Who else is due at the end of June? - Page 14

[swimming-duck]

Originally Posted by wake_up 

Swimming-duck, thinking of you!  Hoping birthing gets going soon.  You're still not "overdue," that's not til 42 weeks!  All is still normal!  Your body works!  You can do it!!!

Thanks for that! I do try to remind myself of this truth, but it's hard when society around you seems to think two seconds past 40 weeks is past due! But you are absolutely right! And well, tomorrow is 42 weeks, but so what if I'm a day or two past due in the true sense. I still get my home birth thankfully as long as I don't go past 43 weeks and so long as everything is okay at my BPP on Monday. But I won't make it that far. I'm birthing this baby tonight/tomorrow.

Here's the things I've done today:

Gorged on fresh pineapple

Evening primrose oil

Just got back from a LONG walk that included gutter walking

Hip circles on birth ball

Birthing affirmations

Pelvic rocking

Side lunges with one leg elevated on chair

Gave acupressure to self

Painted fingernails - so my nails look cute in birthing pictures

And there went a pressure wave as I'm writing. I plan to grab my ipod and fall asleep to hypnobabies, sleep for awhile, and wake up with pressure waves.

Thanks for all the support and well wishes ladies. It's been nice to have a place to come and rant. I feel like I have to be so positive around other people and on facebook since not everyone understands allowing birthing to come in its own time!

[kawa kamuri]

Originally Posted by swimming-duck 

Painted fingernails - so my nails look cute in birthing pictures

This made my baby come out! Maybe. The night before he was born I talked on the phone with my sister and jokingly said that I had to change my toenail polish because the baby didn't like the colour I had on and would not be born otherwise. I changed it and birthed him the next morning.  

[weliveintheforest]

Funny about the nail polish talk... I never use nail polish but was *thisclose* to buying some at a health food store today  If it had been cheaper I totally would have.  I might go get some cheap stuff tonight, because it sounds important  I used to use it but all I have left is base coat for some reason.

Congrats Klynne!  I might have to try a pump, I'm pretty sure I know where my hand one is...

I had some reflexology today, and I don't know if it will make any difference but it felt good to do something proactive other than walking!

[swimming-duck]

Originally Posted by kawa kamuri 

This made my baby come out! Maybe. The night before he was born I talked on the phone with my sister and jokingly said that I had to change my toenail polish because the baby didn't like the colour I had on and would not be born otherwise. I changed it and birthed him the next morning.  

Well, at least I'm on the right track with the nails then! 

Originally Posted by weliveintheforest 

Funny about the nail polish talk... I never use nail polish but was *thisclose* to buying some at a health food store today  If it had been cheaper I totally would have.  I might go get some cheap stuff tonight, because it sounds important  I used to use it but all I have left is base coat for some reason.

Congrats Klynne!  I might have to try a pump, I'm pretty sure I know where my hand one is...

I had some reflexology today, and I don't know if it will make any difference but it felt good to do something proactive other than walking!

Yes, get those nails gussied up. Let's both birth tonight/tomorrow, okay? This waiting is for the birds!

My plan was to fall asleep. That didn't happen. I did lay down and do some evening primrose oil and listen to a hypnobabies track. But I didn't fall asleep to it and I actually felt a bit stiff from the long walk, so I thought it would be better to get up, stretch, move around, etc...instead of go straight to bed with stiff muscles. Now I'm circling on the birth ball and boy is it making me crampy! In a few minutes I'll take a potty break and do another 20 minutes of circles on the birth ball going the other direction. I'm not trying to wear myself out too much prior to birthing with all of this effort, but I just want to get the show on the road so badly. I want everyone who's coming to my birth to get a phone call at like 4:00am or something tomorrow saying that they need to come and I want to hold my little sweet bundle of newborn loveliness!

Weliveintheforest - I think we're the last two waiting in the DDC? Anyone else still waiting or is everyone else on the postpartum side of things?

[Klynne]

Originally Posted by weliveintheforest 

Funny about the nail polish talk... I never use nail polish but was *thisclose* to buying some at a health food store today  If it had been cheaper I totally would have.  I might go get some cheap stuff tonight, because it sounds important  I used to use it but all I have left is base coat for some reason.

Congrats Klynne!  I might have to try a pump, I'm pretty sure I know where my hand one is...

I had some reflexology today, and I don't know if it will make any difference but it felt good to do something proactive other than walking!

The pump was much better at stimulating vs. hand rolling. Hope it helps you!!

