Well, it's official...

[Undercover Hippie]

I am now more pregnant than I have ever been before. 13 days overdue and counting. Not really something I wanted to be celebrating... But I guess it's a milestone anyway!

(Okay, technically DS came at 13 days late. But I had labored the day and evening before and he was born only 11 min after midnight on that 13th day. So sitting here on day 13 with no signs of labor, that is different...)

Rationally I know baby will not stay in here forever, but I find myself really feeling like he will. It is this weird mind trick where being pregnant just "is" and can continue forever without end. What's even stranger is it's beginning to seem normal! Some moments my brain just accepts it. I can't quite explain it but I've never been in this place before. It feels a little crazy!

[scheelimama]

I remember that feeling that it will just go on forever (with dd1, I felt that way since I was a week overdue.) It is a weird feeling. I'm sure you'll go into labor soon. Will your dr/mw let you go past 42 weeks?

[Undercover Hippie]

I am lucky that my MW has no deadlines or stress about this and we will just continue to wait as long as baby and I are doing well. She feels like baby has a plan or has a need to still be in there and that this is completely normal for me. I think that is part of the "unreal" feeling of it... because no one (well, not my DH or support people or care provider) is bugging me to do something. So that's part of this "it could go on forever" kind of feeling...

[renaissanceed]

Glad to hear that your MW is OK with this. I've met two mamas lately who went much longer with their third than with their other babes, so it does happen and is not unusual. One was my MW who went to 43wks with #3. Enjoy the lack of pressure to do anything!

[scheelimama]

My neighbor down the street went 2 weeks early with her first, 4 days early with her second and 4 days late with her 3rd, cooking each baby a bit longer than the previous one. I hope your baby comes soon.

[Undercover Hippie]

My sister made some ridiculous comment about how it's "highly unusual" for a third time mama to go late... she thinks she knows everything because she is a receptionist at an OB office.

Realistically, I know a lot of people who have gone later with subsequent babies or have gone especially late with their last baby. There is just not a predictable pattern to this pregnancy thing! My MW said that in her experience if someone is going to go extremely late (like 43, 44, 45 weeks) it is more likely to be a third, fourth, fifth time mom. Maybe it is an emotional thing, maybe just that their bodies are tired... Not encouraging to me right now, unfortunately, but better to be realistic. I don't feel like I am "holding him in" or anything just because this is probably the last time, but I did joke with DH last night that maybe my body wants to make sure I am really sick and tired of this and never want to do it again LOL!

[scheelimama]

Originally Posted by Undercover Hippie

but I did joke with DH last night that maybe my body wants to make sure I am really sick and tired of this and never want to do it again LOL!

Unfortunately (or fortunately), soon after your babe is born, you'll forget all about how sick of being pregnant you were. This last one was a horrible pregnancy for me and I had said many times I doubted I would ever want to put myself through this again. But alas...less than a week after Piper was born dh and I were already talking about "next time".

[isosmom]

I know how you feel. This one was only a week late and I felt so anxious to meet him. Now he's here and I hardly can believe I was just pg. And this is my third and my longest pg, too. Hang in there, you'll be holding your lo soon.

[sorteep]

yesssss felt just like that with ds1.. went 14 days post//labor vibes to you

[yogamama74]

This is the most pregnant I've ever been also. I was 2 weeks early with 1st, and 3 days early with #2 and 3.

Today is my due date and judging by how my body feels (no signs of labor whatsoever) I think I might be pregnant forever. I feel the exact same way as you, like it can continue forever...even though intellectually I know that's irrational and impossible.

: My mind is not working right.

[lisalulu]

I wasn't pregnant this long with my first either. I was 5 days late with him and now I'm going on 10 days late with this one. Its really starting to bother me. My mw wants me to go in for an u/s tomorrow to check fluid levels and I'm starting to freaked out about it.

I don't feel bad physically but its starting to wear on my mental state. Friends and family are starting to make comments and ask about "when I'm going to induce",etc.

I was trying to figure out yesterday if it had anything to do with having a child already. Ds doesn't sleep through the night and calls out for me to come sleep with him. I guess I was just wondering if I can't get in the right state of mind to go into labor. There have been a couple nights where I was getting crampy and thought something would happen but then I'd attend to ds, things would stop and I'd fall asleep!

And it doesn't help that I'm just not a patient person

[lisarussell]

yeah- I'm going back to the December club, this baby will never come, I am just a big fat lumpy blob of lazy sleepy cranky whatever.

I am measuring 44 cm, so my body is like a month overdue, right?

Originally, I set my DD myself at Dec 11, Midwife said "I'm thinking more like Nov 27" ans U/S said "Nov 20" So of course, my heart gets set on Nov 20 and I have really been DONE since about Nov 5th.

Then, Prodromal labor started on Nov 15, i had 3 consecutive days of 3-5 min ctx. Now, I get ctx about 5 minutes apart, for most of the day. I sit around lazy and depressed and tired and uncomfortable, from my skin down to my bones.

Yeah, I'm done.

I bought some castor oil.

I haven't used it yet.

It scares me.

[Lizzie9984]

Originally Posted by lisarussell

I am measuring 44 cm, so my body is like a month overdue, right?

Well, I'm not sure that's even considered an accurate thing there, I've heard of it described more as a neutral measurement, something that may or may not mean anything in the end, as fundal height varies from person to person as well as pregnancy to pregnancy based on both baby itself (size & position) your body type (not sure how much weight that has to it, though I hear it's a factor) AND uterus position---and uterus position alone has a BUNCH of variations.

But for what it's worth, I measured myself last night, I'm 42 cm, and sitting at 42 weeks 4 days, according to the LMP formula, or 41 weeks 4 days literally counting from the first day after the LAST day of my last period. I find I'm much less anxious and grumpy if I discount & ignore the "period week" the LMP formula tacks on.....I should have done the latter "formula" from the get-go, I might have saved myself from some of these past 2 weeks of irritation!