Thread for mooching around on and whinging about being overdue

[FrannyandZooey]

come and join me in my pit of gloom boredom and a little bit of excitement

I am 2 days over now and no signs whatsoever

LOL Ecmo
well good luck with both the battering and the scrape sweep Butterfly
I shall expect a full report tomorrow

at hunker
as if

Franny, I feel your argh, truly.

Good luck with the sweep.

Butterfly - I'm sure it was the natural prostaglandins that caused my false labour, MW did a sweep the next day I had a shower and she could have probably seen her face in my fanjo it was that clean, did tell her we had had relations though as it was a bit

Had another dose of prostaglandin tonight

hunker - can you believe it's been 2 1/2 years since we were last here not that you are thanks for the clary sage I cannot bring myself to buy it and use it I just can't

Tonight? How did you fit that in around mumsnetting? Am well impressed!

SK, I know - feel hugely a bit broody remembering - I even got to like the smell of clary sage!

this is not a stage to feel broody

its more a depressing - inevitable pain but when??? sort of nervous hell

Aw, Hatrick

Iirc, you had a book from Dinny before about birth? I was going to read it when I was having eeks about giving birth to DS2.

I'm not technically overdue being only 37+1 but I want this sodding person out" of my pelvis now. I'm so pissed off with being hospitalised/ drugged/ poked/ patronised/ tested/ given pots to wee in/ referred for assessment blah blah blah and if one more set of consultants turns up with a student in tow because I'm sodding interesting I shall stick a patientline telly up their arse.

And if one more fucking inlaw calls me and wakes me up to ask how I am I swear I will organise a family get together and bomb the sodding building

Aw, bless him, he is a sweetheart

But yes, not much help with the actual pushing bit.

Is there something in particular you're worried about? Marsy would say the worry was stopping you going into labour (maybe - maybe she wouldn't, who knows? I'm not a doula fgs!).

aww my lovely hatrick noooo!

last night a friend texted me to say 'are you watching active birth' i said 'no' no channel 5!

she texted back 'good' then added ' I m bricking it for you'

well thankyou Claire!

I then ( and bear in mind this is my 6th delivery) grabbed my hospital nots and wrote a long passage about - If i want pain relief PLEASE give me it!

Butterfly - was I the only one watching that unassisted birth programme feeling really jealous that they had their sodding babies while I was still pregnant -even if they didn't have decent drugs?

ok just washed dried and straightened hair FOR BIRTH PICTURES

just capitalised it for babies sake so bab knows i mean business

takes so much energy i am not doing it again before birth!

Butterfly - am impressed. Am thinking of sending DH into the undergrowth to hunt for fanjo to shave just in case but frankly, I need to be able to find him if I want another cuppa later and fear he may be lost if I do!

hatrick - I feel the same I'm bricking it again think it's because we know whats coming

hunker - just think when I have that newborn little head snuggled into me having a feed the smell of them ahh only thing keeping me going. Go on have another so in 9 months time I can make clary sage jokes about you

mrsmacleod - it's not exactly marathon swinging for the bedposts type of thing, in fact it's pretty crap I cannot move because of the SPD, it is actually quite funny

The two-hour silent in pool labour? She was fab, wasn't she?

Have you got childcare for the girls covered? You're having a home birth, aren't you? Are you worried about that?

DH not up for another in 9 months, SK.

9 years, maybe

hunker - friend just around corner is on standby as is SIL but she's an hour away but has "aunty bag" packed. Have 2 canisters of gas and air and two of oxygen upstairs. Diamorphine is in the house (not going to use it no matter what I scream), lovely MW lives 5 mins away and is oncall until Saturday (thay have a rota) full homebirth kit is upstairs too.

Have everything ready just need a baby.

Drums fingers....

LOL butterfly, I started using the face tanning moisturiser stuff about a week before birth , for my pictures, but I was high on painkillers for my first pic so it only helped a little.

Oh also BMcQ, did you ever get my reply to your CAT? My email seems to be rather shite lately.