Help I am a bit confused....is this the start of it

[wiltshire]

I was busy wallpapering etc today and I have now got a very bad ache in my back. Also I feel like I have a big leaden Xmas pud pushing down on my pelvis. Some pains around my ribs also. I keep on wanting to pee permenantly. When your waters break does it feel like this. I can feel movements, but I feel very odd. I want to poke my tummy out to relieve discomfort.

In my experience (and friends) they are often wrong about size.

My MW said I would be around the mid 7s and when I went in at 39 weeks and asked again, she treated me as if I was some pushy middle class woman and begrudgingly said maybe high 7s. Horrible labour later, DS was dragged out weighing in at 9'11 and was measured as being 63cm! He was long but probably not that long!

Just wanted to say that they will be guessing the size but if you are happy having a planned c-section then go for it. I'm hoping I will be told that too for number 2 but no luck so far.

Never got the nesting instinct much to DH's disappointment

i was decorating my ds nursery when it all started, but htat was on my due date exactly. luckily DS held on till next day& managed toget his own bday. - his grandma & auntie have bdays day b4 his.

they thought ymdd2 was only gonna be a 7 pounder. she weighed in at 9lb lol.

DS was supposed to be 98th percentile; he was supposed to be 6lb 4 oz already at 34 week scan. He was born 5 weeks later only 6 lb 8 oz, sigh.

I had a friend who did seem to suddenly be incontinent. She had to apologise to friends for not being able to hold her waters. It went on all day & she had a hunch so she went to hospital. They swabbed her and it was only when the swab test turned black they knew for sure it was actually amnio fluid. Point being that smell isn't always definitive.

Wiltshire you can't go yet.......it's simply not your turn, there's others in the queue before you

To let you all know, false alarm. I did feel ever so funny though. Pupuce you were right. Baby just doing one last night.

I don't know if I am happy having a c/section. I suppose when a doctor tells me something I believe them really, even if I do ask lots of questions regarding why. I am very concerned that if I insist on having a natural - it could go on for hours only for me to have an emergency c/s. Which, IMO is a bit pointless.

As for the queue, I do like to jump queues where i possibly can without causing offence.

Also have you all noticed that you seem to hang on to every word that your Ob/Midwife says reverently. I seem to. If they say 'Oh you feel 38 weeks' but you're only 37, it's like the biggest thing anyone has ever told you. Maybe it's just me. I don't usually take notice of everything ever said to me, but on this childbearing malarkey I am like a sponge.

Isn't the size of your feet supposed to be an indicator of your pelvis size? Incidentally, like others on this thread, I was very misled about size of babies - ds was described as 'about 7lb' - he was nearly 10lb, and dd was described as 'really tiny - not worringly so, but really really small' - she was over 10lb!!! After ds, I didn't really hold out much hope for their second prediction!

wiltshire - totally agree. Tiny little "throw away" comments that my mw makes can affect me for hours - if not weeks until I see her again. They don?t seem to go in until I get into the car and start to dwell on them. I am sure that they try to be careful with the language they use but can?t be easy when they are dealing with a load of women who will analyse their every word over and over...

wiltshire - you will definitely know when your waters have broken. Even with involuntary peeing, it stops quickly, after you're empty, but when you waters break it will leak for ages and (to me anyway) it doesn't even feel like peeing, really feels like something broke inside and is now leaking out!!!