League of Ladies Who Will Still Be Pregnant in 2016 - Page 3

[triony]

Originally Posted by Pepper44

I would like to report that having doggy style sex then sitting on your washing machine when it's off balance in the spin cycle does nothing to bring on labor.

But you know...didn't hurt to try....

I would totally join in, but my In-laws will be here in just a few hours and might wonder why I was sitting on the washing machine.... plausible excuses?

[crazyeight]

Originally Posted by triony

I would totally join in, but my In-laws will be here in just a few hours and might wonder why I was sitting on the washing machine.... plausible excuses?

"i know, i know. before you say i'm huge OMG look at that belly I KNOW...that's why i am trying to see if my humongous weight can balance the dryer"

[snoopy5386]

can I join? I'm due Wednesday, but baby is not allowed to come before Monday - our doula is out of town until Sunday and our childcare for DD won't be here until Monday. It doesn't matter anyway since the idea of actually having another person - a baby - in our house now seems utterly laughable to me. For whatever reason, I can't even begin to fathom or imagine what it will be like - so I guess that means I'm not having a baby right now. Baby also has no name yet either, another reason for her to stay inside. I actually feel better and less pregnant today than I have in weeks, yet another reason she isn't coming out yet.
And there is all this cool stuff coming up to do around here in the next couple of weeks that I don't want to miss so baby needs to stay in so I can get to go out!

[Jeannabna]

Im definitely in. I will be 38 weeks tomorrow, and my last one was 5 days late so Im not even feeling anxious yet. I was so so so grumpy and miserable when I went past my due date that some people have already stopped calling me this time. Im still waiting to just wake up and be p!$$ed off that Im still pregnant, but so far I am at peace with it. I just want an April baby, thats all. I was due in May last time and she was born June 5 and for some reason that bothers me. Of course it felt like she was going to fall out of me for most of my pregnancy so I had my hopes up. Anyway, Im glad I am not alone!

[mom2happy]

Yes, I definitely have to join this club.
Its been a week since my episode of 48 hours of contractions and cramping.
I spent everyday of the week thinking that would be the day.
On Tuesday my whole house was clean and the refrigerator and pantry stocked with healthy snacks for the kids.
Now the house is a wreck and the food is almost gone. The laundry is piled high and there are boxes strewn about the house with summer clothes.
Im overwhelmed because walking hurts so badly and everything makes me have contractions.
I am also really crazy. Everything can make me cry and is hard to take.
My belly feels so tight that it could rip! BLAH!!!!
But then I feel swings of happiness when I realize this wont be forever.
Im trying not to project about the dr. talking about artificial induction because its just too upsetting for me.
Day by day I guess.

[sehbub]

I'm only 38+2, but if I hit 39 weeks I'll be more pregnant than I've ever been.

Considering I've been having contractions for 7 weeks now, some episodes lasting all night long, and am STILL pregnant, I'm pretty sure my body has forgotten completely how to expel a human being.

My dad said, "well, eventually he'll want to, like, go on a date or something, so you can't stay pregnant forEVer."

[Pepper44]

Originally Posted by sanguine_speed

Well, I'm only 38w3d, but I'm really longing for a baby because my dear midwife is going away on Tuesday for a week and I don't want to then end up hoping the baby STAYS IN until she gets back a week later. I've also never gone past 39 weeks before, so I'm worried that I won't be able to wait for her. And she is oh so dear to me and I can birth with the kind of confidence and peace I cannot find elsewhere if she is here.
I had an exam today and so I'm hoping now that it's mentally out of my way I can carry on with labor.

I've been having a lot of lower-down pressure that I wasn't having before so I'm hoping that means the baby is becoming more engaged? Babe was floating on around up high when the midwife palpated last Tuesday.

I'm also really suffering with SI joint pain and it's become rather debilitating. I feel so useless.

I'm also having some blood pressure increases. I want baby to come before s/he's ordered out.

We did finally come up with a middle name for a girl today, so maybe that'll help too...

My midwife is going to a conference at the same time. Maybe your midwife is going to the same place mine is.

I've never been pregnant past exactly 39 weeks and I'm worried because she'll be gone for my 39th week. The back-up midwife was fine the one time I met her, but it adds a bit of anxiety having to call a midwife you barely know to drive from two hours away to attend the birth. I knew my midwife was going to be gone from the start of care with her, but I was really hoping the baby would maybe come out before she left. Doesn't look like that's going to happen unless something major changes between now and Tuesday.

I'll be glad to wait through that week on pins and needles with you!

On one hand I do not want to be pregnant that entire time just waiting for her to get back, but on the other hand I do so that she can be here...

Oh and my house is strewn with summer clothes in boxes also. I have got to get everything switched out! Maybe if I get all of that done today, get DH to clean out the car and install the car seat this afternoon, and declutter my bathroom closet...then the baby will come out...

[laughingfox]

I had a dream last night that I gave birth to twins, and the dream (though really bizarre and nonsensical) seemed so real that this morning I was really surprised to wake up with no babies in sight, and I actually felt my belly to check and see if I was still pregnant.

In other news, I'm joining that highly scientific study. I'm sure I can convince DH to partake, you know, since it's for science.

[sew_crafty_girl]

Alright, so baby flipped over to the left of my belly yesterday when she's been on the right nearly all pregnancy. I can hope and wish that means she's gearing up, right? RIGHT?

