Wah - who else is overdue for real?

[katie9143]

I keep seeing everyone's birth announcements and while i love hearing about how things went with everyone and see the pics especially - i cant help thinking WAH!! Where's my baby

Im sure im not alone and thought i would see how others that are actually overdue are feeling and dealing. I will be a week over tomorrow (although when push comes to shove i think i will go with my original edd of the 13th - just to give myself as much time as i can be for the big bad "P" is forced upon me). I have an acupuncturist appt for weds and my next mw appt on thurs. She said that she should probably do her little non stress test then if i havent had the baby (which i guess is better than one at the hosp) - but that also her back ups at the birth center/local hosp would probably want me to come in and have one of those bio whats-a-call-its that looks at the vol of fluid and so forth.

But anyway...just whining

[popbaby]

Hi Katie,

I can't say I know how you feel, as my due date isn't for another 2 1/2 weeks, but wanted to send you a hug...especially since you are local!

Even though you are "whining", well, it's ok!! You are allowed to whine! Whine away I say!!

She/he will be here before you know it, and I hope you have a quick, easy, and beautiful labor.

[MacKinnon]

Depending on the date you choose to use, I am overdue. I've been given dates of 1/9, 1/17 and 1/20. I'm using the 1/17 date, so I am not considering myself overdue until Thursday. I am now sure I will be, I went 11 days over with my DD. I SWORE that I would use the latest date and just plan on a week extra this time around. I didn't of course, and convinced myself that I would go early. So here I am, still pregnant. My mantra with DD, in sticking out those last few days, was "The average first time mom goes 8 days late." I kept telling myself I could make it and would be glad if I did. But boy was I ready to induce... And yet again, here I am!

[katie9143]

Im not eager to induce at all!! I want to stay as far from the hospital as I can - i guess im just really starting to hear the clock tick - and im bored. My fiance has his reg full time job (9-5) and then he flies for the AF res. so he is never around - despite the fact that he is supposed to be out of the mil. as of the beginning of this yr (seems like they take their sweet time with those release papers...2 weeks seems like forever!)

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[katie9143]

Originally Posted by popbaby

Hi Katie,

I can't say I know how you feel, as my due date isn't for another 2 1/2 weeks, but wanted to send you a hug...especially since you are local!

Even though you are "whining", well, it's ok!! You are allowed to whine! Whine away I say!!

She/he will be here before you know it, and I hope you have a quick, easy, and beautiful labor.

Thanks - so where in the area are you planning to deliver, if you dont mind my asking?

[skueppers]

Yep, 6 days overdue here as well. My daughter was a week late, so I was expecting this baby to be late also, but not this late -- statistically, first children tend to arrive at 41w1d, and later children at 40w3d, so I figured that since my first had been "right on time" at 41 weeks, my second ought to arrive sometime around last Thursday. Obviously, that didn't happen!

I'm starting to feel like everyone in our DDC has already given birth, though of course I know that's not true!

I think the hardest thing for me is that at 9 months pregnant, I don't really have the energy/physical resources to keep my 2-year-old entertained. And since I don't feel like I can really plan anything more than about 12 hours in advance, it's hard to set up play dates and the like to keep her happy and engaged. Plus my husband is sick, so this weekend I've been trying to keep her busy without as much of his help as I might have had otherwise -- yesterday I called up a friend and we went to a museum with a toddler playroom for a few hours, and today I called up a different friend for a playdate.

With my first, being a week late was a piece of cake -- I stopped working a few days before my due date to ensure a smooth transition (I was quitting to SAH, so I didn't want to go into labor while I was still wrapping things up at the office), so it was sort of like a little vacation. I read books, watched movies, and generally relaxed.

[popbaby]

I started at Beth Israel...not even considering anywhere else...(all of my friends either delivered at BI or Brigham and Women's). Then I started to read more and more about natural birth. I decided to leave BI, feeling it would be way to interventive, and decided to go with an OB in Melrose, who was affiliated with Melrose/Wakefield...(a friend of mine had a wonderful, non-interventive, natural birth there, and it's right up the street from me)...BUT...I really didn't like the second OB that I chose, so I left her, and went with the midwife affiliated with the hospital, Karyl Cargill..who I LOVE!!!!!! I did all this at 32/33 weeks! Why I didn't seek out a MW first was just pure ignorance.

I would have considered a home birth, but I really just started learning about them in the last month since finding this website/discussion board. I know I would technically still have time to switch, but I am so happy and comfortable with my MW, and she is only affiliated with the hospital, so I want to keep things as they are.... let's hope it works out! I have a doula (friend of mine since childhood - the luck!!), a dedicated BF, who read "The Birth partner" with me, and a strong birth plan...if all goes as planned, then great...if not, my bf know the rules...stay with her every second, no vaccines etc... I at least feel we have some control.

I look forward to hearing about you HB! I bet it will be phenomenal....and I do feel for you...the boredom, and not having you fiance around...such a drag!!!

I am sending you some major labor vibes!!!

[milkmommie]

I'm not thechnically overdue until Wed. BUT, I have gone 2weeks overdue with all three of my previous kids. So, I wanted to send some hugs your way. I know that those overdue days are the longest of the entire pregnancy!!! :

[OldFashionedGirl]

I'm not over due, yet...I'm due Saturday, the 20th. I'm pretty certain I'm going to go over, though. Just by merit of having a later due date, though, I'm feeling like the only one in the DDC who hasn't given birth yet!

[bethwl]

Not overdue (January 22), but starting to get very antsy. Each day I have felt worse and worse--I thought the back pain was at its worst, I was wrong. I thought the pelvic pressure (short of actual labor and pushing) was at its strongest, I was wrong. I thought the ligament pain had peaked, I was wrong. It is seriously almost impossible for me to get out of bed (and I wake up every 2-3 hours and have to pee SO BAD) and to turn over to my other side, which I have to do to keep my hip from going totally numb on the one side. Going up and down the stairs just got way worse today, too. Totally out of breath. I delivered last time one day prior to EDD. Gives me hope that this one could come any day now.