Overdue/waiting mama thread - Page 3

[iloveoregon]

Originally Posted by Undercover Hippie

Ugh Googy, can't believe your "friend" said that. Just for that I think I'd drop her to the bottom of the phone list to call after baby does arrive.:

My mom was similarly insensitive this morning... she answered her phone with a breathless "Is anything happening??" and after I said no and told her a little about my night she said something like, "I have a pumpkin pie in the oven that needs another hour, so I was hoping you weren't in labor. But it sounds like the pie is no problem, even if it had days left." And when I protested she got this no-nonsense voice and was like, "well that's just how it is unless you want to go in and do something medical." I felt tears coming to my eyes and got off the phone as fast as I could. I am 9 days late. My DD came at 9 days late. Maybe I am a hormonal basketcase this morning, and not level-headed in the least, but reminding me that I could have many more days left is just fucking insensitive IMO and not helpful in the least.

So much for being positive about this. I want to crawl in a hole.

I know how you feel. I started having contractions yesterday and sort of throughout the night but nothing is regular. Sorry your mom is being insensitive- mine just called but I didn't answer the phone! i know better now. hah.

Originally Posted by Googy

A "friend" called me this morning and started the conversation by saying:
"I'm assuming that you had the baby and just didn't bother to call me." : I was like, "Um, no, I'm still pregnant. We're obviously not going to foget about you. We'll call you when we have news. There's just nothing to report right now." I mean my goodness, why would you SAY something like that??? I hope she felt like cr*p when she found out I'm still pregnant!

People keep saying that to me too!! Why do they think I have forgotten to call them to announce the biggest news of my life?? I agree- drop her name to the bottom of the phone list!

[BarefootinBrooklyn]

Okay, at one day past my "due date," I'm officially joining this thread.
I've already decided that for my next pregnancy, I'm going to ignore the due date all together and just say "sometime at the end/beginning of whatever month"....which is what I could be doing right now, except my mother is here and can only take "so many" days off work. Basically, my 40-42 week window isn't just for me or the health of my baby, it's for her as well. She'll have to leave town at 42 weeks, so I better have the baby before then!

Had a Dr. appointment today for 40 weeks, not dilated enough to strip/sweep membranes, and Dr. says the baby is still very high up. Lovely. Trying to walk every day, ate some Indian food for lunch to stimulate my bowel (), and I think my mom will be staying with someone else tonight so hopefully the husband and I can do some "sexual healing" as well...

I feel so much for all you ladies at 42 weeks and past, and I admire your patience. I have never wanted to meet anyone as much as I want to meet this baby...

[veganjoy]

Now 40 weeks 2 days according my latest EDD, or 40 weeks 5 days, or 42 weeks 1 day, depending...

I've been in "early" labor with strong, irregular contractions for 37 hours, after 10 days of prodromal labor. Last night, I started losing some mucous plug. Contractions are 3-20 minutes apart, lasting 2 minutes, and I'm able to sleep a little between them when I need to. The level of pain seemed promising, but considering the irregularity, my MW thinks this could go on for another week...

[Lizzie9984]

I've got 6 hours left to go for this kiddo to still be a Scorpio, otherwise we're getting a Sag...And I'll be 42 weeks tomorrow anyway, grrrr, this kid doesn't seem to want to come out at all, does it?

[JulieK]

I'm just hoping this is actually a November baby. However, since my EDD is today and it looks as though nothing is doing, I have to prepare myself for the possibility that I may have a December baby.

[Googy]

Originally Posted by Undercover Hippie

"I have a pumpkin pie in the oven that needs another hour, so I was hoping you weren't in labor. But it sounds like the pie is no problem, even if it had days left." And when I protested she got this no-nonsense voice and was like, "well that's just how it is unless you want to go in and do something medical."

Ouch!!! Why are people so rude? As if we've CHOSEN to go this long!!!

[Googy]

OK, now this is really petty...

but on top of being miserably overdue now I have bad hair!!!

