Anyone experienced labour with bad cold?

[jamhead]

Just wondering what the best thing would be to help myself - am 2 days overdue, size of a small ocean liner and have quite bad cold. (Of course feeling sorry for myself!!)

Any tips for how to do labour breathing with blocked nose?!

Oh dear. Don't really want to delay it - rather get it over with! But you name it, I've done it, to bring it on, so maybe that's an explanation. Thanks

I went into labour with my first and i had a really bad cold, had the midwives keep telling me to breath in through my nose and out through my mouth but my cold was so bad i could hardly breath let alone through my nose, then got woken up at 2am with doctors shoving a themonter into my ear as I had a temperature and there was a sickness bug going round the hospital at the time. It was an experience!!!!

Well I'm now 11 days overdue have had a cold since last Friday and it developed into sinusitis which has been terrible, had a fever throwing up etc, am now on antibiotics and paracetamol, think it is starting to clear up now as well but when I was really bad kept imagining trying to push a baby out as well. Loads of people are telling me the baby is staying in until I am fit again, thing is they want to induce me on Saturday.

I do sympathise it's bloody terrible being this pregnant and having a cold and not being able to buy half of Boots for it.

Good luck sweetkitty even if you still have your cold and have to be induced its all worth it when you hold your baby in your arms.

Just sneezed 3 times - got sore throat - feeling tired bunged up and due 10 days.....I am with you Jam!