Insanity is setting in at 38 weeks...

[PoppyH56]

I honestly can't remember a night where I was asleep before 11pm. Restless legs, heartburn, insomnia, terrible nightmares, sweating, dribbling, being sick in the night.
Oh god, it's so HARD. The days are fine but the nights are absolute hell on earth. Can't believe I have another 3 more weeks of this anyone else in the same boat?

Ah I see, mines on Thursday! I hope it works with the pessary. 🙈 How are things moving for you this morning?

Thank you everyone for your lovely messages.

Induced at 40 + 2, and gave birth today at 40 + 4. Little George arrived safely in the world this morning.

Don't want to go into the horror story, but long story short - cervix didn't dilate as quick as it should have, and contractions were thick and fast at 8cm causing involuntary pushing too early. Official labour lasted for 17 hours. Some of the ladies on the same ward as me were very lucky, and gave birth before the 24 hour pessary even had time to take full affect. Fingers crossed for a smooth induction process for everyone having one!

P/S if you're being induced take the epidural before the contractions become frequent .

Congrats!!

Yay congrats JKS.. Our boy is call George too! Well will be when he comes out xxx

Yayyy congrats @justkeepswimmingg so pleased for you!! Xx

Congratulations @justkeepswimmingg

Great name sophie . I love a traditional name!

Thanks again everyone, I'm very much in love!

I'm being induced at 8.30 fhis morning. 41+4 over here and sad mybaby didn't come naturally but I'm still so excited to meet them and find out who they are!! Will update you in due course

Good luck! I was induced with my first. I was given the pessary which worked, so no need to be chained to the bed by a drip. It was completely normal birth then.

Good luck Poppy!

I'm off for a S&S this morning. Hoping that will do the trick before induction later in the week.

Good luck Poppy.. don't give up hope or a natural birth though. I went in Thursday for my induction and was put on a monitor to be told I'm already having mild contractions and was dilated a good 2cm. The tightenings continued but weren't painful and we had been waiting for 10 hours for a bed in the birthing centre where they planned to break my waters.. yet at half 8 just before I had another check I was laying down watching TV on the ward with my OH after a cheeky KFC for tea and pop my waters went all by themselves. Lol. From there I moved to the birth centre and everything went normally without the need for the induction I had gone in for.
I was in labour got 11 hours and 2hrs of that was pushing.. he was delivered with help from a suction cup eventually with doctor intervention as I had been awake since 3am on the Thursday and it was 6am on Friday when I was ready yo push so i was exhausted! The doctors and midwives were incredible though. He was out in a matter of 6 minutes once I had been cut and the suction cup had been placed on his head. xxxxx

Good luck @PoppyH56, keep us updated.

I go in for induction on Thursday! But like you hoping he might come along on his own before then...

Hello. Can I join in? I'm 38+2 and keep swaying between "get out baby!" And "I'm not ready for this, and I lie my sleep, so maybe going overdue wouldn't be so bad...." back to "omg enough! Get out baby!"

Not a single twinge here. Baby was only 4/5 engaged at last appointment. I've been losing my mucus plug very slowly for almost three weeks now. I don't feel like labour is imminent. I'm convinced I'm going to go the full two weeks overdue, get induced and end up with an EMCS after a lengthy labour. Yeah, pessimistic view but that's just how I feel.

Anyone else starting to feel withdrawn at this stage? I get annoyed when people text or try to phone me (and we're not even into the constant "any sign of the baby?" bit yet). I just don't feel like talking to anyone. I'm too tired to do anything. I'm not even relaxing properly at home, I'm just floating unproductively through the days and wasting time on the internet. Could be doing so much more to make the most of this time.

Been in and out of hospital with reduced movements which has been a bit stressful and tedious. Thankfully baby is fine, but it's not improving my mood.

The majority of my NCT group have had their babies now, so the Wassap group is mostly baby talk now and the longer it goes on, the less engaged I feel with it.

Just feeling majorly antisocial and grumpy right now. I'm done with pregnancy, but also scared of labour and the newborn phase so I don't know what I want 😫

38+4 here. Feeling really sad today. And uncomfortable. And also swaying from between absolutely not ready for this and get this baby out now.

It's day one of leave. Dh has been at work all day. He took the car as he had appointments he needed it for but I haven't left the house today. Maybe that's why...

Is it usually like this?