It's ironic that I went through 4 miscarriages before this baby. 4 babies who didn't stay with us and now this wee one has settled in nice and cosy. I get scared that my body will not evcict her naturally. Afterall, 3/4 of my miscarriages needed help to complete.

I had another night of mild back pain that came in waves. Hasn't built up to anything though.

[nikirj]

Me me me me!

I finally had the mental/emotional energy to blog last week's not-labor:

http://lifeatnikis.blogspot.com/

Baby will not get its stubborn little self out of the posterior. It's been so long since I felt this baby's back that I can't really wrap my head around how big s/he might be. I'm totally out of vertical space so baby is just curling up and I can feel more and more of the curve of its butt right under my ribcage. Maybe that's why it can't turn, it's hitting ribs...needs to stay in the center...

The whole family has been sick, we've been cycling through two separate viruses. I've actually kind of lost track of who had what when. But I think we might actually be done. This may mean I can have a baby sometime soon.

I had a VE during my non-labor (OMG it looked like labor, acted like labor, and smelled like labor, WTF?) and was 3cm with a posterior (no surprise) asynclitic (ARGH) baby.

There will be no sex for induction purposes. The kids LOOOOOVE touching my belly. And for some reason can't *quite* wrap their heads around why I wouldn't want them to do that while I'm walking around in the kitchen trying to make them food. By the time DH gets home it's like "maybe you can just hold my hand? Um, until you go get me something to drink and switch the laundry?"

[triony]

41 weeks today. SIL is still talking about how we're going to handle things during my labor. (Like, getting my parents out of the house) I yeah'd and mm-hmmed through that conversation since it doesn't look like she's going to be here. I have to be honest with myself. I've had no signs. (Other than the more frequent trips to poop for the past 3 days). She's leaving the day after tomorrow.

41 weeks, la la la. 41 weeks, la la la. If it weren't for SIL leaving I'd be loving this. Showing all of my mainstream friends and coworkers that yes it IS normal to have a longer than 40 week pregnancy, and NO we're not going to induce or have a c-section.

At least it's not so freaking hot around here anymore!

[smeisnotapirate]

*snort*

You guys are hilarious.

[Pepper44]

In interest of updates for the scientific study, I checked my cervix this afternoon. It's a bit more open than yesterday and really thin and floppy feeling. I think this could be a good sign!

Unfortunately I am out of laundry to wash, so I can't sit on the washing machine anymore. I've just obsessively washed and put away every single item of clothing we own, plus boxed up all of DD's too small winter clothes and organized spring and summer clothes in her drawers.

While I was doing all of that DD totally destroyed the living room with toys. Nesting is like going in circles!

At least I can go install the baby's car seat in the car because DH cleaned it out for me...

[smeisnotapirate]

My house was clean not a day ago. I looked around this morning, and BAM. I have no idea what happened. I remember being asleep.

Yes, nesting is like running in circles.

[kristin1924]

Hahhaahha!!! OMG, I love this!! This is the best posting ever. I am right here with you mama! I have no idea when the baby is coming. I am glad there is this "support group" this week. Thank you!!

[kristin1924]

Originally Posted by smeisnotapirate

Yeah, my MW doesn't either. We did one today because I'm paranoid of going into labor and being so swollen that my cervix isn't even find-able. (It's what happened with DS, so it's a justified fear.) I had to convince her for a half hour that yes, I really wanted one, and it was ok to tell me that I wasn't dilated at all and wasn't going to get discouraged.

So I was happy to find any progress.

My midwife doesn't do them either, but I made him do it last week. All I have is a softened cervix, but no dilation yet.

[kristin1924]

Originally Posted by Pepper44

I would like to report that having doggy style sex then sitting on your washing machine when it's off balance in the spin cycle does nothing to bring on labor.

But you know...didn't hurt to try....

hahahah!! LOVE IT!! hahaha! We were having sex for a while, and it did nothing, so I now want nothing to do with sex until I feel sexy again. But, I was hoping it was gonna help get my labor going. But no.

[GreenTeaGinger61]

Sign me up. And oh the 38th week sucks big time. I'm only in one day and I've already had three crying fits, anger at the unborn, etc. This sucks. And if one more person says "Oh you're going to go to 42 weeks haha." I may have to kill.

Oh and my midwife did a gentle sweep because even she is starting to freak out at the size of unborn baby. NOTHING. Sex does NOTHING. Walking does NOTHING. I even went to see Date Night to see if laughing works. Nope.

So anyway sign me up. Pregnant forever that's me.

[smeisnotapirate]

Ok, I have to report one benefit to baby staying in (because I'm just the Unsinkable Molly Brown today).

It is MUCH easier to drop ONE kid off at a babysitter's on short notice than two.

DH and I are getting a night out tonight!!! Very excited.

ETA: I will be doing scientific research tonight on whether doing the "Electric Slide" and "Cotton-Eyed Joe" for 3 hours with a bunch of 7th graders will help to induce labor. Back later with results, and hopefully no broken limbs.

[waiting2bemommy]

well the toddler has been taken off the market. he was driving me nuts so i gave him a soapy sponge and everything 3 ft and below in my kitchen is now sparkling clean.

sme that sounds like fun. i'll be the control group (you know, do nothing), to make your research more valid. Now I have a legitimate reason for SO why I can't do any house work tonight...