Due in May - W/c 21/05/07 We're not impatient at all, no not us...

[twelveyeargap]

Morning.

Worth a try MID. Have heard of it working, but also of having no effect. Think babies will come when they darn well pleases, much to our disgust!

TYG went for some acupuncture I think...

Morning all by the way...

Will your mw do a sweep MID?That might get things going?

Well back still hurting but nothing else doing..friendsw over for lunch today and some viewings-so you never know..that might bring something on

Morning girls, I was just having a conversation with someone about accupuncture and also relflexology, both of which are meant to work.

I know what you mean about the induction there is 3 of us in NCT all due within a couple of weeks of each other and none of us want to be induced. When I spoke to my GP she said that as long as the babe is happy I can refuse induction until 10 days over.

Good luck witht he house viewings, we have decided that our flat is actually lovely and if we want to buy anywhere its going to be a fixer upper as thats all we can afford and I dont think either of us can be bothered with that at the mo.

Right we are off to Bluewater today to buy my breastfeeding bra and cause its pishing down and I need to go for a walk so a shopping center it is.

having a sweep on wednesday, a midwife coming to house to do one.
sry. think just had minor panic then. dunno where the tears came from. ive been remarkably balanced during pregnancy. suppose gotta crack sometime. calmed down a bit now. what will be, will be i know....think im just a bit scared of induction. also fed up that stretch marks have appeared in past few days...i got to 40 weeks without them....bloody hell...
sry to moan.
hope everyone else in better mood than me!

Hello all

Congratulations to all the new mummies and i hope things start to get moving for the rest of you soon, I can imagine how fed up you are all getting now. I know i was and I wasnt even over due. Im sending lots of labour vibes to all of you

Ive added pics to my profile at last. Limited myself to two otherwise I would have put loads on there. Poor Alana-May must be getting fed up with being photographed all the time, if its not me its her proud grandparents lol. What do you expect though she is the first girl born to my side of the family for almost 14 years so she is bound to be spoilt

Still vant believe ive got a girl!!!! Nappy changing is strange though, no willy lol

Hello all

Congratulations to all the new mummies and i hope things start to get moving for the rest of you soon, I can imagine how fed up you are all getting now. I know i was and I wasnt even over due. Im sending lots of labour vibes to all of you

Ive added pics to my profile at last. Limited myself to two otherwise I would have put loads on there. Poor Alana-May must be getting fed up with being photographed all the time, if its not me its her proud grandparents lol. What do you expect though she is the first girl born to my side of the family for almost 14 years so she is bound to be spoilt

Still vant believe ive got a girl!!!! Nappy changing is strange though, no willy lol

I had acupuncture for my carpal tunnel and she said she'd try to move the baby along as well, but it's worked for neither thing. Am thinking of going down to the City on Tuesday morning before my monitoring to see the Chinese doctor I've used before. I think I have more faith with him and he'll recommend herbs too if they think it will work.

I'm so fed up.

Actually, I really fell apart last night. Tried to turn over in bed and strained my belly in doing so and just ended up sobbing uncontrollably. Went to the loo to blow my nose and when I came back DH was sitting on the bed with a guitar and my Gizmo gremlin figure that DD got me and was singing the "pregnancy blues" for me, which he made up as he went along. Awh, bless. Was so sweet. I managed a snotty laugh or two, but then dissolved into tears again. He did some hypnobirthing scripts which calmed me down in the end and I went to sleep.

Poor man ended up sleeping on the sofa so as not to disturb me.

I think it's just getting to me becuase I've been all set up for my lovely relaxed homebirth for hte last 4 weeks and now having an induction booked is a real blow, particularly since hospitals make me nervous anyway. I was crying about going into hospital to have DD. I'd never been to hospital before - other than to visit people. I know I have another week for something to happen, but it's quite easy to become negative about it when the induction booklet is going on about increased c-section risk and all that.

Sorry, am a real misery guts today.

