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'm so bored/fed up today that i have eaten a hideous amount of food. seriously just sat and ate crap all day. i reckon when you go overdue your weight doubles from when you were 38 weeks pregnant.

Congratulations thegauntlet! A lovely guzzly baby, bless.

I am in the mother of all bad moods today. And now someone I know who is due tomorrow is heading into hospital with contractions . What the hell is wrong with me that I can't just go into flippin labour?! Grrrr...

feekerry - I am heading for the cake right now. My bump is about a metre ahead of me and I fell small children if I turn round too quickly.

Huge congrats to the ladies with the babies Bet you are so relieved!

Today's been poo, no Mini eggs, and outside the midwives building before check up today I got MY BODY WEDGED in the too-small space between my car and another one and had to get back in the car and re-park somewhere else, with an obligatory group of blokes watching me the whole time..

Plus got leucytes (is that a real word? sounded like that) in my urine so a sample had to be sent off, anyone know what that indicates? MW didnt seem unduly concerned.

Baby is now 4/5ths engaged, I cannot walk. Cannot crawl. Can barely sit. But I can curse and eat still, so no biggie

Oh Two I'm sorry but the thought of you wedged between the cars has raised a smile! Haha!
I'm counting the hours down to my sweep tomorrow hoping it'll help. Want this baby out now!

Well I've been triaged and I'm in for the c section tomorrow (sorry to abandon you, dreaming)

I've actually passed through the storm of 'why can't I go into labour like every other woman on the planet' and am calm. My darling DM and DF have whisked DD off to theirs for the weekend, so DH and I are faced with an evening to ourselves. What we would normally do is go out for a steak (very good restaurants in my part of London), get tipsy and have a shag, but instead we shall sit in, eat a pie and bicker over the TV remote.

None of you needed to know that, but there you go

PS they are bloody painful, afterpains. I feel your gauntlet

I want a guzzly baby too!

Noooooo! I'll be the only one left!! Seriously I'm pleased for you that tonight is your last night of being pregnant. And more than a little
Enjoy your pie eating and remote bickering, that sounds like most nights in my house

Daydream I'm here, 38+1 :) Is that any good to you?

Fliss thank you, I have an outside chance of giving birth before you, but at this point I still wouldn't put money on it!
If I remember rightly you have a history of going over 41 weeks like me??

I'm still here! Nearly 40+5. Must say the baby's movements really really hurt this afternoon. Always been very active but they fucking hurt now. I'm being destroyed from the inside out!

Now that my internet is back, I am back for the duration too and don't look to be going anywhere. My baby is also really hurting - I keep thinking 'owowow, surely that's the start of labour' but it's just the feeling of a whopping baby with nowhere left to go...

Daydream Yes indeedy, 40+16 first time round so I have no real hope of having this one any sooner.

I agree with the painful movements from a whopping baby with nowhere left to go though, not looking forward to another four weeks of this...

I am with you ladies. So uncomfortable, but mostly due to massive baby trying to move around, giving me back ache etc. went for a long walk today and felt really uncomfortable - thought, wow progress! Then realised that really the walk had just moved my bowels - so found a loo, filled the bowl, plus a fair amount of gas, and hey presto. Pre labour my arse. Baby has just left no room in there for usual bodily functions.
Am feeling horribly ratty tonight. Got back with dd, who promptly threw up all over kitchen floor. Luckily dh now putting her in bath. I already have pj's on, have decided to abandon supper which is still in fridge, and go straight to bed. Dh can have soup. Feel horrible and mean, but I have totally had enough.

YY to painful baby.

I have given into the despair tonight. Had a good old cry. Just feel so useless. Feel useless to DD who is forming stronger attachments with her dad and nana, because they are able to have more fun with her than I can. Useless to DH cos I went out to buy bits for dinner,decided to make a chilli and when I came to cook it realised I'd bought all the ingredients apart from the minced beef. Great. Then DD flooded the bathroom floor whilst I was downstairs crying about the mince. And DH was home late. AND I WANT TO HAVE THIS FUCKING BABY NOW!!!! There, that feels slightly better.
Am just hoping that my sweep tomorrow will be effective. It's all hanging on that at the moment.

