Things to do when you're overdue?

[4pudding]

I am so BORED.

I can hardly walk and am so sick of trashy magazines.

Anyone recommend anything to pass the time?

Poor you!! I would be mad with impatience !!! Scrabble??? lol!

Do you have children? If so, do you have childcare? If you have time to yourself, massages, pedicures, blowdrys are so the best way to pass the time.

If you have young uns running around, put on Cbeebies, lie on sofa, read nice book and eat a lot of Calippos.

Oooh, I'm an expert at this....DS was 16 days overdue!!!

Plan a day out at least 2 hours from home, pref. somewhere with no mobile phone signal and leave your hospital bag & notes at home .

Alternatively, do you have a friend with a 4x4??? Some off-roading perhaps.

Seriously though - find a reflexologist who will come to your house to give your pressure points a good seeing to.....if that doesn't work at least you'll have had a lovely relaxing foot-massage.

Good luck.

swimming, yoga, reflexology, long walks, lunches with friends, sex?

Aw thank you!

LOL at the going for a two hour drive!

Yes, I have a DD who is back at preschool after a four week holiday which hs been exhausting.

Went swimming yesterday which was lovely.

Afraid I'm too much of a skeptic for alternative therapies but a massage does sound nice!

Dreading bumping into people I know at the moment as you get the "Still pregnant, I see?" thing. Aargh. And the texts/phonecalls have started to roll in from friends & relatives!

DD was early and i honestly never appreciated how good it was not to have to wait!

i am dreading people, too! i am 39 weeks and don't look huge, but everyone keeps saying "still here?"... annoying... hang in there! btw, i had reflexology the day before yesterday and the therapist told me that if they were to do it really hard, the baby would come out within a few days... don't know if this is true, but plan to try soon. wishing you good luck!

Go out for lunch and or dinner and the cinema. These are things you may not do for a while. When you do after giving birth, you will constantly be wondering if your little one is ok without you.
It's not the same!

Totally empathise with you. I am 41 weeks + 5 days and going slowly crazy.

It doesn't help that every time I leave the house I bump into people and must have said how much I'm overdue, yes my bump is low and doesn't look real etc etc etc etc over 100 times now. Its worse on weekdays when I take DS to and fro from nursery.

I have run out of things to try and just feel like baby is refusing to come out. Can't work out why when she is so so low.

Mucous plug has gone so can't go swimming with DS and DH this morning and I am just feeling like screaming and crying now!

was 16 days late with dd, ended up having amr (waters broken) NOTHING WORKED!!! theres nothing i didnt try.... and i mean nothing, i don't recommend pineapple thou, i ended up with the most odd feeling tongue after eating a whole one.
good luck

DS was 5 days late (which felt like 5 months!) but was in August so I spent a lot of time in the garden on hands and knees weeding - mindless tasks generally helped! Good luck.

I went a bit strange, as I felt under so much pressure from people calling, texting, fb etc, that I withdrew a bit. Took the dog on lots of long walks, listened to my hypnotherapy cds and rested a lot. Read books, batch cooked, pre-addressed envelopes for upcoming bdays & events. I resorted to acupuncture (am a sceptic too but it made me feel like I was helping things along).

I also became a bit obsessive about the state of the house, as I felt like it should be MW/visitor ready at all times! (Will NOT feel like that this time round am sure!)

Lie on sofa watching films with adult content (not porn, just the usual sex/violence/bad language).

Record a voicemail message for your phone which says "I can't answer your call at the moment, but if you're ringing about the baby, I WILL LET YOU KNOW WHEN I'VE HAD IT!" Then smirk every time your phone rings.

Draw scary faces on your bump with lipstick.

Tomorrow I am going for a pedicure and definitely going to try aStarInStrangeways 's amazing suggestion of drawing scary faces on your bump with lipstick