LLWWSBP2016 April 18-25 - Page 3

[laughingfox]

I hope I didn't compromise my claim to the golden birthing stool by going for a (very) short run this afternoon. I'm losing mucous. Not lots, but certainly more than before, and it's not exactly clear anymore..

No contractions, though.

[loveneverfails]

Originally Posted by smeisnotapirate

i henceforth ban yeast from your cervical area. Because you are in labor and i win.

i am not in labor and will not be in labor for 6 more years at least! You're delusional if you think you will snatch the golden birth stool out from me!!!!

[waiting2bemommy]

still not in labor over here.....SO says he is "considering" letting me go past Wednesday but nothing definitely agreed on yet. I'm getting more and more stressed and ctx are geting weaker and less frequent, instead of picking up steam.

Sorry to be so gloomy...you all are the only ones I can rant to. Literally every other person has told me "give up already and go to the hospital," including my mom, who advised SO to make sure I get the epi BEFORE the pitocin. I just feel completely alone right now. Please send your labor vibes my way.....Im 99% sure that it is a mental/emotional/spiritual connection that is missing and causing my body not to let this baby come out yet. I'm sure a day of massage and relaxing would help, but we just can't afford it. I asked SO to stop so I could get some RRL tea and he was like, "uh, you've tried EVERYTHING and nothing works, why waste more money?" and actually he's right.....

ok, rant over, sorry to sound so depressing.....

[smeisnotapirate]

waiting2bemommy, is there any way you can get away for a couple of hours to rejuvenate? Maybe pamper yourself - get a cup of tea and your nails done or something? Or conversely, send your DH and Caleb away for a few hours to do a manly thing? If it's a mental block, it may just get things started.

[waiting2bemommy]

Originally Posted by smeisnotapirate

waiting2bemommy, is there any way you can get away for a couple of hours to rejuvenate? Maybe pamper yourself - get a cup of tea and your nails done or something? Or conversely, send your DH and Caleb away for a few hours to do a manly thing? If it's a mental block, it may just get things started.

It probably would help. I tried to do visualization, picturing a calm, peaceful labor at home, my cervix opening and all that, but I'm so hopelessly ADD.....I can't focus/concentrate enough and my mind just wanders around in the twilight zone. It would be funny if I weren't so desperate. I'm going to try again tonight.....maybe they can go somewhere while I have a cup of tea and take a nice bath, surrounded by ds' bubble blowers, action figures and stacking cups

[dogretro]

Waiting2bmommy

I am only one day over edd, so not pushing the vbac limits even a bit yet. My one m/w absolutely does not expect me to go to 42 weeks & neither do I. I have not lost any mucus.

As for paying a sub m/w, I would think your original m/w would be responsible for paying her out of her own collected fee. I would leave it at that. How incredibly annoying to have someone you have not met yet do your delivery. I have mainly seen 2 m/w's out of something like six & what are my chances of having one of them? IDK! I would really like to have one of the two, but it could be someone I never met before!

Had m/w appt today, nothing exciting. Did not request an internal. See how brave I am? I am totally confident that nothing has changed & I don't need to prove it to you all! Now that both mama's who were due on the first have had their babies, I feel okay to go. I would have felt really bad if I had my baby before them. Lena, congratulations!! I am assuming that Jess had her baby since she otherwise posts every day. My baby is obviously waiting until tomorrow for two reasons: One is that she REALLY wanted a tiny pair of wool longies w/ a sock monkey face on the butt & she also wants to grow up to be a stoner

[loveneverfails]

Yep, even with some contractions and GI distress, no cervical change. I am freaking doomed to be pregnant forever.

I've officially hit the 38 weeks blues now. And I just found out that my entire family drove through my city en route to visiting my step grandmother and didn't stop to see us or even let us know. They're 3 hours from us and we see them maybe a couple of times a year. It would have cost them nothing to come see us for an hour, but evidently me and my family just aren't that interesting or worthwhile going literally just a couple of minutes out of their way.

I'm going to run away from home now.

[smeisnotapirate]

OMG, tomorrow is 4/20!

I didn't even notice that Jess hasn't posted! She's totally out. It's been like...... forever. Yay!!! Baby!!! Hope everything went/is going well for her!

waiting2bemommy, I totally understand. Maybe you can have the action figures guarding the bathroom door.

ETA: loveneverfails, that's totally crappy of your family. I'd be so pissed. I'll send some of my sunniness over to you. 38w was tough for me at the beginning of the week when my cousin's baby was born, but now I've got some cheer to spare.

[laughingfox]

waiting2be

How about making a birthing collage? Print some pictures of peaceful births, or pictures that represent birth to you, and some big bold words like "relax", "open", "release", or whatever appeals to you; cut them out and put them all together on a piece of posterboard or cardboard or something, and look at it while you try to do your visualization. Prop it up somewhere in the bathroom and look at it while taking a bubblebath or eating a big bowl of ice cream or anything you can do to relax and de-stress.
My mind can wander during visualization tricks, too, and having a focal point can help (it can help during labor, too).

