~Check in 12/21~

[stellimamo]

Its 3:00 AM here and I can't sleep because my dh a) snores WAY too much b)talks about random things in his sleep and c) keeps trying to snuggle with me in his sleep, andoh d)I have crazy bad insomnia. So I'm eating a cold bowl of leftover chili and playing on the computer until I think I can go back to sleep w/o hurting him.

Nothing new to report... just the usual contractions on and off all day and evening.

Tonight my mom and I are taking dd to the zoo to look at all the lights! That should be a lot of fun.

[crsta33]

I'm here. 41 weeks today. Going for a NST this morning, then going to the chiro, then going for an u/s. So I'll be out most of the day. I'll check in with updates when I get back.

Christa

[mrsrayray]

40w 1d I can't wait to have my husband hold this baby finally. my back/hips/pelvis/RIBS are killing me. had my midwife appt yesterday and we made an appt for next week, in case. :sigh: as long as she gets here before new years, i can deal. but it feels like a long time to wait.... especially with a toddler climbing all over my belly.

[Quindin]

Really... I would not mind at all going to 42+ weeks with this baby - all my other babies came many days after their due date.
This time however, the constant pain and contractions since week 39 have made it all too much - specially since Monday. I am drained and can't take it anymore

I am 40 weeks + 3 days today

[guest9921]

Crazy wicked headcold has overcome me two days after my homeopathics have run up.
I feel much better after getting out of bed and letting my head clear a bit, but the pressure is still bad.


Please send me healing and sticky baby vibes. This baby reallly needs to stay put until I'm healthy.
I'm 'due' tomorrow, and its the solstice - our family celebration. :

Baby unfortunately has just rotated from being posterior, so he may end up coming soon.

[transformed]

hi. I am sick. Laryngitis. Crap.

whatever.

I am keeping a on.

40 weeks and 6 days.

[CowsRock]

39 & 2...nothing exciting to report. Feeling sad and grumpy. I was already feeling grumpy and then I found out last night that a dog I rescued back in my college days and took care of for a few years til we were both in danger of being out in the street, just died. He had a great 7 years with the couple found for him, so many adventures with them. BUT he was my dog equivilent of the soulmate, he and I were a perfect match and because of our circumstances we were almost never apart and I've never met another dog that could quite live up to him. Doesn't mean I don't love my dog of course, but she just isn't him. Anyway, point is, I had just renewed contact with them and was thinking of visiting him and then he suddenly passed...so I'm sad. Lame to some I'm sure, but I know there are other animal lovers on here who know exactly what I'm trying to explain.

Anyway, wasn't really planning on posting about that but guess I needed to.

I finally got into my birth pool last night. I didn't even post about all the troubles we were having with our trial run because it was so discouraging and frustrating...short version is we worked on it every night this week and it was only at 9:30 last night that I was able to get in. We'll do another trial run soon that will hopefully be much, much smoother (plus hubby is on board with leaving it blown up so we don't have to bother with that part again). It was comfy and I loved it (la bassine) but had just gotten the dog news so wasn't really mentally into it anymore.

I have to get going, I've had such a weird week and I'm determined to get some stuff done before I leave for my chiro appointment. For some reason once I leave the house it seems to be forever before I get back, I feel like I'm losing all my days by being out, and why is the whole world in such a hurry, I feel like I'm risking my life being out there this week, hence the grumpy...ugh, weird week, weird mental space....just weird. Someone needs to come up with a funny story or something...maybe later I'll just search Shebear posts and read her old posts...so happy her baby has arrived but it is her posts that always cheer me up no matter what, I'm sure the old ones will do it too.

Geeze sorry to be a downer...let me leave on a more positive note. I love my baby, love feeling him/her move around, love that I have been to the pool every day this week, love that baby seems still while I swim but then moves around when I float, almost like baby is saying come on keep going, love that my hubby is working his butt off to do the stuff around the house that has to happen, love that I am relatively comfortable, and I'm perfectly content to wait on baby and don't yet feel like I need to have this baby now, love watching all the baby movement every evening. Life is good even when it feels too raw.

[Sihaya]

41w2d here. Had some blood-tinged mucus last night and this morning. : Ctx through the night, but of course they're gone now. Hoping baby comes before I kill DH for whining: "My throat hurts." "My stomach feels crampy." Get over it! :

[bumblebeej]

Oh Kat I see your siggy.... I didn't know :

[mom2liv]

40 + 1 here. Nothing much going on today--just trying to wrap up all my projects at work and celebrate the fact that today is my last day before maternity leave!!!!! SOOOOO excited about that fact!

Thought something might be happening last night, as a lot of ctx that for a while seemed to be progressing, but......nothing. My sister's coming today for the weekend, so would be nice if baby decided to come while she was here!

[Momma2DoubleCuties]

38w6d today, nothing to report either. I finally talked DH into DTD this morning but just like I figured hasn't done a thing. Ah well. My little sisters whom I really wanted to be here for the birth come back from Hawaii on Monday night late so maybe that's just who he is waiting for his aunties to come home so they can witness him being born.