Originally Posted by swimming-duck 

Well, at least I'm on the right track with the nails then! 

Yes, get those nails gussied up. Let's both birth tonight/tomorrow, okay? This waiting is for the birds!

My plan was to fall asleep. That didn't happen. I did lay down and do some evening primrose oil and listen to a hypnobabies track. But I didn't fall asleep to it and I actually felt a bit stiff from the long walk, so I thought it would be better to get up, stretch, move around, etc...instead of go straight to bed with stiff muscles. Now I'm circling on the birth ball and boy is it making me crampy! In a few minutes I'll take a potty break and do another 20 minutes of circles on the birth ball going the other direction. I'm not trying to wear myself out too much prior to birthing with all of this effort, but I just want to get the show on the road so badly. I want everyone who's coming to my birth to get a phone call at like 4:00am or something tomorrow saying that they need to come and I want to hold my little sweet bundle of newborn loveliness!

Weliveintheforest - I think we're the last two waiting in the DDC? Anyone else still waiting or is everyone else on the postpartum side of things?

That baby has no chance of staying in much longer! You're going to rock it out!! :)

[Momsteader]

Was busy for a few days and come back to lots of babies! Hopefully when I log in tomorrow, there will be two more! :) ELVs to Swimming and WeLive!

[swimming-duck]

Woke up to find out I'm still pregnant this morning. Starting the hip circles already this morning. I will birth this baby today. That's my mantra and I'm sticking to it all day long. Tomorrow I go for a BPP if baby is still in there. I really don't want to!

I'm trying to retain some confidence in my body. After everything that I did yesterday I think some steady pressure waves are in order, but nothing, zip, nada. When I had my DS my OB (different care provider) convinced me at 40+4 that my cervix wasn't going to dilate no matter how long we waited and that I needed to be induced in order to get things going and I believed him. I've been so proud for making a choice to trust my body this time around, but I admit that his words have popped into my head more and more lately. What if he's right? What if my body doesn't know how to do this? I know it's lousy to think that way. I'm trying so hard to stay positive, but I'm 42 weeks today. And I know that normal birth can happen between 38-42 weeks typically. So I"m refusing to call myself late yet. But this is really really really hard!

[tracymom1]

Sending lots of labor vibes to swimming and Welive!! And whoever else is out there in the June DDC still waiting to meet their babe!

I will be thinking about you!

[naturalcrunch]

Hi Swimming-duck, I wish I could offer you more advice other than do your best to stay positive! I am finding myself with a similar frame of mind and I am trying to do the same but its hard. I'm 41+3 so I know I have a few more more days before I have to consider BPP which is the last thing I want. Additionally, my midwife is going away at the end of the week and another birth attendant, a good friend of mine, who was to take care of my son is leaving in 3 days. I am feeling the pressure and I'm sure that is not going to help get me into labor. I also have this fear that I orginally thought would be irrational but it is starting to pop into my head, which is that my pelvis specifically my sacrum is misalighned and preventing the baby from properly sitting on my cervix. I injured my saccrum back in November and despite many chiropractior adjustments it has been been problematic throughout my pregnancy. My point is that I am finding that my fears are starting to get the best of me. So here is to trying to stay positive that our birthing time will come and it will be a wonderful experience well worth the wait!!!!

[Bald_Bull's_Mama]

Crystal, if it helps, the OB you're going to is super nice and not a pusher of interventions. I delivered with the midwife in his practice and saw him a couple of times. If you do end up having to go in for you BPP, trust that it will go smoothly. This OB is totally different from your last one (from my last one, too!). Hugs. I've been stalking for your birth story.

[swimming-duck]

Originally Posted by tracymom1 

Sending lots of labor vibes to swimming and Welive!! And whoever else is out there in the June DDC still waiting to meet their babe!

I will be thinking about you!

Thank you. All vibes are much appreciated!

Originally Posted by naturalcrunch 

Hi Swimming-duck, I wish I could offer you more advice other than do your best to stay positive! I am finding myself with a similar frame of mind and I am trying to do the same but its hard. I'm 41+3 so I know I have a few more more days before I have to consider BPP which is the last thing I want. Additionally, my midwife is going away at the end of the week and another birth attendant, a good friend of mine, who was to take care of my son is leaving in 3 days. I am feeling the pressure and I'm sure that is not going to help get me into labor. I also have this fear that I orginally thought would be irrational but it is starting to pop into my head, which is that my pelvis specifically my sacrum is misalighned and preventing the baby from properly sitting on my cervix. I injured my saccrum back in November and despite many chiropractior adjustments it has been been problematic throughout my pregnancy. My point is that I am finding that my fears are starting to get the best of me. So here is to trying to stay positive that our birthing time will come and it will be a wonderful experience well worth the wait!!!!