And me..have just been to some friends for lunch which was nice..but feel so tired and uncomfortable..
Am incredibly bored but feel too achey and the weather is too rubbish to actually do anything..even just a walk is out of the question with this bloody rain..

So have got back into bed..with a packet of crunch creams..

God knows what we will do tomorrow..its going to be torrential rain again, and we dont have anything scheduled in to do..

Plus if the baby hasnt come DH will have to go back to work on Tues and my Mum will have to come to help me with DD who is still poorly..which is what I really didnt want..

Just assumed I would have a baby by now..

Oh dear...what a misery post!

TYG, poor you. Have total sympathy for your fears. I'm not even at due date yet and I'm worried about induction. Don't want all my homebirthing plans to be for nothing. Crossing my fingers for both of us.

Am weepy too
Fed up of sitting round waiting for something to happen. Keep getting stabby (not contraction) pains if I walk too much, so am bored and feel useless.

Crappy rain isn't helping the mood in our house atall today.

Evening All,

Intheseshoes ? thanks for the explanation. I hope you didn?t think I was prying . Tbh, you may have told us these details before, however, as I wasn?t terribly good at keeping up with the thread while I was working, I probably missed it. I?m sure this time will be much much easier than last time. Its really cos I?m jealous that you?re likely to have you baby before me

Madeindevon ? I was induced last time and it really wasn?t bad at all. I was put on monitoring machines for an hr before induction, just so they could check labour wasn?t going to start of it?s own accord. They gave me the pessary (no drips) then monitored me for another hour. Once this hour had passed, they took all the machines off me and left me to walk around the ward/have a bath/bounce on my ball. For the 2 hours I was being monitored (I seem to remember reading Heat/Now from cover to cover), I lay on my side. Although it wasn?t that comfortable, it certainly wasn?t painful. By the time it started to hurt, I was 3-4cm dilated and could pick from the selection of painkillers available. Hope that reassures you a bit!!

Well, i've tried all the labour-inducing methods available now. Last night I had a curry and half a pineapple and today i tried the DH-involvement technique . Nothing is working so far. Off to watch Dr Who and console myself with an M&S dinner.

The other not-so-bad aspect of being induced is that it can take hours and hours to reach the 3cm mark. If you are induced (providing it works with the 1st pessary), the most you are talking is 5-6 hours. In a way, I didn?t mind a non-painful 6 hours, rather than a painful 10-20 hours, which some poor ladies have to contend with.

Oh, one more thing, then I?ll promise I?ll stop the monologue ? induction does not mean you are a failure!!!!!! Please please remember that. At the end of the day, you?ll still have a beautiful, perfect baby in your arms .

Miseries unite! Sorry to hear DD is still poorly Scooter. I didn't realise.

JL - I'd forgotten you were homebirthing as well. Was starting to think nobody on this thread was going to be able to have one. LG&T had originally planned it. SOH had, as we know and I think Befnal too. Thought we were jinxed.

Bored, bored, bored. It's no wonder it's quiet here, what with there being only 8 of us left.

Thanks for that Jonah. That does make me feel a little better.

TYG - forgot to say, you have a fabulous sounding DH there!!! That is such a sweet, creative way to try and cheer you up.

Good evening ladies
I am going through exactly the same. Cheesed off with the crappy weather, the fact that I feel I have been pregnant for ever and that after loads of pre-labour 'signs' on Friday, last night and today - Nada. Not a twinge. I am also terrified of being induced, especially as baby is LOP. I am such a wimp that I think I would rather request an elective ceasarean if this is the case

I am jumping the gun here as I am 40+1, so I know there is time. I just can't help thinking it's never going to happen naturally.

Precious first-time mother that I am!

think we are all feeling the same dont want to be induced as am scared that it means I am going to be strapped to a bed and not allowed to move.

The weather is shocking its going to be crap tom as well there is bog all to do apart from go to the cinema and pay a fortune to get up every 10 mins and go to the loo!

What a happy bunch we are, lol.

