Anyone Due Today?

[LikeAnAdventCandleButNotQuite]

I am....not that the baby seems to have realised that. Actually, maybe this should have gone in Pregnancy...putting it in Childbirth may well be tempting fate for it to avoid said childbirth for another fortnight.

So, as the title says, anyone else due today? What are you up to, have you had any signs of impending motherhood?

Think im on about my 20th text this morning enquiring about baby's appearance

I wish I were! Another 12 days for me (and my first one was 10 days late!).

I think you posted in the right place. The texts are awful and really inconsiderate of people... as if you wouldn't tell them! But you might as well get used to them.

I am getting signs already, like tonnes of Braxton's and loads of mucus (sorry, TMI) but no show. I think the baby's trying to crawl out of my belly button most evenings too.

Good luck! Go for long walks and relax in between. Take the stairs. Do all the old wives tales stuff to make you feel better and have lots of sex (ugh, the very though of it makes me feel like a whale!).

I'm 4 days overdue now, had an attempt at a sweep today but cervix is still too high. Playing the waiting game is driving me crazy, mainly because i'm so uncomfortable but also because of the well-meaning continuous texts from people! Trying so hard not to be grumpy but it's not easy!

at "take the stairs" - am in a ground floor flat, neighbours'd love me popping up every two minutes. May attempt a looooong walk tomorrow.

I have a sore belly button too, babies back is lying against it all the time, gone very hard

May have to pounce on DH when he gets home, he bloody started all of this with his "ways"

4 days over here too! Sooooo fed up. Grohisgirl same as you with the too high cervix. Fed up fed up fed up already and still got at least 10 days to go. Sick of bouncing on the birthing ball too cos it's obviously not working. And also hate being so bloody grumpy! Oh well back to the pineapple

Argh, I tried pineapple but got a spicy mouth afterwards (iykwim).

My sil is in my hospital recovering from an operation this weekend, and she wants me to go into labour so she can pop and visit me, must be so boring for her at the moment. Even the promise of cuddles with it's auntie outside of visiting hours is not tempting this little one to make a move. DH officially on holiday from today, so now I will have him watching over me like a ticking bomb, which is fun and asking me every two mins 'anything yet?'....dont worry, when I know, you will know! Honestly, could go two whole weeks of him on tenterhooks, im tempted to go back to work!

likeanadventcandle hello due date buddy! .

I was also due yesterday aaaaaand ...nothing happened, despite the many, many texts and calls from friends and family!

Are you due a sweep anytime? I had one yesterday, not that it's done any good so far

Keeping my fingers crossed for you - let us know if you have any signs!

Like texting us constantly will make the babies arrive sooner!

Me and OH are now messaging each other with "any sign of baby yet?" texts, at least it's making us laugh rather than grumble...

Never have I wanted to experience pains so much...

Hi Christmas, glad to have found a DD twin, let the race begin!

I'm due a sweep on Friday, which my MW smirked at, knowing full well that if they work, its within 48 hours which BAM puts me in hospital on CHristmas Day. Bloomin nightmare

DH doesn't drive, so my DM/DF will be 'designated driver' on Christmas Day, poor them, if it's not here by then.

The texts have tailed off today, just had one, so am hoping this is the way forward. Although, come to think of it, im sure DH did a round robin text yesterday to say 'no sign' in order that he had everyone in a 'loop', therefore when he has to do announcement texts he can just do one for the loop (bloody geek, I can just about manage to turn my phone on)

Grohl I am on edge for any pain, though it is mostly wind and keep trying to make plans, in order that the baby will come and interrupt them (law of Sod)

That's been my tactic too, make plans in the hope that i have to cancel! I can just tell she's gonna arrive on monday, my birthday!

I've allready had a tonn of dates to work around: DMum was away for a week at the start of Dec, and lil sis away the second week. DMs bday on the 21st and she has TOLD me she wants the baby to have its won special day as that can be pre-arranged?! Nan's bday christmas day....goodness knows what else! Poor lil mite. Off out tonight for DMs birthday meal, dont know whether to have spicy food in the hope of an arrival, or stick to safe mild flavours and just enjoy myself.

grohlsgirl at you and OH texting each other, I like!

likeanadventcandle ah yes, the dilemma - to sweep or not to sweep next Friday? That is the question I'm currently pondering if nothing has happened. It's a tricksy one!

