I am in early labour apparently, and its slow going

[misdee]

[yawns]

baby is fully engaged now. in prime position for giving birth.

am having little contractions, not strong enough to get things moving, but enough to keep the little one in position. am hoping she stays where she is, and decides to get a move on pretty darned quick, and isnt just hanmging around there for one evening only.

have to go to drop in clinic tomorrow to drop off wee sample if nothing happens overnight.

what can i do (if anything) to move things along?

cos i'm feeling fed up with it now. this has been going on and off for two weeks now.

[stayinbed]

good luck sounds exciting! walk around? relax? drink a strong coffee?

[ILikeToMoveItMoveIt]

How exciting Misdee!

Do you have any Clary Sage? That is supposed to strengthen contractions.

Have your waters gone? If not, how about a dh sweep tonight?

Eat something that gives you the shits. The movement of the bowel can stimulate contractions.

Lunges with one foot on the bottom stair.

Relaxing and getting yourself mentally prepared to welcome this baby into the world.

Are you still having a homebirth? If so make sure everything is ready.

Good luck and keep us posted!

[misdee]

dd1 has pinched my hot water bottle for my back, so will have to sneak that off her once she is asleep.

feel like i have a beach ball in between my legs, am feeling sore and bump is getting hard as well.

[dinny]

sit on a Swiss ball and circle your hips?

[ladytophamhatt]

I know you don't like grapes but force yoiur self to eat them.

it really works!

[bythepowerofgreyskull]

can you bear to do some dancing?

one of the moves we did in yoga was to stand with legs quite far apart lift your knee quite high open your hips then stomp your foot down onto the floor in a lunge. alternate legs helps jiggle baby down.

I did this with DS2, when I sat down contractions stopped so I danced for a few hours and once we got going he was out in an hour!

Good lUck..

[bythepowerofgreyskull]

ooh and nipple tweaking ... my neighbour swears by it.

[guyFAwkesreQuiem]

no advice - just wanted to post so it's on my threads I'm on list so I can watch developments

[misdee]

have done cl;ary sage and that makes bump ache more, which is good right?

am on my ball, much to dh amusment as am also typing as well. lol.

no grapes in the house, dd3 ate them all. will raisens have thw same effect?

[EnchantedWithEdwardCullen]

oooh good luck!

I'd fogotten about clarysage, used it with DS... anyne know when you can start using it?

Are you overdue misdee?

I rememeber your pregnancy announcement...seems like 2 mins ago!

[misdee]

am 38 + 4/5 i think.

[misdee]

no dog. have sat back in my normal chair.

have to do some laundry in a bit, so will go up and down the stairs chucking dirty clothes down

[elsiepiddock]

Lots of walking around. I did lots of figures of 8 over ironing board! Had mine at QE2, is that where you're going?

Good luck!

[misdee]

nooooooooo not the QE2. am booked for homebirth or lister.

sorry, but wotn go to the QE2 if i can avoid it.

[elsiepiddock]

Don't blame you!!!

[misdee]

lol. didnt want to offend had bad time there with dd1, and after having a wonderful birth for dd2 at the lister, i vowed never to go back to qe2 for another birth.

[BecauseImWorthIt]

OOh how exciting! I love all these birth threads!

No advice misdee, other than to keep mobile/upright and hope that gravity gets things going.

Hot curry and sex?!

Good luck and hope all goes well for you.

[cupsoftea]

Best wishes xxx

[misdee]

thank you.

but this could take days i know.

am hhoping for progress overnight. will be walking kids to school tomorrow if i get desperate and slow walk back up the hill.

[JustKeepSwimming]

Best wishes - remember your am I /aren't I thread from way back, actually feels like time has flown...

Anyway, good luck hope it isn't days until you meet your new baby

[ILikeToMoveItMoveIt]

How's it going Misdee?

[misdee]

nothing happening.

all stopped again overnight.

seen midwife at drop-in this morning. baby is stil lenagaed, so thats good. but as she says, baby will come when she is ready.

just wish i knew when, i am most impatient and want to be organised.

[cupsoftea]

Hope you can get some rest Misdee xxx

[mad4mybaby]

misdee, how random, i was just reading a thread where you were saying you had rib pain and that you were 25 weeks... then i read this and was like 'huh??' then realised someone has resurrected an old thread of yours from 2004!!