Still Pregnant Roll Call! - Page 9

[FoxintheSnow]

Still pg here!

Im 40 weeks now. I have an appt today and Im gonna try to talk my ob into stripping my membranes to try and stir things up. My mom is flying across the country on the 25th to help me with the babe and hopefully see the birth. I hope the timing works out!

I think I'll go torture myself now and read all our recent birth announcements. lol

[tolovemercy]

Originally Posted by JustJamie

Grrrr...

I started getting everything ready for the trip to the hospital, got a bag of clothes for DD, and the contractions stopped. So I went to bed, and woke up STILL PREGNANT with no contractions.

I'm so sorry! I was thinking of you when I got up this morning!

I'm still pregnant, too. No real signs of...well...anything.

[supa]

argh. i feel grouchier every day! i am really feeling like crap and i feel like i'm not being a very good family member right now. every day i wake up and i'm still pregnant just feels soooo yucky! i am barely mobile these days. the last time i was able to get out of the house was friday and it resulted in puking. all weekend i was nauseous and i have had a lot of deep ctx, but nothing that turns into anything. i feel like i just want to bite everyone's head off. also, i have crazy pressure in my pelvis and it hurts to move. i feel like a very unpleasant person right now and i hate how i'm acting.

okay, rant over for now....

[tolovemercy]

Originally Posted by supa

argh. i feel grouchier every day! i am really feeling like crap and i feel like i'm not being a very good family member right now. every day i wake up and i'm still pregnant just feels soooo yucky! i am barely mobile these days. the last time i was able to get out of the house was friday and it resulted in puking. all weekend i was nauseous and i have had a lot of deep ctx, but nothing that turns into anything. i feel like i just want to bite everyone's head off. also, i have crazy pressure in my pelvis and it hurts to move. i feel like a very unpleasant person right now and i hate how i'm acting.

okay, rant over for now....

I just logged on here to say how awful I feel, and how bad of a mom I'm being. I just snapped at my 15 m/o, for a totally stupid reason--I was sewing, and he was playing with my jeans, and for whatever reason, it was driving me absolutely up the wall....and now he's watching his live-action firetruck video for probably the 8th time in the last two days. I hate the person I am right now. I want my life back. I feel super nauseous, and have a killer headache, and I want this to BE OVER.

[1hautemama]

39 weeks 4 days

Hello mamas! Still here. I hear ya about not being the most pleasant human to be around. I think I'm growing another two heads with horns.
I plan to give DD1 some extra hugs and lovin' when she gets back from school today, though. My poor baby has been all but ignored from the chaos of getting ready for this babe, and DD2 stole her thunder almost 2 years ago when she was born.

[avasmomleigh]

The last 2 days I have felt less and less likely to have this baby. I think I will just split open when he turns 18. Seriously-I don't think I am having a baby. I don't mind, he's become quite a nice companion. I might just return the clothes... My house is insanely dirty, even DH is being driven nuts by it, there is not one organized or clean area (getting ready to move SUCKS!@!!!!!!!!!!!!) I'm now so giant that DH started worrying last night that will 'need' a c-section (and the jaws of life) to get this boy out. Whatever it takes to get him to help around the house, I'll take it. I have 2 more days till 39 weeks, and I can't believe I am still getting bigger. I was having some light contractions last week, but nothing now. See? He's staying. although with the house a mess and nothing ready, I figured he might show up! I gotta get off my butt and start walking or something to get this guy moving. I don't want to work anymore! I'm being hopeful and typing up a list of what is going on with projects at work so someone else can deal with them if I don't come back. DD has a cold and a nasty cough, so I suppose it's good that he waits awhile. out:

[crazydiamond]

40w1d and counting

Tried some nipple stim last night and got a couple of contrations, but of course as soon as I stopped so did they. Woke up, still preg and no contractions or cramping.

[Jes'sBeth]

still here. sigh. I've taken to making lots of plans so that baby will arrive and screw them all up. It can't hurt to try right? NOthing else has worked...

Off to the midwife today to get a stretch and sweep hopefully (last time my cervix was too posterior to reach. Now THAT sucked!) I keep having these periods of crampiness with mild unpainful contractions that make me think there will be a baby soon and then nothing happens

I don't think I'm ever going to have this baby.

Meanwhile I'm listening to a radio article about a therapy pool for dogs. Um, yeah, I could use a therapy pool right now. I mean, I gotta hurt more than an arthritic dog at this point right? How much can that cost???

[Marieke]

Also among the still pregnant crowd.

My due date isn't 'til the 19th/20th (depending on which calculator you're using, I think the leap year threw some of them off a bit, ).

I didn't go into labour with my son until 40w2d, so I figure this time will be similar, and that's fine. With him I also had no prior 'warnings' before I woke up feeling crampy and having my water break 45 minutes later. No loss of mucous plug or real 'dropping' of the baby to speak of, so I'm not counting on any advance warning this time before I go into labour.

I have been feeling a tad nauseous in the morning the past few days before I have something to eat, which is irritating and not something I remember happening with my son. And I'll be happy when my pelvis no longer aches a lot and I can move more easily.

Other than that I'm not too bothered about still being pregnant, just eager to meet our baby girl, which will happen soon enough I'm sure. A few more days on top of 9.5 months isn't much.



Marieke

[3kids2love]

I'll be 39 weeks tomorrow. I'm also getting to the point where I'm thinking I'll just be pregnant forever, lol. And I've officially entered "prodromal labor land", so that's no fun. If only these contractions could make up their mind and settle into a regular pattern, or something, now that would be nice... Then again, I keep having these moments of panic, where I begin to wonder if everything's ready (we're planning our first home birth). I think I may make dh clean the bathroom this evening. Or maybe I should clean it myself, think that would put me into labor???

