Daily Check-In for 1/7

[To-Fu]

Well, it's 5:40a and I'm still not asleep, so I thought I'd go ahead and start today's thread.

37+2 here. I have my first MW appointment in about three weeks (we were delayed due to the holidays) and I'm anxious to find out this babe's position. I feel like there is a giant, fat fish inside my belly these days and I just can't tell what's what. Space is limited!

Today's affirmations:

I have patience.
My body knows what to do.
This baby will come when he's ready.

How's everyone else doing?

[Peacemamalove]

Still here too 38 weeks and 3 days pregnant. I didn't sleep well last night only for the first few hours then from 1 on I was up going to the bathroom or couldn't get comfy in bed :

Todays affirmations :


I am ready and prepared for this.

My body will give birth in it's own time.

My job is to simply relax and allow the birth to happen.

[KittyTheCat]

Still around. *grml* Depending on which due date I go with, I'm either 40+6, or exactly 40w.

It's already half past 1 here, so I already got some things done. Although I guess I overdid it with hoovering the whole apartment, doing some laundry and tidying DS's room... Now my hip and leg are one giant 'Ouch!'. :

DS woke me up sometime around 2am, asking for num-num : but I refused (we usually only nurse in the morning now), and while he was fussing and complaining, I had this one big contraction that really made me go "Whoa. Hold on a second..." I had to get on all fours because it was unbearable lying down. I went to the loo after and stayed up for a while with a couple more contractions, but they fizzled out sometime around half past. Very annoying. At least that gave me a reason to pump up my birth ball...

Everything will happen in its own time. There is no pressure.

[Chavaleh]

Have my first midwife appointment in a month today at 39w1d. Between the holidays, an appointment canceled from illness and our lack of a car it's just been a while. But I get to see my favorite midwife today hopefully.

Bad night of sleep. Seems I get two bad nights followed by one ok night. Maybe I'm just so tired by then... hehe

Kids go back to school today!

Yesterday I was much more contracty and crampy than I had been but it seems to have settled down some.

Hope everyone has a good day today.

[Ruthiegirl]

37+3 here and still hanging on. I have a good while to go yet.

Not sure what we are going to do today. My son is bouncing off the walls with energy and we are out of food. A grocery store trip may be necessary with a wild boy (cringe). I may bundle him up for a hard run at the park and then brave the store.

Good day to everyone. Keep up the good work.

[Dov'sMom]

37w5d. My sister left this morning and we are finally done with the endless stream of visitors (though MIL is still here). My other sister was talking about coming for a visit during her school vacation, which just happens to be smack between my two possible due dates, and I convinced her it was a bad idea.

For some reason, I am convinced this baby will come on January 24th. Maybe because it's my mother's birthday, maybe because it's 38 weeks after the latest date I thought I could have conceived -- whyever. But it means that I am not making any serious effort to get ready, which is a slight problem, because I have two major projects to finish for work and I really need to get cracking. And because I haven't figured out how to work sleeping arrangements, and I have the feeling that if I'm going to kick DS1 out of my bed, I should do it before I bring little Mr. (or Mrs.) Competition into the house. Any ideas on that front, btw? DS1 is almost 14 mths, and he still nurses a couple of times at night. I'm sure that when my milk comes back in full force he's going to want to nurse even more. He's also a very active sleeper -- last night he went to sleep on my right side, lying next to me. When I got up 3 hours later to open the window, he was head down on my left side. : So I'm not sure if it's safe to have him in the same bed as the newborn, but I'm also not sure I want to have to get up and go to him when he needs to nurse during the night.

[aaronsmom]

I'll be 41 weeks tomorrow. Still having sporadic contractions. I'm praying I'll make some progress today. :

[rosie29]

Morning! I'm 38+1 and actually not feeling too antsy yet. I can wait! I WOHM two days/week and have to go in today. I'm kind of just wishing I could be on maternity leave already and not feeling like expending the energy.

[happymomma]

I'm here! I am 40w 1d according to the midwife, I think I am not really "due" until the 8th but still plan to go over.

My dh and I had a great dinner last night! We went out alone for the first time in about 6 months and it was so nice just to be able to talk and chew your food and relax instead of inhaling your meal before the kids start bouncing out of the booth.

I can tell that I am getting close though because I am so insanely irritable. We went to Best Buy last night and I was totally annoyed by all the people coming up to ask us if we needed help. Usually its a good thing when people are friendly and want to help you, you know? But not at this stage...at this stage I am practically growling at them.

