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38 weeks and going crazy, anyone else?

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OakleyCat · 10/04/2014 09:28

I'm due 23rd April but as soon as I became 37 weeks (full term) I just felt so desperate to meet my baby. After suffering with hyperemesis for the first 4 months and now terrible pelvic and hip pain, I can't say I've hugely enjoyed pregnancy. I feel like I spend my days googling natural induction methods and early labour signs. Does anyone else over analyse every little symptom they have and feel like they are just waiting for something to finally happen....

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Madasabox · 13/04/2014 22:52

Good luck tomorrow BB. Have a midwife apt at 12pm; hoping desperately something will happen. Don't want to have to wait until next Tuesday!

Good luck everyone else.

Misty9 · 14/04/2014 06:14

Can I join you please? 40+5 and going slightly insane here, especially after I was almost convinced it was starting yesterday. Had couple of false starts a week ago and near constant Braxton hicks and toilet trips. My mum is here until Friday when she flies home, and I won't have produced a baby by then at this rate!

I could cry when I woke still pregnant this morning :(

OakleyCat · 14/04/2014 08:54

Poor you Misty, have they offered you a sweep at all? There are a few private clinics and midwives who may offer you a sweep if you can't get it on the NHS, although being overdue and with your mum flying back home, they really should be willing to offer you one.
Hope your baby comes soon.
I'm struggling lots with all the aches and pains, still no signs of labour coming.
How's everyone else doing?

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kjh5 · 14/04/2014 09:06

Oh Misty I'm with you on the wanting to cry when I woke up and was still pregnant. It truly sucks! Especially with your mum going home soon. Maybe you should call your midwife and see if she won't offer you a sweep? In the meantime, it is such a gorgeous day maybe get out and do something lovely with your mum while she is still here? Picnic in a park somewhere, manicure/pedicure, lunch/afternoon tea somewhere a bit special?

I've decided this baby is going to come when he is good and ready (this positive attitude is set to last for a maximum of 6 to 12 hours until I start getting fed up again!) So after my morning dose of pineapple (I'm really starting to get sick of it!) and an all-fours scrub of the bathroom floor (just incase that gets things going) I'm going to go for a walk in the park and settle down in the sunshine with a book!

Hope everything goes well for Bb today! And wishing the rest of you a lovely Monday - it's a full moon tomorrow which is supposed to bring on labour so this could be our last day as pregnant women ;)

Misty9 · 14/04/2014 09:17

Thanks for the sympathy - it does help. I've got my 41wk appt tomorrow and will be asking for a sweep. I'm not so bothered about my mum being here for the birth, it's more the pressure to perform! We don't have the best relationship so I was hoping we'd have some time before she came when the baby was born.

Luckily ds, 2.7yo, keeps me pretty occupied during the day. It's the nights which I'm finding difficult, mostly due to crippling SPD pain by the end of the day :( which also makes it hard to tell what is SPD pain and what is other pain! Awake since 3.30am this morning, first real bout of insomnia as I was just feeling so frustrated and down.

Off into town and the park with mum and ds. Can't walk round much but will cheer myself up by buying ds some clothes. Gorgeous weather.

Hope everyone else has a good day :)

buffythebarbieslayer · 14/04/2014 09:22

Hi everyone. I'm 39 + 2 and really struggling. Have two other kids as well.

I've been very crampy for a week now, but nothing. I've really swollen up as well. My face, hands and feet are puffy, my sinuses feel blocked and I'm breathing like Darth Vader. I keep getting stabbing pains in my cervix and I need to pee constantly.

I'm irritable and distant with my kids because I can't concentrate.

Trying to stay calm and enjoy last days without newborn but it's sooooo hard.

RaisinGirls · 14/04/2014 10:32

Still nothing here 40+3 now. After ttc for years then having a MMC I never expected to be in place where I was wishing my baby out of me.
Tried to convince myself SPD pains at 2am and then hunger pains at 6am were labour pains but they weren't. Can't believe I'm trying to trick my body into labour

Sammi1986 · 14/04/2014 19:11

Baby shower didn't kick off labour. Kinda given up on symptom spotting so decided Chinese and game of thrones is the way forward. (Before I drive myself insane at every fanny stab!)

Madasabox · 14/04/2014 22:22

Sorry no progress for anyone. 39 weeks today. Midwife says head nowhere near engaged and she thinks I will go right to induction next Tuesday :-(

Hope something happens tonight for someone. Does a full moon really make a difference?

OakleyCat · 15/04/2014 08:19

My midwife said they don't know why but for humans and some animals the full moon does seem to make a difference so here's hoping.
I've had a little bit of a bloody show this morning, so off to google lots about that! No pains though, feeling a little bit more energetic than I have in awhile though so fingers crossed!

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kjh5 · 15/04/2014 09:15

Still nothing here either! I did have an hysterical crying fit at 5am after a night of no sleep because my SPD was so bad and the baby just feels so damn heavy - and told DH that I was never going to actually give birth. Today is not a good day, not sure how much more of this I can take!

