~Daily Check In 12/16~

[starry_mama]

Hi mamas! Still here. Had contractions all night long, and I barely slept. We're having a humongous storm right now, and I was hoping I'd have the baby by now so DH won't have to go to work next week.

[Momma2DoubleCuties]

Still here too 38w1d. This baby is way too comfy to be coming out anytime soon.

[kerrybennysmama]

I am still here today as well, 39 weeks tomorrow, can hardly walk or sleep, but I too feel like this baby seems very comfortable in there.

[miss_nikki]

I'm still here too. Had contractions off and on all day yesterday and lastnight. But nothing is going on right now.

[crsta33]

I'm still here, but I'm really cranky and past my EDD by a few days. I'm tried of keeping track.

Still prelaboring, still seeing no signs of progress. I'm disenchanted, discouraged, and disheartened. :

Won't be hearing much from me. I'm trying to sort out what's "wrong"...my other 2 were born by now. I think it's his position or maybe my emotional state...and I'm not sure I know how to fix either one. I'm already dreading my midwife appt on Tues. I don't want to start talking even natural induction until 41 weeks (which is Thursday).

Christa

[RedHen4]

40 wks 4 days. <sigh> Not really looking forward to going to church today to deal with all those well-meaning women who are aghast that I am STILL pregnant. Of course, I never imagined I would still be pregnant at this point, either. Aren't you supposed to get a break with your 6th baby??

[guest9921]

Still here.
Contracting away at the keyboard. Some pretty intense, but I know they will fade out - or at least, I hope they do.

Having family over this evening, lots of baking/cooking ahead of me, and I really do not want to be sitting on a chair in the kitchen while chopping sweet potatoes.

Lost quite a bit of my mucous plug this morning. I'm 39w1d, and I expect to go until at least 41wks. We'll see.

[LaLibertad]

EDD! Slow leaking of fluid has increased so I called the midwife. Will be going in shortly to get checked. Some cramping during the night that I thought could turn into the real thing but now that I am up and about they have subsided. Dammit.

[transformed]

40+1 day.

Good morning ladies!

My cleaning lady comes tomorrow morning, yea.

My dad called me last night to say "Is there a baby yet?" (Because it was my due date.)

I really wanted to tell him he is an idiot....but he is my dad so that wouldnt be very nice.

[Belleweather]

Present! 38ish weeks today, and I turn 30 tomorrow! No contractions, which is okay... I'm not sure that I'm ready to share my birthday with this little guy.

Went and walked around Target and the grocery store for 2 hours last night and then came home and cried because my broken crotch hurt so much. Seriously, I don't know who suggested that women at term walk to stimulate labor... but I'm betting it was an OB with a penis and a grudge!

On the other hand, this is the first time I've done the grocery shopping in months. Which means it's the first time we have actual real FOOD in our house in months. (And donuts. I bought a literal plethora of donuts!) And that goes a long way toward making me feel better about having a new baby -- at least we all won't starve to death, right?

[wife&mommy]

So I am positive thinking myself into giving birth today!

Today is the day I will have my baby.
My baby is healthy and ready to be born.
My baby will be born at home today.

The end!

[Right of Passage]

Here 40+3

Blew up the birth pool last night, DS thinks it a toy of course. We'll move it to our room today.

Dreampt of labor, mucus plugs, and bloody show all night. Didn't sleep well.

I feel very irritable and sensitive, including on this board.

[look11]

Still here with no signs of impending labor, which is GOOD because, like Starry_Mamma, we are being pounded with a huge snowstorm, which would likely prevent my doula from getting here, and my scratchy throat has turned into a full-blown cold. UGH. How do you breathe through contractions when you can't breathe?????

39.3 today.

[stellimamo]

39 or so here. No baby. I went out and shoveled our 6inches of snow this morning... Now I'm getting ready for MILs visit.. yeay (note sarcasm)

[SheBear]

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[MCKH]

OKay I originally posted this in yesterday's thread (what day is it again??) but I had quite a bit of bloody mucus this AM. No serious contractions. Waiting to see... I am very uncomfortable and in a lot of pain with the SPD. I would love a few more days of pregnancy though! Oh 38+5 today.

