~*Daily Check In 12/28*~

[Elsaraw]

Since I'm sitting around here in early labor I'll start.
How the heck are you supposed to rest and/or get sleep with contractions? I mean why do midwifes even say that??

[YummyYumYumMama]

yeah wtf? i couldn't rest at all.

i am super pissed off right now. some @$$hole decided to cook at freaking 4 am in our apt building and nearly burned down his whole kitchen. we had to go out with the baby in near-freezing weather due to the fire alarm. i FREAKED OUT. i was nursing her, and the whole apt REEKED of smoke and the alarm went off... so scary! i'm really glad that everything's okay and that there wasn't a real FIRE, because i realized that there's no way we could rescue our cats if there was. the fire alarm sound makes them hide in the most inaccessible places they can find.

ugh. ugh ugh ugh. i hate fire alarms. i'm so glad everything's okay, but the anxiety and panic i felt while holding my 2.5 week old baby was not really that fun. dh points out with a big smile that it's our first family fire drill and we did a great job. who the hell is that unfailingly positive at this hour?

[Lizzardbits]

Oooo Good luck and ELV to ya Elsaraw!!!

Sorry to hear about your eeed-gee-oot neighbor, MmeMuffin! Hubby and I have neighbors that like to blare their stereo from about 8-9pm until 3-4am. The night before last we got to "enjoy" their drunken friends singing loudly from the street below (we live on the 6th floor, and loud neightbors are on the 8th floor) to Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" as the loud neighbor's had opened their windows and put the speakers pointing out the window. That was about 2:45am......nice....

Uhh...40 and 5 today. some stronger contrax last night and during the night, but they were few and far between. Baby is very active. I am stoooopidly tired today, so I am going to eat some lunch and take a nap.

[mrsrayray]

41w 1d
yesterday my midwife asked if i had back labor last time, and said "well thats just how you birth your babies" cause ryan's in that same position now. i've been feeling more pressure on my "broken crotch" even when i'm just standing or sitting, so i guess she's moving into position, yay!

ah, neighbors! last night our neighbors upstairs came in and STOMPED around in dress shoes on hardwood floors over our head! AHH! of course this lasted from 2am-330am, and for some reason you can always hear things hitting the floor as if they're throwing things. geez. i'm no longer even REMOTELY worried about making too much noise during the birth, or about if ryan ever cries in the middle of the night. they deserve to get woken up like this pregnant woman's been getting woken up by them. (not to mention the times that they've woken up my DD) what stinkers!

[wife&mommy]

Labor vibes to all of you!
Muffin - glad everything is ok!
Elsaraw - yeah I couldn't with either of my labors...

[Kealli]

I know I'm still very new around here but I wanted to post that my water just broke!! I'm very excited.

40 + 6 today and haven't had any contractions before the gush. Now they are slowly starting up.

[mrsrayray]

Originally Posted by Kealli

I know I'm still very new around here but I wanted to post that my water just broke!! I'm very excited.

yay!!!

[starry_mama]

Nothing going on here. I slept all night last night though which was amazing. In fact, I just woke up a few minutes ago (well, more like 30). DH went to work late and let me sleep in.

[*MamaJen*]

I'm either 40+3 or 40 even. I woke up to some pretty good cramps just now. They were strong enough to make me have to get up out of bed rather than lie through them. They feel pretty much exactly like PMS cramps. Maybe the baby will come this year. I was very delighted, though, that I didn't go into labor last night when Aaron was off at his sleep study thing. That would have sucked.
I put on a pot of RRL tea and I'm trying to decide whether or not I feel like going into the office. I think I might hang out around the house for a couple hours first.
ELVs to Kealli and Elsaraw!

[cravenab00]

happy due date to me. Blah.

had lots of contractions yesterday afternoon and evening mainly i think because of my rather rough afternoon (see my WIC thread) and lots of baby cork this morning. I doubt it means much though.

my mom is coming tomorrow, for our xmas. was really hoping to have baby by then. she has come for awhile after each of my kids, and its so nice. Sigh.

going to town today to get a few things. dont really want to go, but it has to get done.

i was so tired this morning. i didnt hear my 5 year old DS get up and make himself breakfast, which was a quesadilla, complete with a handful of chocolate chips :Puke

ELV to all who need it!

[*MamaJen*]

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[VickV]

ELVs to those who need them!!

[Belleweather]

I ALSO woke up with my water broken this morning! Yay for being in good company!

