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Feeling a smidge impatient

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JBCG · 05/05/2019 18:33

I'm currently 32 weeks with my first and as I found out when I was roughly 2 weeks .. I feel like I've been pregnant for a very long time!! Everything I've read suggests that first babies are typically overdue but I'm hoping that may not be the case for me as I'm getting rather uncomfortable and impatient (which doesn't bode well if I have potentially another 9 weeks to wait!).

So I'd like to conduct my own little research and as you whether your first babies were early, late or right on time?

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PolarBearBubbles · 05/05/2019 18:53

First one came at 35+6 for me... slightly unexpected and meant I got no maternity leave to enjoy before she arrived! I know it's frustrating but honestly enjoy every single second of sleep and doing whatever you want to do and don't wish this time away!

beforeIhit30 · 05/05/2019 19:13

DC1 came at 39+4. MWs kept telling me it’d be ages and just to relax at home, but I just knew he was coming. Labour was 12 hours from first serious/noticeable contractions. I had twinges earlier in the day but could get on with doing stuff, talking, laughing etc and knew it could still be days from twinges.

DC2 wasn’t budging! MWs convinced this time that given my first birth, this one would also be before the due date (nope!). Induced late evening at 41+4 and born in the morning at 41+5. From first contraction to birth was about 1.5 hours it ramped up really quickly!

I’m 23 weeks with DC3 and am already impatient. I give DH a weekly countdown to the week I’m due to be induced. He says it’s not helping, he keeps saying, “Argh we actually chose to have a third baby, a third baby will actually be in this house...”

HirplesWithHaggis · 05/05/2019 19:15

Both over two weeks late, and induced. And yes, those last weeks were hard.

abcriskringle · 05/05/2019 19:24

40+3 I went into labour, 40+4 he was born. Those last few weeks felt agonisingly slow - it is tough! Some further first time births for you - my mum had me on my due date, friend from work had hers at 38w, best friend induced on her due date and a colleague just had her first 2 weeks overdue!

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JBCG · 05/05/2019 20:36

Thank you all for your replies.

@PolarBearBubbles I did say to DP today as we decided to go out for a walk and promptly left the house that it wouldn't be long before an activity like that would take far more than a 30 second conversation to plan!

@beforeIhit30 I have also been counting down the weeks from about 20 weeks .. which has not done me any favours!

I never considered myself to be an impatient person .. how wrong I was it seems! I know I'll probably regret saying this in a few months and those of you with children will no doubt laugh at my ignorance but I do feel ready for the whole no sleep thing now .. I just want him to be here and for me to not be pregnant any more!

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MummatoaMunchkin · 05/05/2019 20:50

I feel your pain!

My first (and last so far 😂) was 40+2 and i was so cranky i just wanted him out!

Im torn between wishing id made more of the time i had to myself and remembering how uncomfortable i was!

RChick · 06/05/2019 06:06

10 days over. Sorry!

mummabubs · 06/05/2019 06:11

42+1- I had to be induced. (Sorry!!)

MaverickSnoopy · 06/05/2019 06:11

I went into labour with my first at 40+10 and had a 25 hour labour.

Caveat - all of mine were overdue and she was the earliest. I have reason to believe though that based on my dates and the fact that I have super long babies I may not have been as far along as the professionals thought I was.

ty1996 · 06/05/2019 08:22

Currently 39weeks with DD and carrying low and experiencing pains here and there but nope nothing. No signs of actual labour as of yet.

Was certain I was going to be induced early due to HBP and swelling but had been managed and feel like I'll be going over my due date🥴

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JBCG · 06/05/2019 15:13

Thank you all .. even though a lot of you are not telling me what I want to hear haha!

Please could I ask a follow up question of your first signs of labour? I've read a lot that suggests you just feel 'unwell' for a few days in the lead up to labour starting but what were your more obvious signs?

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mummabubs · 06/05/2019 15:48

I'm so sorry again OP- I had at least 3 false starts during my 2 weeks of overdueness. Contractions and everything and even lost mucus plug but it still never ramped up! I really hope it does for you when the time is right 😊

RChick · 06/05/2019 17:51

Woke at 3am with tight tummy, tried to sleep until 7am when contractions were consistent. 3pm midwife came for pre-arranged sweep then hospital at 7pm.

beforeIhit30 · 06/05/2019 19:34

I didn’t feel unwell in the run up to labour. The night before I was coming home late evening, and just felt this sort of haziness - really hard to describe! - like I was in my own bubble with the baby. No idea why. It wasn’t a bad feeling, I just ‘felt’ like I’d have him soon. Sounds a bit woo and silly and I’m actually a super pragmatist but it just was that way.

The morning before I went into labour I lost the show/mucus plug. Then I started to get very low level, inconsistent contractions (a bit like light cramps). Those were really all of my early signs.

I also think it’s normal to be impatient, especially if you don’t enjoy pregnancy hugely. I don’t hate pregnancy, and really feel lucky to have my children, but I didn’t enjoy it (and I have hyperemesis in this pregnancy so actually this one really is a bit rough!). I struggled with whatever were the symptoms of the moment at each stage - nausea, sickness, heartburn, aching muscles, acne, low blood pressure, being unable to bend over...

Birth and postpartum are of course not necessarily easy (!), but unless something very difficult occurs they are easier to get over, they’re significantly shorter lived and you can feel like your own person and your own body (even when sore and exhausted!). That’s how I feel about it anyway, obviously everyone is different.

Furble · 06/05/2019 19:40

First baby was 41+2, currently 38 weeks with baby number two and looking forward to meeting them soon(ish)! Best of luck with your lovely bundle OP!

cja06 · 06/05/2019 20:18

11 days over unfortunately

FartnissEverbeans · 08/05/2019 11:55

Late in my pregnancy, I remember feeling disbelief that I was supposed to be pregnant for potentially another month. I told my DH I didn’t think I’d last that long. I just felt like it was nearing the end.

I was exactly 37 weeks when my waters broke - DS was born 8 hours later.

Scoutingaround · 08/05/2019 17:39

40+15. Sorry.

Sweetooth92 · 08/05/2019 21:07

40+11 here. He was born early hours of the Wednesday morning, after my waters breaking the day before and labour starting over the afternoon. The Monday before he finally arrived I was gutted. My husband went to work and I just laid in bed and sobbed. He was due on the 30th December, so the Monday before he arrived was the second week my DH was back at work after our Christmas break and we were so sure he wouldn’t be going back without a baby 😂

FrancesV83 · 13/05/2019 11:31

First baby 38+4 (induced due to waters starting to break). He was 8lb 4oz.
I’m really hoping this one will be earlier too as he’s due 31st August, I don’t fancy the school run over due!

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