Okay, this is for all the BTDT moms: did you "know" intuitively when labor would (approximately) happen?? All through the later half of this pregnancy, I've felt a sense of urgency, like things are happening really fast. Despite being my second baby, he dropped deep into my pelvis by about 30 weeks (many days sitting so low his head can easily be felt just inside my vagina). I've been measuring 2-3 weeks ahead consistenty (despite keeping incredible record of my dates of period, unprotected sex, and ovulation), although my 20 week u/s (I know, I know - I'm so horrible- I was a late "bloomer" - started with OB, found my guts, switched to HB midwife) indicated he was w/in a week of my original due date. Now as we approach my 35 week mark, I've been having (for the last couple of weeks) an incredible "nesting" urge to pull everything baby-like together. Everything is done and waiting now.
Lately I've had a lot more pelvic pressure and increasing contrx. I've also been having much more frequent episodes of "false labor," really bad BH that make me have lots of cramps and low pelvic discomfort that come about every 5 mins apart for 1-2 hours, then stop. During these times, I seem to have an increase in vag discharge (sorry for the TMI) and it seems to pick up more of a very stretchy mucous instead of the usual thin white. Although my cervix tends to usually be high and posterior.
Well, today I wiped and there was a scant amt of pink-streaked mucous. Not much, barely anything to write home about, but I'd been having lots of BH contrx, one of the episodes like I described.
Now...........after that long description.........both my husband and I have this innate "feeling" that it will be in the next 2-2.5 weeks, like I won't hit Oct 1 pregnant. I'm so afraid of being wrong and getting disappointed when Oct 1 comes and goes, so I wondered what you ladies thought. Did you know instinctively, I mean REALLY know, not just "Oh I hope it happens" wishful thinking? Were you right?
How about my body's signs. Does it seem like we're on the road to delivery (even if in the next couple of weeks)?? My mw seems to have a lot going on these days and didn't seem too interested when I called to ask some q's about this, but my mom (the ever-present pessimist) shocked me by saying she had this out-of-the-blue thought today that it is almost time.
I know this is probably madness. But anyone who's been down the long road of the end of a big, uncomfortable pregnancy knows the madness you feel when you start begging people to tell you it's almost over.....
Lately I've had a lot more pelvic pressure and increasing contrx. I've also been having much more frequent episodes of "false labor," really bad BH that make me have lots of cramps and low pelvic discomfort that come about every 5 mins apart for 1-2 hours, then stop. During these times, I seem to have an increase in vag discharge (sorry for the TMI) and it seems to pick up more of a very stretchy mucous instead of the usual thin white. Although my cervix tends to usually be high and posterior.
Well, today I wiped and there was a scant amt of pink-streaked mucous. Not much, barely anything to write home about, but I'd been having lots of BH contrx, one of the episodes like I described.
Now...........after that long description.........both my husband and I have this innate "feeling" that it will be in the next 2-2.5 weeks, like I won't hit Oct 1 pregnant. I'm so afraid of being wrong and getting disappointed when Oct 1 comes and goes, so I wondered what you ladies thought. Did you know instinctively, I mean REALLY know, not just "Oh I hope it happens" wishful thinking? Were you right?
How about my body's signs. Does it seem like we're on the road to delivery (even if in the next couple of weeks)?? My mw seems to have a lot going on these days and didn't seem too interested when I called to ask some q's about this, but my mom (the ever-present pessimist) shocked me by saying she had this out-of-the-blue thought today that it is almost time.
I know this is probably madness. But anyone who's been down the long road of the end of a big, uncomfortable pregnancy knows the madness you feel when you start begging people to tell you it's almost over.....
When we were going to bed one night (after having no prodromal labor that day and just laying around and sleeping all day, anti-nesting in hindsight) I told DH that I was going to be pregnant forever. Maybe 3 hours later I woke up almost in transition and in another 2 hours had a babe in my arms, I had absolutely no idea that she would be born that night.
- so we left as soon as he got back to the house. Ds was born about 2 hours later.
