Daily Check in for 1/25 - Page 2

[HardCoreMom]

40+4

geez, there's so much activity here this morning!

amanda, that is SO exciting! i hope things are going well in labor right now.

and the same goes for you, crbyard! today is a fine day to have a baby.

ruthiegirl, i had a night like that a few days ago- i slept for soooo long, i was a little frightened when i woke up, that something was wrong. but i think it was my body collecting its strength. with all of that prodromal stress you've been under lately, it's no wonder that your body would stop you for an evening to recharge. maybe it means things will start happening more quickly now.

to-fu, i'm sorry you've been in this pattern, too. i'm sure you've gotten lots of advice, but maybe you could walk a bit? i found that in my prodromal experiences, it helped the contractions to be more effective until the point that my water broke... and then there was no turning back. but then again, i didn't have any bloody show until the actual labor day, so maybe my advice means nothing in your situation. still, you have my sympathy and encouragement!

anudi, i, too suffered sinus torture through my whole week 39. i could not breathe without moaning in pain, and swallowing was nearly impossible. i don't remember feeling so sick in at least a decade. i really hope you feel better very soon. like: now. during my time sick in this thread, lots of people encouraged me that the baby would hold off as long as my body wasn't strong enough to labor, but you gotta believe i was nervous about it. so, um, yeah. i will send all of my healing vibes to you today.

dov'smom- hope you're hanging in there ok, too. it sounds like you're in good company with the coming-and-going ctx, but i am sure they're getting you somewhere!


things here are fine. i'm pretty comfortable as long as i keep active- my treadmill is my best friend right now. passing ctx, but nothing very exciting and absolutely no MP or bloody show. i am feeling very thankful that the baby is anterior and that i am feeling strong and healthy. trying not to let any stress get to me- ignoring phone calls or e-mails or comments i hear from people about being overdue. shove it, peeps! baby will come when baby is ready! at least that's how i feel this week!

gotta have another NST and fluid check today.

wishing everyone HEALTH, ELVs, and a happy day.
hcm

[PoolSide]

40w1d.

NUTS i tell you! I wanna be soooooooooo done! DONE!

You hear that baby sister?!? Mommy wants to be done!

Back labor started up again last night. Nothing better than watching some crime shows at 4am. Ugh, i'm sleepy today.

I have an end in sight. If she doesn't want to make it out today, tomorrow morning 5am, i get to start the pit drip. Oh joyous fun!

[Hollysmom]

Originally Posted by amandamac

Hello, Everyone,

I didn't think this was possible, but my water just broke 12:30am. I am sitting on an overnight pad, but should probably get back to the toilet. I haven't had any contractions, except for two, a few days ago...this is a really big surprise!!!

~Amanda&BabyMac

ELV to you!!!

Originally Posted by baschabad

Ooh! Lucky!
My due date was yesterday... I can't wait to have my- oh my gosh! I think it just hit me. I'm going to have a BABY?!?
Yay! A family of three!
... am I doing the right thing? Yikes! There's no turning back now!

Can't wait to hear the good news!!

Originally Posted by carmelnap

As for me, well i have been having consistent contractions since yesterday afternoon, after following the midwife's advice of taking a shower and getting some sleep, they have not gone away. Still consistent and they still hurt. It looks like I am in early labor..... anyway back to trying to get some sleep.

Hope the baby gets here soon!

Originally Posted by Ruthiegirl

I guess I should update on me a bit too. Up early this morning after a great night's sleep. Seriously weird for me...I slept from 10 to 4:30 am without getting up once. Of course, my poor bladder was screaming in pain this morning when I finally hobbled to the toilet, but it was worth it to get some sleep.

Contractions started up again all ready. : I had some crazy fast ones last night that scared me a bit. One on top of the other on top of another. I hopped in the tub and they slowed and stopped. For a while there I thought we were having a baby, but no such luck.

This has to be the weirdest labor ever.

But I am in a great mood today. It is dh's birthday, my due date (!), and we have loads of friends coming over tonight for a potluck. There is a stack of organically raised spare ribs marinating in the fridge and I made a huuuuuuuge chocolate cake yesterday.

Spicy ribs and cake sound like the perfect recipe for gastronomical induction. :

Sounds like you and I are having very similar experiences. This is my third and it feels like I have been in some sort of early labor for weeks. Today is my due date and my Dad's birthday. Hang in there, it is going to be our day soon!