[GreenTeaGinger61]

Originally Posted by loveneverfails

Y

I've officially hit the 38 weeks blues now. And I just found out that my entire family drove through my city en route to visiting my step grandmother and didn't stop to see us or even let us know. They're 3 hours from us and we see them maybe a couple of times a year. It would have cost them nothing to come see us for an hour, but evidently me and my family just aren't that interesting or worthwhile going literally just a couple of minutes out of their way.

Oh this makes me so grumpy. Seriously. I'd love to hang with your family and you. Of course I think we'd have a grand total of what eight children? Might not be so peaceful.

I'm not leaving so nah, nah. I HAVE to see the end of this contest. Plus I don't want us all separated by who has given birth and who hasn't. So you can kick me off but you can't make me leave!!!!

Oh and the only thing that worked for me in terms of keeping contractions going was the birthing ball. And this was after three weeks of prelabor stuff and three false alarms. Grrr.

[smeisnotapirate]

Originally Posted by GreenTeaGinger61

Oh this makes me so grumpy. Seriously. I'd love to hang with your family and you. Of course I think we'd have a grand total of what eight children? Might not be so peaceful.

I'm not leaving so nah, nah. I HAVE to see the end of this contest. Plus I don't want us all separated by who has given birth and who hasn't. So you can kick me off but you can't make me leave!!!!

Oh and the only thing that worked for me in terms of keeping contractions going was the birthing ball. And this was after three weeks of prelabor stuff and three false alarms. Grrr.

Well, fine. But if you're not leaving, you at least have to change your siggie. That's false advertising!

[LenaC]

Originally Posted by GreenTeaGinger61

I'm not leaving so nah, nah. I HAVE to see the end of this contest. Plus I don't want us all separated by who has given birth and who hasn't. So you can kick me off but you can't make me leave!!!!

Oh and the only thing that worked for me in terms of keeping contractions going was the birthing ball. And this was after three weeks of prelabor stuff and three false alarms. Grrr.

Ha ha, I just had to pop in between catching up on postpartum thread, plus I'm waiting to hear from Jess too!

Oh, and yeah, ball was the only thing I was doing the night before.

[GreenTeaGinger61]

Originally Posted by smeisnotapirate

Well, fine. But if you're not leaving, you at least have to change your siggie. That's false advertising!

I know I know but for some reason I can't figure out HOW I do this simple thing.

[smeisnotapirate]

Originally Posted by GreenTeaGinger61

I know I know but for some reason I can't figure out HOW I do this simple thing.

Baby brain! Go to your "User CP" and in the sidebar, it says "Edit Signature."

[Dena]

Ginger, if I can figure it out, so can you!

Ok, popping in for a minute - I am totally lurking to see who comes away with the golden birthing stool! Plus I hate having us all separated.

Oh, and fwiw crawling up and down stairs on my hands and knees brought on some fairly strong contrax for me. And made my kids laugh. And totally confused the heck out of the dog.

[GreenTeaGinger61]

Originally Posted by smeisnotapirate

Baby brain! Go to your "User CP" and in the sidebar, it says "Edit Signature."

Done... I feel a sense of accomplishment.

[smeisnotapirate]

Ooh, having contractions 7-10 minutes apart and peaking at 30-45seconds. Pretty cool. I haven't had any real contractions yet this pregnancy.

Oh, and loveneverfails hasn't posted since 7. That's like.... almost 6 hours. Disqualify?

[GreenTeaGinger61]

Loveneverfails AND Laughingfox. I swear if SME goes with them tonight I am going to be LMAO tomorrow morning.

[sehbub]

OOOO! If they all go, I WIN!!

Labor off and on since Friday.

I've been walking around at 5cm since Saturday night, 95% effaced, with an estimated 9lb baby, and am STILL pregnant.

I went to see my chiro yesterday and he gave me the "get the baby out" adjustment. As we were leaving he said, "well, it's 2:30 now, so go walk around for a while, and then around 8:30 or 9, just have a baby." Now, he didn't specify AM or PM, so technically he's still got 2-2 1/2 hours to be right, but I'm not holding my breath.

I told him if I'm still pregnant next week and coming in for another adjustment I'm holding him personally responsible, and he's not allowed to charge me.

Today is DD3's 4th bday so I'd actually like to NOT have a baby today.

waitingtobe I'm sorry you're feeling so much pressure! I would be too! I hope you're able to find some peace. Is Wednesday your EDD? Is that the reason for the deadline from your SO?

sandcastle that's a really difficult situation and I'm not sure what I'd do. Here's hoping you are able to make a decision you're comfortable with! I'm sorry you're in provider limbo so close to the end!!


Oh, I'm 39+5 today, based on my first EDD of 4/22. I'm almost a full week more pregnant than I've ever been. This is weird.

[loveneverfails]

Nope, totally still knocked up. Just as I'm going to stay being knocked up forever.