Right, someone convince me it's not long now...please!

[MidnightinMoscow]

I am 38+3 with DC2. Hoping for a VBAC after an EMCS for DC1 with who I got to 9cm's with.

I have had period cramps for over a week, two lots of plug coming away and last night lots of tight feelings high in my bump. The period like cramps are really painful and often are alongside sharp pains down below.

I have a week to go into labour, otherwise I am booked for a CS. I am so fed up of symptom spotting and being in this 'is it- is it not?' place. I went into labour at 38+4 with DC1.

So someone come along and tell me lie to me that todays the day.

Actually feel quite low today as nothing is happening

I started to lose my plug a couple of days ago, which got me excited, and had lots of aches & pains. Nothing. Am due tomorrow and starting to feel that it's just not going to happen. Am so fed up with having a violent tummy also.

midnight good luck today, got my fingers and toes crossed for you!

fuckity totally with you on the food / weight gain! Hadn't really put on any but the last couple of weeks I just can't stop eating

Good luck ladies

Right - am back from the sweep. It was much easier today, done by a lovely midwife. Am 2 cm's, cervix soft and 1cm long. Really hoping this tips the balance.

Any contractions have worn off now though, but suddenly feeling very chilled and relaxed. Feel that I have done everything I can do now, if it happens it happens. Am going to relax over the next few days and eat cake.

Sorry you feel low ginger, I have woken like that many mornings over the last few weeks. Remember, you have had some signs, such as a dicky tummy and the show etc. This all says that something is moving in the right direction.

Annoying about the pay feek, my mat pay last time never seemed to add up either.

2cms is excellent. I fully expect you to give birth in the Topshop changing room this very afternoon

Go midnight and roller have some babies! Prove to everyone on this thread and lurking that they do come eventually!

I have and ready

Some positive news here today ladies. Get those babies moving.

Mine has gone very low again so much more uncomfortable. More bh, but no real contractions. Did dream about being in labour last night though ;)

New tactic: fed up with empty calendar 'in case baby comes',so now making loads of plans. Big family mothers day lunch (got 2 lots of m&s meal for 4 for £15 each, yum). Social plans including play dates for dc1 and for me when dc is at child minders. Dinner reservation and baby sitter organised for mid next week. Surely with all these plans baby will have to come to thwart it????

Midnight 2cm, fab, am sure this rummage around will help you out this time, getting exciting now!
Fuckity hope you're enjoying those Magnums, yum
Joygirl good tactics!! I did that this week with the plans etc, such a shame I didn't have to cancel any!
DD and I have just had an hours kip together on the sofa which was lush as I've been under the weather with sore throat and headache for past few days so have been feeling pretty bushed. Not sleeping great at night thanks to dead legs and cramps. So am hoping this afternoon I'll get a burst of energy for my girl. Poor thing must think mummy is a real bore at the moment
Labour vibes to everyone. Since losing part of my bloody mucus plug on Tuesday morning have just had the same as you guys, cramps and pains every evening, go to bed expecting something to kick off and doesn't. So am sure there's another week of this. Maybe more! Ah well, have hit due date today so it's gotta be soon, 2 weeks maximum I guess.

Not a sausage to report, no cramps, nothing. However, it is refreshing to not be stressed about it. Have watched crap TV, nibbled on nice food and snoozed all afternoon.

Just had a sobering conversation whilst picking DS up from nursery - this will be the last weekend where I only have one child...gulp!

Meant to send to Dolly, both our due dates today.

Like your style Joy, like it a lot.

Knocked the Topshop trip on the head in the end. Coloured jeans will still be there in a few weeks.

Putting DC1 to bed. Will eat steak, chips, salad, and a bread and butter pud. Going to have a nice beer, some telly, then might try and seduce (ha ha ha) DH into 'the sex' - aka mercy shag. I have never looked less sexy. My bump is literally the size of everest with stretch marks like the fires of hell. Perhaps it'll be better t turn the light off....