OakleyCat · 15/04/2014 09:29

Bless ya kjh5, we all just have to try and remember baby will come out at some point. My midwife told me something that made me feel better, even false labour pain is your body doing something to get ready for the birth. She also said that really heavy feeling is a good sign your baby is in your pelvis, which is a good sigh that your baby fits well into your pelvis which means your more likely to have a better labour.
Hope that helps a bit x

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RaisinGirls · 15/04/2014 09:42

Nothing to report here . No false labour pains, no feeling extra heavy beginning to think I am going to have to get my head round an induction .

Seeing the consultant tomorrow...

LlamaLover · 15/04/2014 09:59

I felt awful last night, SPD, - and ended up being sick with lots of bile. :(

Still pregnant this morning though.

kjh5 · 15/04/2014 10:03

Thanks Oakley feel a bit about crying fit now... especially as my due date is not until Monday and I know a few of you on here are overdue. Just wish this baby could have come last week! At a scan exactly two weeks ago he was about 7.5lbs and in the perfect position, when I thought I was going into labour last week I was full of energy and excited and feeling positive about the experience ahead. Now I'm exhausted and getting increasingly anxious about how big he is getting and having nightmares about a long difficult labour with a giant hippo baby! I really do need to get back into the right head space somehow.

Raisin good that you are seeing a consultant tomorrow, I think if there is one thing I have learned over the past few weeks is that labour starts in different ways for different people. An NCT friend's started very suddenly with her waters breaking at 5am and then contractions starting 18 hours later, baby was delivered 12 hours after that... she had no signs before her waters broke, baby wasn't even fully engaged!

Hope everyone else is ok - at least it is a nice sunny day! Maybe I'll take myself out for lunch somewhere...

kjh5 · 15/04/2014 10:04

Llama sending unmumsnetty [hugs] about the SPD - it is awful isn't it?! Hope you are feeling better today!

Misty9 · 15/04/2014 11:47

I'll join you all on the SPD pain; trying to lie down onmy left last night, partly to potentially try a good old fashioned method of induction I felt like someone was cleaving my pelvis in half with an axe but then after enduring half an hour of heartburn on my right hand side, I gingerly managed to heave move onto my left and then slept relatively well won't be trying the old fashioned method anytime soon though!

40+6 today and in two minds about whether to ask for a sweep later when I see the midwife. Feeling strangely energetic and calm about it today...I'm sure it won't last! kjh don't feel embarrassed about crying - it seems to be my only way of releasing frustration at the moment!

OakleyCat · 15/04/2014 11:59

Misty - I'd certainly get them to give you exam, they can tell you if your cervix is soft and how open it is. If you've started to dialate I'd think it's worth a try at a sweep considering how far along you are. The biggest risk seems to be just the fact it gets your hopes up, I have no medical knowledge this is just my opinion and what I've been told by midwife.
Does the SPD keep anyone else mainly confined to the house, I find being on my feet for more than 5 mins gives me horrific aching in my hips.
Hope babies come soon for all x

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Torfhinn · 15/04/2014 12:33

Nothing to report here, just an increase in period like pain and continuing painless BH, each day seems harder and more uncomfortable than the last. Sorry to hear you are all suffering too. I feel like I'll be pregnant forever, but in actual fact we will all be giving birth very soon so worth hanging on to that.

Sammi1986 · 15/04/2014 12:46

SPD has definitely made.me live like a hermit. However I did manage a trip to the vets this morning in which the farm vet very helpfully informed me that he had his welly boots and ropes and pulleys upstairs. Humph. Sweep tomorrow!!

Madasabox · 15/04/2014 21:42

Hi all, after a very stressful day today with my little boy at hospital (he was having an operation) I have absolutely no labour related news to report. No twinges, no unusual feelings, heartburn a little better than it has been, but NO signs of any progress. Hope you all get on a bit better than me and your babies come soon!

Misty9 · 16/04/2014 06:25

Well, had the exam and cervix is posterior but soft. Midwife could barely reach around the baby's head to check so don't know much more than that. She recommended I take raspberry leaf tablets to get uterus contracting so will buy some today. Doesn't look like this baby is coming anytime soon though :( booked for induction next wed. Ah well. 41 weeks today

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OakleyCat · 16/04/2014 07:23

Sorry to hear that Misty, I had a terrible night with the pain in my hips. Just feels wrong that you have to be so uncomfortable, you'd think it means baby is ready to come out. 39wks today and feeling very fed up. Anyone got any good news?

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MissCalamity · 16/04/2014 08:08

Hi

Little bit behind you all, 38+4 today was getting a few pains last night and was getting a little bit excited but I managed to sleep through them.

My hips are killing at night now and I can barely get comfortable. Been drinking the raspberry leaf tea for about 2 weeks now, still need to start trying other methods

Had a long walk round the park yesterday, and have my 38w midwife appointment today, so hopefully baby may be a bit more engaged and ready to go!

Sympathies to everyone else!!

OakleyCat · 16/04/2014 08:34

Yay, definitely lost my mucus plug this morning, when they say you'll know when you see it, very true! Hope this means baby will be soon!
Anyone else lost it and still been kept waiting ages? Should I not get too excited?

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