Due anyday?? come in here..part 2

[ZingWidge]

if you are due soon you can chat and get support & advice here.

this is a follow up thread, but all are welcome!

Good luck ginger hope you get the all clear. Good luck to everyone having sweeps too.

I'm too exhausted even for moan today. Very uncomfortable. Come on baby.

Thanks ladies. To be honest it feels like the latest (last?!) in a long line of problems during this pregnancy so I can't even be bothered to worry about it! It's in the hands of the medics now so I'm just going to snooze in front of daytime tv until they tell me otherwise :)

Hope u get the all clear soon ginger .

Being an impatient person makes pregnancy a bad pastime for me....always waiting for something. Longest 9 months of my life.

I know what you mean big. Growing another human takes foreeeeveeeeeeer!!

Thanks James. I'm not dead set against induction, but it's quite hard to have a proper conversation about it, isn't it? It's just assumed it's the next step and if you start asking questions you are being difficult!

Anyway, second sweep went fairly well. Have had a bit of show and even something which feels like it could be mild contractions every eight minutes for the last hour and a half. Fingers crossed it will turn into something proper!

Estimated weight of baby according to scan - 9lbs. Eeek! Right, back to bouncing on my ball...

Fingers crossed, louise. Hope you're next :)

Hurrah! All clear from the hospital. Back on track for our lovely local MLU. Large whew and back to waiting for this little face to make her grand entrance :)

Excellent news Ginger

Well, they contractions are still going! Not getting any closer together yet (still 8-10 mins apart since about noon) but definitely getting more painful. So desperately want this to be it, but trying not to get excited.

Glad you've had some good news Ginger!

Still nothing going on here....

fx Louise and great news ginger
Gerty hope you're feeling better

Have had a nose at the post natal thread foof started, frightening myself about bf now (just looking for labour terror distraction). Have had a bf class & left feeling really positive, does anyone know if there is anything we can do to help prepare ourselves/boobies/nipples/minds? I have lansinoh, shields etc, just in case, anything else we can do that anyone knows of? Feels like poor nips have such a shock coming to them!

cakebaby a lot will depend on your baby

DD took to it straight away which was lucky. Also if it feels ok to you it prob is :) I say this because had wonderful support in hospital where could press buzzer and mid wife would come check latch. Then at home Health visitor wanted to watch me feed and said she had a noisy suck on one side (which can indicate problem with latch, could lead to soreness) BUT I wasn't sore at all, so I just ignored her (where if you're not careful a well intentioned expert can knock your confidence for no reason).

My top tips are - to start with (in hospital it's always warm, or if you're at home nice warm room) get baby down to nappy and take off all your top layers so you get lots of lovely skin skin and aren't trying to hold clothes out of the way.

I have a book on breastfeeding called 'the food of love', friends also recommended a la leche league book but I haven't read that one. Anyway 'the food of love' includes some troubleshooting pages, to help you identify any prob you might encounter (from tongue tie, to mastitis, to thrush) and advises you how to resolve them. I didn't really have any problems but felt more confident knowing this stuff.

I bought a tube of Lansinoh and never used any :-O

I found the Lansinoh breast pads the best (have you got some - you don't mention them).

I hope overdue DC2 is as good as their big sister was. Sorry for poor quality post - am typing on phone.

woodifer thank you, it's just another baby related thing that seems to be a bit mystic! I haven't got lansinoh pads, but am happy to be pointed in that direction if they are better than others in peoples experience. Are they medicated then? Guess that would make sense!

Sitting here waiting for baby to make an appearance is doing me NO good at all!

The Lansinoh ones aren't medicated, I just found them comfier/ more breathable than the other ones I tried which were johnsons ones. The johnsons ones seemed to stick to my damp nipples if you see what I mean? A bit like sanitary towels different people will prefer different shapes/ surface finishes.

Same here not much going on, have been loosing more and more plug.....how long can this possibly go on for?

Me too cake breastfeeding doesn't seem as easy as it would sound does it?!

Fx louise

Maybe there's a gap in the market for boob boot camp?

Right. The past two nights I've had really sharp pains in my lady bits, like someone is sticking a skewer up there. Plus tonight I've had fairly extreme mood swings....

Sound promising at all or am I still just stuck in a wishful thinking fantasy land?! I'm so bored of pregnancy!!!

Thanks cakebaby, I always seem to feel worse at home alone during the day. Things are a little less awful when lovely DP returns :).

I seem to have regressed back to sickness stages for some reason which is making things worse. Hoping for a good sleep tonight, except if it's interrupted for real life labour purposes ofc.

Hope everyone else is bearing up!

Well, DD is finally here! Second sweep must have done the trick as mild contractions started pretty much straight away and by 9pm had progressed to about 3 mins apart. By the time we got into the delivery room they had increased even more and I was getting the urge to push, so they examined me and found I was fully dilated, ready to go.

LO was born an hour and a quarter later, with just gas and air and some monumental roaring noises from me (wouldn't have been time for an epidural even if I'd wanted one!)

I am now holding my 8lb 7oz, soundly sleeping baby in my arms. Am so relieved and happy, feeling incredibly fortunate to have had such a relatively quick and easy labour so overdue.

Thanks so much for the support and good luck everyone still waiting.

Wooooo congrats, Louise! Glad all that waiting turned into a straightforward birth experience for you :)

Congrats Louise! You sound on top of the world

Ginger the knitting needle up the bits pain is usually baby grinding its skull against the cervix as it starts to run out of room.

Well I had lots of stomach cramps and didn't feel right yesterday, threw up a bit. My mw came out, said baby was 3/5 engaged and she did some acupuncture on me to try to gently kick off labour. Then later oh and I dtd and nipple stim etc - had a few contractions, felt promising but fell asleep. Woke up just now at 5am, nothing happening.

And I'm having a bit of a fight or flight about it all. I want it to happen, I want to meet my baby, but I'm feeling really daunted by the labour. This is my third baby, I need to man up and stop being a wuss! It's probably the reason things haven't started yet.

Congrats Louise! 40+3 today, lots of cramps last night but now nothing.

Congrats Louise!

Still nothing here, no shows, no contractions, just bad temper and tears.

Oh well, off to tidy up kitchen as appears nobody else in house gets the concept.... Have left it as long as I can now ocd has kicked in.

Good luck today everyone, I shall check in later.

40+5 here today and wanted to wish all those well that are stiiiiiiiil waiiiting! So frustrated! Have been having bh I think (period pain?) for ages but last.night that all stopped. Also baby has been in basically the same position for weeks, head down bum on right and legs on right with a little foot quite high up on the left under rib. It's always been qiute easy to pick these body parts out. But I've woken up this morning and my tummy's all soft! Where's my baby gone! Should a baby be completely shifting position at this stage? I'm presuming softness means back has gone round the other way (back to back) which is not ideal, is that right?

Sorry legs on left!

Congratulations Louise! Lovely news :).

I had a couple of really quite painful contractions in the night, then nothing again. Midwife has just called to delay appointment until tomorrow which is annoying!