[Beppie]

40+2 days. And nothing has changed in how I'm feeling.

Went to church this morning, and lots of people stopped to talk to me... "still haven't had baby?" and "weren't you due last week?"

But just about every woman in this town that I've met has a scheduled c/s. It's RIDICULOUS. A woman whose due date is Dec. 18th came up to me, talking about how she had her baby by c/s "two weeks ago" blah blah blah, "yeah I thought you were due before me" blah blah. What is wrong with these women, having repeat c/s and being so happy about it? The other thing that really made me wonder... her baby is 2 weeks old, and she left her home and came to church...

As a nursing mom, I can't imagine ever going anywhere without my baby! I imagine my little one will be attached to me (in the pouch, nursing away) constantly, even when she's ne year old! I never went anywhere without dd#1.

Also, I have never seen a breastfeeding woman in this town, and have yet to meet a woman who has delivered vaginally at the hospital here. (c/s rate is somewhere between 40% and 50%. They don't allow VBACs). But we only moved here last April. (I'm trying to think positive!)

I do have some good friends who do extended breastfeeding, VBACs and homebirths, but they live in other towns 10-30 minutes away.

sorry, enough ranting!

[Pastrydemon]

40w5d here. DD was born by now. No fair! I thought second babies were supposed to come earlier. Wah. I got some accupuncture yesterday and will return for more tomorrow after my (third -- *sigh*) NST. Really done with being pregnant and really stressed about the induction hanging over my head on Thursday.

DH is working today so I'm on my own with DD (4). Trying to decide if I feel up to taking her to a birthday party (she doesn't know about it yet) or just hang out with a friend. I'm grumpy and irritatable and don't know if I want to be around a bunch of people right now. But then it's not fair to DD to just grump at her all day. For the time being she's happily playing around the house and entertaining herself quite well.

Got mad at DH last night. We agreed weeks ago that whenver possible he would drive DD to preschool and pick her up (3 days a week -- I work in my home office). Well, it's quite possible tomorrow for him AND I have the NST in the morning and the accupuncture in the afternoon. My main concern is being very uncomfortable sitting in rush hour traffic. He really hemmed and hawed about it. Made me so mad! Sometimes he just does NOT get it!

[Pastrydemon]

Oh...and furthermore.....DH is totally opposed to having my mom come up here for now. In his defense, she does drive me nuts and he's trying to keep my stress level down (sort of). BUT....how the heck am I supposed to get to the rest of my appointments this week AND finish my work??? He says he'll help but then I know it will be the hemming and hawing again and making me feel like I'm imposing on his time. WTF??? OH, AND...he works every day/night this week until Thursday (when the stupid induction is scheduled). Thanks!

[kittywitty]

This kid is never coming out.

The past two days have been hard with such intense prodromal BS. It was so bad last night I consented to dh using nipple stimulation (which bugs the bejeezus out of me). I was contracting SO easily and hard, and bad cramps and a stomach ache. But guess who is now awake and present sans baby?

I'm trying to figure out what is wrong. This is just like with dd#1, but it went somewhere. Why does my body just switch off after like 4 hours? Baby not in the right position? I think it's more emotional. Every time I think this must be it, finally! I get all excited and then I start worrying about what I forget and that's about the time it all stops. So I tried some nat mur, and it didn't do a whole lot. I took some pulsatilla to help with baby's position, but I fell asleep within a minute of it.

I just feel like I will be pregnant forever and I'll be the last one on here because I'm not pregnant. A squid implanted itself in me. That must be what it is. This pregnancy was such a huge shock and it's all been so different than my others. And life has been so incredibley stressful. I have been trying to unwind and it does finally feel "real". So what's blocking me? I can't figure it out! I've tried journaling, reading my Oracle/Tarot cards, doing my Fear Release Hypnobabies thing...why can't I relax?

I just got out of bed and I'm thinking of eating more Captain Crunch out of protest for being awake.

Oh, and nice use of smilies SheBear!