Congratulations gauntlet, why am I such a wuss when you managed a home birth that didn't sound like a walk in the park... You did amazingly well. What a cruel trick of nature afterpains are. How lovely to have a hungry little girl with no tongue tie .

fuckity, my moneys on you next too, sounds v promising!

All those who wonder why they don't just go into labour- thought I'd share dh's 'helpful' comment today on way home from.scan and ANC: ' in times gone by you'd have been the kind of woman who died in childbirth for going way past dates and baby being too big and obstructing, seems you can cook babies forever even with vast amounts in that uterus'. Cheers hubby

I am 36 weeks today, no signs of labour despite an estimated 12lb 4oz of babies (5lb9 & 5lb 10 each) and only just resisted my section being brought forward today... Gah. Breech baby too- why turn yourself round when its all this squished?! Still, I feel better about CS now too. 13 days to go...

thanks for the advice daydreamdolly.i saw the midwife this morning and she said it sounded like a show.my due date is 27th so she said i can ring her then and she'll give me a sweep.see if we can get things going if they havent already started!fingers crossed they do.
any news on fuckity?
congratulations gauntlet

congrats gauntlet!!

DreamingOfPeace - your twins sound the same sort of size as mine, and I was 36 weeks yesterday, so we're almost identical . I have been having various pains which keep leading me to hope labour is soon, but it's so hard to tell when compared with others' pains (since I had an ELCS with my 1st I have nothing to compare to). Some were 10 mins apart for a couple of hours the other night and then similar two nights after that - but that was monday and still no babies, so I don't know what to think :(

It must be kind of useful you've now got a breech, makes everything feel a bit more justified (even if you have tons of reasons for wanting an ELCS anyway). As it is with mine, I feel compelled to avoid a CS if I can since the only real reason to have a one is coz they want them out by 37 weeks. That and the fact that I desperately don't want to have one for many varied reasons.

Hello

Baby ginger born at 9.25pm, weighing 8lbs. Am besotted with her already.

See... It does happen eventually! Fingers and toes crossed for many of you after domino effect on this thread..

Awww congrats Ginger how lovely
More babies, yippee!! Sweep day today, am hoping for a mw with long fingers

Congratulations ginger, fab news.

I won't be long now for everyone else. So sorry to hear about all the discomfort and feeling fed up. It's awful.

Well, still in hospital. Body feels like a train wreck, much more painful this time and my pelvis aches from trying to push her out for so long.

Having big problems with BF as well, her latch is not great and so I am blistered and bruised. She is already on top ups as I can't tolerate the sheer amount she wants. Also she has such an advanced suck, ouch. Feeling very down about it though, thought it would be a simple thing and I'd just fed her with no problems. Midwifes are nice, but feel I am lacking from good advice/ a plan.

Fingers crossed for some more babies soon.

Congratulations ginger lovely post! Lets hope it starts some weekend baby action for the rest of us!

Midnight great to hear from you but sorry to hear about the problems you're having.
Once you're out of hospital, google nct breast feeding counsellors in your area. They can help you with latch etc and I have a few friends who found them absolute bf saviours. And don't beat yourself up as its down to the baby not the mother. My doctor once told me about twins, one who'd latch perfectly, one that wouldn't.

Midnight about the BF - it's hard when you have one that feeds all of the time, even when that's normal - if you do still want to EBF you can, speak to a BF counsellor ASAP to check DDs latch etc, if you want to FF then that's fine too - BF can be bloody hard work but none of the NHS literature you get thrown at you when you're pregnant tells you that.

Dreaming - your DH is talking bollocks IMO. In bygone days you'd have had less idea of when you were due so probably would have just gone into labour later than most and never realised you were pregnant longer than the average. EDDs based on a 4week cycle for medical convenience are a relatively new thing.

Ginger - congratulations

No news here. 38+2, no sign of labour.

Weather is going to be gorgeous here today so today is going to be a day of action. Going to clean the house, again, drag dp out for a lovely spring walk then hopefully force him to do the sex. Ha ha! I am a woman with a plan today. I cannot have another day of sitting on the sofa having my ribs broken by a wriggly baby who's too comfortable!