Originally Posted by crbyard

Alright, AmandaMac, it looks like it's you and me, baby! This is our day! I woke up at precicely 12:00 midnight to my first contraction. They have been coming regularly every 10 minutes since. I have been trying to sleep, but decided to crank up the water heater and have something to eat before it's too late. I am listening to my hypnosis cd in bed and it is really helping me to relax and get some rest. Looks like the "action" with DH really helped move things along last night. I can't believe we'll have babies in our arms soon!

Hurray!

ELV sent your way!!!

Originally Posted by To-Fu

Haven't seen any MP in a while and contractions are coming anywhere between 8 minutes and 17 minutes apart. They were in a holding pattern while I was relaxing on the couch, but spaced out again when I got up and moved around. Bah!

Hope you other laboring mamas are progressing. (I don't even know if I can say I'm in labor yet...)

So excited for mamafern!

Hope today is your day!!!!

Originally Posted by anudi01

I however have met up with my due date, and believe it or not, I'm begging this baby to stay put for another couple of days.

As you all have probably heard my whinning over the last week or so, I have been battleing a HORRENDOUS sinus infection, which just seems to keep morphing. I have done everything to make this sucker go away. NO SUCH LUCK! I use the Neti pot twice a day, been taking about 1 gram of Vitamin C daily, GSE twice a day for the infection, probiotics, gargle with salt water (so it doesn't move to my throat, sitting over the misty vaporizer to breath and moisten nasal passages, chiropractic treatments, and cranial sacral therapy!!! Overkill maybe???

This thing has moved and is now affecting my jaw and teeth. YEOW! I would take laboring 100 times over this ANY DAY!! Hopefully today is the day I start recovering, then I'll be READY!!!

Kids are better, but just have a lingering cough, and hubby is good to go! Mama just needs to get better. I know this baby definately knows it too. I keep having contractions, loose stools, and then I PRAY this baby stays put. I tell him or her, to just wait a little longer. He's listening too, b/c contractions will just stop. On the pregnancy side...I have no complaints! I actually feel GREAT! No aches and pains, nothing.

Anyway, sorry to take over.

Warm thoughts to all you Mamas. You have been a vital support for me this pregnacy. I cyber-love you all! And I so can't believe I just said that

Have a good day.

I so hope you are feeling better soon

Originally Posted by Tiffany_PartyOf5

I was due yesterday and Im sooo ready to be done.. dh and I dtd this morning in hopes of getting something started lol.. which was totally unappealing to me lol.. but hey, Im tired of being pregnant lol.. and Im HUGE.. After lunch, the kids and I are heading to the mall to speed walk LOL... And since mom is in town (and is going to be taking kids to Orlando with her if I go into labor today or tomorrow morning lol... but is def. taking the biggest kid regardless of if I go into labor or not lol), dh, the kids, and i are meeting her at our most favorite Mexican restaurant (fave restaurant period lol) for dinner after she and dh get off work lol..

Sooo Im hoping for a baby this weekend lol. If I go past tomorrow, I will be the most pregnant I have ever been LOL.. My longest pregnancy was 40w2d with Alex.

I tried the Mall yesterday...didn't work for me. Hope you have better luck

Originally Posted by HardCoreMom

things here are fine. i'm pretty comfortable as long as i keep active- my treadmill is my best friend right now. passing ctx, but nothing very exciting and absolutely no MP or bloody show. i am feeling very thankful that the baby is anterior and that i am feeling strong and healthy. trying not to let any stress get to me- ignoring phone calls or e-mails or comments i hear from people about being overdue. shove it, peeps! baby will come when baby is ready! at least that's how i feel this week!

gotta have another NST and fluid check today.

wishing everyone HEALTH, ELVs, and a happy day.
hcm

Good luck at your tests today!

Originally Posted by PoolSide

40w1d.

NUTS i tell you! I wanna be soooooooooo done! DONE!

You hear that baby sister?!? Mommy wants to be done!

Back labor started up again last night. Nothing better than watching some crime shows at 4am. Ugh, i'm sleepy today.

I have an end in sight. If she doesn't want to make it out today, tomorrow morning 5am, i get to start the pit drip. Oh joyous fun!

