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Anyone awake to speculate wildly with me about whether I'm in labour?

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cockingup · 04/10/2019 02:12

This is baby #2 - my first (now 4) came early and labour / delivery was unusual so don't really feel I have a 'normal' frame of reference.

I'm 38 weeks. Had sex at 10pm-ish for the first time in a long time. Now I'm getting tummy pains and tightenings every so often - though very mild - and wind, nausea, lots of pooing...

Basically I know the answer is "this might be labour, wait and see" but as per thread title I'd like some speculation buddies who are willing to confidently express their unqualified opinions, please. DH is snoring happily beside me but I can't sleep.

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FelixFelicis6 · 12/10/2019 22:58

Oh come on I expected a baby by now!!! Grin

Collision · 13/10/2019 01:40

Sex on a trampoline will work.

HeadLikeAFuckinOrange · 13/10/2019 01:47

Oooh good luck OP!
Hoping for baby news in the morning Grin

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MrsMozartMkII · 13/10/2019 08:52

How you doing lass?

cockingup · 13/10/2019 13:05

In for ANOTHER sweep today which has kicked off a few more contractions.
I love gas and air. Like, I really love it.

In my exhausted, strung out state, part of me is beginning to question if there's actually a baby in there.

I'm pretty sure there is.

OP posts:
cockingup · 13/10/2019 13:05

(Thank you everybody for being kind and interested. It is really helping.)

OP posts:
wineconnoisseur · 13/10/2019 13:09

Hopefully today's the day then 🤞🏽

SeaToSki · 13/10/2019 13:15

Im voting for Tuesday at 1.42am

No reason why, it just seemed like babies always arrive in the middle of the night and 42 is the answer to everything, after all!

Elieza · 13/10/2019 13:19

“42 is the answer to everything”, I thought it was 23 ??? Ha ha, OP stay strong. Hopefully it will indeed be a baby in there and not just a big fart, just trying to lighten the day!

SeaToSki · 13/10/2019 13:38

@elieza. You need to look further back in time for the deep significance of 42

The number 42 is, in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything", calculated by an enormous supercomputer named Deep Thought over a period of 7.5 million years.

😂

Hidingtonothing · 13/10/2019 13:55

You're maintaining an enviable sense of humour considering OP, your posts are very funny Smile Total sympathy from me, DIL is currently 40+6 so I'm seeing first hand how hard the wait is! Not going to make a prediction because I've already been wrong 3 times with DIL Grin but hope it's soon Flowers

RainbowCrashes · 13/10/2019 14:02

You're an inspiration op, good luck Flowers!!

Elieza · 13/10/2019 16:12

@SeaToSki ah right, I never watched that. Well I did once in the, er what 1990s. 80s? Goodness knows! Many moons ago They had a fish to translate languages or something! That always stick in my mind, but it wasn’t my thing to watch.
Every days a school day as they say.
Grin

user1498572889 · 13/10/2019 17:19

Any 👶 news?

MitziK · 13/10/2019 18:56

"The Babel fish is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with the nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them.

The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish.

Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen it to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.

The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets killed on the next zebra crossing."

I suspect our OP is somewhat busy this evening. After all, two sweeps and a load of ball jiggling has to have an effect eventually...

Dowser · 13/10/2019 19:29

Hope all is going to lan
My daughters babies were all 42 weeks

IncrediblySadToo · 13/10/2019 19:32

Have you chosen a name or can we be of help while we wait...

Applesandpears23 · 13/10/2019 19:45

Sleep OP, sleep! I had a week of latent labour and was exhausted by the time real labour started. Don’t be me. Sleep!

missmouse101 · 13/10/2019 20:51

Looking forward to news...I reckon 5.02am Monday morning...a girl, 7lbs 3oz! Grin

MissBridgetJones · 13/10/2019 21:49

Shamelessly place-marking! Hope everything goes superbly well for you and the little one x

Guineapig456 · 13/10/2019 22:25

Good luck op, I’m thinking of you.

ImpossibleGirl · 13/10/2019 23:08

@MitziK ... Brilliant bit of quoting there. In OPs position that is perfect distraction technique. Love it!!

PlinkPlink · 13/10/2019 23:16

I keep checking back in but no news yet!

Keep going OP! Hope he or she decides to make their entrance soon!

cockingup · 13/10/2019 23:35

I love all the predictions. We need some sort of prize.

It's just rumbling on. I'm doing my best to snooze in the quieter periods, when I'm not stimulating my nipples. My poor, poor nipples.

We have a front runner for a name I think, but very open to other suggestions! What's ancient Hebrew for "he who couldn't be arsed to turn up"?

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pinksquash13 · 13/10/2019 23:46

Good luck OP. Hope you get some rest tonight. I wonder if he'll be a super chill baby?

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