@Effram Congratulations on the birth of your baby boy! Wow that was fast! I’m glad you are both doing well and that he’s settling in to the family ☺️
@MollyRover Ah that’s frustrating, I really hope things start naturally for you before Friday. I’m seeing my midwife again on Friday aswell to probably have a sweep and talk about induction if nothing has happened by then (but not sure if something is, which I’ll write about below), but hopefully that won’t be necessary for either of us 🤞
@Mattieandmummy Sorry to hear about your daughter, I really hope her symptoms stay mild and improve soon. It is quite a worry with the covid numbers increasing again, and the timing for us all being due this month is not great. But fingers crossed you avoid it. My parents, sister and brother in law have all had it over the past month and although I saw them a day or two before they tested positive, I somehow managed to avoid it so let’s hope we all do.
Yesterday I woke up and felt that the baby seemed a lot lower in my pelvis, it was a different feeling to what it has been like so far, I mean I’ve felt pressure before and pushing on my bladder but this felt like more of a constant heaviness and really uncomfortable, felt like I needed to pee every few minutes. My lower back was quite achy too, and my thighs. The heat was unbearable yesterday, but I probably tried to do too much, then spent a few hours cooking in the afternoon so that I wouldn’t have to do it for a few days this week. I changed the bed too and did a few errands at the shops, so by the afternoon with the discomfort I was feeling exhausted. I ended up having a mini meltdown because DH hadn’t done some trivial thing I had asked him to do, but it was probably hormones and just frustration at feeling so overheated and uncomfortable! I had hoped that the baby would’ve arrived yesterday as it was my parents’ anniversary, and I was born on my grandparents’ anniversary, but it was not to be! I know she’ll come when she’s ready though. She seems to have been doing some quite strong movements during the last few days, wriggling around like she’s getting uncomfortable in there, so hopefully she’s ok.
Anyway I didn’t have the best sleep last night, I woke up to pee every hour and it was hard to sleep in the heat aswell. This morning I’ve been feeling just as uncomfortable as yesterday and at first it was like an ache at the bottom of my bump which I figured was maybe just the baby’s weight pushing down more. But for just over an hour I’ve started feeling some period like cramps right at the bottom of my bump, which I feel in my lower back at the same time, like they wrap right around. I thought at first it might be digestion pains because I’ve felt a bit constipated the last few days (I thought it was supposed to be the opposite at this stage! Hope I can go before anything happens 😳) but I’m not sure if it’s the start of something else because they seem to be happening in quite a regular pattern. They feel like ‘surges’ which last maybe around 10-15 seconds just now and then there’s a gap, and I’ve had at least 7 of these over the last hour and a bit…2 while I’ve been writing this post. I might start using an app and see what it says about timings and if there’s a pattern…maybe it’s the start but maybe not, I know that others on here have had contractions which have then stopped again for a while, so that might happen to me too. But until today I hadn’t felt so much as a twinge so I’m really noticing these now. Not really sure what they are meant to feel like, but what I’m feeling so far is kind of how I would imagine them to feel! I haven’t lost my mucus plug yet though, as far as I know anyway, but maybe I have and just didn’t notice! Who knows 🤔 Anyway it might all be a false alarm but we’ll see. I hope you’re all doing ok and hanging in there…it’s nice to know we’re all in this together xx