Am I the only prego left? - Page 3

[pdx mama]

I am sympathizing with you ladies. I avoided cervical checks until yesterday (my due date was 12/27), partly because I don't want to know if my cervix has actually gotten less dilated, soft, etc. over time---trying to keep myself blissfully ignorant! But now I finally know all the stats, so...

Anyway, I'm still here too, right along with you.

My daughter was born 2 weeks past my due date in 2006. I remember feeling all this tricky emotional pressure and whatnot that last week, but the instant she was born, all that tension seemed to evaporate. (Thank god for sweet babies, endorphins, and love hormones.)

Somehow, though, even though I experienced this before, I can already feel myself getting a little squirrelly.

[DoulaJulian]

Originally Posted by ChristSavesAll

I give up, I'm just gonna sit this one out... no more trying, I'm just gonna wait.

Sing it, sister!

Since my LMP date was for the 17th of Dec, I have obviously been in waiting mode for awhile. I think that there are so many potentially "special days" in between the 17th and yesterday that I expected my birth (and the baby's birthday) to also coincide with one of these special days. So, as each one approached, I would clean the house, re-ready the birthing kit, stock the fridge, prepare the kiddos...and each new morning was a let down. Plus, we had the additional responsibility of somehow finding the time to drive my eldest son back to college as soon as his apartment became available...he was going to gear up for the new semester and spend some time alone and "house sit" the place while his room mates went home to their families for the holidays. And with the birth imminent, I was getting ansty for those plans to manifest so that we could cross it off our list.

So, here I was gearing up for my X-mas Eve birth and dreaming about our little miracle when I get up to pee for the 100th time, I stepped on my not-off-to-college-quite-yet-20 year old son laying on the floor next to my bed. "Mom, I didn't want to wake up, I know how you need your sleep, but I have a bad fever and I think I just threw up blood"

WHAT!

So, fast forward to an emergency appendectomy on X-mas Eve instead of a new baby! All I could keep imagining was that if I had gotten *my way* my son would have been 200 miles away, all alone, and he would have called us with his "tummy ache and fever" and I would have told him to take some advil and go back to bed b/c we were waiting on the baby...and he would have died in that apartment while his friends were away!!!!!!!

So, the lesson I learned, of course, was to just let it go and try to trust that the universe, God, the powers that be etc... might be wiser than me.

But let me assure you that it does not alleviate my frustration, my anger, my despair at this point! All of the holidays have passed...great, now my little ones birthday can be it's very own special day!

Let's check in everyday and commiserate!

[bethanyclaire]

Still here, too. I'm glad I'm not alone. I'm 40+5 or 40+3, depending on which due date you go by (40+3 is adjusted for my longer cycles). I know I still have lots of time but I think I'm going a little nutty. I'm in my 6th day of back-to-back contractions. Seriously, they never stop. I have *maybe* a 3 hour break in the morning. They start around noon-ish and build until 5 or 6pm when they get really intense and close together. By 9 or 10pm they are downright painful and come every 2 or 3 minutes for hours which, of course, keeps me awake. They slow overnight but still wake me a few times every hour. By 9am they have stopped and then they start again by noon. I am going crazy from lack of sleep and the constant pain.

I had DP check and there have been no cervical changes for all of this pain. No mucous, no bloody show, no nothing. Lots of menstrual-like cramps, especially after I pee. I'm going to try a chiropractor this week and maybe an acupuncturist if I can find a good one. Other than that, we're still just waiting. Sex, walking and RRL tea are the only things I'm willing to try just yet. We'll see how I feel about all that next week if he still isn't here by then.

Hang in there, ladies!

[jacie87]

Still here, at 40+5. DD came at 38+3 so I was definitely not expecting to still be pregnant. I have consistent contractions every night as I'm going to bed, but I've stopped thinking "maybe this is it!" because they consistently fizzle out after a couple hours....