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.

Hiya
I'm an intruder here, just hopped on to say CONGRATULATIONS to flip. Fab news. And good luck to the rest of you. My DD was born at 40plus 18 so I know how the wait feels...

Hi

Baby girl finally born 23 March at 8.40. I was 40 + 12!! 2 days of on off contractions. Went to hospital at 4.30pm 2-3cm and a soft thin cervix, a good stretch & sweep and a walk did the trick. 1hr 12 established labour & she was hear. Just tens and gas and air & no stitches. It was honestly a wonderful labour & worth the wait!

Fuckity I too had pnd with my first and was in a terrible state when over due - couldn't sleep, anxious, crying & panicking. Honestly, after having her I have been calm and relaxed like I never was with my first.

Hang on in their ladies, it won't be much longer!!!

Good luck for today lemele the end is in sight! Massive congrats bertie sounds like a lovely experience. I'm off for another sweep this morning and to get induction booked for end of week I suppose. Cervix report to follow shortly. . .

Congratulations Bertie :) THank you for the lovely message. I know I'm just massively hormonal and tired. Am going to call the midwife in a minute and beg for a sweep today. I have ds by my side instructing my belly to 'come out now baby!' The feeling's mutual.

Fuckity as Dreaming says, you are perfectly entitled to feel as shitty as you do, but it doesn't necessarily mean that you will get PND. Hopefully you'll be so relieved not to be pregnant anymore, you'll be on top of the world. Sending you love.
Bertie Congratulations on your baby news, another girl! Am I right in thinking its been all girls born on this thread so far?!
Feek good luck today looking forward to cervix report!
40+10 today and wondering what on earth to do with myself!

dolly was just thinking that too about it all being girls born so far? I'm having a girl too. . . Maybe there is a theme occuring here!!

lemele is about to have two boys though to even things up (Eeek!)- or have I gone mad?! I'm having two boys!!

go lemele go, hope 'soft' induction works and you get your vbac. Mine were both head down 28-34 weeks, then twin 2 went transverse, now breech. Wierdly similar! I am not risking twin two messing around with a vb for James Herriot doctor action for my poor ravaged perineum!! Of course, I am clearly a worrier and yours will scoot head down after twin 1 out no problems . Thinking of you!!

bertie, congratulations!! 1hr 12... Wow!! And another lovely little girl, lucky you :-)

feek, inform us on your cervix ASAP.

dolly, sun and ice cream for me and thee, could be worse!!

Did

Bertie - congratulations!

Good luck for those being swept today.

I woke up at 2.30 with period pains (I always get them in my thighs and hips so pretty unmistakeable). Went on for about 1.5 hours and I was just getting to the point where I was considering paracetemol when - poof - they completely disappeared. Aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrggggghhhh! What a tease. 40+9.

flisspaps - thanks for your nice words to us all last night. Although they did make me cry again...

No news to report. Not a sausage. :(

Oooh, just been for a wee and wiped away a mahoosive piece of clear snot-like substance (tmi over breakfast?!) This never happened with DS but am guessing it is some sort of show?

artifarti sounds like it! Told you it wouldn't be long

Sounds like it Arti! This is day 3 of snotty show for me and am hoping something happens before the day is out! Am kidding myself tho.
Sun and icecream def the order of the day Dreaming

Hi ladies

Do you mind if I join your thread? I'm 40+5 today with second DC and totally fed up!!

I was induced with my DD at 40+12 after a failed sweep. I really thought I would go in to natural labour this time because I've been getting period pain on and off since 38 weeks and still nothing!!!

I was woken up again last night with period pain and still nothing. My body really likes messing with me!

I've got a sweep booked for this Wednesday which I've got mixed feelings about. I'm definitely going to have it done because I'm so fed up but last time it was really painful and then the midwife said sorry it didn't work! Hoping I'm more favourable this time, what with all the pain I keep getting?!

To top it all off my heartburn has been wicked just recently, I'm back to being constipated and I think I'm coming down with DD cold! Perfect! I'm so anti-social at the minute I just want to shout at people. .

Hoping u ladies can get me through this horrendous waiting game as every time I try to be positive and tell myself to enjoy this time before the baby arrives another voice is saying FFS come on!!!!

arti I've had that too!! Is that the mucus plug then? Mines been clear and jelly like and a proper blob of it. Please tell me this might be the start? I'm trying to cling to anything!

Lilixxx

Lili, I have a sweep booked for Wednesday as well. I've been havign bits of show for what feels like forever now.
I feel much better this morning, not so emotional. I was all set to ask for a sweep but I'm worried now. I truly truly hate internals and I can't bring myself to call and ask for one. I'm weighing up what's worse. A never ending pregnancy or a few minutes of discomfort. I've already done the school run which was lovely actually on such a nice day, stopped at the shop and bought a dime bar (haven't had one in ages) and am now going to hop in the shower before lazing around eating it.

congratulations flip
been offline all weekend so nice to come back to another birth.
had strange feelings all weekend...been very restless,done lots of cleaning,back ache, stomach cramps,shouting at my man every 2mins!even him breathing is irritating me!
was woken at 3:40 this morning with excruciating pain in my side and lower stomach.only lasted a few mins but made me feel very sick.any ideas??

