The "overdue" club ~chat~

[corban's mum]

thought I may as well start one up...

AFM
i'm due today, but fully expecting to be here in 10+days time hehe. most prodromal labour has stopped, swelling gone way down (blood pressure up though? weird) and i generally don't feel preggo. not feeling as impatient either. kinda cool with her hanging out in my uterus until she's good n ready

[momasana]

I'm due on the 7th so I'm not overdue yet, but I feel like I am because I have spent this entire pregnancy thinking I was going to deliver this baby early!

DS was born a week and a day early, fully cooked, so I just assumed I'm a fast-gestater. It was a silly thing to think because all it did was set me up for antsy days, waiting for this one to come!

For the past two weeks I have been achy, crampy, juicy, and having a lot of pelvic pressure. I nested like a maniac, I have nothing left to do except normal daily cleaning and that feels very unfulfilling. I wake up every morning thinking "today is the day!" Pfffft. Nothing.

I was almost in tears last night thinking this baby was never going to come until my mom mentioned "Honey, you aren't even due yet". Oh yeah, not until Thursday, and possibly weeks after that.

I guess I'm just very excited to meet this little miss! Come out baby, come out!

[Pineapple Head]

I'm now one day over due! Which honestly is a good thing because my house went from being 10 minutes away from spotless to looking like a hurricane went through! Today were doing a deep cleaning and moving around furniture to make room for the birth tub in the living room and finally putting the waterproof sheets on the bed! I also have to get through tomorrow as my HR people sent me the wrong forms for my insurance and told me that I had to fill them out but turns out my doctor(who I haven't seen since I became preg!) has to fill them out because it HAS to be filled out by a doctor of medicine. BS! So I have to trek up there tomorrow afternoon.
I also need to buy a lamp and a rug for under the rocker.

So even though I'm excited to meet our babe I need at least 2 more days!!

[southernmommie]

Originally Posted by corban's mum

thought I may as well start one up...

AFM
i'm due today, but fully expecting to be here in 10+days time hehe. most prodromal labour has stopped, swelling gone way down (blood pressure up though? weird) and i generally don't feel preggo. not feeling as impatient either. kinda cool with her hanging out in my uterus until she's good n ready

I would try to eat more protein. I've been reading that high blood pressure is your body's way of saying your low in protein. Try adding some more today and tomorrow and see if that doesn't help some.

[Magali]

I am due today too. But, that is based on a 28 day cycle. My cycles are always about 38 days. Soooooo, my 19 week US put me due on the 10th, and if I calculate my due date on a longer cycle, the later date pops up. But, my son was born at 40 weeks based on a 28 day cycle (even tho my cycles were always long even back then), so . I just feel like I am never going to have this baby, even tho today is my due date lol. Just waiting, waiting, waiting.....

[corban's mum]

i crave protien constantly, ive always got my finger in the peanut butter, or eating prawns straight outta the fridge lol

i honestly think im gonna go into shock if i go into labour, i really dont feel as if it's even something thats gonna happen ever...not am impatience thing more of a "im just a round lady, why the heck would i go into labour" kinda way. so yeah, it's gonna hit me like a truck when it does happen - OMG IM HAVING A BABY get the towels... lol

[BirthNut]

I was due Friday, just feeling lots of pressure here lately, tightening, but no real painful contractions. I just hope he gets here soon

[SouthernBette]

I was due two days ago, and DH and I have tried EVERYTHING--save for castor oil--to try and induce labor. I think I walked five miles today alone! I feel like I will be a member of the 42-week club, as she is still only at -1 station/80% effaced/1 cm dilated. Who knows...

