To be getting impatient now??! (Tips for getting baby out please!) :)

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Baby due this weekend..... NO signs of imminent labour.. Had a few days a couple of weeks ago where I had period pains on and off all day but obviously never came to anything. Not sure I've even had a proper BH (what exactly do they feel like?!.....and WTF are 'tightenings'?!)
Told baby is 3/5ths down, but that was 2 weeks ago and no change since.

Have been sitting on my birthing ball and prowling round the house. Tried eating pineapple. Nada.

4 ladies in my NCT group (who were due after me) have already had their babies....why do I get the feeling it's going to be at least another week or 2 for me???!?

Any tips for helping to start labour?! What worked for you?

I'm sure you'll say it will happen when it happens, but if anything, I could do with a laugh and willing to try things purely for distraction!

Thanks in advance! :)

I was late with three of mine.

I went into labour naturally about two hours before my induction time was set! As soon as the other children went to whoever was caring for them it happened. I deliver around an hour after contractions start and I was so scared I would have it at home I think I delayed labour myself.

I was desperate by week 40 for mine to be born, nothing worked.

I think by week 38 every day feels like a week. By week 40, every day feels like a month!

My cycle on average is 28 days.

I have a 28 day cycle and this is the second time i've gone overdue. I seemed to ovulate a lot later than i thought with this baby though because i was a week out from first day of my LMP and the dating scan. Hth.

Ok, I'm old school here, as DS1 is about to be 25, but I went to 40 + 21 ( not a typo, 3 weeks over with a consultant who believed it would happen when nature intended! ). And no, I didn't make a mistake over dates, I knew the night he was conceived! I'm sure you can believe that I TRIED EVERYTHING. I was being monitored every second day, all was fine, and he did put in an appearance in the end, naturally. Don't stress, nature takes its course ... [looks at 6 ft healthy, bright, graduate, employed, happy DS1]

Hmm... spare a thought for those of us with toddlers / other DC when recommending that the OP just 'relax' and use it as an excuse to lie on the couch and eat cake!

I wish I could lay on the couch and eat cake. Instead I am struggling more every day to keep up with my 3-year old... don't know which is worse: heavily pregnant with toddler or having a newborn and toddler at the same time... I will find out in the next couple of weeks no doubt!

40+21

avery ime heavily pregnant with toddler is far worse than newborn & toddler.
I'm now heavily pregnant with toddler & a 4yo, you'd think I'd learn!
Wish I could just lay down & eat cake :)

Hmm... spare a thought for those of us with toddlers / other DC when recommending that the OP just 'relax' and use it as an excuse to lie on the couch and eat cake

Personally I found heavily pregnant with two toddlers easier than two toddlers and a newborn. I turned down all offers of induction and went as overdue as possible...

I had a 2yo when DS was due. I still recommend sitting on your arse eating Jaffa Cakes as opposed to actively trying things that don't work