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.

I would hope the sonographer would have spotted if there were 2 in there....

Roffling at the two-headed baby

If I'm not pg then I must have swallowed a giant tortoise. That'll teach me to sleep with my mouth open.

I don't think I am pregnant after all. I think it's wind. Just need a good trump.

Ha ha ha, you've all come round to my belief that everyone is just humouring me and There Is No Baby

sock hilarious!!

Feeling nauseous and miserable today, and also sad that I've pretty much run out of time to have this baby naturally. I'm being swept and seen again on Mon and then they will decide what to do, prob another C section.

Re: the models - they really are the gift that keeps on giving. In summer they have parties til 8am (well with coke what do you expect) and their various boyfriends stand out on the kitchen balcony rah-ing into their phones. I'm a product of the public school system so I shouldn't really judge, but hearing them shouting "Yah, we left the Jaeger party early, the fizz ran out, how fucking gay. So you've GOT to get down here to Millie's, it's totally going OFF, man!" makes me giggle.

I've had the 'have you got twins" comment from an ex-bf when I was about 5 months, who then topped it by adding "you're twice the size my wife was when she was full-term!"
I am generally very fond of him but couldn't speak to him for about 5 months

kenobi that's exactly what I've been saying! It's all been a ruse, it's actually just cake!

kenobi love your models story! I can just hear them now, sounds like an episode of Made in Chelsea!
Been in a long walk today but all it did was knacker me out
Have had a lovely day though and am trying to ignore all the little niggles and not go to bed tonight wondering if things will kick off. Looking forward to mothers day tomorrow, going out for a big family lunch.
Love and and to all of you refusing to send pointless labour vibes

blooming mother's day. My sister rang to inform me I'd already been busted for forgetting by my mum as I didn't give her a card in person on Friday and nothing arrived in the post this morning. Gah. Anyway, I was shamed into spending a stupid amount of money on an internet florist jobby, so £35 down but at least she'll get something tomorrow!

I went for a waddle today, mainly to prevent myself commiting infanticide... DD is possibly not well- explosive nappy from hell, down to her knees and up to her shoulder blades but still, very, very demanding today and by 4:30pm I was losing the will!!!! DH was on a course and left the house 6:30 am and got back 8pm. I realised how nice it is to have someone else watch her just for 10 minutes even!!!

Most rude that roller hasn't been back to tell us all about her birth and sparkly new baby . Anyone'd think she was busy or something?!

kenobi, I'd love to observe your models for a week or two . Don't lose the will yet, it's not over til its over, and for all those who have a long build up, there's those who just pop into labour unexpectedly. For all we know you could be labouring away right now!

I haven't been sick and last night my reflux is again controlled by the ranitidine- could my transverse twin have shofted?!

sockspense, love it, a giant tortoise snuck up and into your open, sleeping gob

Daydream - until recently Ollie Locke actually lived on our road, albeit at the other end. The layout of his flat and roof terrace is the same as ours.
But, I must hasten to add, we don't live in Chelsea AT ALL, so more like 'Made in the scruffy end of Fulham near the industrial estate'

Thanks dreaming, I've got 36 more hours. COME ON BABY!!!

Just had a lovely curry cooked by dh. Didn't get any hanky panky last night, both too tired, so perhaps tonight instead, then I'll have had a double 'bring it on' whammy. Went for super long walk too today which bought on loads of bh. But most of my discomfort is being caused by baby moving rather than contraction-action.

We have no exciting neighbours, they are all ancient.

Uh-0h, the chocolate fudge brownie Ben and jerry's is calling me""...........

Kenobi nice flat! Did you see him getting dumped on his roof terrace by that horsey topshop girl?

Joy yum. I have a sugar craving tonight but can only find DD's jelly babies

nah (too far down), but we used to bump into him in the local corner shop. He is very very pretty and very VERY short.

How funny I do like watching that show, cringeworthy as it is.
I have sunk to new lows by the way. Am mnetting from the loo

Awake since 3.30, again. I think I might cry.

Good morning.

Oh Joy, you poor thing you are in a real cycle of broken sleep. I have found that my sleep has got a bit better since going to bed really early, say 8.30. Hope that you get some rest today.

I let DH have the lay in today, he did look shattered last night from running around after DS.

I had a lovely lunch with friends yesterday, one of the them is a midwife, who was convinced I was going to go into labour given the amount of pain I am in. But, as usual I have woken up feeling fine apart from a few cramps.