[Elsaraw]

Originally Posted by Sihaya

Hoping baby comes before I kill DH for whining: "My throat hurts." "My stomach feels crampy." Get over it! :

Yeah. My dh has had a toothache and walks around with his hand on his face acting all pathetic and I want to rip his head off. I basically said so too. I don't care I'm so angry at him with the way he "handled" his stupid family situation. I don't feel like he defended me and the baby properly at all and was all apologetic to them and I am PISSED. So, this really foul midstate I am in has utterly stopped any signs in my body of impending labor. I'm very mad that people are doing things to f up this time right now, I can't believe how selfish they are.

I can't sleep at all. I've broken a few dishes on purpose and that at least felt good.

[DucetteMama21842]

Still here.. 40w1d

[kittywitty]

Kripa I am sorry for your loss.

Sihaya, sounds exciting!!

Nothing here. : 40+3 or something. Everytime I think about the baby or anything-dishes, whatever, I start to cry. I just want to NOT be pregnant anymore. I want baby out so I don't hurt so much. Not to mention that everything I have done to prepare has gone to #@(^. Freezer is nearly empty already, laundry piling up, carpets need cleaned (cleaner broke!), just everything is ruined. I have never gone overdue before. We don't have extra money this month, so we have to live off my freezer fixings which means I will have to be up cooking 3 meals a day when baby is here instead of using what was already made. And I'm running out of time for dh to help.

Tonight after midnight would be a great time to have a baby. Solstice baby and a Capricorn like I not-so-secretly hoped. And here before my in-laws come so they'll leave me the heck alone.

So tonight I am going to go walking for hours at Walmart. I am out of EPO after today. Didn't figure I'd need an extra week's worth. This house stinks. But I'm too depressed to clean. I am at the complete apathy stage.

Basically this is me

[Sihaya]

Originally Posted by kittywitty

I am out of EPO after today. Didn't figure I'd need an extra week's worth.

I hear you - I am totally running out of my supplements, too! The probiotics were gone yesterday (and at $30 for a month's worth, I won't be getting more any time soon!), the EPO is gone after tomorrow, and I had to buy more Emergen-C, C Vitamins, and Cal/Mag when I went grocery shopping this week. Come out soon baby - you're cheaper out here!

[*MamaJen*]

Originally Posted by stellimamo

Its 3:00 AM here and I can't sleep because my dh a) snores WAY too much b)talks about random things in his sleep and c) keeps trying to snuggle with me in his sleep, andoh d)I have crazy bad insomnia.

I hear you. The other night Aaron started singing "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice in his sleep. He actually got all the way through the first two lines of the song, "Stop, collaborate and listen, Ice is back with my brand new invention."
I think it'll be a long, long time before I'm done making fun of him for that one. He finally had his appointment with the sleep clinic yesterday (where's the singing chorus of angels smiley?) and they told him he had all the signs of sleep apnea. I'm so incredibly glad that he's getting that taken care of, because his chronic fatigue is so bad nowadays.
Me, I'm 39 weeks. Feeling good. It's my last day of work before maternity leave.

[kittywitty]

Originally Posted by Sihaya

I hear you - I am totally running out of my supplements, too! The probiotics were gone yesterday (and at $30 for a month's worth, I won't be getting more any time soon!), the EPO is gone after tomorrow, and I had to buy more Emergen-C, C Vitamins, and Cal/Mag when I went grocery shopping this week. Come out soon baby - you're cheaper out here!

Ain't that the truth! I have about 3 days left of probiotics and Emergen-C, also.

I do have buckets of herbs for tea. I will probably give them away when I'm done. Anyone know which ones are good to keep taking post baby? I have nettles, RRL, Alfalfa, and Oatstraw.

[Lizzardbits]

39 and 5. I *think* I have a slow amniotic trickle---*think* not sure. I don't have any litmus paper so I can't test for acidic/basic pH levels. The trickle happened when Hubby and I were having a happy round of nookie because alllll day today my pubic bone/broken crotch magically disappeared. Hubby said that he *thinks* that he felt a small little pop. We checked out the scent, and consistancy of it and it is an earthy, almondy, watery fluid, sooo from what I have read it sounds like amniotic fluid. So I had Hubby call into work (they were none too happy because it was an hour before his shift started) so he could stay home with me.

I am still very pessimistic because of alllllll the false labor that I have gone through this last week. I am having mild contrax so I am going to go into the bathtub and read my book, drink some water and see if they continue on, or peter out like they have done this last week.

I will check back in later to let you Ladies know.

[cravenab00]

39 weeks today. i never thought i'd say this, but I CANNOT have this baby today. Tonight, sure. Bring it on, but labor has to wait until at least 9pm or so. We are having xmas with my dad today. and if i were to go into labor around him, i think he would die of a heart attack. not to mention, he would physically carry me to a hospital, even though he knows we are birthing at home. let me put this nicely..... my dad is a basket case. (i tried )
he stresses himself out over EVERYTHING. its exhausting to be around him.

so, stay put until later tonight, baby, and then you can come out.

i actually was ALONE in my house last night for 5 hours i honestly do not remember the last time that that happened. DH took the kids to town to do boy scouts and taekwondo and do a couple other errands. I think i really needed that. I had lots of regular contractions last night. They felt differnt than before. I think baby is finally rotating to anterior. that will help i'm sure. And i slept SO awesome last night! It was wonderful.

[kittywitty]

Lizzardbits :