Hoping for a baby for you today

Well, didn't post an update yesterday because I was too frustrated. Today is my due date. Still having tons of contractions and spent most of yesterday throwing up. TMI - sorry. I doubt it was labor related, probably the candy I ate :

Take care ladies and I can't wait to hear about all the new babies!!!

[AngelaB]

Im still pregnant too. 40 +4. I thought yesterday for sure. My midwife told me yesterday that I was 5-6 cm dilated and I went home and took the castor oil and had some great contrax for hours but they never came closer then 7 minutes appart. I had huge amounts of bloody mucus last night but was able to get some rest and finally fall asleep. I slept the whole night!

I feel great now and we are going to go walking when dp gets up. He has been such a huge amount of support and help to me. I love having him here!
Its snowing a little bit now and supposed to get about an inch but thats not bad at all so hopefully my midwife wont have too bad of roads to drive on.

I am so happy for all of you that are finally going into labor!!!! This has been the weirdest labor for me yet and the longest I have been pregnant! Hugs to all of you still waiting. Im right there with ya!

Angela

[dahlsk]

Good morning to everyone, esp. to today's laboring mamas! Very exciting news My due date is tomorrow, so it would be lovely to have the bean this weekend, but since its my 1st I know I shouldn't get too anxious. Last night, I went to a showing of "The Business of Being Born" in Minneapolis, which was very inspiring. The room was full of mamas, doulas, midwives, etc. I figured that should give me good vibes to make this happen, right? But nothing happening around here. Just glad to be at home and trying to get rid of the end of my sinus crud.

[Dov'sMom]

Reading all these posts about weeks-long prodromal labor is making me depressed. With my first, I started having contractions one night, they got progressively stronger and closer together, and then (after 2 days of labor) I had a baby. So when I started having painful contractions two nights ago, I figured I was going into labor. I don't mind it taking two or three days; but now we're almost two days later, and I'm still not even in labor! And this could go on for weeks...

[crbyard]

Still hanging in there at contractions every 8-10 minutes. I have been lying in bed the whole time, trying to keep them from getting closer together, as my Mom is still on the road to join us for the birth. And, I am trying to ease into the labor land mode. DH is setting up the pool and dd just went off to Nana and Papa's for the duration. Yowch! Here's another one! Definitely more productive when one is vertical and gravity is on the contraction's side! My hypnosis cd allowed me to get some rest during the night between the contractions. I am so glad my friend got me this relaxation cd. It's helping me out quite a bit in my attitude. I guess I had better get serious and commit to the activity of the day. Easy labor vibes to AmandaMac, Tofu and Dov -- can't wait to hear everyone's stories!

[MAMARabbitt]

I've been having mild contrax since yesterday & now lots of cramping , so maybe today I've got a MW appt this evening, we'll see what they have to say about it.
LOTS OF BABIES COMING SOON MAMAS

[MamaFern]

hey mamas.. just thought i would pop in from baby bliss land.. it really is worth the wait!

love to you all!

[simplehome]

Did I ever tell you guys that we named her? Her name is Elsa.

We're in toddler h*ll over here. Poor kiddo is having middle-of-the-night tantrums like I've never seen before....the exact reason that he gives at the time vary, but it all comes down to "I don't want us to have a baby at our house, mama". Sigh. This WILL get better, yes? This "babymoon" has been horrid, nothing like I had hoped or imagined. This is our last child, and I feel so melancholy over the loss. When I'm alone with her, at least I can enjoy my personal bliss, but I'm feeling very alone in that right now.

Seeing people posting about how in love their toddlers are just makes me wonder if we've done something wrong.

On a happy note, this baby is sleeping like a rock star, so far, especially compared to DS. And nursing has been easy-peasy, with any nipple soreness that I had a thing of the past now on day 7, and breasts that are large, yes, but no longer as hard as boulders. At least I have a pretty huge siler lining in those two facts!

Thinking of all of you who are laboring right now!

[HardCoreMom]

geez, i'm so happy to hear from mamafern. that makes my day.

tofu? amanda? crbyard? ruthiegirl? any updates? i've been thinking of you.

my NST and u/s were just fine. nothing more to report here. mild ctx, i think, but nothing at all worth even thinking about.

looking for more updates!
hcm

[Carliegirl]

Still hanging in there. Not a whole lot to report today. About the same as yesterday. Maybe a few more contractions? Still nothing very close together or painful. Oh well...40+6 and holding. Midwife appointment in the morning.