Hope roller is ok, and is having lots of cuddles with her new baby.

Have lovely Mothers day's everyone - my money is on something giving birth today, oh, and it will be a really easy, stress free labour and the baby is sneezed out.

Aaa-choooo! Shit, gotta go!

There is absolutely a Mothers Day baby arriving today.... I just can't decide which of you is going to pop...maybe more than one of you

Sneeze birth, nice. Get the pepper out.
For dc1 I vomited out my placenta, but this is a nasty story which I won't scare you with...... Sorry to lower the tone, I am v sleep deprived.

morning all. happy mothers day to all mums and mums in waiting. officially my due date today.... guess what... i'm still pregnant. that is all.

oh and i did wake to a due date/mother to be day present this morning.......STRETCH MARKS. my first ever. right at the bottom of my bump. thank you impending baby.

Right. Well, I'm not going into labour because I'm not having these babies before 36 weeks (which is Thursday).

So one of you must.

Happy due date feekerry, hardly any more pregnancy for you! Maybe just another hour or so?!

So all those with huge bumps, how about a bump pic? We can compare who ate the most cake and if any of us are actually pregnant... I did one a couple of days ago so have put that on.

Feekerry - you are horrified to have your first stretch marks, christ you should see mine. Full blown pants on fire flames

I have no pictures of me visibly pregnant. I have some that were taken by a friend at just after my 20 week scan when she was none the wiser that I was even pregnant, I really don't look it at all.Going to the park this afternoon if the weather holds out so I might get dp to take some pics then, I am pretty sure I'll never be pregnant again, and this is the neatest I've looked so it would be good to have a few pictures.
As for the stretch marks, don't even start. Mine are truly amoung the worst I;ve seen on anyone. My belly is covered, from my crotch to way past my belly button. Dd did the damage there, I've not gained any new ones in both subsequent pregnancies, but to be fair, that's probably because there's literally no space for any new ones. I hate getting my bump out at appointments :(
I was up and about at 2am today, I felt ridiculously restless. Dc woke me up at 6.30 with some gorgeous flowers and some lovely lovely cards they'd made so that cheered me up. I have a chicen on the oven, intending to do a roast but we've decided to hell with it, and we're having it with wedges I do think it must be lovely to have a Mothers Day baby, but I still feel the end is nowhere in sight, despite some promising cramps earlier. Midwife tomorrow but I'm too scared to have a sweep done at the surgery in case I don't make it to pick up dd afterwards, so I'm hoping someone will come to my house on Tuesday when both dc are at school/nursery and I don't have to explain what the midwife is doing

Sitting in the car whilst DH is taking DS to the park. I am just shattered despite having a reasonable nights sleep. Does anyone else feel like this? I could sleep standing up.

I can honestly say that I would put my house on me having an ELCS next week. This baby is going nowhere. I don't even bother feeling excited about period pains or feeling my waters anymore as its been going on for so long!

Another one here badly needing to join your thread, if you don't mind! I think the "There Is No Baby" theory must be spot-on.

I am 41 weeks and totally fed up. I have spent the last 4 weeks thinking "Baby might arrive any day now...". I am actually becoming completely irrational at this stage and have given up altogether and decided that baby is not ever going to actually come after all :( DD arrived at 40+4. At least I am feeling physically well, although rather too tired to managed DD (now 2.5) during the week which I have to just get on with, but emotionally I seem to be crumbling to pieces at this stage. It's just not like me... Maybe a nap and a bath this afternoon might help repair my fragile state of mind? I woke up this morning upset because I decided that I am no longer in a good mental state to go into labour!

Also, people keep telling me to DO things to try to bring on labour. However, that just makes me think about it all the more and feel more of a failure when nothing comes of it. I think maybe I am better off trying to take my mind off things? Sex did work last time but we've been trying that but no joy apart from the immediate and obvious one this time!!! Other than that, I feel more like giving up.

I'm booked for a sweep on Wednesday, and I guess they will start talking about inducing me soon after. Much though I want things to happen and am so anxious for baby to be delivered safely above all else, I really hate the idea of intervention and badly want it all to happen naturally, as it did last time. Perhaps that is part of the reason for all this stress - feeling pressure for things to happen soon, or else intervention, of which I am rather fearful, will be required.

I suppose between now and Wednesday is stilll a lot of time for things to happen.

OOPS How did I manage to write such a long post? Apologies for waffling on. Clearly I had more to get out than I realised.