Unfortunately, no real contractions to speak of, and I'm not really too sure what to do now -- my water didn't break until I was in the birth tub with my first, so I don't really know what to do about all this liquid that wants to run down my legs all the time. I mean, if I get up and just let it go... will it all drain out and then stop? Right now I'm just laying in bed with a pad on dinking around on the internet because I don't want to dribble all over the carpet. I feel like such a moron!

[stellimamo]

NOthing new here. I slept through the night w/o any contractions. I can't believe with how strongand regular they were yesterday that I'm not sitting with a baby or at least in full blown labor. Oh well.
We are going to go walk around Target and then come home DTD to see if that gets things going.

[guest9921]

Belle -
No, everytime the baby rearranges, it'll gush out a bit more. It'll continue replenishing itself until baby is born. Total pain in the ass, and the sensation is really odd.

I'm so jealous you're going before me.


40wks 6d here.
Nothing, nada. Which is odd, as I had 2weeks or so of lots of babycork losing and tons of heavy contractions. Last week, once my due date hit - they stopped. Baby is fine, I feel fine.
Baby will come when he's ready, and I'm still feeling pretty patient.

: he comes in the next 3 days though. If not, poo, but all will be well.

[mollybet]

41+1 and nothing going on with my uterus, but my head is going mad

My midwife is coming over today one last time to discuss our birth plans. I'm still trying to eek out a homebirth despite my low-lying (previously complete previa) placenta. Wish me luck.

[look11]

Wow! So many babies coming today!!!

For the first time, I'm feeling anxious about getting things going. I need this baby out before Sunday! LOL. I'm finally losing baby cork, and my crotch HURTS, but no contrax or anything. I had acupuncture last night to start labor, but nothing's happened so far. I AM READY!

Unfortunately, all the in-laws are coming tomorrow to do Christmas exchange, then taking DD overnight and bringing her back Sunday. That's okay, but I don't want them around when I give birth and I would like DD to be here for the birth, but whatever... there's nothing I can do.

Just waitin with those of us stragglers who are left...

[Ms. B. Sprout]

Go Elsaraw! Go Kealli! Go Belleweather!

Today is my EDD, and nothing doing.

[*MamaJen*]

Good luck to Belleweather too.
I am also sitting here feeling like a little bit of a moron. I guess I'm in prelabor, but, uh, maybe I'm not. For example: I'm getting contractions every two minutes lasting for about 20 seconds, like total clockwork. Only they don't really hurt. On the suckage scale, they register as maybe a mild to mid-grade uncomfortable. I felt a little leaky, so I used a strip of that PH paper that tells you if it's amniotic fluid, and it only turned the edges blue. And I haven't really had bloody show, but I am staining the TP the palest possible shade of pink. I've been on the toilet like four times today.
I called my midwife and left a message just to give her a head's up that I was feeling some prelabor activity. I'm glad I feel really comfortable with her and she's so accessible, otherwise I would have felt like an idiot calling this early. I think I said the phrase "nothing immediate" like four times.
Anyway, I'm not going to work today, though I do have a contractor coming this afternoon to fix the toilet. Until then I'm going to do some house stuff and try to take the dogs to the park. I figure when I'm really in labor it'll be pretty damn obvious, right?

[transformed]

Hey everyone! Hang in there ladies!

I am glad *some* of us are smart enough to know when we are in labor. I was in denial the WHOLE labor this time. Until I was transitioning, I am serious!

The whole labor I was like "This is going to putter out...." etc.

And then I told dh "Just call her, just in case, and have her come." Midwife got here 15 minutes before baby was born. LMAO.

I cant belive I didn't recognize LABOR. Its like my 4th birth.


I had a HORRIBLE morning today. My dh went to the chiro for an hour andd I sat on the couch yelling at my other 2 kids the whole time with baby on my boob. It sucked. My house is a disaster from xmas, and birth, and dd;s birthday. Too much stuff in here. No one packed the xmas toys away in bins like I asked them to so EVERY SINGLE TOY is just out and all over thefloor. Which makes my kids just go crazy. They dont play with the toys unless there are very few toys to choose from. Otherwise, like now, they just run in circles and scream out of boredom, and hit eachother.

I need xanax.

Ok not really. But I feel like that.

And the baby is very overwhelmed today as my milk came in yesterday and today i look like Dolly parton.

My boobs look fabulous.