It's awfully quiet in here......

[liliaceae]

Anybody still here? Or is everybody busy having their babies now? I'll be 39 weeks tomorrow and still waiting for baby. This past week my contractions have been getting stronger, and just the past couple days my lower back and hips have been really sore. I've decided to sit around doing nothing as much as possible.

How is everyone doing??

[fuzzypeach]

Today is my due date! Well, my official one anyway... according to my calculations, it's tomorrow.

My body has been uh, clearing itself out, to put it delicately, for the past two days and today I am feeling crampy... I felt crampy the morning of the day I went into labor w/DD, so I am hoping that this is it!!! I'm ready!

I have been having more and stronger contractions, too... just waiting for them to take off!

[filiadeluna]

I am 41 weeks today :, and seem to only have contractions every other night or so. I am getting really sick of being in pain when I'm trying to sleep (the pelvic/hip pain). I cannot get comfortable for the life of me, and poor DH can't sleep well either b/c I am tossing and turning all night. My belly is freaking HUGE.

[lilliansmom]

Still waiting. I will 38 weeks Monday. I started feeling crampy last night and this morning....like the start of my period...my lower back is sore to. I was induced with DD so I have no idea what the natural start of things feels like. My HD is out of town until next week and my 3 year old DD has a virus so I am hoping baby stays put a few more days.

[Multimomma]

I'm 41 weeks today. No contractions. No changes to cervix for three weeks. I do have a lovely pinched nerve in my sacrum, which is really starting to tick me off...almost as much as all the people I am TRYING to love for being concerned, who just keep calling to see if I've had the baby yet. I want to say "Oh, yeah, we had the baby last week, I just didn't want YOU to know".

I am really hoping for a baby today or tomorrow. I am very nearly worthless for the children, I have an hour in the morning and one in the afternoon, where I can get up and get things set up, and then it exhausts me so much that I have to lay back down.

[Indigomama]

38 weeks + 2 days here.

It's like I'm totally ready and I have a night with contractions and then something happens and I feel myself mentally draw back.

Right now, all of us have the flu/cold/who knows Ds was down on wednesday.. looking up today but dh and I are in bed barely moving. I just hope I keep a fever away just in case as I'm pretty positive that does an ixnay ixay on the birthing tub or the baby waits. I know baby is ready and really thought he'd be out right now (we were pretty sure his real due date was up 2 weeks) but I can't imagine going into labor feeling like this or having every single person afraid to come close to the baby.

This too shall pass I keep telling myself!

[jmay]

I am 38 weeks 3 days and have been having crampy contractions, loose bm's, and lots of mucous for over a week now!
I really thought last weekend was it but now here it is, another Saturday, and still waiting. I really don't mind going past my due date but all of these signs have me thinking it is any day and then I get frustrated because it isn't.
Glad to know I am not alone. I don't post very often but am on here reading a LOT, especially these past two weeks!

[SaraC]

I am due Tuesday(3/17) but tend to go over. I would love to have my baby this weekend but I doubt it will happen. I am just trying to be patient but it is so hard.

[Double E]

I'm still here. I'm 39 weeks and couldn't be more ready. I'm trying to enjoy the last stretch of this pregnancy (as it's our last, I'm pretty sure). But I'm so BIG (not just big bellied....but my thighs have turned into cottage cheese! : and everything about me is large).

I went late with my son but was really hoping I'd go early with this one. I'm thinking not. Oh well........she'll come soon enough, right?!?

I'm off to order some spicy Indian food now!!

[YayJennie]

I'm 38+1 right now, and just waiting around. I fully expect to be pregnant for another few weeks, so I'm just hanging out, sewing diapers, reading, and trying to get enough sleep!

[lanielayne]

I am 38 1/2 weeks. Baby has been in the worst position for me the last few days. She was vertex but posterior and my back has been killing me! She moved to my left side today for the first time all pregnancy. We shall see if she stays but at least my back pain is less. I was kind of hoping she would come this weekend since it was a long one for everyone here but alas it looks like it isn't meant to be. Dd1's bday is in a week and a half which is also my EDD. It will be fun to see if I can make it that long!

