Just a place for advice/suggestions or a place to chat for those of us in the last couple weeks of pregnancy. I am on a brilliant antenatal thread but my due date is the first there and I don't want to bore them all with nonsense about braxton hicks and how to fill my days when lots of them are still at work... and I think they would prefer their babies to stay inside for now! I'm not quite at the "get it out of me" stage yet... but I'm definitely at the "if you came now you'd be very welcome" stage.... :)
I am 38+5 today and this is first baby. I know most first babies come late, so I've been trying to tell myself I'll be late throughout the pregnancy, but now I'm term it's hard not to be excited. In the last three or four days I've had long periods of continuous mild period-like pain, and some painful tightenings (sometimes very close together, but then they stop). Are these imminent signs, do these mean nothing... I don't really know. I haven't had a show.
Baby has been engaged since 34 weeks (uncomfortable!) I'm pretty sure his/her back is on the left side at the front (all the kicks are upper right hand side) which I think is ideal. I'm a little obsessive about keeping baby in a good position - I spend time on all fours, make sure I get plenty of walking/standing, sit on a gym ball when I'm on the computer, sleep on my side, I don't lie back on the sofa. I'm probably overthinking this.
I am doing pretty ok for late pregnancy - still walking at least a few miles a day, or swimming, or walking into town every day. I actually did a charity night hike last night! (Boyfriend carried maternity notes in his backpack through the woods - it was a bit stupid really!) I am slow, but I thought I'd be a lot heavier and more immobile by this stage to be honest. I stopped work a while back - a very busy, stressful, physically and emotionally demanding job - so I've had a lot of time to relax, nest, exercise, see almost all my friends, sort my flat out. Everything is neat and sorted and stocked and ready.
I'm grateful that I've had a troublefree pregnancy and hoping the birth will go fine too. Feeling positive and relaxed about it, just impatient!
How are other people doing? Staying busy, getting anxious, waiting, over-analysing every tiny sign!? Any suggestions for good things to do in the last week or two? Please no one tell me to 'get lots of sleep' as this is the one thing I am completely incapable of at the moment - up every 30-60 mins through the night...
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squidkid · 16/09/2012 13:44
Congratulations Jess 
That seemed pretty quick, which is encouraging for the rest of us!
Paperclip, any progress?
Nothing for me, literally nothing. I know it's not even my due date yet (friday) but I was so convinced he was going to be early, I'm a bit 
now.
I've got a few things to finish so in a way I'm not too bothered but still the wait is a bit weird, I like having a plan!
Re: BMI, I wouldn't worry. You know the BMI doesn't work for people who are muscle heavy and you can easily back that argument so that your MW leaves you in peace about it.
I love Shellac too, it's just a bit of a bum to get off so I'm not doing it this time. I'm too tight to pay to have it remove and given the weather I reckon I won't be exposing my toe nails so regularly so I'm just going to give them a fresh over for the birth and then I'll have other things to worry about I reckon...
Right, need to go for a nap, I'm shattered!
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Hi all, I'm 40+3 today, and really want the baby out now but at the same time am freaking out about labour.
Trying everything now, fresh pineapple, spicy food, hot baths, I even let dh 'do the sex' last night 
. No baby yet 
Hospital bag has been packed and repacked. I can't do any more batch cooking as I've run out of room in the freezer. I feel like I can't drive anywhere because maybe I'd go into labour and then dh would have to pick me and a car up from a random place. I'm watching far too much e4 and am spending too much time on mumsnet I woke up the other night drooling over my pillow, having had a dream where I was on a train with Leonard and Sheldon, and we were having an argument about whether I was being unreasonable to not go and get more wine .
I'm sick of being too warm and not being able to walk properly and looking and sounding like a beached whale every time I try to get up. Im paranoid about my waters breaking in the newly decorated living room. I don't want the sweep. I want the damn baby now 
. Sorry for the long rant, but apparently I needed it 
firsttime sorry to hear you're having to wait - hopefully the midwife will be wrong and it will all be fine when the time comes.
turquoise I could have written your post - freezer full, trying everything including "doing the sex" when DH can cope with the prospect, bless him and watching too much Big Bang Theory! Though I haven't dreamt about Sheldon and Leonard just yet....
Had a teary meltdown at midday as I tried to ring the community midwife to check if my newly developed carpal tunnel was in fact a sign of a problem eg raised blood pressure. The phone rang for 6 mins on each of the three calls I made then rang off so I rang the antenatal ward instead, thinking they could give me the advice I needed. Woman there was a bit stroppy saying I had to keep trying the community line and I went and started crying which is very unlike me. She then became WONDERFUL and put me through to the delivery ward once I told her I was overdue; the lovely midwife there reassured me, said I could go in for a check and calmed me down to the point that I didn't take her up on it. Cue about ten minutes uncontrollable hormonal sobbing after I finished the call though. I think I have reached my limit with this overdue business but I have a sweep on Friday so hopefully will be fine until then now the sobbing is out of my system!
Going to watch a film and eat a doughnut...should go for a walk instead really shoudn't I??? Will bounce on my ball to watch to make up for my lack of motivation to go out and walk about!
Huge sympathies to everyone else who is waiting and hoping - here's to lovely babies arriving soon.
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