Weekly Chat: Nov. 14-21 - Page 6

[MamaFern]

another day has passed and no more signs of baby coming.. ive been crampy all day and a bit nesty. i made a double batch of my favorite ginger muffins this evening..did some laundry and tidied up.. had a long nap and finnished a book. elwynn didnt nap today and was unusually weepy and clingy..a bit hard on a very pregnant momma...but i feel like i dealt with it pretty gracefully all in all.. i was invited to a party tonight but i just feel like being at home.. how boring huh? the last nights i have without 2 little ones in arms and i'd rather sleep. im 24 years old for goodness sakes! but i enjoy it. i love being a mother. i guess thats why we are all here. sweet dreams mommas and babes. tomorow is a new day.

[flapjack]

Originally Posted by nataliekat

Helen - just curious, how is your babe presented? I'm wondering if this could be causing me problems getting going, too. How can it affect things?

The head seems to be slightly flexed:it's not quite a true brow presentation, but it's closer than anyone would like (also, the back of the head is pushing upwards on my pubic bone during contractions, which is why it feels like my cervix is doing stuff. I got confused ) Basically, it's uneven pressure on the cervix discouraging strong contractions starting up: BUT strong contractions could bring baby down and wedge him the wrong way, which could mean a c-section (though I know there's a fantastic brow presentation story in the midwives, doulas and CBE bit atm.) Patience is really the only option available to us at this point, but things feel different now: I've gone two or three days without any regular contractions and instead I'm cramping and having stabbing cervical pains, so with any luck things have resolved themselves.
OK, whinge over. I want Fern's masseur, and I want her to have her baby!!! (to prove my theory of late-pregnancy colds= very early sign of impending labour...) Fern, I mean, not the masseur- oh, you know. And Spughy, why is a Canadian an unsuitable girlfriend? I only know one canadian IRL and she's lovely, so this is a bit confusing...
Anyone know of a good site for working out time differences? I'm feeling very frustrated trying to figure out what time it is for other people (this is 5.10am Brit time, fwiw...)

[MamaFern]

its 9:19 pm here

[zjande]

Originally Posted by snugglebutter

I have a 90 minute massage scheduled for tomorrow and I can't wait! Dh thought today might be the big day because I got up at 5:30am - but I was like "no - I want that massage first!"

That's so funny, the same thing happened to me Tuesday morning. I woke up at 5:30 & had cx until 7... I thought it might be labor but I had a 90 min massage scheduled for that day at noon that I did NOT want to miss!

Mamafern, we were supposed to go to a party tonight too, but I opted instead to sit around & be huge & uncomfortable at home. It's much easier to be huge & uncomfortable in my own house than while being social in someone else's. I feel bad flaking out on the party though. But man, I am bigger than Neptune.

I don't think we've heard from flyingspaghettimama today. Maybe she's having her wee babe & we should all be jealous.

Tonight I suddenly announced, "well, I didn't go into labor today, what a WASTE of a day!!" & promptly cracked up laughing. I am going batty here. And I'm not even PAST my edd yet! Today was the day I had predicted I'd have her/him, on the prediction thread. Drat. Well, there's still 2 hours left of the 18th here in Cal.

My baby's just not moving as much as it used to. I know that's normal for the last weeks, but sometimes I get totally paranoid. Today I didn't think I'd felt it all day so I poked around my belly tonight & it started moving plenty. Then I had juice & it did a little dance for awhile, so all's well but I don't like it. The baby used to do these mad dances every morning & every evening & now it seems like it just sleeps all day long. Or something. Anyone else noticing this?

[DreamsInDigital]

I've definitely had more than a few moments where I've gone "Hey, when was the last time the baby moved?" and once I had a sheer cold panic when I was certain he hadn't moved all day. Usually I just poke my belly a bit and he'll give me a little nudge back.
Helen, I know that your time is 8 hours ahead of us here on the west coast of the US. It being 11:30pm on Friday for us, it's 7:30am on Saturday for you. The east coast is 3 hours ahead of us, so they're 5 hours behind you. It's 2:30am eastern time right now.
It's weird to think that at the time I'm trying desperately to go to bed the sun is shining and it's a completely different day somewhere else in the world.
Anyway, in about 30 minutes it will be the day before my due date.
And I just know he's nowhere near ready to come out. Sigh.

[flapjack]

Ah, that makes sense: thanks for explaining it to me

[Bex80]

Just checking in mamas. It seems like our "post your belly pic" thread has died, and that's how I usually have kept up with all of you.

I am officially "overdue" today. EDD was yesterday. :rollseyes:

I looked in the handbook for my birth center and it says that at appointments after 40 weeks, there will be a non stress test and biophysical profile.

Anyone know what those are about? I never thought to ask since I went 4 days early with my first. TIA---and hang in there, mamas. We will all have our babies soon!

[SoulJourney]

Hey Bex!!! I figured you were off having that baby! Just making sure you received your tunes???

[*Amy*]

Yeah I'm 39W2D right now and my MW already has me scheduled for a nonstresst test on the 28th, at which point I'd be 40W4D. I'm just hoping I don't make it that far!! It seems kind of stupid to do a NST that early when the average first time mama goes 8 days past EDD anyway. Bex basically what they do is let you relax in a comfy chair for about 40 minutes and whenever the baby moves, they make sure his/her heartbeat goes up by around 15%. They are notorious for false-positive (ie, indicating the baby might be in distress) so I think I might just miss that appointment and wait til I am truly 8 days overdue to worry about.

