Overdue mamas...check in here! - Page 3

[Willowrose]

Took them. And you know how I thought they would taste really bad? Well, guess what? They were worse
Right up there next to the castor oil. Very, very bad.
Now we wait....

[GreenMommy]

Had contractions from 7pm - 4am. Then they stopped!!! : Also lots of loose bowel movements.

Just lost some mucus around 9am...

Hoping for more contractions.

[ashcox]

Willowrose, Hope those herbs do you some good! Let us know what happens.

Miziki, I know what you mean about just being ready to know what life with 2 is like. I also completely identify with just surviving until DH gets home. That's exactly where we are too. I'm ready to be back to my "normal" self, even if I will be somewhat sleep deprived.

Greenmommy, Hope this is it for you! Bring on the contractions!!

Still absolutely no labor signs here. No mucus. I am having quite a few contractions, but they're the same I've been having so I doubt that they are really doing a whole lot, except maybe warming my uterus up or something. Last time my OB checked me I was just barely dilated, not even a 1, and my cervix was just barely starting to get softer. I realize that doesn't mean a thing, but it's just annoying to have contractions and them do nothing. No contractions and nothing happening would be absolutely fine with me. Contractions and nothing happening are really just a pain.

Enough with the whining. I really do like being pregnant and I know I'll be a little sad when this baby comes because I won't be pregnant anymore. That's how I was with DD anyway. It's just all this not knowing that's driving me nuts. I think it's just very hard to surrender to your body and baby (at least for me) and just say, whatever happens, whenever it happens is fine.

Well, I'm going to go walk around Target for a little bit. I hate hate hate getting out at this point but I need to go to the bank and post office anyway, and since the baby isn't here yet and no signs of him coming, I'm going to go develop some film at Target while I'm out so I can do a little bit more on DDs scrapbook. SHe's 27 months now and I'm only up to her first birthday in her scrapbook. Whoops.

[Nature]

Barely any contractions yesterday at all. Mucus like you wouldn't believe though. Not bloody, just bright yellow and lots of it. Loose bowels for days, even though I ate umm.. waaaaay too much of that block of sharp cheese I bought the other day.

Today, even though I ran around cleaning this morning like crazy... no contractions. : What the heck is going on? Why contractions for days and days, painful ones even... and now nothing?! My feet are swollen back up and I'm drinking a TON of orange juice because I'm thirsty. (can you drink too much OJ?)

My very last OB appointment is tomorrow.

[zjandosmom]

Finally have a moment to check in. I admire your patience mama's!
now NAK.....guess I spoke too soon!
try again later
kathy

[Willowrose]

I'm getting so concerned with all the overdue baby horror stories people keep telling me....about babies having no fluid left, coming out w/meconium, not having a good placenta, cord rupture, etc...
It's starting to freak me out!
How overdue is too overdue?

[aguacates]

Originally Posted by Willowrose

I'm getting so concerned with all the overdue baby horror stories people keep telling me....about babies having no fluid left, coming out w/meconium, not having a good placenta, cord rupture, etc...
It's starting to freak me out!
How overdue is too overdue?

Hi, coming over from Feb, hope that's okay. Have you checked out this 10-month mama page? When I was overdue w/dd, it was both a source of comfort, since it was stories of perfectly okay pregnancies that just needed to gestate longer, and a source of "Oh my god, I could go four weeks overdue?".

I honestly believe that as long as baby is doing okay, there really isn't such a thing as too overdue. I have a few friends whose babies are all always 43+ weeks late, and I think this would be way more common if there wasn't such a pressure to induce by 42. Anyway, s, I know what it is like.

[GreenMommy]

Willowrose -- how sure are you about your due date?

[ehsclt]

Willow, so sorry it wasn't your labor yesterday. Regarding your worries, I shared them, too and then did a little research. Apparently, 10% of pgs go past 42 weeks. 90% of those that go past 42 weeks start labor themselves and baby and mom are perfectly healthy. In the other 10%, the placenta begins to deteriorate or the cord gets pinched (or some other very low chance of something that can happen happens.) Those problems are usually easily picked up with fetal monitoring or U/S. Those stats definitely made me feel better. I am going to ask my mw to do what she needs to do to monitor my and baby's health, but if there are no problems, I am going to try to hold out like you are.

I am a major grump today, so that's all I have to say. Other than to send hugs to all of you and to say I appreciate your support and that I am not alone in this.