I got my hair cut at 36 weeks, thinking it would be my "last hurrah" befor ethe baby came. It was a really cute cut. Well, here I am at 41 weeks, and my bangs were way too long. So I went in today just for a bang trim...

She cut them SOOOOO SHORT!!!! Before they were cute, trendy, longer, side-swept bangs. Now they are super-short Audrey Hepburn-type bangs. Sooooo awful. Not only are they heinous on their own, but they totally don't go with the rest of my hair.

I know I'm being shallow, but all I can think of is how terrible I will look in all of the pictures when this baby finally decides to be born...

[Undercover Hippie]

Originally Posted by Googy

OK, now this is really petty...

but on top of being miserably overdue now I have bad hair!!!

I got my hair cut at 36 weeks, thinking it would be my "last hurrah" befor ethe baby came. It was a really cute cut. Well, here I am at 41 weeks, and my bangs were way too long. So I went in today just for a bang trim...

She cut them SOOOOO SHORT!!!! Before they were cute, trendy, longer, side-swept bangs. Now they are super-short Audrey Hepburn-type bangs. Sooooo awful. Not only are they heinous on their own, but they totally don't go with the rest of my hair.

I know I'm being shallow, but all I can think of is how terrible I will look in all of the pictures when this baby finally decides to be born...

That's not shallow, I totally understand. (((HUGS))) I hope they seem better after a few days of getting used to them!

I'm just hoping this is actually a November baby. However, since my EDD is today and it looks as though nothing is doing, I have to prepare myself for the possibility that I may have a December baby.

I am beginning to worry about this too. Since I was due 11/12 I really hadn't thought about this except jokingly. Seemed like there was not much chance of that... But now I feel like I will never go into labor and maybe it could take until December! OMG, I am already so tired of this...

[Undercover Hippie]

I feel like every time I log in there are so many new babies... who is left waiting with me? Lizzie and iloveoregon, how are you guys doing? I feel for you, I know you were both due before me...

Had another false alarm last night. Again, a few hours of mild ctx that felt "real" but just never progressed. WTH is this baby doing in there?:

[BarefootinBrooklyn]

i'm still here, and right there with you on the false alarm. i had contractions all day yesterday, and i'm so frustrated abou tit. i thought for sure i'd wake up with broken water or some contractions so strong i'd know it was time to head for the hospital, but if anything they've slowed down and decreased intensity...

...i'm off for another walk to hopefully get things going again. i was never so excited to feel pain in my uterus as i was last night! each time i had a contraction i would get so excited! my friends who'd been there and done that kept telling me to "enjoy it now...it will all change in a few hours..."

[Undercover Hippie]

Originally Posted by BarefootPregnant

i thought for sure i'd wake up with broken water or some contractions so strong i'd know it was time

That is exactly what I keep thinking... also every time I sit down on the toilet, the pressure is so intense and I feel baby so low that I can't figure out how my cervix is not dilating, or my water not popping...

[rainbowsprite]

I'm still here and as long as the babe doesnt start having problems the midwives have told me I'll be going till december before i have this babe and i was due 19th nov... I'm getting used to the idea and have even introduced myself to the Dec DDC who seem like a lovely group of ladies...

[chrysalis]

Originally Posted by iloveoregon

I know how you feel. I started having contractions yesterday and sort of throughout the night but nothing is regular. Sorry your mom is being insensitive- mine just called but I didn't answer the phone! i know better now. hah.


People keep saying that to me too!! Why do they think I have forgotten to call them to announce the biggest news of my life?? I agree- drop her name to the bottom of the phone list!

it is so annoying how other people make OUR birthing, OUR babies out to be about THEM. stupids!!!!!!!!!! yeah i'd drop her name to the bottom. she sounds very immature and selfish. screw that!!! sorry you had to deal w/ that juvenile phonecall... my mom acts like that too...its like the whole focus for her is on HER dealing w/ ME being in pain during labor...i told her you know, i don't NEED that stress worrying whether YOU are coping during MY laboring. and she thinks she is funny to people in her flirty humor telling them 'yeah, today is her due date/the 21st was her due date...anyone know how to deliver a baby here?' when people ask when i'm due if we are out eating or whatever. SO ANNOYING. like i'll catch my own baby thanks. stupid. yeah. i'm tired of others acting like is THEIR deal...THEIR baby, my kids being THEIRS to discipline or order around and my laboring being THEIR stress. like HELLO??? how self absorbed can you be? get it together people!!! jerk offs.