Hmm joy that sounds like the best dinner ever. Yummy yummy. Got a midwife appt on monday. . Wonder if they'll offer me a sweep? I'll be just past 40 weeks. I've heard they dish out sweeps like sweets in this area so maybe. . Suppose it wont do any harm. . Famous last words. . !

Just had a second acupuncture session, therapist pointed out my bump had dropped and my pressure points are more sensitive I dunno if I totally believe in it, but still, any old port in a storm.

I'm having a classic Friday night: I'm watching the models who live in the house opposite taking coke with their curtains open while I wash up and DH watches folk music on BBC4.

Rock and roll! yeah!

What?! Having trouble keeping up with this thread, saw midnight at 2cm, got all excited... It's so got to happen this weekend....

And joy i'm optimistic about the bowel action too.

Mine may possibly be evicted next week. All so contradictory though. Twin 2 may have stopped growing- his abdominal circumference hadn't increased at all on last growth scan, which is not good. But Twin 1's head circumference hadn't grown much, and that would be highly unusual as head growth is preserved against everything else, so that is most likely scan error (so does that mean its likely twin 2's abdomen not growing is also more likely scan error?!). Doppler yesterday shows placenta functioning fine, both babies getting enough blood etc, so now its just wait and see- if it's all just scan inaccuracy and twin 2 (whos now transverse) is growing fine and back on track next week, I carry on til my date. If the scan next thurs shows he hasn't grown, they'll be evicted ASAP. Luckily i'm 36 weeks next thurs. We turned down steroids yesterday, as hoping it's scan error and he's growing ok and no prem delivery needed, but eeek!!!

So, i'm waiting for nice, positive, full term baby news here (as I will have of course!)

midnght, pink jeans, a la Kate Middleton?! I can't remember the last time i bought something in style... And I'm 28, oh god!!

Did anyone see the thread on mum boots and mum things a while ago?! I sadly identified with many

joy, its all about the lights off. DH refuses any nookie point blank this time, just in case. I have pointed out to him without a ripe cervix it'd do bog all anyway, seeing as last time a pessary did bog all for me! Not happening though

and ooooh, no roller, baby here we think?! Exciting!

I have a midwife appointment on Monday too when I'll be +2, but it's at the surgery and I have to collect dd straight after, from up a hill so I think I'll ask one of hte community team to come to my house on Tuesday and do a sweep here instead. Not to mention, I've realised my midwife is good drinking buddies with a friend of mine and I would find it altogether too odd to have her do it.
Constant period pain here, but it's become par for the course. I've made big plans for the next week too to fill the time, am taking the dc out tomorrow and will be cooking mil a cake for Mothers day. Dd has hinted that dp is going to help them spoil me on sunday and tbh I shall lap it up. Bring on the breakfast in bed

Just checking in, loving reading all of your posts!

Midnight glad you feel better about it all now. Fate is now what it's all down to.

Dreaming I really hope all is well with your twins and that you're right and it's down to scan error. Scary how they can make errors like that?! Glad you're feeling positive about it and do let us know as soon as you have had the scan

Kenobi souds very glamourous with the coke head models opposite! My DH wouldn't be watching anything other than them if we lived there I should imagine!

Joy I recommend lights off and under the covers and spoon

I feel like I am feeling more down about it now I have hit 40 weeks. I am scared that it is history repeating itself. I didn't have a good induction experience with DD and I am starting to feel like my body doesn't know how to go into labour naturally And DH goes away for a week in 4 weeks time so we r hoping he gets more than 2 weeks with us before he has to go.

dolly my friend was induced with her first and was 8 days late with her second- she was convinced she would have to be induced again. Clearly this is exactly what will happen for you- just a few more days!! ignores fact I feel exactly the same about my body not going into labour naturally due to its hopeless first non-attempt

Coke head models is WAY more exciting than my neighbours... Although i did hear a rumour one has.just been done for child pornography, and will be in prison for it. Now that's just wrong, not exciting...

F*&k! Mothers day on Sunday?! I forgot. My mum will clearly not be getting a card then... I saw her today too and was particularly horrible. In my defense my morning sickness is back, I was pulling over n diving out of the car to throw up in glorious total public humiliation fashion, dd is super clingy so even though she'd come to help, dd wouldn't leave me alone... But still, how many bad daughter points will I acquire?!