[Gnatty]

Originally Posted by avasmomleigh

The last 2 days I have felt less and less likely to have this baby. I think I will just split open when he turns 18. Seriously-I don't think I am having a baby. I don't mind, he's become quite a nice companion. I might just return the clothes...

I admire your graceful resignation...

[MonP'titBoudain]

Still here. I was really hoping this major storn system that moved in last night would maybe prompt something. But no luck for me (although it does seem to have brought things to a head () for my doula's other client due now).

I will have this baby. No one is pregnant forever. right?

[3kids2love]

Originally Posted by MonP'titBoudain

I will have this baby. No one is pregnant forever. right?

I saw a documentary, I think it was on DHC or Science Channel or something, where there was a lady who really was pregnant forever. Well, she was way old. Had these pains in her stomach. This was in a third world country, btw. Anyway, so she finally went to the hospital, and there was a calcified baby inside of her. I guess when she was young, she had been pregnant, and through a rare chain of events, her baby implanted outside of her uterus. The baby actually grew and everything. Then, when it was time for the baby to be born, he of course couldn't come out. Since it was in a third world country, and I think it was in the 1930's or 40's, nobody could figure out what the problem was. Her pains eventually subsided, and she went on with her life. Until she was old (I think she was in her 70's or 80's), and started having pains again, and that's when they found what had happened. Crazy, huh?

[mamadonna]

Feeling bummed out today.

I'm okay myself--totally fine in fact. But I just feel like every day that goes by I'm coming closer and closer to a brick wall that the medical establishment has set up in terms of when this baby is "supposed" to be born. And I feel like we're going to hit that wall soon and I don't know what I'll do. I'm content, I feel like this baby will come when he's ready (and he's showing no signs of being ready), but I feel like my care providers are on a schedule and the "deadline" is getting really close and it's bumming me out today big time.

[JustJamie]

Maybe update?

My midwife was so shocked that she didn't hear from me Monday night that she called me Tuesday morning to find out what was going on. When I told her about the contractions stopping, she suggested we go back in, she'd check me again, possibly strip me again, and have me walk around and actively try to stimulate labor. I started having bloody show as soon as I got off the phone with her.

So we went, she checked - I'm a good FIVE cm dilated, but only one contraction during the two hours we were there. She stripped me again, sent me to walk around, told me to take the stairs, avoid elevators, etc, and come back in 3-4 hours.

3-4 hours later, I came back, she checked me - no cervical change whatsoever. Still 5cm dilated, no contractions. DH and I decided that this baby is just not ready to come out yet, so we're not going to mess with nature any more. If I'm 5cm dilated, I'm halfway to pushing without any real contractions, which should mean a short, easy labor, right? I'm okay with that.

I'm still feeling very crampy from having my membranes stripped, but it feels exactly like it did last night, so I figure the pains will stop in the next 20-30 minutes and I can get some sleep! If they don't stop in the next 30 minutes, I'm gonna start timing them.

[Eman'smom]

I'm glad some of you are still so upbeat.

I went to the acupunturist today, it was a letdown. She was fine but over the phone I told her my due date (end of this week) and the fact that my BP was climbing so I was hoping to kick start something and get the BP under control. She said I was an "excellent canidate". Great, I was feeling like maybe something might happen oh before never.

So I get there and apparently my "systems" are so messed up she doesn't even want to do labor points on me : Does anyone care that I'm so messed up because of being this pregnant and when I'm not pregnant things will hopefully fix themselves.

I've had a handful of contractions since then, but I always contract so it definately didn't do anything. Oh and the appointment ran long so I had to call Dh to get the kids, so guess who's BP wasn't at all helped?


I'm wondering if I should just cancel all the plans we've booked, maybe she doesn't want to be born because she thinks we are too busy.

[tolovemercy]

You know...this part of pregnancy is really unique in that it's the only part of the whole thing that really makes me feel unhealthy.

Morning sickness, gaining weight, the aches and pains--none of it feels *great*, but in a certain sense, it's always felt right and healthy and as though my body is doing exactly what it needs to do. Labor is the same way--it's painful, but not painful like you're being injured.

Except this. This last month has really, truly made me feel ill. Like the person inside me is too big, too heavy, consuming too many of my resources, and squashing my intestines too much to operate properly. He needs to get out.

Maybe I'm the only one who feels this way?

Oh, and I'm still pregnant, and hating it.

[1hautemama]

Well, mamas, I guess it's been close to twelve hours since my last post here, and I'm still knocked up. Today's Dh's and my anniversary, and we opened a bottle of VERY nice champagne. After I had a glass DH told me I should relax, have a bubble bath and not worry about the dishes, and was there anything else I'd like for him to do? Kind of silly, really, cos he's been doing the dishes for me since I've been about 6 or 7 months, but I said Yeah, sure. Lets DTD. (I actually used the f-word)Hard. Fast. Slap me around a little, you helped put that baby in there, help me get it the *&#!@ OUT!!!
Dh just sat there and refilled my champagne glass...

[jillybeans]

My m/w went to strip my membranes today, and couldn't. I'm 4cm, 80% effaced, so soft I'm "like butter" lol, really stretchy and have a bulging bag. She was afraid of rupturing her waters by stripping the membranes it was that bulging. So now we wait. I did get some herbs for sleep, and hopefully they'll help.

[AGierald]

Im sorry everyone else is so uncomfortable as well!!

Im sooo tired from contracting night after night after night (since thursday night)... i went to the mw today, i was a fingertip dilated, but thats all she told me. I asked her what station the baby was and she said she didnt know cuz she didnt check. I've felt very af-ish since we got back, and have been spotting, but i know she wasnt able to strip my membranes, she said she couldnt get in there, ugh.

I just want this to be over, Im ready to be a mommy!!