[chrysalis]

Originally Posted by Undercover Hippie

That is exactly what I keep thinking... also every time I sit down on the toilet, the pressure is so intense and I feel baby so low that I can't figure out how my cervix is not dilating, or my water not popping...

oh i know it, mama! me too! i'm so swollen down there...plump. my cvx isn't dilating either...water not popping. i told this one woman who i just adore that works in our grocery store that i'm hoping for something dramatic at this point......like gush of water...she was like yeah! right here...i said yeah, RIGHT NOW! in front of all these people! but i didn't get that lucky. i want my water to break this time...it didn't w/ megh. maybe its too strong of a sac due to how healthy i've eaten... : (yeah right) or the vite's i've taken... sometimes i'll even push a bit harder from my vaginal opening...as i'm on the potty........to encourage water to pop or...something... NOTHIN'. i still don't get why sheamas isn't coming...sigh. i'm getting so frustrated seeing NOTHING on my pads...NOTHING anywhere. what is this little guy waiting for? i bet he'll surprise me when i least expect it.

[JulieK]

I'm so glad to see there are still others here with me. EDD was 11/21. I have nothing going on - no "false" cx, nothing. I do feel ridiculously big and wonder how there is room inside for a whole baby. I am officially in hibernation mode. My in-laws have taken ds for the weekend and I plan on taking a little Benadryl and sleeping as much as possible.

[Undercover Hippie]

Originally Posted by JulieK

I do feel ridiculously big and wonder how there is room inside for a whole baby. I am officially in hibernation mode.

Yes, yes, I feel and wonder those things too! And I feel so antisocial. Like, I want to get out of the house and be distracted, but then anyone I try to talk to just makes me upset or PO'ed and I'm crying at the drop of a hat... so it's better if I just stay home and hibernate I think. Hope you have a good weekend of rest, and that our babies hurry up...

[JulieK]

hang in there, undercover. i just came back from walking to the supermarket literally 2 blocks away. I thought the baby was going to fall out right there on the sidewalk. I never felt this way last time. Hopefully, it signifies something, anything!

The hibernation thing definitely is working and I highly recommend it, even if you can only do a modified version and are not as lucky as I am to have in-laws willing to take older children. I was tempted to join the family at Thanksgiving yesterday just to not be alone all day long, but I know if I had gone, I would not have enjoyed myself.

[chrysalis]

julie, maybe we'll birth the same day since our EDD's are the same and that must mean our last periods were 2/14. : how cool is that...we are in sync...come on babies!!!!!!!!!!! i would so love to go into labor. i better clean up this house...make sure birth bag is packed w/ all i want to bring.

sigh.........................................

mamas, after thanksgiving dinner last night i could NOT zip up my coat!!! either baby was pushing out his butt as usual big time looking for some more room in there or i was stuffed to the max...probably BOTH. hee hee. i wonder if i can zip up this morning... come on you little butterball. mama wants to meet you.

[Lizzie9984]

42 weeks 1 day.....*sighs* The longer this one refuses to come out, the more convinced I am that they're going to be the stubborn little butthead from hell down the road.

[Living Slowly]

Just wanted to say hi and let you know I am still here too. Not all of us have had babies yet. I am 41 weeks 2 days today. Everyone wants to know when I will induce. Thank heavens my husband is in the same mind set as me and can explain to these people why it isn't necessary to interfere and that this baby will come when it is ready.

I am so ready though. I feel like it might never happen. And I am really miserable tonight. I just feel so full and uncomfortable. I really hope this baby comes soon.