Weekly Thread July 22 "How ya doin' ladies"

[meagansroses]

Okay, I'll start. I am hoping that this will be my last week pregnant. Officially 40w 2 days pregnant. I keep getting the prodromal labor and sharp cervical pains from my little girl trying to pry her way out. I told my husband last night that I don't care if I have to puke her out---I just want it done with already.

I am getting LOTS of induction talk from relatives and nosy neighbors. People sure are "knowledageble" : about the whole pregnancy timetable thing. It is driving me half crazy with phone calls and annoying comments. Most of the time I make dh field the phone calls and screen well wishers when he is home. But during the day I am left to my own defenses (and bad attitude) I keep repeating to myself that I can't stay pregnant forever... and each day brings me closer to a new baby!!

[supermuma]

Today, I am feeling extremely frustrated. I really expected babe to be here by now...and I am completely annoyed with the nightly contractions/pressure/shooting pain (with contrax) down my legs/cramping and nausea...oh yeah and the constant cervical pains! It has been going on for about a week now...and it goes on until about 5 am...and then I can sleep FOR REAL. When I wake up a few hours later...it is as if nothing even happened. :

I am REALLY dreading going to work again this week (again, i really thought I would be on leave with my babe by now) where I get to hear EVERYONE and their brother comment about how I am STILL pregnant--I wish I could get in to my office before anyone else got there and then not see anyone all day and then not have anyone notice when I left. ....

no, really I jsut wish this baby would come out.

Ok, done complaining now.

Other than the nightly episodes of fake labor I feel pretty good. I do like the way my belly looks and I know I will miss being pregnant when it is over.....but I am starting to care less and less about that!

[newmommaamy]

I don't know how it happened, but I woke up in a good mood today I hardly slept last night so it wasn't that. Maybe it is that I was in such a rotten mood yesterday that it just had to get better.

DH and I went swimming already this morning. We are just loving our new place- the pool is very large, outside, warm enough, and close to our apartment. Yesterday DH and BIL managed to reorganize the garage so that our extra boxes will fit in there and are not in the middle of the living room. My sister is coming over this morning with tools (we have no idea which garage box our tools are in) to hook up the dryer and hang pictures. We are almost moved in!! maybe the little guy is just waiting for us to be moved in and then he will come out, in which case we will work hard to get the last room unpacked today and he can come tomorrow

[Panthira]

Oh your new place sounds wonderful!

I'm so tired today, though I got mostly enough sleep last night. I've been feeling a LOT of pressure down there and last night I had to pee so badly I rolled awkwardly over to get my whale of a self out of bed, but the pressure of baby on my bladder was so extreme, I let loose a little and peed my (thank goodness I was smart enough to wear) cloth pad. Embarrassing. I feel so... not in control of my body right now.

My mother, of all people, sent me this link on rebuilding your core after pregnancy:
Sparkpeople

I really want my pelvic floor to get it's tone back as quickly as possible after delivery. I sure don't want to be peeing my pants after baby. Yuck!

We're going to a nice park today where DH says I can lounge in a chair or on a bench and read HP in the shade while he watches the boys. Sounds somewhat pleasant.

[SleepyMamaBear]

somewhat? what i wouldnt give to have DH bring home HP, and then take Addy to a park or to her nanas for a few hours while i read.

[luckydog]

I am having a really happy day today. DH unearthed a bunch of jigsaw puzzles for me to work on. All our kids are with us today - I like having my family all under our roof. I'm halfway through HP (of course, now that my 10 year old is here, I'm guiltily stealing a moment on the computer - she'll harangue me if she finds me doing something OTHER than reading the book, because she's up next and DYING for her turn). I have a giant pot of homemade spaghetti sauce simmering away.

And - best of all - got a really GOOD night's sleep last night.

Today, I'm feeling a little strange. Contrax are kicking up - more painful, lasting longer, making me feel a little queasy when they hit. More mucus from time to time. No real pattern emerging, though. Just a transition to another phase of prelabor, I suspect.

[Racecar]

Well, I am at least in prelabor mode now. I noticed quite a few bits of what I'm pretty certain is mucus plug this morning. I've had just a few pains that I think may qualify as contrax. I'm excited! I'm trying to let my dh know that this doesn't mean that anything is due to happen in the immediate future but we never had this with our ds so we are excited.

[bdavis337]

Ya know, my sister got married yesterday. EVERYONE had cellphone and internet access while they were up on that mountain there in Colorado, and my mother has called me daily, even emailed once. I asked if my bil or stepsister would please email me just one or two pictures of Lisa at her ceremony last evening, and so far.....NOTHING. Mom said when she called me today "well, he took so many he's having a hard time figuring out which ones to post to his fotki site...". DAMN IT, just pick on friggin' picture and email to me, the overly pregnant woman who MISSED HER SISTER'S WEDDING.

[Panthira]

Originally Posted by AddysMama

somewhat? what i wouldnt give to have DH bring home HP, and then take Addy to a park or to her nanas for a few hours while i read.

Yeah, somewhat. It's like 100 degrees here and I'd much rather read in the cool house.

[SleepyMamaBear]

oh yuck nm then.
i would SO rather be holed up in my cool dark bedroom kicked back reading HP while nursing.
but alas. no book. and no nursling.
yet.

[tatermom]

41 wks today. :

And I finished HP so now I have nothing to distract me...