Lemondrop just a heads up, my little one was moving between fully engaged and 3/5th engaged for 2 weeks before he came naturally on my induction day! So don't worry if he isn't fully engaged.. it can all happen at once. It's nuts! xxxxx

Lemon drop I'm totally with you on this. I'm 39 weeks on Wednesday. I don't have the energy to do anything, can literally get up, have breakfast then lie on the sofa until midday. Beating myself up about it too. 🙄
I have totally mixed feelings about childbirth. Can't wait to meet our baby, looking forward to the back of heartburn, hip ache, poor sleep, carpal tunnel, hyper emotional state etc. But at the same time apprehensive about the birth, we are the last in our NCT group and many of them have had quite traumatic experiences On the plus side I have a wonderful husband and great family support. Think I need to toughen up and remember women have been found this forever!!

*doing not found 🙄

Being last in the NCT group is the actual pits. DD came in last, 18 days after the previous baby and it was actually really shit to have exposure to the (edited as it turns out) birth stories but also the "is your baby breaking out of his swaddle?" "are your nipples cracked?" "how are you feeling now DH is back at work"?

It was like watching the swell of a tsunami that you know is away to break all over you.

Try, try as much as you can to go total radio silence and ffs use the "mute" function on What's App. Not doing so messed with my head a bit before DD was here.

Well the S&S this morning did the job! 40+6, baby in arms right now!

Good luck to all those still waiting.

Congratulations Totally! Great news
Thanks Legendofbeans - that's totally sound advice 👍🏼
Quick question, I don't think I have lost any of my mucus plug yet at 38+6. Could it be happening without me really noticing it very much? Can it just happen in one go nearer labour?

Just bumping this up. How's it going for everyone?

39 weeks here today. The grumpy hormone phase passed after a few days, now I am just unbelievably tired. Finally the last of the nesting deep clean was finished today - but only because my poor DH did it while I sat uselessly on the sofa and directed

I can't decide if I want this baby to come or not. In some ways I really do. In other ways, I prefer it like this as I'm panicking about labour. Also I currently sleeping well and in no rush to give that up. Finally well aware that things will never be the same Against so many I shouldn't wish these last few days/weeks away.

Not a single twinge here. The idea of labour actually feels surreal and it's hard to believe it could actually happen any day. It's a weird limbo to be in....

Oh @Lemondrop99 I could have written your previous post (apart from the fact that my sleep is non-existent and has been for weeks!) 38+1 here and swinging between desperation for them to come and then not wanting to have to go through labour and fear of becoming a mum all at the same time! I've become a major "grumpet" as DH accurately calls me now as a term of endearment, can't stand to be around other people when I'm usually upbeat and sociable! Add in that last week we had a bit of a scare too and were told for 3 days that I'd be having a c sec at either 38 or 39 weeks (which I'd just about got my head around) and then when we went into hospital for the third time that week the issue had resolved so I've gone from expecting to have our little one any day to potentially another 4 weeks if they go overdue... massive urggghhhh. Baby isn't engaged at all, no mucus plug shows or anything so I think I might be in this for the long run 😩😩😩

And @LentilBaby some people apparently don't lose their plug at all before labour begins- my mum didn't have a show for any of us so I'm holding on that no show doesn't necessarily mean no labour. Same for engaging- some babies engage as labour starts and even babies that engage early can disengage later in pregnancy (can you hear the sound of me clutching at straws here?) 🙈

My bubba didn't decide to make anything happen until the day I went in for induction lol.
I went in, was told they were able to break my waters at 8.30pm once I was transferred to delivery suite and at spot on 8.30 my waters went on there own before I had chance to go to delivery, then I walked down to our delivery room and contractions were horrific from then for 11 hours and at 8am the following morning our baby was born with help from ventouse. It was perfect. Don't worry about looking for signs.. it can all happen just at once.

Hi ladies,
Still nothing here 🙁 39+4 today. @Lemondrop99 Have had a couple of days of complete exhaustion.....wake up, have breakfast, shower, get back in bed! About all I have been capable of 😥
Also some mood swings (ok, some may be putting it lightly!), going from crying over nothing to getting really angry about nothing.....poor hubby!
No signs of anything happening at all. @mummabubs Thanks, I guess it's just a total unknown as to what is going to happen and when and where!!
Thinking of you all and feeling your discomfort
Keep in touch all and let us know your progress xx