Update thread 6/28

[sunmamma]

good morning mamas! My turn to start the thread! How's everybody?

[sunmamma]

42w1d

I guess a lot of mamas are sleeping, or in labor, or resting after labor.....

I, however, am NOT I feel sad today. Like I am never going to have this baby. That is so rediculous because I KNOW I am going to have this baby soon, but it just feels like forever this morning. I went to bed at eleven with mild to moderate ctx. I thought maybe I would keep thinks going with some lovin, but apparently dp was "too tired", which really got me annoyed, frustrated, and awake. I paced around the house for like an hour, rocking on the birth ball, only to have the ctx die out. Waking up this morning I just feel.....sort of defeated. Another day pregnant. I fell asleep last night praying and crying and feeling terribly alone. I guess that's why got out of bed and onto our ddc first thing this morning, because I know some of you out there can sympathize, and I am feeling the need for some sympathy! My dp and my five year old son just can't quite get it! Not that I expect them to! I just feel like escaping to a deserted beach for the next few days, swimming in the ocean and not talking to anyone anymore until the baby is born. I wish I could meditate myself into labor(tried it, it doesn't work). I am torn between "this baby will come when s/he is ready and get the heck out little one, enough is enough!!!

Well, I guess I was due for a whiner post, thanks for "listening" I am sure the day will get brighter.

Love to all the mamas waiting with me, at least we know we're not alone.

[Halfasianmomma]

Aww sunmama...I'm not even as far along as you, and I can totally feel your frustration.

I was actually up several hours before you, at 2:50 a.m., when DH woke me up with a mad coughing fit (left over from his cold). I'd been having trouble sleeping anyway with my gigantic belly pressing onto my lungs. After many pillow adjustments and a trip to the bathroom, we both elected to get up. It was surreal...there were people coming home from clubbing and here we were getting up. I was secretely hoping that the cramping and nausea I felt meant that we were up because it was time for baby to come. Sadly, no. I played some random videogame on the Xbox while DH did some research for work. Around 4 a.m. we went back to bed to DTD, and then once we were done, I started to feel like I needed to sleep some more. DH stayed up and somehow I managed to sleep 3 more hours.

I woke up yet again with a sore back and no signs of impending labor. I did have some pinkish stuff after DTD at 4 a.m. but nothing else is happening. Yesterday I had some pretty strong contrax after walking and swimming in the neighborhood pool, but they died out in the evening, and today I just have the usual baby rolls as I sit at the computer. *sigh* I want my baby soooo badly.

[anarchamama]

I'm up with the kids but feeling great. DH starts his 7 month leave today! So even though I'm 40+3 I feel like I'm getting a second wind, I have been holing out for this day for sooo long!::::

We don't have much planned, I'm going grocery shopping this morning and then maybe we will try to start poking away at our renovations, we might as well start getting ready to move if the baby isn't coming. It's raining here, so it's a bi t cooler though it sucks we can't go outside. Plan to DTD tonight and see if things get moving, since the rain has snafued my walking plans. But I kind of doubt either will help I'm just not feeling it.....

Hope everyone has a good day......Can't wait to read the new birth stories......

[Twwly]

Had a little bit of bloody show this AM.

Going to go for a jog.

[BlueMoonBean]

40w+2. Not much here, just same-old same-old prodomal contrax.

Heading out to the local natural history museum, so I can do some walking in the A/C. This whole swelling in the night thing SUCKS. Then we'll probably swing by the farmer's market for some fresh fruit. Gotta check what my treat of the day is on my super-due list, too!

Starting to consider whether I could start to like rubies as well as pearls!

Belly rubs and ELV all around!

[Lizafava]

Oh sunmama s that sounds like a rough night. I fell asleep crying a couple days ago..... its hard how lonely this can feel sometimes. I hope you get to meet your babe soon.

Anarchamama! 9 months of leave - thats awesome! I guess thats how you can build a house and move with three kids. I was wondering how you were going to manage that with Pat working...

I had a little party last night to celebrate my due date weekend, so that helped cheer me up. We have a potluck to go to tonight too, and I'm going to go hang out at a pride booth and hand out cards for my doula business. Keeping stuff planned seems to help me a lot right now. Also, I managed to fall asleep within an hour or two of lying down last night, and that hasn't happened since Monday. So :

[Aries1985]

40+1 today

I'm not doing so great emotionally due to my dog's now very significant heart issues. He has a cardiologist appointment on the 7th. I'm seriously considering asking for an induction date or something for mid week so that I can hopefully go to the dog's appointment in whatever state I'm in (with my mom and DH). The dog is very much my first baby. I've had him since I was 10. It's not what I'd want in a perfect world at all, but right now the pregnancy stress and the worry over my dog can't be good. Ah, I hope baby decides to come on her own asap. I don't know how much more I can handle right now.

[*mama moose*]

to sunmama and Aries

well, to everyone else too actually, hang in there mamas!

40+1

the movie was dumb last night and we didn't eat dinner OR start the movie until 8:30 or so so we never ate our movie snacks. So tonight I am insisting we watch my favorite movie (Fever Pitch) and have a movie night do-over
I think we're also taking DD to this fast food place that has an indoor play area this afternoon. We don't eat the fast food, but we can't go outside with the smoke in the air so I've got to take the kid SOMEWHERE to play!! And luckily shes little enough that she doesn't even notice we're in a restaurant and not eating food from there

congrats on the leave anarchamama! I wish my DH could get time off like that, it would be so so so nice to not have to send him to work everyday.....hes taking two weeks off (with his vacation time) when Libby is born and I'm thrilled about that, shows what great options we have in the US

Maybe I'll consider DTD tonight, since it seems everyone else on here is

[BodhiMom]

I was technically due on June 9th...that has long ago past, and now I'm just hoping to go into labor by July 9th. (Could I really have been a whole month off on my conception date??) We bought airline tickets to Florida for a family reunion. We leave on July 10th...if I can get the baby out, that is. I know every day makes it more likely that labor will start...but I can't help feeling with each passing day that it is less likely. Still no contractions, no show. nothing. My midwife will be here on Monday to give me and baby a stress test. Baby is still moving around a bunch and I feel great, so I'm sure all is just fine. I have been swelling a little and I have a dull ache in my hands and feet, which I would gladly trade for labor pains. My three year old has been so anxious for the new arrival, and each night reminds me to wake him up if the baby comes in the middle of the night. Every morning he tells me about how he wanted me to wake him up...and wonders to himself if the baby will EVER come out. He's been talking to my belly, and lately what he's been saying is "Come on cervix, Open up!"