This feels more than engaged - help!

[devotion]

Hello

38 weeks pregnant with third child and been engaged since 34 weeks which I know is not common for subsequent pregnancies but I know a few people who were.

AAAAAAAnyway, last night I was woken constantly with a pressure in my pelvis and perenium, so strong like the baby was trying to get out. This morning when I got up I was so aware of the baby dropping even lower.

I have been walking like a cowboy all day with my legs wide apart - not a good luck. Just got back from Sainsburys in the car and I found it so hard to drive especially breaking so no more driving for me until after baby arrives I think.

I can not imagine hobbling around like this for two weeks or more, its very painful and walking about is really uncomfortable. I did not experience this kind of pressure with engagement with my other two.

Please tell me this means labour is almost here and not a fortnigh away. Its too much to bare.

Anyone else experience this kind of pressure and then went into labour soon after?

Thanks

excuse bad grammar, spelling, typing and me

When I was expecting my third, it I felt as if a large fist was being pressed down hard on the inside of my cervix from about 37-38 weeks onwards. It was very uncomfortable and I can totally relate to you.

Labour was not imminent, however. I was induced at 42 weeks. On the plus side, labour was only 20 mins! You can take some comfort from that, I hope.

no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

dont say that

it feels just like how you described.

so i could have four weeks of this???

i was the same with ds 3 weeks back (my 3rd) and i'm sorry to say also was like it for a good few weeks he engaged fairly early too.

i to was induced

but we are all different and either way, you're nearly there!!

can i just ask when both of your first two labours started?

dd1 was her due date
dd2 was two days past due date.

DC1 36 weeks
DC2 more or less due date

I'm really hoping to start naturally for my fourth as I want a home birth, but that may not happen.

DD1 was 2 days early
DD2 was 2 weeks early- but induced
DS1 was 3 days early but induced- long story lol

so not much to go by me!

Promised DH that I would def not want more after this one so why I'm on the pregancy boards i don't know!

oh dear!

i just do not remember feeling this kind of discomfort. this has only been really since last night.

i had my mucous plug last week - (not the bloody show) period pains for days, soft poo ... but i guess i am hoping!

there is no way i can go like this though especially not for another 4 weeks. i am also booked in for a homebirth so i dont want to go over and be induced.

well... dh will have to get busy with me tonight then and tomorrow morning and tomorrow night etc

whatever it takes!

i tried soooo much to get things going and kick start labour this time and nothing worked

eve primrose oil however is good to soften cervix ripen you up a bit lol!

that seemed to do something between sweeps lol

yangymac - thats funny what you say about carrying out front, this time i have this tight belly right infront of me and its actually smaller than my other two bumps which were rounder.

so i wonder if that is a reason.

ah well!

i guess at least i have an excuse for doing nothing!

devo - how you feeling today!

I'm feeling the same thing but this is my second pregnancy. I'm now 40+3 and baby's head has been fully engaged for 2wks now. I've been trying everything to kickstart it but some days I can't move at all. The other day I felt baby move in my pelvic and it was like a cringing feeling (so awful I hope not to feel it again!). I had to lie down to take the weight off b/c it was painful. I'm hoping to naturally and soon! I'm hope the same happens for you devotion. I feel your pain!

hello

the last two days have not been as bad for some reason so maybe the baby has just stretched the muscels there and they have adjusted or he/she has moved back up again.

anyway lots of niggles still and i guess my due date is 12 days away so i just need to focus on that date 27th!

yangymac - hope you are not too uncomfortable.

Mama2b5 - you ok?

I hate it when i started two threads by accident, you dont want to ignore the people on the 2nd thread so you have to pop between the two

no, i not, good feeling alot of discomfort from last nite and today just want to have this baby now - Ampster story was wonderful and so quick it came on!hope!

i have waited this long but these pushing pains are getting on my nerves now!

discomfort also in bum - ahhhhhhhhhh!

GW -it will be over soon - so doubt the 27th that will bring me to 40 weeks!

I had that bum pain last week.

I thought maybe I had piles but I didnt, it was just the pressure of the baby. Really uncomfortable and felt like everything down there was bulging. I was thinking how will i cope two more weeks like that and now I feel ok again?

Come on the 27th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yangymac - sounds like you might have spd - symphisis pubis dysfunction?

I had this with DS 1, it was fairly bad for about a week, then got really bad one day and as i was walking up to catch my horses for the night I joked if I didn't come back I was having my baby up on the hill. It really felt like the head was about to come out any second.

I went into labour that night, at 37 weeks. I was only in labour for 3 hours!

Devotion, I had this with my first, he was lying really low and the midwife at my 38 week check said the bloody weight of him had caused me to be a couple of cm dilated without even being in labour! Felt like I was carrying a bowling ball down there! The good thing was that labour was fairly quick tho.