PREGNANT MAMAS Check-In Week of 1/22-1/28

[MamaTaraX]

How goes the last leg of pregnancy? Remind me why I miss it so much!! Everything ready for your upcoming new arrival? Let us know how you are doing!!

Namaste, Tara

[fireshifter]

Still here, still pregnant, finally having some BH contrax. Hungry all the time, not gaining any extra weight from it, so that's good.

Doing Webster at chiropractor's today. Hoping to get baby out before Saturday. Have to work 4 hrs/day every day to try to save my paid maternity leave so I'm kind of sick of that.

My mom's here, she got a cold on her first day here (grrrrrr!) but I haven't caught it yet. DH is going crazy b/c he still is unemployed and we have over 20 job applications out. His mind is melting waiting to hear the phone ring for that or for baby to come to give him something else to think about. He installed a new countertop and cabinetry in a corner of my kitchen yesterday. We (my mom and I) hoped it would take him two or three days to do, but he had it done in 3 hrs so now we have to find another project for him :

As far as being still pregnant goes, I'm fine, having a lot of ligament pain from sitting at work. That's about all I can legally complain about.

Oh well...

[gsmom]

I am still here. I am 8 days over my due date and am anxiously awaiting baby. My son was born 8 days over, so I am hoping that soon this baby will come. I go in to the doctor today and we will see what has changed since Friday.

I had a bit of a breakdown yesterday. Physically I still feel great, but mentally and emotionally it's getting tough. It doesn't help that people who see me at work, who don't really even know me are saying "That baby is not here yet?" or "Wow, you sure look ready to pop!" As if I don't realize that. I think that I might take a couple of days of vacation this week if baby doesn't come by tomorrow. I just don't think I can deal with the comments. It didn't help that my son was sick this weekend and I got about 12 hours of sleep total from Fri-Sun. I slept much better last night. I guess that's what complete exhaustion will do to a person.

I am feeling better today after a good nights sleep and a vent/breakdown at my yoga class last night. My body is doing what it needs to do, it just feels so darn slow!

Thinking of all you other pregnant mamas and those with babes in arms. Hope you are doing well!

[emjgee]

Hello from the lurkiest lurker here! I love reading all the birth stories but I'm glad to see I'm not the only one still waiting for baby. Feb. is looking very likely now...

EDD is 1/27, and I've had no discernible early labor signs. I'm still working full-time but told my manager yesterday that next Fri., when I'll be a week overdue, will be my last day at work if I'm still pregnant. I have a sedentary job, so it's really not a problem to be there.

Everything DH and I can prepare for is ready, I think -- we're all set up at the house, car seat's in, etc. The mental part is much harder, the not knowing how we'll adjust to the hugest change of our lives, especially since we've been together for 13 years and are both in our late 30s and set in our ways. I guess we'll just cross that bridge when we come to it, hopefully sooner rather than later!

My thoughts are with all the waiters and the new mothers!

[miziki]

I'm still here, still way overdue at this point (anywhere from 16-22 days overdue depending on whose EDD you believe), and mw and her brigade (ok, it's only 2 apprentices) should be here any minute. I think we'll be doing a membrane sweep today, hallelujah, because over the last 48 hours of being soooo exhausted by STILL being pregnant, I am MORE than ready to get this party started.

Let the games begin!

[day_sleeper]

5 days overdue here, if you go by the newest due date. I'm about to go nuts at work. Why is it that on TV when a woman gets stressed, she goes into labor? I'm getting stressed, and it isn't helping me. Grrr.

Really, I'm not in that bad of shape. I'm just freaking out because if I'm afraid that if I don't go soon, my midwife will want to induce. I know, people say "just don't show up," but this is my first, and I'm scared to just not do what she says. So far she hasn't mentioned induction, but I will have to start that Nonstress Test business if nothing happens by my visit on Friday. This sucks because it means driving WAY across town in bad traffic because her little office doesn't have a fetal monitor. Does anyone know how often they want you do to NST when/if you get to that point?

I think my poor Doula is about to go nuts too. She keeps calling to check on me and I have nothing to report. I feel like I should be bombarding her with questions, but I don't know what to ask. Sheesh. I figure I will get my money's worth during labor.

[hypechick]

yup, still here. My EDD is 1/25 which is tomorrow. I am feeling ready for something to happen but no signs yet. No bloody show, nomucus plug, no borken water, no contractions, nada. I do have shooting pains in my pelvic area. I was hoping not to nake my 40 wk MW appt but I guess we'll probably go on thursday.

Well wishes to all the new mamas and good birthing vibes to all of us waiting mamas.

[AAK]

I am still here too. Today my 3 yr old woke up (after a horrible night) with a really runny nose. I thought oh great, a cold. Well, now she has a nice fever to go along with that so I think it might be better for baby to wait a couple days. Not to mention that my parents were exposed to TB on their trip so we can't see them until dr oks it. I am 3-5 days "late" right now. Anna was 4 days late and Kayla was 10. So, there is a good chance that baby will hang in there for a while. I really don't want to pop into February though. The month change ends up being very irritating for me. I did that with Kayla already. My body seemed to have more labor signs at the beginning of January than now. MW visit is tomorrow. I don't expect anything wild there. If I make it to next Wed I will ask her to strip the membranes. I stopped taking the "birth prep tincture" as it made me nauseated.

Amy

[pinkmilk]

here I am too, still with child.I feel really full of baby! My stomach is such a weird shape... really, really round and outside of my body and ALL baby, and when he moves you can see his limbs 2 or three inches outside of my body...just stretching the crap out of me!! I've been extra tired too. I thought last week I was definately going to go into labor because I was so tired but apparently I was wrong. AND my irritable uterus has decided to give me a break!!!I'm hardly having any painful braxton hicks like I had been for the past 5 months. I think I feel better physically than I have since my first trimester!!
I want tomorrow to be the big day... Non-Stress test at 9am ...Cervical sweep at 9:30am... Hot and heavy sex at around 11:00! This has gotta work you guys, I just can't take the anticipation any more and I'm so terrified of being induced.(on Monday). If I'm not in labor by say 2:00pm tomorrow from the sweep and the sex then I'm pullin out the castor oil!! Oh Gawd I hate that stuff!!! AND I'll run a freakin marathon too!!!!!ANYTHING

At least I know what I want.

O.K...enough. I'm going to start a post tomorrow befor I go to doc. and you can all send me good labor vibes then. I would love that!!!

Love and Light. Angela