[3for_me]

I am 40w 1d and still hanging in there. I have been having very strong toning contractions mostly at night but I just keep waking up every morning pregnant. I have never gone "over due" so this is all new to me.

[Goniopal]

Also still hangin in there! I'm 38 weeks next Tuesday, and still trying to get ready. Looks like I've missed a few birth announcements on here!
Still working, and that is crazy busy, and both my grandparents have been in the hospital (after a surgery and after a fall). We are close, and I've been helping out as much as possible. So, I've been pretty stressed, scattered, and glad to have the next 2 weeks (I hope!)
I do plan on being around to read about the births into April, though maybe not being able to check in quite as often. We will all get there, and get to hold our little ones soon!

[JillyD]

39 + weeks here and JUST starting to feel ready for the baby. I slept a ton today - and still have been feeling really tired. So, I feel like I might be storing up some energy for the welcoming! We'll see! I could use another week or two but would be okay birthing now (which is not how I was feeling even 2 days ago). It's a good place to be.

[paula444four]

38 weeks 4 days here...and still very pregnant. I have had on and off cramps/contractions since Wednesday...starting too look like every other day...weird. Since my first born had a straight forward...no teasin labor and birth..this is all new to me. I actually thought I was going into labor on Friday. Then today....Saturday..basically no cramps or contractions! So I am resigning myself for the long haul. It is SO good to know I am not alone though..and that this is normal etc. I am definitely ready for this baby..and feel frustration...especially now that I have teased my family and friends and they are all watching now.Oh well..she will come eventually.

[herins]

38 weeks today. I finally bought my car seat, so my baby will be allowed to come home with me! I was ready to be done, but now my camera is at the repair shop, so I'd like it to come back before I give birth!! I am really looking forward to letting someone else hold baby for a while!

[Kmelion]

39w3d here...

I think it's quiet here because those of us who have had our babies are busy with the babies and for those of us still waiting... well frankly, I'm sick of reading about everyone else having their babies LOL...

Wednesday's OB appointment nearly made me cry. He checked and I was totally closed... and I've just been SO ready for the past 2 weeks...

This Wednesday I have my first NST and then we'll see what happens...

[Malva]

Originally Posted by Kmelion

I think it's quiet here because those of us who have had our babies are busy with the babies and for those of us still waiting... well frankly, I'm sick of reading about everyone else having their babies LOL...

Bingo!

[mom2tatum]

end of pregnancy blues...thats why I haven't posted much...

38 wks tomorrow or Tuesday (I'm confused about that, and who really cares) some days I feel great, usually if I've gotten excellent sleep and ds is cooperative and well rested as well. But lately, having more days where I'm swollen all over like an ogre, can't stand for more than 10 seconds without my feet falling asleep, circulation all over sucks, and my hemorrhoids are totally prolapsed and hurting...I just want to lay down all the time for comfort, yet thats the last thing I want to do at this point. I really want to be up and moving around, walking, squatting, lunging up stairs, and getting cervix to start dilating...the baby's head is really low in my pelvis and I bet if I could manage to do all these active things, the pressure would surely help dilate me a little more. I had my first reading of somewhat high bp for me, and although I had just had a stressful car ride with ds, I worry a little with the extreme swelling and here and there headaches/lightheadedness...ugh. But mw could barely reach my cervix enough to say I am just 1 cm, she had her arm in there I think and barely touched with tip of finger tip iykwim. That was a little disheartening. I don't think I or my mw expected me to even get this far since ds was a 36 wker, but now I am feeling like come on already, I can't even stand on these feet comfortably! And labor? Please, my hopes of feeling good for labor have pretty much gone out the window...my body is suffering already in more ways than one.

[filiadeluna]

Originally Posted by Kmelion

39w3d here...

I think it's quiet here because those of us who have had our babies are busy with the babies and for those of us still waiting... well frankly, I'm sick of reading about everyone else having their babies LOL...

Wednesday's OB appointment nearly made me cry. He checked and I was totally closed... and I've just been SO ready for the past 2 weeks...

This Wednesday I have my first NST and then we'll see what happens...

I've got an NST tomorrow. I'll be 41 weeks 2 days.