[MamaFern]

ill be 41 weeks tomorow and no one has said anything about a NST to me.. i wonder why...

[Frigga]

I never had one w/ either of my boys and I went 2 weeks over with both of them. I think it all depends on who your care giver is and thier routine protocall.

[babykaoss]

so.......by noon today i had FIVE calls asking if i had the baby yet, or WHY haven't i had the baby yet, and was i going to have the baby tonight, etc etc etc.

[Bex80]

Ugh! I changed our answering machine message to say basically that, we haven't had the baby yet, and if you (the caller) desire to be contacted when the baby arrives, to please leave your name and number and we will be sure you are contacted. Otherwise, leave a message and we'll call back when it's convenient. People still aren't getting the message (no pun intended)

Thanks for the heads up on the NST.

And Michelle!!!! You are too sweet, mama! I got the CDs yesterday, or was it Thursday? And I love them! What a great mix! The first one was very very relaxing and the second one was neat. I <3 Patsy Cline! Thanks again so much for sending that to me. I didn't think I would be around long enough to get to use them, but obviously, I'm still here!

I am very very cranky and ready for this baby to come out. NOW!!

[DreamsInDigital]

My EDD is tomorrow and my parents are taking my oldest son to see Harry Potter, but get this! They (well, my dad. my mom said yes) won't watch my kids while I go see a movie tonight. I am SO irritated.

[gingerstar]

DID - you might want to preview HP before your little guy sees it - I took my huge belly and saw it this afternoon (for my Happy EDD to me! ) and it is VERY dark - I will not be letting my 7 yo see it, as I know it will give her nightmares. Just a caution - it is more graphically violent (with Cedric's death and Voldemort) than the others were.

Just a heads up,

Sharon

[MamaFern]

i took elwynn to see harry potter today. it was great. he wasn't too scared and fell asleep at the end when it was kinda scary.

ive been out and about ALL day. since my 11:00 midwife apt. it was such a beautiful day and i ran into a ton of people i hadn't seen in a long time. i feel energised and ready to have this baby tonight. my sister complained of menstral cramps all day and i was like $%#$& why cant i be in pain right now.. what a weird thing to want huh? oh well.. today made me realise that if i get out and have fun ( and elwynn and i always seem to find fun stuff to do) that its actually really nice that baby hasnt come yet. i so enjoy these last lovely days just he and i.

[*Amy*]

I know what you mean MamaFern. DH and I went on movie dates last night (Harry Potter) and this afternoon (Walk the Line, which was awesome). Then we went out for a bit of Christmas shopping and it felt good to walk around and stuff. I may be having contractions, but who knows. DH keeps asking me every 10 minutes, "Are you having any more sensations?" God bless him, he's so adorable.

OK speaking of don't call us; we'll call you! - DH's aunt sent me an email this afternoon asking if we would please email her every night just to let her know I'm not in labor yet. Are you F'ING KIDDING ME???? Don't get me wrong, I really love her, but seriously - I am still 5 days from my due date, and I hate to tell everyone, but this really isn't about THEM. DH did point out quite correctly that I have been building the suspense for the past 9 months by creating a webpage and updating our friends and family every 2 weeks, but still - I'm sorry, but I think it's a little bizarre to ask for a nightly update. Like we're going to forget to call them after she's born, and then like two weeks later they will call and I'll be like, "YES, I had the baby! Oh my gosh I totally forgot to tell anyone!!" I just replied and said, "No baby today, but we did see a great movie!" but I kind of resent it. Am I crazy?

Oh and Bex, I'm with you - I am totally changing my voicemail outgoing message tomorrow. Gah.

[Bex80]

Oh Amy, I wish that I could tell you that the voicemail thing was effective, but it's not. People are *still* calling. Now, I am just ignoring the phone. Now they aren't leaving messages. I think that they think I have secretly had the baby and I am hiding it from them. Wtf? Ugh! That is some ka-razy shite about your Aunt!!!

I have a new idea for the voicemail...I'm going to update it every morning with the current date and time and that we have not had the baby yet. And this time I'm not going to leave an option for people to leave a message. How rude it that? Rude, but better than me listening to the phone ring and having tons o' hangups.

Hoping that we all have babies soon!!!

[DreamsInDigital]

Well, DP and I managed to convince my parents to watch the kids, and we went and saw Harry Potter. What a rad movie! I think DS is gonna love it. He loves the Quidditch scenes and when Harry rides his broom so he's gonna have a blast.
We also went and had dinner at Applebee's, so DP and I had a pretty decent date night. Hopefully I won't still be pregnant 2 weeks from tonight so I can honestly say this was our last chance. Oh how awful it would be to be 42 weeks pregnant.
My due date is in 15 minutes. I think I'm going to go to bed now. Night all!

[flapjack]

I'm with Gingerstar: we saw it without the boys, and although we've been reading Goblet of Fire together, I don't think i'm going to take them to see it in the cinema. It's not just the scariness, though atm Isaac is so emotionally volatile I don't think that's a good idea: it's also that it's a 12A over here, and I can see there being other films in the next 7 years that I don't want them to see, at least not in the cinema where we can't talk about stuff as it happens. So it's waiting until DVD for them, poor lads, because I don't want to set a precedent.