Overdue? Grab a seat on the birth ball and a cookie

[Sleepybunny]

I'm 40+2 with DC2. DM is staying to look after DD1 when the time comes.
I'm fed up, we're just milling around waiting! Bouncing on the birth ball, eatinv pineapple and planning a spicy curry for tonight.

I'm tired and grumpy. Anyone care to join me? I'm clearly a delight to be around

Congratulations teamrigby and welcome to the world Peter
Glad you are home, things will get better in time just give yourself a chance to recover X
Ooo things seem promising snowflake hopefully it won't be long now

Gave birth to my gorgeous DD on Wednesday 30th December at 5:28pm.

Early that morning around 4/5am I lost my mucus plug. Later at 11am, my waters broke and I called the hospital. I arrived at noon and was told I was not in labour so I Made my way home. Having the worst cramps I'd ever had at 3/4pm in the car on the way home. At 4:30ish the pain was getting so bad, but I was convinced I wasn't in labour as the midwife had told me earlier. By 5 when the pain became so unbearable that I collapsed on my bed, I called the labour ward and was told to come in. I arrived at 5:45, was examined by the midwife in the delivery room and begged to get in to the birthing pool at 6pm, with gas and air as pain relief. 28 minutes later and after 15 minutes of pushing, DD was born.

She doesn't have a name yet, but she's 3 days old, keeps me up all night and chews on my nipples like crazy. But she's so beautiful, I can't for one second feel annoyed at how hard it is with a newborn.

nova I wonder if you've had your LO yet

Oops, DD was born at 6:28pm not 5:28

Congratulations snowflake!!

They're just the best aren't they? Even at 3am with a messy bum/wanting feeding. Everytime my DD looks into my eyes at feeding time my heart melts and I fall in love all over again.

Now to sort out her feeding - but that's a whole other issue :/

Who else are we waiting on news from? Good luck ladies who are waiting :)

Thank you Daffodil. Yes, they're so easy to forgive . I'm struggling with feeding too at the moment.

Sorry to hear that :(

It's awful isn't it? There's so much anxiety when it doesn't go well (I found several good cries with DH to be quite cathartic) - for various reasons we've ended up on formula. I'm disappointed but think it's for the best.

I hope it gets better for you soon xx

Congratulations averagesnowflake
I hope the feeding gets better. I'm afraid I can't offer any advice as I've had 2 bad experiences of breastfeeding so gone for formula from birth for our baby. For me it's been great as has meant dh can help out so we share the burden on the night feeds

Thank you jam and daffodil.

I'm persevering and feeding is improving a bit.

Joining the thread so I can get some of the labour luck! 3 days overdue but only 1 by my dates; failed sweep last week with another tomorrow & reflexology today. Wish me luck!

40+2 here not really that impatient but very uncomfortable by the end of day. Have toddler too so would like to be able to do more with him again soon. Hope everyone's well.

40 + 3 here with dc1 so very impatient and wondering if it is ever going to happen! Am so fed up of the constant texts from friends and family - it is as if they think we will forget to tell them when it happens!!!

Sitting on the ball now in the hope it will help

Sending all the labour luck your way toohard, fingers crossed for your second sweep!

Good luck to you too fugghetaboutit sounds like you're nice and calm which was totally unlike me haha! Impatience became my middle name!

thanks Daffodil90!

SmallBearMumma - I dropped hints about a month ago about how annoying it would be to get 'any baby yet?' texts...however I just get daily 'checking in to see how you're feeling' texts. I'm conditioning the parents and in-laws by taking hours to reply so they know if I don't text back right away, it doesn't mean anything is happening - I don't want them to know!

Thanks Daff! I think because it's DC2 I'm enjoying my time with ds before baby comes.

I'm getting lots of messages too, it's nice that people care. I even got a card from MIL saying please tell me when baby comes she's slightly obsessed!

Toohard and Fugg I am glad to know it isn't just me
I am sure if MIL was on here and see your post she would be sending a card!

The one thing I have made clear is that we won't be sending any 'in labour' messages as I know everyone will start calling/texting DH for an update and it will drive me crazy!!

Good luck ladies

Yes, we aren't sending any in labour messages this time and MIL probably won't know about baby's arrival until a day or so later as I want ds a priority, not visitors.

my family have assumed they will get an 'in labour' announcement and I haven't corrected them - that way they'll just think if they haven't heard anything yet then nothing's happening. They won't text OH but the idea of them stressing would stress me out.

MIL would check in with OH though and the thought of the sight of him taking out his phone to check it during labour fills me with the rage haha

Hi all :) I'm 40+2 with DC2. Going slightly crazy with the wait even though it's only been oficially 2 days! I feel okay for a while then suddenly feel like stamping my feet and taking a toddler tantrum because she's not out yet.

I've had a call from my ex-mil today (so no relation to this baby) asking if baby had come yet. She means well I guess! My parents keeps texting to "check i'm fine" which everyone knows is just code for "are you in labour"

how you doing ladies, any babies made an appearance?

I had a sweep yesterday and a big bloody show this morning. Ventured out today and had constant pains around bump and bits but now I'm home and sitting down, nada! Definitely in pre-labour stage but hoping I move to early before tomorrow.

Hope I don't need to be induced next week!

No change here as yet! I am 40+5 today. Have my 41-week appointment Monday so I'll see what options I'm given but I'd rather not have a sweep if at all possible. Does anyone know whether I'm likely to be pressured about it?!

I was gently asked each time. Declined 1st as only 38+4 & she didn't make me feel bad :)

Two drifters: every medical procedure is your choice (you don't even need to see midwives if you don't want to). You can opt for no sweeps or induction this is your right. Some midwives are fine & respect your wishes & some can be more pushy but you should never be bullied into it.
I wanted a home birth with my 2nd so I declined sweeps (very occasionally your waters can accidentally be broken) but after I reached 41+3 my mw starting to pester me about setting an induction date or starting my monitoring (she'd be away the previous week & the mw I saw at 41 weeks was fine to leave things to happen naturally). Ended up having to phone the supervisor of midwives who was fab & got my mw off my case & agreed to my 1st monitoring session at 42 weeks.

Sorry for the waffle (didn't intend to write that much). Basically it's all your choice & you don't have to give a reason. If you get a mw who pushes you then phone the number given to you inside your maternity notes & speak to the supervisor of midwives. Hopefully, though, your mw will be really great & accept your choices. What's your relationship with her been like so far? Hope it goes well on Monday

blackkat Thank you! To be honest we've barely seen the same midwife more than twice throughout our many appointments (!) but they've all been quite nice and non pushy so I'm probably just overthinking things. I'm not totally against having a sweep but would rather things kicked off naturally if at all possible!

Really hope you get a nice understanding mw, it really does just seem to be the luck of the draw. Hopefully you are overthinking it (towards the end I was all geared up to have a fight about getting my home birth & going into a labour on a day they were short staffed or my horrible mw being the 1 on shift to attend-none of which happened) but if it does happen I'm guessing you're prepared. Hope it goes well & your rights are respected

Can I join in (always late to the party!) am 40+4 and feel weirdly like I'm never going to actually have this baby. I had a sweep on Friday, lots of show and contractions on and off all weekend. I've had runs of several hours of regular contractions that haven't ever really got worse or closer together and then completely stop. Very frustrating!

Congratulations to all those who've had their babies