It will be well worth the wait! And our bodies will work!!

Originally Posted by Bald_Bull's_Mama 

Crystal, if it helps, the OB you're going to is super nice and not a pusher of interventions. I delivered with the midwife in his practice and saw him a couple of times. If you do end up having to go in for you BPP, trust that it will go smoothly. This OB is totally different from your last one (from my last one, too!). Hugs. I've been stalking for your birth story.

Thank you. I've met him once and even though it was at a terrible time (m/c) I really remember liking him. I'm hoping to not go in for the BPP, but I do trust that he won't try to push intervention unless there's a medical reason for it. Although, I'm not sure I'm actually seeing him tomorrow anyways. I think I'm just seeing a tech for the BPP. BUT if my plan comes to fruition I'm not seeing anybody tomorrow!

I have had some regular pressure waves I think, but they seem like they're starting to fizzle. It's just so hard because I have no idea what early pressure waves are supposed to feel like. With my DS I remember the waves that I felt, but by the time I felt any I was pushing and the epidural was wearing off and the feeling reminded me of a wave of electric current. What I'm feeling is so mild right now that I have a hard time believing that it's anything. But since it has periods of regularity I feel like it's worth noting. So I'll keep hoping that this is my body warming up! I did a LOT yesterday. This morning I started with hip circles on my ball. We just got back from mall walking, but I pooped out after not much walking at all. It must be because I did like 3 miles yesterday after not walking much at all! I am feeling the need to break and rest. So I'm going to heat up some lunch, kick my feet up, and relax for a bit. I want to encourage birthing, but I don't want to do so much activity that I'm exhausted when my birthing time starts!

Well hopefully you won't have to stalk much longer Bald Bull's mama. I'm confident (or at least telling myself that I'm confident) that before too long I'll have a lovely hypnobabies waterbirth story to share!

Edited to add: I'm trying not to get too excited here, but I have been having regular pressure waves(at least I think that's what this regular sensation is) since about 10:00am this morning. They've been roughly between 12-20 minutes apart and not getting more intense or closer at this point, but they're there and it's the first bit of regular waves that I've had. Holy cow - just had one and it was only 7 minutes after the last one. Okay - here's my plan. I'm going to take a warm shower because I need to wash my nappy hair and I'm going to try to get some rest. If it's not working up to anything it'll probably fizzle, but if it is, well, we'll see!

Edited by swimming-duck - 7/10/11 at 11:26am

[Klynne]

Wishing you the best!!!

[Momsteader]

Good luck Crystal! Babe, come on out :) Your mama is ready to meet you!!! And wouldn't you like to not have to sit and get 'watched' tomorrow on a BPP? It would be much better to be in your  mama's arms already! :)

[weliveintheforest]

I hope those pressure waves keep up for you Crystal!

I'm still just waiting...

[swimming-duck]

Originally Posted by weliveintheforest 

I'm still just waiting...

I'm with you...waiting.  I'm having pressure waves, but nothing to call the midwife about. No mucous...no bloody show...no loose stools...nothing that says, "Hey. This is getting real!" Still same intensity and distance apart as this morning.

Thanks for all the well wishes ladies. Today has been interesting, aside from just the pressure waves. We started off the morning with a visit to the clinic for DS. He has a double ear infection and pink eye. Poor little guy - he's been miserable and has wanted nothing but mommy all day. It makes me feel bad because I want these pressure waves that I've been having all day to turn into something so that I can birth this baby. But I know if I do he's going to get shoved off onto grandma and not to mention he's emotionally not in a great place to welcome his new sibling. I won't be free to hold him and cuddle him and I'll worry about him giving the baby pink eye. So I feel very torn right now. I want to birth so badly and I want to do it before the BPP tomorrow, but I want my little man to feel better.  Am I getting a taste of what it's going to feel like to mother two children and think about the needs of both at the same time?

Well, whatever's going to happen is going to happen. So I guess I can't do anything about it anyways! I am doing my hip circles on the birth ball. I feel like baby is pressing down more than ever and I want to keep that feeling going.

