are getting stronger as well.  When I was at my NST this past Tuesday, I was having them regular and the doctor insisted on checking my cervix, not dilated at all.  But with this new feeling of normal and these contractions, I do feel like there is the possibility of going into labor before delivery day.   That concerns me because: 1. I worry about things like this, 2. I do not want to labor because I do not have to, 3. We live about 45 minutes away from the hospital we are delivering at! I have scratched off the #4 reason, that was my doctor may not be on call but really now I feel that is ok.
     So this may be my last update before baby is here.  I just wanted to write an update of how it's going.   Also I am doing AWESOME drinking water.  I drink at least 4 bottles each day which is the 8 glasses that are recommended.  I really want to keep this up after baby arrives.  It may even help with my milk to come in (for once!)