Still Pregnant Check In: 5/11-5/17 - Page 3

[battymama]

Doing pretty well here still, lots of braxton hicks still, and i woke up this morning at 9! its 10 at the moment and i have already scrubed the toilet, quite an acheivement considering i usually get up at 2 or 3 pm. I have a major nesting urge today. Baby is really low, the midwife couldnt feel any of his head over my pelvis on thursday, i have had some cervics pain as well, especially last night, and a few big braxton hics. I woke up this morning with back pain, cervics pain, and period like pain, so something is happening. I also had a dream that it is time so we shall see.

I put the car seat in last night, DH was doing it but he was doing it in an anoying manner, so i did it to my satisfaction. As soon as i got it in and checked i had the biggest braxton hick, just one, was weird. No one is really hastling me about the due date, excecept my family in a joking way, which i dont mind. Midwife thinks baby will be about 7.5 to 8 pounds, and i got to tell you i am disapointed, i had myself expecting a 10 pounder, i actually want a huge baby We make big babies in my family, and none of us have had a c sec, My aunts first baby was almost 10 pound at 37 weeks and i was almost 9. And i am having a shrimp! Its DH's fault, he was 6 pound. GRRR i want a big baby! i know its just a guess but still. Wow i really am irrational, its not like 7.5 pounds is tiny.

I just found out that my Nana, who i was worried about finding out i was having a homebirth actually had 2 of her babies at home. And she thinks hospitals suck, and is really glad that Australia is starting to be more sensible about it (she had 3 in england and 1 in oz) Sometimes people really suprise you.

[GiGiQ]

Still pregnant. We get to start moving tomorrow and I'm hoping to stay pregnant this week and have no real reason to think I won't. I've had a ton of BH the last couple of days and some practice contractions while walking, but nothing major, and no other blood/mucus/fluid type of things.

I had some swelling the other day and it lasted through massive fluid intake and many hours with feet up, so my husband was concerned enough to drag me to the 24 hour pharmacy and check my blood pressure at 2 am (our compromise, as I didn't really want to wake the midwife), but it was perfectly fine and the swelling was gone the next morning. I think I'd just spent too many hours walking and standing the day before.

My mother is irritating me, but that's nothing new. She always makes a big fuss about "not wanting to be a bother", and her current version of that is calling/emailing several times a day to reassure me that she won't come down until we call her, as I've told her repeatedly that I don't want visitors before the birth and for a couple of days after. Even though I've been telling her that for months, she keeps asking for the address of the birth center so she can find it on a map "just out of curiosity." It's kind of sad that I have to withhold such information, but she's demonstrated time and again that she won't respect my wishes voluntarily, so I don't feel I have a choice. I know she really does just want to help, but she's unable to trust my decisions for myself or to understand that just because she wanted things a certain way when she gave birth doesn't mean that's what's best for me and I just don't know it yet.

[smeisnotapirate]

37 & 2 and SO done. Instead of dropping, this child has been climbing into my ribs. I have a bruise on the right side of my abdomen (yes, on the outside) where his/her elbow keeps whacking at me. My MW, trying to keep me in good humor, says I've got a shotput champion practicing in me. :

I cannot breathe and I feel like I'm constantly bent over backwards with rickets or something. Ugh. Time to come, baby!

Chantel, I bow to you. I am in no way Zen right now, and you're carrying twins.

I'm also sick of women telling me that I've gone and ruined my life IN FRONT OF THEIR CHILDREN. Who does that??? Honestly. It's not only cruel, but tacky. And if one more person asks me if there's going to be a "real" doctor at the birth center, I'm just going to deck them. I don't care if it's my husband's fragile grandmother. I'm SO sick of that question. My DH has started getting belligerent and saying things like "no, because they don't know what the ^*&^ they're doing" and that's not helpful either.

Sigh.

It was a long, hard day. I need sleep.

[MarchWillow]

I liked the idea of telling people that I'm not disclosing where I'm delivering. It's one thing to family, but there's no damn reason the old lady at WalMart needs to know where I'm having my baby, even if it was a hospital.