Emily

[zjandosmom]

willowrose and Emily- Sending lots of hugs and labor vibes to you bothl. I have never been that "over-due" so I can only sympathise. I do feel for you both. Even though I was only 4 days past I started to wonder if my body remembered how to labor....silly I know. You are being so patient and your babies will reap the benefits in the end. I just know you will both be holding your babies soon.

EMily-thanks for your sweet response on my announcement! That meant so much. My dh was sure I would give birth in the car!! When we got to the hospital I was 8cm!!! I keep obsessively checking here to see how you are doing!!

Hang in there mamas. I can't wait to see the next explosion of babies.
Kathy

[Willowrose]

Missbliss, thank you for the website! It is so reassuring that there are others out there!
Greenmommy, we are 100% sure of our date. We were charting and I actually got the positive pregnancy test a week before I was due for AF. However, I am going by the original day that AF was expected, rather than the earlier week.
Emily and Kathy, thank you so much for the reassurance and the good thoughts! I need them!

So, my midwife called and we discussed the situation. She wants to monitor the baby tonight since her movement has slowed down They would also like to check the baby's positioning(possible posterior or head not engaged).
They will also sweep the cervix before we leave.
Needless to say I'm nervous as heck! I don't know why, I've done this twice before. I've even had the sweep done with the other two.
Please keep me in your prayers and thoughts tonight! Hopefully I'll have an update in the morning

Hope to see lots of baby births tomorrow. (((LABOR VIBES))) to all of you!

[GreenMommy]

Nothing new going on here...still feel like I have a stomach flu.

Willowrose - will be thinking of you. My little guy has slowed down a lot too. I spoke with midwife about yesterday and she said just to make sure 10 movements by mid-day. I was asking about due date because I am really sure of mine too - we were trying for 6 months... Hopefully these babies will come out soon!!!!!

I know there is a full moon this weekend - but there is no need to wait for that...

Alicia

[ehsclt]

Willowrose, how was your appt? Did the sweep do anything for you? My mw did the sweep on my today. Ouch, not so much at the time, but now. I am about to go to sleep just to stop feeling it.

I got the tinctures, too, but am reluctant to take them. Turns out I lose my BC birth if I go past 42 weeks. Now I am in a bit of a quandry. I don't want a hospital birth and I don't want to induce.

Willow, please keep us posted as to whether the tinctures end up doing anything for you, or have you already given up on that? I have blue cohosh, black cohosh and birthroot. My gut feeling is that I just don't want to do this. We did an NST today and the baby is just fine.

Off to bed, hoping my labor just begins tonight and I don't have to think anymore about any of this.

Hugs to the rest of you who are waiting.

E

[Willowrose]

Emily, my mw did the sweep too. It brought on some contractions for an hour afterward and then....NOTHING!
This morning(thanks to insomnia!)I discovered lots of the mucous plug.
The tinctures didn't do anything. Of course, I only took one dose of them. Today, my mw's are coming to do another sweep and bringing the homeopathic labor starter(begins with a C, but I'm drawing a blank on the name).
Baby is indeed posterior. I was at 2-3 cm before the cervical sweep and at a 4 after.
Definitely a head down, but unengaged baby.
I'm really getting nervous now. I'm afraid I won't be able to do this naturally this time. I've never been this overdue without going into labor.

I'm so sorry you have to face losing your BC delivery. I pray you make the best choice for you and your baby on what to do. Isn't it tough?
Just think, next week at this time, we should have our babies in arms and this will all be a memory!

Thinking of you today....keep us posted!

[ehsclt]

Willowrose, after staying up last night and doing way too much research, I'm off this morning to get some Caullophyllum (sp?). I think it's the same homeopathic remedy your mw is bringing with her. It appears to be much more gentle than the herbs, which concern me, and I think I feel better about trying it.

My baby is posterior, too, apparently, although my mw said only partly. I am choosing not to focus too much on this right now. I'm not having any back pain with my contractions, though my contractions themselves are very mild anyway.

I am still having some contractions this morning, after the sweep, but they aren't gaining in intensity, so I don't necessarily think they are leading anywhere.

Enough about me....how is your baby's movement? Is there still a concern about that? Is your gut feeling that everything is ok with the baby and that you'd be ok if you could just wait? Or do you feel like it needs to be born?