Morning pregnant ladies! I am 40wks tomorrow, so not quite in the Realms of the Overdue just yet

I went to Ikea yesterday as a kind of dare/ personal challenge, to try and trick fate into making me go into labour (very public place, an hours drive from home, no hospital bag/notes etc) but no such luck It's going to be a fortnight more at least, this pregnancy, I can feel it! On the plus side. FINALLY got a fuck-off massive sized storage unit (that is the actual technical term for its size I believe) for the kids toys, the feeling of stacking all of their crap stuff on it so tidily was pure joy

Soooo, yes, nothing to add, just rambling and checking everyone's OK on this lovely day

Motivational Quote Of the Day: "I cough, therefore I pee"

Nothing to report here...nothing at all. 40+2...why do I think this is going to be a 3wks overdue job....Not tempted at all by a sweep yet though, can't stand the idea of hands up me, that is definately a last resort.

Whilst I feel tired and cry-y, I'm thrilled at the idea of going out and getting a latte - been craving coffee virtually all pregnancy - and that's keeping my spirits up!

Congrats to butterfly - I'm expecting a girl too, everyone around me seems to be having boys and everyone is wisely saying I'm DEFINATELY having a boy due to the shape

fuckity We could be sweep buddies . I was totally against having a sweep this time to begin with but I just want to meet the baby now and I've been getting a lot more promising (albeit frustrating!) signs that my body is trying to get ready this time round so I'm just hoping against hope that it might just work! It's not an ideal situation but I'll take anything at the minute!

Enjoy the dime bar - yum!

okay, just back from midwife appt and 2nd sweep. cervix is soft and i'm about 1cm to 1.5cm dilated. last week was about 0.5cm to 1cm dilated so not that much movement really. anyway, this midwife was the senior head mlu midwife standing in for the community midwife as they were short staffed so she was quite erm... old skool!! She asked how firm i wanted her to be and i said go for it, so she did a very thorough sweep
she did say there was no 'enfacement' (sp) yet though... what does that mean???

i have since been to the loo and there was a tiny bit of brown snot type stuff so hopefully she's managed to do something!!! maybe me and you arti wil be symptom and birth buddies??!!!

on the plus side she booked my induction as had access to the hospital diary but, she hasn't booked it until next tue by which i will then be 40+ 16 so i feel at least they are giving me every chance for things to happen natuarlly. apparently at my hospital they dont induce normally till + 15/16 as to give you as much chance as possible (as long as all is well) and you still can go to the MLU right up until when they induce you. really pleased with that as i thought they'd book me in for end of the week or something.

hello lili80 welcome.

That sounds promising feekerry and good that they are giving you a long time. Effacement is the shortening of the cervix, if you imagine it were a tube (as opposed to dilation where the entrance to the 'tube' gets wider). A bit more snot here but nothing else to report - nice walk and cake later methinks.

I'm not asking for a sweep today. I'll hang on til Wednesday. I feel much brighter today, yesterday was merely a blip. Ds is being a little angel, dp is picking up dd from school so all I have planned is, well, nothing. Dp has promised me chip shop chips tonight as well, so I need to hang on til I have scoffed them I may finally indulge in a glass of wine as well. My 4 pints of milk a day habit of the last few weeks is becoming a bore.

Hello All.

Thought I'd pop in and see how you are all doing, and a wave to newbies.

Dolly I am convinced you are just around the corner...I really do.

We are finally home, since Saturday evening. Still having a feeding problems, I am expressing as my nipples are still so sore and cracked. Having to top up with formula in the evening. To be honest, I have stopped giving myself a hard time over it. It's not ideal, and I so wanted to EBF but at least she is getting something from me.

Have been musing over the birth, found out from the MW just how serious it all was, was classed at a category 1 section, and I keep thinking about how it became so hairy so quickly. I can remember laying on the table, could find the gas & air as they prep'ed me for the section. DH was looking so, so frightened and all I could do was almost go inside by myself to cope with the pain and fear. Not something I want to repeat. My goodness though, I will count my blessing's every day from now on, and my DH...I love him more than ever.

But, our beautiful little girl is here, and she is perfect in every sense.

I am so, so lucky.

Oh, envious congratulations to everyone who's given birth since I last looked in! 41 weeks today, and while I feel physically absolutely fine, I'm starting to get ridiculously weepy and stressed, because my MLU won't let anyone after 42 weeks give birth there, and I really want to give birth there but feel I'm running out of time.

I've just started a thread on expectant monitoring and what to expect at a foetal welfare unit visit, if anyone has any words of wisdom...?

Oh Midnight I'm not soppy at the best of times but your post has got my bottom lip quivering! Bless you, all of you, how utterly scary for you and your DH. Sometimes I think it's worse for them in a way as we are out of it and trying to get through it physically whereas they are helpless spectators. I know DD's birth really shook my DH up and it took him a while to get over it.
I'm glad you're not giving yourself a hard time with regards to BFing, if it's not possible, then the decision is out of your hands, and as you say she is still getting some of your BM anyway so that's good.
Lovely to hear from you. I really hope I am round the corner! My mum took a pic of me and DD this afternoon and I can't believe how big my bump is now, it's like I've swallowed a space hopper

Ah midnight, that's lovely :) If you need to, then keep talking, talking talking about the birth to help you make sense of it. I know some places offer a birth debrief if you request it. I wish I'd done it after dd's birth tbh, I was left a bit bewildered by the whole thing.
Have decided to use my child free day tomorrow to get myself in the zone. I've not had time to really 'bond' with this one and I've realised what a shame it is, I'll most likely never be pregnant again and I haven't taken the time to really appreciate what's about to happen. So I'll mostly be lounging around trying to imagine what my life is about to become. A nice, rose tinted view no doubt, compared to the chaos it will be in reality. I may even wash all the baby clothes again. I adore the smell of Fairy, I only use it when the dc are teeny tiny. I may even take a book to the park and read it in relative peace. It's no fun sunbathing if you can't lie on your tummy though