ep 2009 - overdue and desperate to go!

[Thusnelda]

Here we go.
This thread should see even the last of the grouch club give birth!

September Stats Thread

Post-Natal Thread

Depends on their policies. The hospital I am under never offered a sweep with my two previous pregnancies so I am not expecting them to offer this time.

From what I remember last time I went through all this I went in at 41 weeks had urine and bp checked and they then got out the diary and looked when the next available slot for induction was for when I would be 42 weeks. It turned out to be when I was 42 + 2!

Good luck for tomorrow, snowfalls!!

Arolf - you are totally justified in feeling jealous right now (you know that deep down you are happy for them, in a few weeks time it won't matter at all and you'll love having their company, after all). DP should be more sensitive!! (actually, mine has a smirk at my tears from time to time )

Nitnat - think I'm going to be similar, to be honest. Sounds grim, but at least you know your induction date now.

StayFrosty and FairySparkles - shall we all hold hands for tomorrow? I'm not going to challenge for a race, as I am fairly confident I'll be last. I've been on my feet all day, no noticeable pressure on my bladder and only one vague feeling of tightening.

arolf - I feel hard done by too - everyone around me popping and I am more like a whale every day.

Sorry you are still waiting stayfrosty - fingers crossed it all may happen tonight?

I am going for a sweep on Wed nitnat84, thanks for the info - will compare notes

Thusnelda and snowfalls - fingers crossed that it will all progress for you this evening

Had a little tear StealthPolarBear at your lovely lo - she is beautiful!

Today I fielded 10 calls and texts asking "any movement???" , just cooked a full roast dinner for my DH, mum and brother and walked the dog 3 miles - I don't feel anything apart from tired now and my back has siezed up - hey ho, have resigned myself to the sweep [boo hoo emoticon]

Hope to see more babies on the board tomorrow

Hi all - still here and STILL pregnant

Am also getting the ridiculous "any news?" texts and am now replying saying "yep, gave birth to a lovely little chap callen Thunder last Thursday and forgot to tell you"...I know it's childish, but am hoping they'll get the message. I know everyone's excited and waiting for news, but don't they think I'm waiting too??!!!!

So, am off for my sweep tomorrow when I'll be 41 weeks exactly. Just can't imagine going into labour at all now - don't even wake up in the morning thinking "today could be the day" anymore as I know come bedtime, I'll still be here and baby won't. DH thinks I'm making baby too comfy where it is which is nice of him to try and make crap up to make me feel better ...[personally, I just think he's quoting 'Friends'

Well, after my clean-a-thon (house honestly wasn't dirty, but thought a mega cleaning spree would induce baby...) at the weekend where I was constantly up and down all day (to the point where my stomache/groin muscles didn't feel like they could support my bump anymore) didn't do any good, so today I've completed 4 loads of washing AND ironing, cooked dinner, played with DS and walked the dog. I have literally spent the entire day on my feet to try and let gravity to its job. Time will tell, but guess who'll still be here, babyless, tomorrow?!!!!

We shall see what tomorrows sweep brings, but am hoping MW will book me in for induction anyway so I've got something to aim for. I went into labour naturally with DS, so have no experience of induction...what is it really like?

Hoping everyone else is keeping their spirits high, and looking forward to joining the other (lucky) mummys on the post-natal thread soon

Love and positive birthing thoughts to all.

Wellllll....after my last post I got a weird pain under my bump around 10pm, went to the loo around 15 mins later and a bit of a clear show (TMI - soz) and was ridiculously excited by that. Was getting a few tightenings and decided to call it a night at 11.30pm. Went off to dreamland until 3am when woke up with cramps, wriggled around for a while then DH got a call out at 4am, so got up for a pee and had a massive bloody show.........so now far too excited to sleep. Have been getting pains on and off, no regularity to them, so am bouncing on my swiss ball to dodgy VH1 classics.

I hope this is it.....send me labour vibes ladies!

Good luck Gonnabamumma! any news? xx

Gonnabamumma- How exciting.
I have had loads of plug come away this morning and a huge bit yesterday.