[hadassah]

I'm having another tough day........feeling like I need to have a really good cry or something. Feeling very alone. I have been really stressing about my house, I feel like I just cannot give birth in anything close to messy-so I have been doing laundry all day and trying to pick up after my kids which is just about pointless....but my bathroom is clean and so is the floor ion the kitchen which I have been wanting to do all week. My bedroom is still quite a mess so I will have to tackle that.

All the while of course waiting to go into labor. I just want to give birth. My midwife says that the baby's head is so far down there which makes sense, I can barley walk. I am 41 weeks today and there is nothing going on in there except some movement now and then.

I am happy for everyone out there that is birthing or just plain upbeat about all this....please send some of those vibes this way please

[simplehome]

Speaking of cleaning, I gave birth on our bathroom floor, and with the huge GUSH when she was born, of course there was a bit of splatter. There was also a puddle that went under the sink base (stone tile floor, and the sink base is 5" up off of the ground on feet). The midwives cleaned everything up, but there are one or two little splatters on the walls still, and the grout under the sink base could use a good cleaning.

I cannot bring myself to erase these last little pieces of the birth. How weird is that? I have a feeling that I'll still be looking at those splatters and dirty grout a year from now, remembering fondly the day she was born on my bathroom floor.

[HardCoreMom]

big hugs to you, hadassah. i know your time will come soon.

i hope you either get a chance to catch up on cleaning the place to your liking or resting and breathing deeply by yourself- whichever feels better at the time. hormones suck.

how are you feeling for 41 weeks?

hcm

[amandamac]

still laboring...

Hello, Jan Mamas,

Hope all is well with you all. I have been having contractions, pretty intense anywhere from 5 to 7 minutes apart. Our midwife came by and will come back tonight when things pick up. I am passing meconium, which is too bad, but we know BabyMac will be OK. I can't wait to get this over with and meet our little bundle-of-joy.

Happy labor vibes to all!


~Amanda&BabyMac

[MrsAprilMay]

Originally Posted by simplehome

Did I ever tell you guys that we named her? Her name is Elsa.

We're in toddler h*ll over here. Poor kiddo is having middle-of-the-night tantrums like I've never seen before....the exact reason that he gives at the time vary, but it all comes down to "I don't want us to have a baby at our house, mama". Sigh. This WILL get better, yes? This "babymoon" has been horrid, nothing like I had hoped or imagined. This is our last child, and I feel so melancholy over the loss. When I'm alone with her, at least I can enjoy my personal bliss, but I'm feeling very alone in that right now.

Seeing people posting about how in love their toddlers are just makes me wonder if we've done something wrong.

I TOTALLY hear you! DD has been having a REALLY hard time sleeping. Lots of late night tantrums. I posted a couple days ago about her being up until 4am. Last night is the FIRST night since we've been home that she's went to bed at a decent time and stayed asleep all night. It may have helped that I took her to the children's museum and let her run wild for a few hours.

DD is totally in love with DS. She really is. But she's also having to adjust to the fact that DS is here to stay. It's a big adjustment and she'll get through it. So will your LO. And so will you and me.

[MamaFern]

ELV's to you labouring mamas!!

[MAMARabbitt]

Wow, I feel so incredibly unsupported right now...
Thank goodness for my mom & DP or I would be even worse off

[secondintheoven]

40+2

I went to my MW check up appt today for a non stress test and baby is healthy and doing fine. She went ahead and swept my membranes which I was not expecting to hurt as bad as it did. But she got me dialated from a 2 to a 4!

Later in the day I went to the bathroom and think I might have lost my mucus plug - not sure since I don't know what it looks like, I've only read about what it might look like. But I've been really crampy and I don't think I've had any real contrax. I just want things to get going - I'm starting to think she's never coming out! I can't wait to see her and love her up!

I've also started having anxiety about once she gets here, I won't have the "just me and Bradley (our son) time" again and it makes me sad. I know we will all have fun together and we can still do things just me and him but it's just so weird to try to imagine having another little one around. But exciting at the same time!

Good luck to all of you having babies right now - keep up posted and can't wait to see pics!