[HardCoreMom]

hey hey hey! we actually got *some* sleep last night. it was sporadic, on account of this horrible coughing that the kids struck up, but hey, some sleep is better than absolutely no sleep.

i'm torn about the ped's. usually, my kids fight off their colds in 24 hours. and i REALLY don't want to make the long trek into town to subject any of us to a germy doctor's office (or vice versa). still not sure about an ear infection, and that or something a lot more serious than a cold would certainly warrant a trip to the doc's for us. so i don't know what to do. keep my eye on things, i guess. but i'm in no hurry to go to the ped's, cause unless they (really) need antibiotics, i wouldn't give them anything other than tylenol, anyway.

all cramping/ctx i was having yesterday evening have ceased. i still need a few more days to get my stuff together. but i remind myself that i have boobs that are always ready for the baby, and ultimately, that's all that i really need. as much as life would be easier with the other stuff done, i know i shouldn't let it stand in the way of my feeling a sense of welcome for the baby on the baby's terms.

affirmation: my baby will do his own good thing in his own good time.

hope everyone has a good day,
peace,
hcm

[SharonAnne]

Alicia, I know exactly what you mean. I'm even really irritable in my dreams! Last night I dreamed that I told my FIL off (which I've wanted to do on many occasions, but I've always kept it reigned in : ) and then, same dream, I told my MIL 'GET THE HELL AWAY FROM ME" : FTR, I LOVE my MIL :

I'm 38w 5d today. I don't think I'll be holding out much longer. At least, I hope not. Baby is soooo low. It is soooo uncomfy. And sleep has become a distant memory. Which I guess is a good thing in a way....get me ready for newborn nursing and all that

[HardCoreMom]

alicia- you went to BEST BUY and the people were actually helpful?!?!?! i've been to best buy stores all up and down the east coast, and i have never been in a single one where anyone at all made any effort to treat me like a paying customer. it's always just kinda seemed endemic to the chain, i guess.

congrats! wish i could shop at your BB!

and, yeah, i'm sorry about the irritability factor...

[starry_mama]

I threw up all night long (food issues, I think, not the flu), and also had contractions. They are currently 15 minutes apart. It feels weird to be saying this, but I really hope this ISN'T it, I'm exhausted.

[3xx1xyFamily]

I'm here at 40+1... patiently waiting.... tick tock tick tock tick tock.....

todays mantra: easy and effortless!

[HardCoreMom]

wow, starry mama, please keep us updated. i'm sorry you felt so awful all night long- i can't imagine. i'll send you some "baby-stay-put" vibes for today, and the reminder that if today is in fact the day, labor will have a finish line, and waiting for you there, a baby. it would really be awful to enter labor feeling the way you do right now, but labor would have an end. and the waiting would be over!

do whatever you can to get some rest- it sounds like oncoming labor or no labor, you could really use it!

i'll keep checking in on ya...

hcm

[sing4jy]

38w2d here. I was crampy all day yesterday and still am this morning, but nothing seems to be going on, so I'm going to write it off as the lovely joys of pregnancy so I stop thinking about it. Have an appt tomorrow and I'm hoping she'll strip my membranes then since I was told my cervix is ripe. I'm not sure if she'll be willing to interfere before my due date. I know I should leave him be, but I am still nauseous every day and still throwing up. I've had m/s for 33 weeks now and I still need for it to be over. I just can't take it anymore.

[photogirl]

I feel for you Starry momma! I've heard that throwing up/ flu can put someone into labour. Not the most convenient timing when you're sick! I keep hearing about flu bugs and chicken pox going around.... the joys of giving birth in January!

I've 37 weeks today!! FULL TERM, Yay! I could hardly sleep last night, I'm thinking so much about the new baby, labour, etc. etc.

[momonthebeach]

Good morning all! I am feeling pretty good this morning. I had some contractions last night but none that were consistent at all. Today I feel a little crampy but nothing too major. I don't want to go into labor today since it is the NCAA football national championship game. DH is a huge LSU fan and we already had to sell our tickets so I'm really hoping to not make him miss watching the game too. Not that he wouldn't happily to be there for the birth of our child. For his sake, I hope these two events can be seperate so they can both be enjoyed more, KWIM!! Hope that everyone is feeling well!
Katie

[PoolSide]

Two words:

Back. Labor.
:::::::: irked::

Ugh. I need to call the office, but they don't open until 9.

[southernmommie]

Good morning everyone!! : It is cold here for where we live! Still rainy too. So I have 2 very active kids that have been cooped up inside all weekend and a husband who goes back to work this afternoon for his night shift all week. What a day ahead. I may take the kids up to our McDonald's and let them play in their indoor playground. It's actually quite a nice one! They need to run and scream and get this energy out before I completely lose it!! My mom gets here next week. We really thought that baby would be here by now. Now it's a wait and see game. I'm okay with baby not being here, but would have liked baby to be here already. I am 39+3 today. I was 40+5 with my first one almost 6 years ago. My second one was forced out early, so I can't go by her dates. She was 35+5. So I'm thinking that I just naturally bake our big babies longer than due dates are concerned with the medical society. It might be a good thing that Mom will be here when I go into labor.

Affirmation: I am not on a timetable. I am going through a totally natural process that will know when the time is right without my involvement or interference!