My next scan is thurs. Clearly everyone will have had their babies by then though so there'll be noone here to tell. And as twin 2'll be a whopper I won't be having them.for ages :-)

Dreaming do not fret, I'll likely still be here on thurs. this baby is doing sweet fa about coming out. All it's interested in it getting bigger and bigger just to spite me. I am thoroughly miserable. I don't want a giant baby where everyone goes "0000h isn't it huge). I want a cute Incy 7lb one which doesn't rip me to shreds or increase the chance of instrumental delivery.

It is 4 in morning. I am ridiculously thirsty and uncomfortable, but it is all baby movements, o cramps or anything. Just want to be asleep. DH has disappeared. Guess he must have gone to sleep in spare room fed up with my shuffling. At 2am I woke mid way from a dream in which I was being violently sick.....

Thanks Dreaming it's nice to hear others in my position have managed it! I think I was just feeling sorry for myself
Woke at 4am with baby moving very violently and I had to go to the loo (dicky tummy) so part of me thought oooh is something happening?? Nah, course not! Baby has never woken me in the night before tho. Weird.
Roller come and tell us about your lovely baby that I'm sure you've had by now!

Morning.

Have just had a blazing row with DH. According to him the only thing he needs to organise/do for Mothers Day is, "Be in the house to watch the football at 4pm".

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O dear is it football on Sunday? No doubt dp will shuffle off and watch it somewhere else. I don't care as long as I get my lie in.
Joy, I have a raging thirst too, for milk of all things. None of us are particuarly keen on the stuff, but the big 4 pinter I got yesterday that would normally do us for the best part of a week is all gone
I thought the rain last night would give me a great excuse to stay in today (due date!) but no such luck, it looks beautiful outside. I may buy myself some more chocolate. My mothers day gift to me, from me

I can't believe no one has popped yet....!

Getting induced Tuesday if nothing before then. Depressing, can't believe it has come to this when DS2 arrived of his own accord at 40+3! 41+2 today and counting...

Good luck everyone, fingers crossed some walks in the sunny weather will generate some action!

X

Are any of us actually pregnant?

Maybe it's just figments of our minds??!!

Midnight, I've realised that the switch from just bumbling along not really noticing the pregnancy to becoming obsessed with getting this baby out was so quick. I've been on edge for more than 2 weeks now which is ridiculous. If I hadn;t had so many niggles and pains then no doubt I wouldn't be so bothered by looking for each and every sign. But the constant period pains, the upset tummy which has lasted forever the lack of sleep....It's all sent me a bit deranged I think. BUT I know thta both times I've become a bit obsessed with my due date. Today, I just feel a bit meh. I know it won't happen today. But maybe this time next week I'll have a snuggly newborn. One that sleeps and feeds perfectly of course

midnight if I am not pregnant, then I must have some massive wriggl tumour going on. Literally the size of a house. So sick of "gosh you're big, you sure it's not twins.....". Argh.......

fuckity, it's all consuming. It reminds me a bit of TTC'ing and symptom spotting.

Joy people like that are a pain in the arse. I feel your pain in wanting a 7lb er, and am also pissed off with people doing stupid wincing noises when you tell them you are predicted to have a big baby.

I have decided that DH can do the supermarket shop this am with DS alone as my 'me to me' Mothers day present.

joy, one of the secretary's sisters at work had twins. They're 22 now, she had no idea she was having twins and when giving birth, the shocked midwife said 'a second head!'. Poor woman had had various pain relief things and thought she had some kind of deformed baby, shouting 'F**king hell!!! A two-headed baby!!!!'. Made me giggle. Wouldn't that be funny if it happened to you?!

So I have strong, uncomfortable bh, throwing up again, some crampy low tummy pains and a bit of an upset tummy in the mornings. Another 3 weeks of this?! It's like groundhog day, I feel 40 weeks pregnant every day but there's still so long to go...