Enjoy your night out

Also due yest, really want this baby before Xmas! Have a sweep on Thursday and get the feeling nothing is going to kickstart this labour as baby seems very comfortable!

Come on bubba!! :) x

Cracking night, did a bit of a jig to Dolly Parton in the hope of shifting the little one, but nothing. Wedged in good and proper.

Ive been seeing the same MW for each appt, an she told me she's on hol this week, so will be a random MW on Friday. Think Ill wait to meet her and see what she's like. If I feel comfy with her, ill get the sweep (am a right prude!!)

Sparkly good luck for Thur, though my MW said men's sperm contains exactly the same hormone that a sweep releases, so a bit of nookie would work just as well (if you can be bothered!)

Glad you had a good night likeanadventcandle . Hopefully the dancing shook things up a bit!

Exciting newsflash: my waters broke last night! At home now trying to get some rest but CX making it difficult. Think will go and get TENs machine on in a bit.

Woohoo christmas! That's v exciting, fingers crossed for a nice gentle progression and a swift delivery

OH is on earlies today, i've been awake since 3am, just cannot get comfortable. But also had the big problem of whether to go for induction on wednesday rattling around my head. I really want a home birth, and at the moment there is no medical reason for me not to have one. But the consultant (who i saw for a growth scan last week, all fine) suggested we book a provisional date "because then you can deliver before christmas". So i don't have to go in, but i have the option.

Pro's: baby will be born this week.
It will hopefully end my HG vomiting and horrendous heartburn which make the evenings so rubbish.
All the "any news yet" texts will finally stop!
My lovely OH will be a lot less worried about me!

Cons: I absolutely hate hospitals (even though i'm a nurse!)
I'm scared of induction not going smoothly/quickly
I dont like the idea of evicting baby when she's clearly not quite ready!

How do i make this decision?!

Hello everyone, I'm currently 13 days overdue so sympathise with you all

Christmas hope you've some good news by now

grohls I share/d exactly the same dilemma as you. I'd opted for home birth as our local hospital is grim, I'm terrified of hopsitals and doctors and the mandarins, in their wisdom, shut the mlu in the summer. We've had a birthing pool taunting me from the corner of the living room for nearly six weeks. I've had 3 sweeps but nothing's doing. I'm booked to see the consultant tomorrow morning to discuss induction, but for me the options have run out, they won't let me hb after 42 weeks, and if I can't have a home birth then they might as well induce me, I can't take much more!

If all is well with you and baby then I'd say try and last as long as you can. I'd have agreed to induction earlier if all wasn't well. I've found the mental side of waiting much harder than the physical side, so my advice would be bear it as long as you can and hopefully nature will intervene!

to Minnie, hope all of you deliver soon

Eeeek, Christmas, may well end up delivering on the same day, Ive just started my labour thread as been contracting since 4.30am, every 3 mins or so. It's tense times!

Go candle, fingers crossed for today for you!

Thanks blackkat, your advice rings very true for me, i think alot will depend on how much sleep/energy i manage to conserve and whether the vomming stays away, like you say the emotional side is really hard at times but i'm still having more highs than lows so lets see what happens...

Have had a slight show this morning, (sorry if tmi) just pinky discharge but anything is better than nothing!

Birthpool is also taunting me here, although it's starting to look a bit sad and deflated today...

I'm due tomorrow

Today's plan, organise a messy cupboard, go for a walk, take an evening primrose oil tablet (orally), eat some fresh pineapple and relax really. Apart from the EPO I'd be doing everything else anyway. I've spent 2 weeks now trying various stuff each day and apart from giving me some nice strong braxton hicks nothing much else has happened so I just figure baby will come when he's ready.

