Patience support group? - Page 2

[mamayarn]

I am pretty sure that natural induction methods got things going into an unpleasant, long, intense labor that started after a long day and ended over 24 hours later with an epidural for DS#1. I did not want an epidural and feel like I shot myself in the foot in that respect. So I am in it for the long haul this time hoping for the NCB I want and to let nature and the baby decide. I'm 36 weeks. I don't doubt that I'll get the crazies at some point and I'm glad to have a crowd to lean on when it happens!

[trauerweidchen]

I think I'll be patient until about 38 weeks (I'm 36 weeks today), and then I'll be ready for things to happen. There's just so much to get done between now and then, especially for my DH, that if I go earlier it'll make our babymoon/summer much more complicated. I'm not too uncomfortable yet but I'm looking forward to being able to see my feet again. It seems as though there's a good group of us here due between May 20-30, so hopefully we'll be able to keep each other company after the early May babies are all here! I just keep reminding myself that my 38-42 week window is May 11-June 8 so I don't get too excited. I really do need to finish getting ready for our HB this week, though, just in case this baby comes early...

[j_p_i]

My first due date puts me at about 39 weeks, the second one puts me at 37. It has been hard for me to subtract 2 weeks from my original due date - I'd been counting it for the majority of the pregnancy. I'm definitely in need of practicing patience

[mamayarn]

I'm trying to stay busy, which is pretty easy since I keep starting giant projects such as sorting and washing every article of clothing in the house.

Right now my baby timing requests, should he choose to accept them, are that he 1. not be born on another family member's birthday (we have 2 out of 3 born in May already) and 2. wait until after I can put my tomato seedlings in the ground. I really would like to do all the placing and direct-sown seeds myself and I don't see it happening post-baby. I'll be out contracting in the garden if I have to.

[greenmamapagan]

Mamayarn, my requests are pretty similar to yours. DD's birthday and mine are a day apart and they just also happen to be the weekend my MW is away (she did warn me before I booked her). I really don't want to have a baby that weekend!

[JamieCatheryn]

Well now I have even more reason to be patient: it seems my hemoglobin is low now, didn't bounce up after 28 weeks in fact it got lower. So I'm on Floridix and hoping to get a better reading next thursday, it's 9.5 and my midwife would rather see it at 11 before birth, over 10 at least, for fear of PPH. We have bought all the stuff we need for birth now, and no more things are planned between now and then (we just had a birthday party, DH going out of town, and then the home visit).

Mamayarn I just got my tomatoes in the ground too a week or so ago, and my beans and watermelons direct sown just before that. We went out to a farm to buy the seedlings and my 3 year old got to play with a goat kid there. The beans are coming up, and my son's carrots are coming along nicely. And the nasturtiums by the tomatoes are growing. So long as I was squatting by the garden bed I was fine, it was getting up to move to the next spot that was difficult.

[cmoma]

If it weren't for the fact that our house is going on the market June 15th and we are planning to move into our new house mid July I would be all about this baby staying in. But alas that is not the case and I'm feeling that her coming just a but early around 38.5 weeks or so would be best as long as she is ready of course. It'll give me a bit extra time to recoup and heal and get some one on one with her and the kids before the craziness hits.

[mamayarn]

My parents are visiting next weekend. I would give...... a lot...... to not have the baby while they are here. Before would be okay but after would be best!!! My dad flees the room like I'm murdering kittens when I nurse, and there will be no shortage of nursing since it looks like DS1 is headed into tandem territory.

Do you hear that baby? You need to wait!

[the_lissa]

I'm pretty sure my primary midwife is off this weekend, so the baby can't come until Monday at the earliest now.

Next week is my partner's last week of work. It would be nice if the baby does not come until at least the due date, so I can have some time with him home catching up on rest while he cleans before the baby is born.

[abckidsmom]

Can I join you guys? I'm due May 21, and have turned the corner into pure misery. I'm a hormonal mess, and spent much of today either crying or fighting back tears.

We're planning our first homebirth, and I'm so excited, and at the same time, I'm just plain tired. I don't feel like cooking something good, so I'm eating junk, sitting around and being grumpy with the kids.

Something's gotta give, here, and I don't think it's the babe. I'll wait to meet the baby, but I need to wait with a better attitude.

[JamieCatheryn]

abckidsmom

I hear you about not wanting to cook, I do my meal planning and get everything and by the time dinner's soon it sounds horrible and too much work. I just make it anyway but it's a struggle. I'm thinking of getting a bunch of healthy convenience food soon here if we can afford it (frozen dinners from Whole Foods Market maybe). I'm too huge and contraction-y to do any exercise, but when the rain stops for a while it has been helping my mood to sit outside and let DS run around and look at all the growing springtime things.

[foothills mama]

Oh wow, do I need to join this - I am not precisely known as the most patient of women when I'm NOT a hormonal, waddling mess, sooo... yeah. Good thread idea!
I think the hardest thing for me is my last pg with ds, we only went to 37 w & 2 d. I'm currently 38w & 3d, so to me, I am *TOTALLY* overdue despite my actual due date. We had a bit of "false" labor last week - three days of consistent, uncomfortable contractions with NO progression or show / plug / waters breaking. We got checked by our MW last week who put us at 2 cm dilated with good effacement (wtf does THAT mean lol) and a posterior cervix. She then went on to say, "I don't think you're in early labor... I don't think you're even in pre-labor." Gee, thanks for the faith in my process, lady... *sighs* I should've switched long ago, maybe a friendlier MW would help us out and keep us mellow here...