39 weeks, feeling sad

[tittletattoo]

39 weeks today, 3rd baby, relatively quick and easy labour's both times previously.

I'm feeling totally sad and despondent today though like is she ever going to come :( I know this is silly, and I'm not even at my due date yet, but Im just struggling to keep positive and distracted and in a good mood for my other 2 toddlers.

Anyone in the same position/have any tips? I had my son at 37+3 and daughter at 40+2 so hopefully won't be overly late but dragging is an understatement :(

Thanks for reading if you got this far x

Just to add, I'm trying to just enjoy each day as it comes and spending time with my 2 before the chaos begins but I guess I'm just wondering if its normal to feel so down!

No advice but lots of sympathy... I'm 38 weeks and seriously over it now! Just found this pregnancy so tough and I'm now so uncomfortable and in so much pain (SPD) that the idea of maybe being like this for another 4 weeks makes me want to cry!

@LouMoo13

No advice but lots of sympathy... I'm 38 weeks and seriously over it now! Just found this pregnancy so tough and I'm now so uncomfortable and in so much pain (SPD) that the idea of maybe being like this for another 4 weeks makes me want to cry!

It's lousey isn't it :( I get so hopefully when I get certain aches, and every night going to bed wondering if I'll get woken in the night (by a contraction and not a 2 year for once 🤣) and then morning comes around again and NOPE no baby still! I'm trying to keep positive but each day is just feeling longer and longer.........

I know what you mean. I had my first at 38+6 and my second at 38+2 so was totally expecting number 3 to arrive by 38 weeks. I was still sitting around waiting until baby arrived at 39+5! Like you, not even at my due date but I felt as if I was two weeks overdue as I had totally built myself up for an early arrival.
Baby will be here soon 🙏🏻

Can I join the pity party? 39+4 with baby 2 and a very real prospect of going to over 41 weeks like I did with my DD. I’m awake every 2h to pee, I have to wake up to turn over in bed because my pelvic girdle pain is now so painful when rolling over and it’s like a military mission and my pelvis or bladder isn’t waking me it’s sodding heartburn/reflux.
So. Frigging. Over. It!

@Makingnumber2

Can I join the pity party? 39+4 with baby 2 and a very real prospect of going to over 41 weeks like I did with my DD. I’m awake every 2h to pee, I have to wake up to turn over in bed because my pelvic girdle pain is now so painful when rolling over and it’s like a military mission and my pelvis or bladder isn’t waking me it’s sodding heartburn/reflux. So. Frigging. Over. It!

Of course you can join - the party noone wants to be at

The heartburn is real for me too, and turning over in bed is just a joke, when you've just got into bed after your 4th wee of the evening when you realise you need to go one more time before sleeping

Maybe with this week between Christmas and New year usually being a drag anyway its not helping that we're also wishing away the days until we meet our babies!

@tittletattoo @Makingnumber2 I'm also so bored at home but so miserable and uncomfortable if I venture out. My poor DH and DD, I must be a real treat to live with at the moment!

Omg the waking up to turn over 😂😭. 37+2 went for a sweep today and cervix is tightly closed,baby no3. I'm over it! Period pains every day that amount to nothing is driving me crazy

C section booked for Thursday and just feeling so anxious and unexcited I don't know why! Desperately wanting to meet him and be free of the PGP. My last section was a horrible recovery so that's probably why!

Huge sympathy OP. I felt like this with my second. If it’s any consolation she came at 40+3 and it was less than three hours from my very first twinge to having her in my arms. I was literally on the phone to a friend crying and saying I’d be pregnant forever, she’d never arrive, I had no signs or symptoms etc and even a failed sweep, then boom. Baby.

Hope you’re not waiting too much longer

@tittletattoo I definitely think this time between Xmas and new year is making it drag. Weather and Omicron also not helping in terms of keeping busy and getting out and about lots. Not that I have the energy for that really 😂 god there’s no pleasing me!
@zeromango wow you’re so close to meeting baby now! I’m very jealous you know exactly when that time is coming. Sorry to hear about your previous birth experience though. I’m sure this time will be different. Was your last CS emergency? My
Friend had an EMCS with number 1 which was
V traumatic but had a planned CS a few weeks ago with number two and said the experiences were world apart. She said the planned CS was so calm and lovely and her recovery was way way better than with the EMCS. Maybe spend some time today reading positive planned CS stories to keep you feeling positive and keep anxiety at bay? Also worth looking into ‘gentle CS’ and seeing the options for that which you could share then with the team tomorrow before you go down for the CS. Hope it all goes well!