I cannot stand the texts, emails and phone calls asking if there is any sign. I'm sure it's my hormones but I had told all of my friends and family that I feel quiet private about the labour, ie won't be posting facebook updates, don't want to talk my friends through it stage by stage, don't want anyone worrying it's taking too long or waiting outside for me to be finished. I have assured them we'll let them know as soon as we can afterwards though and yet they still pester me. Wish I could laugh at it but it's become the target for my hormones over the last week.

Grohlsgirl also planning a homebirth, not quiet at your point yet but MW wants to pencil a date in on Tuesday for me to go in for induction and am in two minds with what to do. They'll let me go 12 days over I think, so 29th / 30th, if I get there.

I'm just not sure whether to accept and try or to refuse if the baby is ok. I really don't want a failed induction followed by an EMCS, I'd rather an ELCS. I'm quiet small and I'm worried that the further I go the less likely I'll physically be able to do it. Not had any growth scans, nothing since 20 weeks. My lovely midwife keeps telling me babies don't normally grow bigger than a woman can pass, in fact so did a consultant I saw earlier on in the pregnancy but the world and his wife, who have no medical training, all keep telling me I'm too small.

Goodluck Blackkat & Grohlsgirl I hope your babies arrive safely soon. X

pixie i'm also v tiny, as are my mum and sister - who have both had same thing as me in final weeks, ie fundal measurements just a couple of cm too small, hence me being sent for a scan. Consultant said exactly the same, baby is small but so are you so we wouldn't expect you to have a big baby. And i think if you were measuring too big then they would have investigated by now and you would know what the score was? People make so many comments without thinking about the impact that it has on us hormonal pregnant ladies!

Re the texts, i explode whenever i get them, but have tried not to reply immediately to people, then give them a polite reply later in the day so not upset anyone so far! However there is a running post in my OH's facebook about how i should hold on for a christmas baby, which i very nearly swore on... she'll come when she's ready!!

Big up the Overdue Massive, we rock and don't let anyone tell you otherwise!

My mum had 5 natural labours, she's 5ft 2". My sister had a baby last year, she's in France and went overdue, before they induced they did scans and determined that baby was too big so she had a ELCS. So far I'm measuring to size in terms of my bump (38cms @39 weeks), I mentioned it to MW on last appointment and she said I should be fine and have had no referals for scans. I'm 4ft 10". If they want to book induction then I think I'm probably going to push to be scanned before agreeing or declining. A friend of mine, also petite had a failed induction earlier this year ending with an EMCS, they've written to her since to say her hips were too narrow. That's why I'm a little anxious. Fingers crossed though, I'm working on my visualisation!

DP keeps telling me "I bet it'll be Xmas Eve", he can't understand my irritation. I think people forget that it's us that have to do it so the guessing and pestering just adds pressure, at least that's how I feel.

I keep getting "she'll arrive on your birthday" which up til now really bugged me, but seeing as it's tomorrow then i'd gladly accept it!

It really is so hard to know what choice to make isn't it? I'm trying to focus on here and now, and if the decision has to be made then i'll make it at that point, based on all the info i can get at the time. Otherwise we're going to worry ourselves stupid and that definitely won't bring labour on!

Happy Birthday for tomorrow! I feel the same about Xmas Eve and Xmas Day, I'll just be glad that he's arrived.

You're right, no point worrying what might be until we're faced with the decision and guessing what the circumstances may be isn't going to help get things moving. Although the 4 floors of stairs I went down and then back up in the shopping centre earlier may have done

Hi all,

I'm 5 days overdue and due for a sweep tomorrow at noon. I felt really fed up on Saturday but woke up today feeling a lot more positive after a good sleep. I had reflexology this afternoon which was lovely and relaxing but, apart from a bit more vaginal discharge, still no signs. I'm getting inundated with texts and e-mails asking if there's any sign, but there's nothing to tell. Sounds like sweeps can be hit and miss in terms of success. I absolutely hate having internals of any kind (a nurse once told me I was the worst she'd ever seen during a smear test as I crawled up the wall to get away from her) so very nervous and am wondering whether to have a snifter of sherry for a bit of Dutch courage before I go in! Happy Birthday for tomorrow pixie04!