I will be thinking of you today and hoping that today might be your day. I hope that baby switches position, too. I've heard there's a homeopathic remedy for that, too, and that it works. I am sure your mw is aware of that. Let us know how things go today and take care.

Emily

[Willowrose]

Emily, you made me feel much better about the homeopath(yes, its the same one). I hadn't heard much about it, so I feel good knowing you are going to take it because it is gentler.
Baby started moving a whole lot on the way to the apmt, so no concerns w/that anymore. Very active this morning as well.

Great for your contractions....keep them up! Are you dialated at all?
I will ask my mw about the homeopath for the posterior...I hadn't known about that!

I hope to see some progress from you later....it's so great knowing somone is experiencing the same things!

[GreenMommy]

Hey ladies. Still here. Nothing going on at all. Had the best night sleep I have had in months and still feel like I have the stomach flu. A few contractions here and there last night - Nothing to speak of.

My bradley instructor was mentioning posterior postures to me - she said get on your hands and knees when contractions start and also the squat position where one leg is down (on your knee) and the other is squatting.

Willow - that is so great that you have dialated so much -- your body seems to be preparing for labor!!! Yeah!

Emily - I hope that your sweep keeps the contractions coming!!!

I am getting swept tomorrow if I am dialated. My midwife tried on Monday but said she could not get finger in my cervix but that it was soft. I also wanted to mention that I am hoping for a VBAC and they will not induce (not that I would want that) - so I am allowed to go to 42 weeks. My baby was around 9 pounds when I had the u/s 2.5 weeks ago -- must be getting pretty big by now. (My son was 10 pounds 4 oz and my dr told me they would not let me deliver a baby over 10 pounds - since then I am eduacted and prepared - and hoping not to have a c-section again for a "big baby".)

Thinking of you all and hoping that we are all about to start labor!!

Peace - Alicia (sorry for the rambling)

[ashcox]

Willow and Emily, I hope the sweeps and the homeopaths are going to do their jobs for both of you!

I'm still here. Went to the OB this morning. I'm dilated to about 1 now and still "very thick" she said. Again, I realize this means nothing but it is still rather frustrating. She had decided on her own that they were going to induce me this weekend and I again said no so she said that she'd see me Mon. and decide then what we're going to do. I think they'll induce me next weekend though. I'm not sure how to put it off much longer. I'm not that "overdue" though, I was only due last Friday, so that puts me at 40 wks, 5 days, right? I'm really hoping the full moon will bring on labor-for all of us! Yea for the full moon this weekend.

I'm still having contractions every night. They start at about 7 and last until 10:30 or 11 and then are just gone. And I have BH during the day. But that's it. I'm trying to just keep real relaxed and talk to my baby, but not about the possibility of induction. In fact, I'm trying not to really dwell on that too much.

Anyway, I've rambled but I hope all is well for everyone. Hope labor starts soon for all of you!

Ashley

[Nature]

NAK

My appointment got cancelled today. Too many moms in labor and none of them are me. Rescheduled for tomorrow at 9:15 am.

No contractions for over two days now. Not even BH and I've been having those since month 3. I don't know whats going on. Movement slowed WAY down. Baby posterier after months of ROA/LOA.

"Offical" due date (from ultrasound) on paper is tomorrow. (LMP put me at the 6th)

Can barely walk because my feet are very swollen.

[ehsclt]

Ana, hugs to you! You sound just about as frustrated as I feel today.

I have to admit, I am really getting sick of the "you're still pregnant!!" comments as I drop my older dd at preschool, etc, etc. I know people only mean well and are expressing their concern, but at this point I can't help but almost feel a bit inadequate, as if I need to be apologetic for my own body's apparent inability to begin labor. I'm sure I'd be annoyed if people just ignored me, too, so I guess I'm just venting.

I have been taking the Caulophyllum (sp?) every two hours and I've had some good, strong contractions, but they are far from regular and therefore not really different from the ones I've had for the last few weeks. I am doubtful that this will get me going, but I do have two more doses as part of the regimen before it's over.

I am sad that my mother leaves in three days and I will have no help after the baby is born. That brings tears to my eyes when I think about it. I am sorry to be feeling so bad for myself, just very, very frustrated. I remind myself that things turn out the way they are meant to be and this will somehow all work out fine.

That's enough complaining for now. Willowrose, I hope things are somehow looking up for you and thanks all of you for your updates. I think of you all several times a day.

Emily