[tatermom]

Originally Posted by bdavis337

Ya know, my sister got married yesterday. EVERYONE had cellphone and internet access while they were up on that mountain there in Colorado, and my mother has called me daily, even emailed once. I asked if my bil or stepsister would please email me just one or two pictures of Lisa at her ceremony last evening, and so far.....NOTHING. Mom said when she called me today "well, he took so many he's having a hard time figuring out which ones to post to his fotki site...". DAMN IT, just pick on friggin' picture and email to me, the overly pregnant woman who MISSED HER SISTER'S WEDDING.

Hope you get a picture soon! That must be so tough!

[Dreamer]

Hey ladies!! I'm still preggers, almost 39 weeks (Tuesday) so I'm still hanging in there... I hadn't had many 'signs' of labor up until Friday evening, I had contractions 7 minutes apart for 3 hours... then I "didn't want them anymore" because I wanted to go eat dinner w/ my girlfriends, so they went away... : Then Friday night I dreamt that I lost my mucous plug...?? WTF? I seriously had to contemplate whether that *really happened* Sat. morning when I woke up.

I slept WONDERFULLY Friday night, like 12 hours (with numerous pee breaks, of course!) but Saturday I still just wanted to REST, so that's what I did... Today, I've been breaking my back dying a bunch of prefolds, onesies, lap tees, and tye-dying big brother some t-shirts, etc... WOW that was time consuming! : My fluff is FINALLY in the dryer (it's 1:30am now!) and I am sooooooo playing hookey tomorrow!

Oooh, dh is ALL ABOUT getting the baby out and while we've not had sex in nearly 3 months (we have opposite schedules so it's hard for us to get together <literally> unless there's a true will, lol) BUT we had sex this morning and we've made a pinky promise to try to focus on lots of sex the next couple weeks (well, until we can't anymore )

So that's me. Oh, I have some chemical burn going on on my hands now from the stupid dye... or the latex gloves... or maybe a combination of the two??? I dunno, but it burns like a biotch and looks yucky. :

I hope everyone else is doing well and getting closer to having a babe in arms soon!!! I need to go rest my weary body so I'll chat with ya'll tomorrow!!!

Alayna

[~Demeter~]

Today is my due date.

I woke feeling like I just can't do it anymore, I hurt in places I didn't think possible. I just want my body back....

[luckydog]

Nic

It seems like there are still quite a few of us yet to pop. It also seems like there should be an August DDC baby boom starting up here any moment - this month actually seems to be speeding by!

DH has been diligently reading and re-reading The Birth Partner the past week. He is becoming quite the fount of labor/birth information. And ever since he read the part about how he can help facilitate contrax, he won't leave my boobies alone! (It does nothing, however.)

After my weird day yesterday, I feel completely normal so far today (well aside from the typical complaints - my hips really hurt this morning). I even had another really good night's sleep.

I'm totally a watched pot now, of course. The kids are really in on that action; they have the notion that they could wake up any morning and there will be Jake. They are going to be SO disappointed when they wake up today lol.

[jee'smom]

newmommaamy~ glad you're liking your new place and pool. i hope that as soon as you get settled, the baby decides to come!

panthira~ i need to check out that site. i thought i had ok bladder control, but (tmi) my pads smell like pee... so i'm thinking I'm leaking or something. it's disgusting!!!

bethany~ my sister got married 2 weekends ago... i understand where you're coming from! hugs!

those still pg, esp. 40+ weeks~ wow, you guys sound so uncomfortable! i'm praying you get to meet your little ones soon. you know it's coming soon!!!

[Racecar]

I've still been dealing with borderline blood pressure. My midwives could be more reassuring. I know they are taking it very seriously but it doesn't mellow me out any. I just finished up Day 3 of Susun Weed's cream of tartar/lemon regimen and it hasn't been the supermiraculous cure I'd been reading about. I don't know if I'm getting enough of the gritty cream of tartar actually into my body. It sinks down to the bottom and has been hard to stir into the actual liquid. I'm trying though. My stats are still decent...def. borderline...and if my bp wasn't on the low end at the beginning of pregnancy it wouldn't even be an issue....My sitting up blood pressure today at mid-day was 126/80...my lying on left side bp was 111/60...which I thought basically ruled out any concern about PIH or pre-e but my midwife still wanted to know what the stats were for the upright bp and then there was a long pause after I told her the 126/80 number. (This is why I don't like the phone! I have a harder time interpreting that stuff than I do online communication!)

Off to go eat some more protein and drink some more water. I've been doing at least 70ish gms of protein and working on that gallon of water a day. When I test my urine it's been coming back totally ketone-free which is reassuring too. My feet are still Flinstonian but I figure that shouldn't be an issue. I am trying to be both proactive and mellow and it's a hard balancing act.

[luckydog]

Originally Posted by Racecar

I am trying to be both proactive and mellow and it's a hard balancing act.

Well, it seems like you're doing a fabulous job to me - good job, mama; I know that can't be at ALL easy.

[Panthira]

Racecar - It seems like you are doing really well!

Nic - Right there with you. I don't feel like I can do another day of this pregnancy. I'm so terribly grumpy about the whole thing too. : No signs of labor. A little pressure, but the baby is engaged apparently. Nothing else though. No ctx, cramps, mucous, just nothing.

[~Demeter~]

Just caught a moment after seeing the doctor:

No real change in my cervix, I'm about 1cm. Baby is still floating around in there, so she hasn't engaged and that would most likely be why I've had no cervical changes. NMW wants me to "borrow" someone's exercise ball for the duration of my pregnancy... I used to have one but THANKS to my lovely children it's popped. Now I'm trying to track one down. She seems to think that I'll go by this weekend.. on one hand I want to believe her because most of what she's said to me has rung true, on the other I feel jaded, like my body is broken and I will never experience natural labor. I have a NST scheduled for next week and I guess then we'll talk induction methods.