Doctor's Appointment Update

This morning we had another doctor's appointment. I went from being 50% effaced to 60% and he said that she's dropped some more. Still not dilated though. He decided to see if he could manipulate my cervix to make me start dilating. It worked and now I'm dilated to 2 cm. I hadn't ever heard of that being done. Oh and last night I lost my mucous plug, but they say it doesn't mean much -- sometimes women will go into labor hours after losing it and other times it will be weeks.
We set an induction date of 12/1, but the doctor said he's hopeful that she won't wait until then (I'm hopeful, too!). In the meantime, to make sure that everything is ok to wait until then, we will have an ultrasound to check the fluid levels and we'll do a non-stress test. Both are scheduled for this Friday afternoon. Even though it would be better to see her in real life and I know that at this point, she's pretty squished, I'm excited to have another ultrasound. We probably won't see the doctor on Friday, but we have another appointment scheduled for next Monday.