I do have a question for those of you that have birthed and felt pressure waves (hypnobabies speak for contractions). Here's how I can describe it. Tell me, are these pressure waves that I'm feeling on and off? First of all, they're not really uncomfortable - I'm thinking this is because at this point they're very mild. In fact if I'm moving around a ton I have a hard time telling that I'm having one for sure. But when I'm sitting it seems more obvious. It feels like a pushing down sensation in the lower part of my uterus that pushes down towards my pelvic bone, presses for a bit, and then subsides. It does seem wavelike in that it  moves down in  that way. Does that sound familiar to anybody? Do you think I'm confused about what I'm feeling?

[erigeron]

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Originally Posted by swimming-duck 

I do have a question for those of you that have birthed and felt pressure waves (hypnobabies speak for contractions). Here's how I can describe it. Tell me, are these pressure waves that I'm feeling on and off? First of all, they're not really uncomfortable - I'm thinking this is because at this point they're very mild. In fact if I'm moving around a ton I have a hard time telling that I'm having one for sure. But when I'm sitting it seems more obvious.

I don't know about the waves going down the uterus, but early on for me, they didn't feel particularly painful and I wasn't even necessarily entirely sure when I was having one. They started around 12:30 am, so I was trying to sleep, and they were uncomfortable enough to keep me from sleeping, but not really that uncomfortable or painful beyond that. If I'd been more active they probably would have been less noticeable. And I do recall prefacing each one with "I think I'm having another one" because I wasn't for sure if I was or not.

*crosses fingers for you*. You have been waiting so long and so patiently! I hope you get to meet your little one soon!

[weliveintheforest]

Those sound familiar to me!  I find I have two different kinds, I have the ones where everything gets hard and I can imagine it sort of bunching up at the top, but it doesn't hurt, and then I have some that feel more 'heavy' and low down, and those are more intense.

With my ds I was in a bit of denial about being in the birth process because it wasn't really feeling like contractions, just backache, and I had no bloody show or mucous at all until I was pushing.  Unfortunately that has set me up to think every back ache might be 'it.' 

Ugh my Mum just called and suggested my dates must be off.  I'm so sick of talking to people about it.  It was really really hard to not completely lose my shit.  I didn't take it very well... I know that I wasn't sure about my dates but I was not *that* off!  She brought up how my pg blood test came back negative and that 'doesn't happen'... even though it happened to her WITH ME.  And she got an u/s and knew that she had been pregnant when she had her negative blood test.  It's no big deal, it's no big deal, it's no big deal....  Having a hard time keeping things positive at the moment 

[swimming-duck]

Originally Posted by weliveintheforest 

Those sound familiar to me!  I find I have two different kinds, I have the ones where everything gets hard and I can imagine it sort of bunching up at the top, but it doesn't hurt, and then I have some that feel more 'heavy' and low down, and those are more intense.

With my ds I was in a bit of denial about being in the birth process because it wasn't really feeling like contractions, just backache, and I had no bloody show or mucous at all until I was pushing.  Unfortunately that has set me up to think every back ache might be 'it.' 

Ugh my Mum just called and suggested my dates must be off.  I'm so sick of talking to people about it.  It was really really hard to not completely lose my shit.  I didn't take it very well... I know that I wasn't sure about my dates but I am damn sure I am close!  

Sorry about your mom. I completely get your angst here. I'm so tired of people's comments. I told DH that next time around we're telling everyone that our EDD is two weeks later than what it really is. I've had people checking in on facebook. I don't mind the comments that are "thinking of you" and along those lines. I get really pissed off by the people that feel the need to pop in with "Have you had the baby yet?" like every other day or so. I have flat out told everyone that we'll send a mass text and make a huge facebook announcement. It's not like we're going to have the baby and decide to keep it a secret. Ugh - someone did that just today on my wall. I was ranting to DH and he told me just to delete the post and that's exactly what I did. It was the best choice because every response I could think of was just mean and nasty and I'm not by nature a mean person usually! I will say this particular time was a friend that tends to annoy the crap out of me much of the time, so maybe that had something to do with it! Anyways, just saying that I can completely relate. I just hope our babies come before either one of us really flips out and loses it!

[swimming-duck]

Woke up pregnant this morning. BPP is at 1:15pm. I'm officially 42+1. That is all.

[tracymom1]

Originally Posted by swimming-duck 

Woke up pregnant this morning. BPP is at 1:15pm. I'm officially 42+1. That is all.

Thinking of you!