[gottecat]

i was due yesterday. In the same boat as corbans mamma just doesnt feel like it will ever happen. found out from my OB on friday that he doesnt like to let you go past 41 weeks. so I am really hoping she will just come before friday so that I am not fighting an induction. kinda weird I am still pregnant since really expected her to come this weekend. so I am off to bed again in hopes that I either sleep wonderfully or wake up in labor

[BlueIrises]

Originally Posted by gottecat

kinda weird I am still pregnant since really expected her to come this weekend. so I am off to bed again in hopes that I either sleep wonderfully or wake up in labor

I was due Friday...I am really kinda shocked I am still here as I felt all summer long I was going to go super early...I did something to a ligament and constantly felt like the baby was going to fall out of me...I was so pleased to make it to 36 weeks...then I expected to be about 2 weeks early as #2 was about 10 days early...#1 was punctual...but nothing...three weekends in a row, I have had BH that I thought were the real thing and it set my DH into full on clean mode at the home only to have no baby...I keep buying food that I don't eat so there is food for my MW and then it goes bad. Went walking at a festival and then at the track and still nothing but BH and a clean house. I am feeling a bit disappointed b/c I stopped working Wed thinking I was going to have the baby any day...I feel like I am losing time with the baby each day s/he does arrive b/c I only get a few weeks off for leave. So I am off to go listen to my hypnobabies CD and try to internalize that babies arrive on their birth dates not when doctors say...here's to hoping labor starts tonight...for all of us!

[APBTlover]

I was "due" Friday or Saturday, so now I'm just settled in to wait. Unfortunately, despite trying to keep it vague, at least a couple of family members wrangled my EDD out of me in the past couple of weeks, so now the pestering has begun in earnest. It kind of makes me want to send out a mass text: "I am feeling FINE! Yes, I know what you're getting at! Stop calling!!" Also, we haven't done any VEs and this trips everyone up, because I don't volunteer info I don't have, obviously, so they go around the world trying not to ask directly about the condition of my cervix.

"So what did your midwife say? Did she say when the baby might come? ...Oh. Okay. I just thought maybe she could tell some way if it might be soon..." I swear next time I'm just going to say, "No, we didn't do a VE, so I have no idea what my cervix is doing. I had no idea it was so important to you. If you'll excuse me for a minute, I can go to the bathroom and figure it out myself..."

Haha, this turned into a rant. My apologies. In brighter news, I woke up feeling like crap today. Maybe labor is impending?

[sunwillshine]

Due today!

Feeling great; peaceful, patient, and confident that Cadence knows exactly how and when to be born. Enjoying these last few days/hours, since it will never be just me and her ever again.

Here's a poem I stumbled upon awhile ago to meditate on, and I want to share it with my fellow "overdue" mamas. I think it's beautiful, and I think it (and Hypnobabies) has helped me maintain my sense of calm (which, hopefully, I can hang onto!):

These Last Few Hours

It is important to me
That I spend a part
Of the next few hours
Here alone with you
In the darkness

You and I will never be
This close again
Soon you will be
A tiny person
All on your own.

No longer the kicking,
Demanding bulge in my body
That I have grown to love so much

I pray that you will be safely guided
On your journey to my arms

And I ask for the strength, courage and
The power of birthing, to open my body and mind for you
And ever so gently us as one will become two

-Author unknown

[outlier]

I was due yesterday by LMP, today by date of ovulation. I'm wondering if it would be worth it to try to get the midwife to change my EDD in my chart, even if it is by only one day. No cramps, no mucus, no nothing here! I still feel pretty good. One lady at Walmart yesterday guessed based on my bump that I had "only a couple more months to go"...boy was she shocked when I told her I was due that day!

[APBTlover]

Lyndzies, that's a lovely poem. I have been thinking along those same lines these past few days, as well. I am so excited to hold this baby in my arms, see his/her face... find out if it's a him or a her! But at the same time, I'm going to miss this, on some level. Last night I was propped up in bed reading, and DH fell asleep with his hand on my belly and my hand over his. It was so perfect. I know there will be plenty of "perfect" moments when this baby gets earthside, too, but this first stage of our life as a little family will be over.

So I am not in any hurry. (Though I'd rather not go to 42 weeks and have to get a u/s, I admit.)

[PieKat]

I'm due Thursday. I'm feeling a little anxious now, we've had the whole "measuring ahead, big baby" business from my OB. I don't buy it, but to a certain degree. . . in the back of my head. . . I'm like OMG 11 lb baby. I told them when they got the measurements from an u/s at 37 weeks I didn't even want to have the words induction come into play until I was "overdue". I'll set something up for next week. I don't have much maternity leave, but really wanted to give this guy a chance to come on his own. I took off starting last week because I work with preschoolers and I was SO uncomfortable by the end of the day.