Is the bloody show more of a sign that labour is on its way than the clear mucous plug???

So confused by it all!

Oh, baby, where art though!

What the hell do you do on the EDD when the baby doesn't show up??? I had thought of staying in bed all day as some kind of protest, but that wouldn't be very helpful.

A good number of my friends and relatives went overdue, so I am getting more sensitively worded enquiries over my well-being, on the whole.

The problem may actually be my to-do list. While "car tax" and "mot" have been on there, I forgot to include "give birth" - will remedy that now and hope that gives some movement.

Good luck, Gonnab!!

Hope the sweep does the trick, TrixieVix.

Looking forward to news from Snowfalls and Thusnelda, and others who have gone suspiciously quiet...

Nitnat - I believe that a bloody or pink-tinged show is more indicative as it shows that the cervix is dilating more. However, be warned, there can still be several days (hopefully not much more at this stage) between that and labour starting. Hope things happen soon for you.

No wonder you're confused, though - everyone has a different experience, each time, it seems. Even the midwives get surprised at the way in which things progress - as in bigbang's birth story.

I got my all time record last night of 3.5hrs sleep. booooooooooo hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

does anyone know if you can imbibe of paracetamol when you are nil by mouth before a c-section? also, stupid question, can i take Galviscon?

Hey ladies, have been having regular-ish contractions since my last post, varying between 11-6 mins. Not too painful at first, but the last one made me go oooowwwww. Hopeful that things are going to progress.

Am just poodling round the house at the mo, the more I move the more contractions I seem to get.

Nitnat - Not sure about the difference between the clear vs bloody show in terms of meaning, but as soon as I got the bloody one, I started to feel the pains, was hardly noticeable before that.

Will keep you all posted!

Good luck today trixievix

I managed about an hour of sleep last night, but daren't mention it to anyone as I get the inevitable 'it'll be worse once the baby's here!' (seriously, if it is, he's going up for adoption). I have been averaging about 1-2 hours sleep in every 24 for the past fortnight, and am not a nice person to live with at the moment.

Still no sign of baby, and I have totally lost any sense of humour about it, so have taken to ignoring any emails or texts enquiring as to his whereabouts!

Good luck Gonnabamumma - sounds like something is actually happening for you!
minshu - I moped around the house all day on my EDD, which I don't really recommend, it's quite boring

Thanks for the tip, arolf. It's a good drying day, so have managed a couple of loads of washing and have given myself a list of jobs (including "give birth", this time).

Sorry to hear about the lack of sleep - it's miserable. I'm lucky in that I rarely get more than a couple of bad nights together. It'll be different when the baby's here, because (a) you'll have a different focus and (b) you won't be pregnant anymore - which does take it out of us.

I've had 'give birth' on my to do list for ages now midwife has written 'ready to deliver' on my notes at the last few appointments - nobody told baby that, obviously!

Right, better go and hang out the washing, then am going into town again to faff around!

Hey congratulations on Thunder TrixieVix @
"don't even wake up in the morning thinking "today could be the day" anymore as I know come bedtime, I'll still be here and baby won't."
I really know that feeling well, but honestly, one day it just was!
Good luck for today Labella
I also think it's rubbish about being more tired once the baby's here. I slept really well in pregnancy, even late on, but still feel overall better and more refreshed now while feeding every 2/3 hours during the night.

Sorry you're still around, StayFrosty, isysim...

Glad to hear that about being more refreshed now that the cub is here, Stealth. It'll be fab to be able to go up and down the stairs without having to take a breather

I've been telling LO that it's a lovely day out so she should hurry up to make the most of it, but to no avail.

Oh and you save about 40 mins a day just not weeing every 30 seconds!

I don't have that problem, yet, as the head is still so high most of the time... Harumph!

Kate Evelyn born by c-section 22 September at 13.40 7lb 11oz Will post more when I get home.

Hi everyone

Isabel Florence born yesterday (21.9) at 9.19pm, 9 days overdue. Long hellish labour but wonderful outcome. birth story here

Hope you are all well, will catch up properly later.

congrats all the new mummies, xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Congratulations to all the new Mummies