It is truly amazing how personal people can be, and how quickly...perhaps I should start answering "I only give people information about my body, my baby or my vagina AFTER they take me to dinner and I at least know thier name" haha...and walk off...

[babysanchez614]

still preggo. my edd is this thurs the 15th. i told most people that my edd is may 21st. just to give myself some leeway. i hate lying but had to do it. and people are STILL buggin me about having the baby now. i understand most of them are just excited and stuff, but i cant imagine if i told them the real date. i would really go bonkers. i just dont know what plan b is if i go passed the 21st.

[Intertwined]

I managed to make it through a WHOLE DAY with no one saying anything nasty to me about the size of my family or belly! I need some sort of prize.

[calpurnia]

I'm 38 weeks & a couple of days, two exams down & one to go!

Feeling pretty good, just heavy & slow. It's beautiful weather here which I hope sticks around, but means feeling huge in comparison to everyone else who is popping out in their pretty little summer dresses - I even have fat ankles these days with the swelling!

I'm feeling very at ease with the pregnancy, coming labour & baby, which is a really good state to be in & seems to have just happened with time...

Hope this week goes well for everyone - maybe some babies!

[jaceycat24]

i'm still here and expect to be for awhile. my cankles look lovely lol. hubby called and asked how i was and i told him the same that nothing was happening. he told me that he was putting minutes on the cell and that he would drop off the donations to goodwill after work. yay one less chore for me. i told him stop by before going to class tonight because i found a library book that was supose to go back friday. i cleaned downstairs today and am thinking of making some laundry soap. i ran out of eggs so no baking today. tomorrow though i have plans for pumpkin bread.

[Tizzy]

Let the prodromal labour begin! Yay!
No seriously, I'm taking this as a great sign that things WILL happen

Saturday I *totally* overdid it. Inspected and fixed 10 acres of fencing with DH while pulling DS in the wagon, burnt all the tent caterpillars I could find, set up the irrigation system for the flowerbeds and veggie garden, planted some more plants/bulbs etc. Oh! went yardsaling in the morning with DS, cooked lunch and did 3 loads of laundry complete from washing-hanging out-putting away. The laundry usually is a multi-day process anymore lol!

Soooo by 4pm I was laying on the couch timing ctx. and feeling really really wiped.
They stayed consistently 4-5 minutes apart so we went to the drive-in movies saw Baby Mama (stupid) and Forgetting Sarah Marshall (stupid), ctx. stayed 4-5 minutes apart but were for the most part not painful.
We got home at 1am, only took 10 minutes to get DS to bed then DH helped me do a quick clean of the bathroom, throw one more load of laundry in, put fresh sheets on our bed and we were both asleep by 2am.
Of course my nice ctx. were gone by morning lol!

Then all day yesterday they were 8-11min apart, some painful, some not so bad. No show yet and from my estimates, still only 1cm dilated.

So there's my lengthly update! Long story short, it's just fakers and I will still be pregnant in June

Last week I bought myself a cute tee-shirt, you know those Little Miss books? Well this shirt is "Little Miss Late". It's my encouragement, I think it'll be fun to wear when I go past my official due date

[smeisnotapirate]

Feeling better today.

Chantel, what is it about people that they think they can comment to anyone having any more than 2 kids about "oh, are you done yet?" So rude!

I love my MW appointments. All the receptionists fawn over me and tell me how lovely I look, and the MW checks my ankles and says "no water retention, that's GREAT" and all my numbers are good. It really does a gal good. She put me on EPO 1000mg 2x daily by mouth and once daily vaginally.

She also reassured me that the baby would drop at some point. Which I know, but it's always nice to hear, especially after she made the comment "my G-d, you ARE carrying high" and couldn't find the top of my uterus because it's under my ribcage.

[kalisage]

I think every 3-4 days I just am DONE. And that would be today. After barely sleeping from 4:20 this morning having yuck dreams, I finally got an hr of sleep - had a dream about having the baby, but not knowing what the sex was for 2 days, then looking and the baby was naked, smiling, with 2 teeth & a GIRL!