We're moving the 15th, so my house is chaotic with boxes, a visiting mom, a 2 year old and 3 dogs. I had wanted to labor for as long as possible at home, but have come to the conclusion that "my space" is really not relaxing for me right now at all. I'm slowly opening to the laboring at the hospital idea for this reason. As long as my doula can be there, I'm OK.

I'm going to get checked out at 11:30 because I think I may be leaking fluid, but I'm not sure. . . there was a big leak situation last night around 2am and nothing really since then.

[muffinette]

Originally Posted by momasana

I'm due on the 7th so I'm not overdue yet, but I feel like I am because I have spent this entire pregnancy thinking I was going to deliver this baby early!

DS was born a week and a day early, fully cooked, so I just assumed I'm a fast-gestater. It was a silly thing to think because all it did was set me up for antsy days, waiting for this one to come!

Ha, this happened to me too! My daughter came 12 days early, so I assumed that this baby would come a week or two early. How silly of me, seriously. I'm not due for another week but I've been pulling my hair out thinking that this baby will never ever come!

To be honest this thread has calmed me down today, a LOT. When she comes, she comes.

[JustJackson]

I'm "due" Wednesday but have been saying from the get go that I will hold out until 10/10/10. LOL We will see. Not much going on around here. Feeling like I am getting a head cold so I just sent DH off for some Oscillococcinum. Hopefully my body will either wait to go into labor or fight it off quick! I soooooo don't want to be sick on top of going for a natural VBAC.

[outlier]

After reading this abstract, I've decided my actual due date is Oct. 12. l'm even going to print out the whole article and bring it to the rest of my prenatal appointments for when/if that pesky "i" word comes up. Why does every other animal get to have a gestational length based on actual data, but humans, arguably the most studied animal on the planet, get one based on something some German doctor wrote in 1830?

Sorry, I'm trying not to be bitter. Here, I'll dance it out:

[mauri456]

So my due date is 10-18 but it is twins, which everything is two weeks ahead...so Im technically overdue...wohoo... Luckily my OB/MW are pretty hands off so Im feeling peaceful... no 'I' word.. just waiting on labor. Hoping it will start soon....

Ive had lots of ctx but nothing that amounts to anything, some of my plug came out this weekend, pressure, but who knows....it could very well be another 2 weeks

[cierra159]

So I am officially 'overdue' and up until today I truly have had a great pregnancy! I had some ctx and back pressure last night but after an hour or two faded away... ended up with a migrane as well... and actually had a good nights rest for the first night in a couple weeks, but woke up with the saame migrane and I feel as if I didn't sleep at all? And I'm just ready to turn the phone and computer off, but its all the sanity I have while my DH works during the day, we just moved 2 months ago and still don't know anyone, so my phone and computer have sort of been my life line. Buuut i'm so tired of the 'omg you havent popped yet? you need to get that baby out have you tried.... OR where is emma?' hello no im online no i obviously havent popped yet, yes ive tried everything and now im just relaxing because ive come to terms with she will come when SHE is ready, AND shes still in my belly where else would she be.. And I have an hour and 10 minute drive to the birth center, and everyone knows that so ill have plenty of time to call everyone and let them know.. and they STILL wont stop :/ sorry guess i'm just frustrated. Last night at the grocery store I even had a lady say bet its a boy.... my entire pregnancy EVERYONE has told me it looks like im carrying a boy, shes just very low, especially now. I told her I was due yesterday she looked at me like I was crazy and just continued unloading her grocery cart. lol. & I havent had an VE either so I have no idea the condition of my cervix either, so i'm sorta irritated by getting asked that too.. I mean, you could be dialated for a couple of weeks, so it doesn't really matter if you have or not right? People just amuse me with the things they say.. 'better make sure the mw checks you so youll know if youre going to go soon' lol.. anyway sorry to rant it sort of just all came out.. and haven't had anyone else to share my frustration with. I hope we all that are overdue deliver soon and everyone has a smooth L&D