Bring on tom maybe one of us will manage to squeeze a baby out.

brings a big bag of misery to the pity party

Jonah, you were not prying at all, and I don't mind explaining the whys and wherefores! TYG - as Jonah says induction is not too bad at all, and I have to say her experience sounds very nice and typical of what I have heard, so please don't worry too much. Also as she says (she is so wise!!) the most important thing is that you have your lovely baby at the end!

Been to my Mum's, about an hour away today, and had Sunday lunch with them, my sister and her family and my brother, which was really nice. I have had some crampy period-y type discomfort for most of the day, with some backache, but I think it's eased off a bit now, and could have been caused by sitting in the car for an hour. I am feeling a bit fed up to say the least, I think deep down I always hoped that I would have the baby by now, that it wouldn't be a question of history repeating itself, but I suspect that's the way this is going. I just hope to God they don't decide to leave me for another week just to see when I go on Tuesday - I will just cry if they do.

Do you know, I don't think I've ever needed this thread more than I do right now, it's nice not to be alone.

Ladies chin up!!

Just think that soon we will all be on the post-natal thread. And all these pregnancy pains will be a distant memory.

Evening all..

You are so right, nice not to be alone..

Its blowing a sodding gale here..for once I dont want to go into labour before the morning as dont want to get DD up and drag her to cm's, dodgy chest and all in this weather..
Have still got my back ache..but have had it all day..

Well, have watched all my OC DVD's..so god knows what im going to do tomorrow or what im going to watch when/if ever im in early labour as my distraction measure..may have to resort to ER like last time!

Sigh..night all..hoping for some babies in the night time, as ever xx

morning all. sounds like quite a few of us feeling same way, fed up, uncomfortable, weepy, scared of induction etc etc
hopefully it wont be long now. i just wish i had some sort of sign....ive had nothing! no twinges backache mucus etc. just blinking stretchmarks arriving since i passed 40 weeks. now how unfair is that???
tried to keep busy yesterday.went to cinema with dh then roast lunch at sisters (8 of us) so a very nice way to spend afternoon and evening.
sister dragging me off on a short shopping trip this morning to buy pressie for younger sis who turns 30 in june. its so yuck out there....
anyway. chin up everyone. its CANT be long now. it really cant. and it will all be worth it....just think about that....

Good morning lovely ladies
My aim was to try and relax and be a more positive today, but hardly slept a wink because of the wind/rain lashing against the windows and my mind working overtime. Feel as tired amd weepy as ever

I am trying to convince myself that 'my' date of the 2nd June was in fact correct and NHS got it wrong, so I am not even overdue

I was fairly pleased with myself not to get any stretch marks. I was told that once you get to 40 weeks, it's unlikley you will get them. Clearly this is not the case! I will be so if they appear now and can totally sympthasise with those who have had them appear at the last minute.

The only thing I can think to cheer myself up is a big tub of Strawberries and Cream Haagen Daazs. Yeap - that will do it.

(wanders off to freezer)

mini... just to let you know that I find (in my experience) that the mum tends to be right when it comes to her dates.

Thanks, Marslady! That does make me feel a bit better. I was pretty sure of my dates, too.

I do wish that people would stop calling/texting me every two minutes asking if anything is happening. NO. I WILL LET YOU KNOW WHEN IT DOES!

Yeap, mum, that includes you!

I know they are just excited and mean well, but it just makes me feel more pressurised.

I doubt I am the only one going through this

Morning all..

Looked out of the window and have gone back to bed..God this weather is the pits..

Has anyone else found themselves to be quite sensitive to noise now?DH had the stereo on this morning and I wanted to kill him!

Still got my back ache, but thats it..

Am in a dilemma now as dont know wether to say to Mum she can come down or not..Would be good to have some help with DD tomorrow when DH will be back at work, assuming no baby, but on the other hand I just really dont want her and my Dad here when I am in early labour-if ever-they were here last time and I hated it..not their fault at all, its just our house is so small that felt privacy was really invaded..so what to do?

Really thought would have had the baby by now..as much as I hate labour, Im getting to the end of my tether a bit now..

All good signs scoot. Sounds like things are getting ready to happen.