I think that dream is the only reason I'm not crying. My feet hurt, my whole body is sore (like I worked out too much). I have NO patience today, at all. Gah.

I need Aimee's energy so I can say, this baby is coming no later than thursday!! Or know that I really am gonna stay a million yrs pregnant and maybe sometime in 2009 I'll deliver an elephant...

[gottecat]

hugs kara!!

[aishy]

I am soo tired of this, and it's only been a few days of it so far. I had a lot more prodromal with my daughter, so I guess I should be used to it but I had really hoped to skip it this time!

Last night contracts were every 6 minutes, and at some point in the night every 3 minutes, but I was able to fall asleep so I figured it wasn't real. I'm trying to make sleeping the way to know, if I can't sleep through contractions, they're probably real.

Need to find things to do to keep me busy. Mind off labor. Stuff like that. He probably won't come for two more weeks. My house is messy & the laundry needs to be done since none was done all weekend and I don't feel like doing any of it!

[smeisnotapirate]

Ok, I just took all my supplements (I feel like a freakin' pharmacy), cleaned the tile in the bathroom with a toothbrush, and re-grouted the bathtub to the wall. I didn't have the energy to keep the dog from licking the grout any more, so I'm not going to do the light cleaning (toilet, sink, wipe down window ledge). I think that was a good morning project. I should probably head off to work at some point and sit in on a few lessons. Right now, though, I want a nap.

[trinimommy]

Stil here and aggravated to be posting in this thread...lots of crampy contrax...bloody show...contrax are consistantly inconsistant meaning they go 3-10 minutes apart for a couple hours then go away...EVERY NIGHT!!!!

Full bladder also causes those fun contrax that you have to move through to relieve...it is so much fun trying to raise myself out of bed every hour in the middle of a contraction to waddle to the bathroom, pee...then come back to bed, have a few more contractions then wake up again a while later with a strong contraction then wake up a while later still with no baby..especially when you are 5 days over due...grrrrrr

[jaceycat24]

hugs kara and trinimommy

[Nate'sMama]

Still here!
Passed my due date yesterday. Theirs is Thursday.
Went to the OB today Had her check for the first and last time until labor...1-2 cm 80% and soft. LO did some serious boogieing last night to move a bot lower I think.

Might try to EPO, sex and finally some accupuncture.

I'd love to have this baby this weekend. I don't feeeeeeeeeel like going for an NST on Monday.

Chin up ladies! We will not be pg forever

[merry-mary]

big hugs to all of us! I like reading these, though .... makes me feel like all of my emotions are shared, you know? I am experiencing a lot of the same things as you gals.

I'm 39 weeks, 1 day. I'm feeling ready. Anytime. Really. I've been experiencing a lot of contractions during the day, but they always go away by bedtime. Also, a lot of crampiness low in my back and pelvis. I had a lot of bloody show and mucus on Friday and was hopeful that that meant the beginning of labor, but it didn't turn out that way. So, I wait.

I too am tired of the questions - WHEN DO YOU THINK YOU'LL HAVE THE BABY? WHEN DOES YOUR DOCTOR THINK YOU WILL HAVE THE BABY? Um, if I or my doctor could answer those questions, we would be very rich.

Maybe this week, right?

[jennythx]

Still on the pregnant train with all you gals. I hit 39 weeks last Saturday and have been having contractions and aches every so often for two weeks, but nothing major. I am so ready to have this kid. I am so tired and uncomfortable and so sick of everyone calling asking me when this kid id going to come. Geez, it isn't even my due date yet. So annoying!!! I think most people are shocked when you aren't induced by 38 weeks. After all my breech scares, I am sometimes happy to still be pregnant, well at least on one level.

We can't be pregnant forever right????

[RootBeerFloat]

OW. I'm 38+4 and the baby has found a lovely new position low and towards the front of my pelvic region that sort of makes me want to cry. I was starting dinner and came to sit down because it's so painful to stand up right now. Ugh. I've had two really strong runs of prodromal labor that didn't amount to anything, and I think that's just the most unplesant thing on earth right now.

But thanks for all being here and commisserating!