[Meeshi Mama]

I know that DDs are very arbitrary, but I thought it would be nice to have a thread of support for those of us who slip by that date without starting labor.

Mine was yesterday. I still am feeling patient, yet am excited and filled with anticipation every day when I wake up and wonder, "Will it be today???"

However, I woke up today with a wicked headache over one eye, which would probably be distracting should anything start up now.

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[JenMidwife]

Mine was Sunday 8/6, so I'm 40+6 today. I'm doing okay, most of the time...

I've found the Support for Trusting Baby's Timing thread particularly helpful: http://www.mothering.com/discussions...d.php?t=489495

 

[boobyfeeder]

My EDD was Wednesday, so I'm 40+3 today. And very impatient.

 

[Meeshi Mama]

*lol* Well, that thread had too much talk of induction techniques for me. I'm trying to stay patient and wait for nature, so I'm trying to ignore things like taking EPO etc. Trusting baby's timing is harder if I read about ways to get labor going.

 

[JenMidwife]

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Originally Posted by Meeshi Mama Trusting baby's timing is harder if I read about ways to get labor going.

I'm guilty on all accounts

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[Bay Area Babe]

Mine was Saturday 8/5. I was doing really good until my OB appointment last Thursday where my OB wanted to set a date for induction and an appointment for me to come in the next Wednesday for Cervadil.

MM - I agree with you about inductions. However, on Friday I started taking EPO because I was only 50% effaced and am I'm so freaked out about the slippery slope of induction. If this helps, it's better for my son and I than facing cervadil, pitocin, epidural and c-section.

 

[secretresistance]

Three days "late" over here. My patience has been a little better, thanks to DP being around for the weekend, instead of at work, I think. We had a midwife appointment today, and I let her check me, hoping I would be encouraged by the results. One centimeter and super soft. Eh. All I care about now is that I don't need her care next weekend, as it's the one time someone else is on call for her.

 

[~PurityLake~]

Well, not sure. You know how they count from the 1st day of your LMP? well, it started at 10 pm that day, making my edd 8-13. But I just told them it started the next day, making edd 8-14. I did that just to give myself an extra day before anyone would start bugging me.

So maybe I'm not yet qualified for this thread until day after tommorrow.

 

[Vick]

My EDD was Sunday the 6th so I am 41 weeks today. Sigh. Just hanging out and trying to stay positive and focus on the birth I want to have rather than what I am afraid will happen if I go another full week...

 

[AmieV]

I'm not overdue yet (but fully expecting to be in a few weeks!

) but my daughter was late so I totally understand your pain. Just wanted to send my shout out of support. My grandma decided it would be really cute to call me every morning after my due date...I love her and she meant to be sweet but it was really annoying. Also my mom was about to go out of town for like 3 weeks and would have missed the birth and seeing the baby until she was a month old...but, everything worked out for the best, baby arrived 5 days late, just in time for my mom to get to be the best doula ever and hang out for a few days then leave us alone for a bit.

It also gave her time to grow to a big old 8 lbs 11 oz! and she had practically no vernix left.

What has sucked lately is that for some stupid reason ever since I hit like 36 weeks all kinds of people have been like "Oh, so it could be any day now!" um, sure, any day IN ANOTHER MONTH!

 

[~PurityLake~]

I'm 40 wks + 3 days today. Feeling utterly exhausted, even though I didn't do much today. I started losing my mucous plug and have had diarrhea all day. I feel like I ought to be doing more, something, but I have absolutely no energy today. Probably because I didn't sleep well last night, and I didn't sleep in this morning, either.

 

[CrazyCatLady]

I'm six, almost seven days overdue now. Everyday feels like it will be "the day". But nothing ever happens. I've been sick as a dog for weeks now (with what feels like labor stuff) and have made no progress that I can tell. I'm ready to be done with this before I get too weak and sickly to deal with labor. For the last three weeks I've been having lots of sex, tons of orgasms, using and taking primrose oil, walking for hours, walking stairs, I tried spicy foods (which I hate), sour foods, massage, acupressure, nipple stimulation, etc. I guess she'll come when she's ready, and she just must not be ready yet.

Is there any reason why a baby might not come out even when ready to be born? I have no doctor or midwife anymore, so I wouldn't really know if something was wrong. I just assume everything is fine because Ii feel her moving and my last baby came late as well.

 

[zimmee]

Melaya-

Just wanted to give you some hugs and tell you I'm thinking about you.

I am a couple days past my due date and REALLY ready. Im not doing anything really except walking and nipple stimulation (thru my three year old, that is!) I am starting to get the daily calls, which are annoying, but I keep telling myself that these people just care about me and want to know if Im okay.

The clerk at the grocery store last night looked like he was going to pass out when he saw how pregnant I am and that I was leaning on the cart. I guess he thought I was going to have the baby right there!

I literally had to calm him down and tell him I was fine. He looked like he was about to call someone to "help".

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[SummerTwilight]

Well, I guess I am officially in this club now since I am 40 wk 3 days. I really can't believe it. I thought for SURE I would go early. To top it off I don't even feel like it is gonna be any time soon. Maybe a week from now. And I know the MINUTE I got pregnant so the date is not off. Trying to be patient but it has never been a strong quality of mine.

I, like Melaya, have done ALL the natural inducers (walking two miles a day, lifting things, keeping my activities busy, sex every day, orgasm every day, EPO, nipple stim, Italian food). My midwife will want to talk Castor Oil and Black Cohosh next week when we meet...I don't know how I feel about it. I hope I don't have to make that decision. Come on baby!!!

 

[secretresistance]

I'm 41 weeks and 1 day today. Sigh. I don't feel like anything is going to happen soon, although maybe Murphy's Law will strike, since today and tomorrow are the only days out of my pregnancy that our midwife is off duty.

I lost at least part of my mucous plug on Tuesday and I've had a couple of hours worth of mild contractions, five minutes apart after sex, but nothing more. Well, at least not wanting him or her to be born for a couple of days is a change of pace. Come on Sunday!

 

[~PurityLake~]

I am, according to me, now 40 wks + 4 days, according to dr (going off 11 wk ultrasound), am 40 wks + 6 days.

I had my nonstress test today, my doula came with me. The appointment was at 11 am, and by 12:30 it was complete. The baby put on quite a show, was very active, wiggling her body, scrunching her shoulders, turning her head, blinking her eyes... her heartrate started out in hte 160's then balanced out in the 150's, although at all prior visits her heartrate was in the 130's and she was inactive. She must have known we were looking at her.

Then I was told to wait for the doctor to come in and go over NST and birthplan with me. We waited until 1 and then my doula went to see what was the holdup. She was told the doctor was in surgery and would be in soon.Well, by 1:30, I left to take my doula back (her husband needed to be to work at 1 so she needed to be with their kids), and they said I HAD to come back today. So, I went back. The doctor asked if I'd like her to do an exam.. I said yes, I just can't fight off the curiosity... and I was 1.5 cm dilated (a half cm more than 4 days ago.. at this rate I'll be 50 wks pregnant befor I"m dilated all the way... just kidding). She asked if I wanted her to strip my membranes and I said no, so she didn't.
Then she went over my birth plan and finished by telling me that if I don't have my baby by next friday, they would induce me, even though they prefer not to induce with VBAC. If that didn't work, they would force me to have a cesarean. After I left and sat thinking about it, I started to cry. I just don't want another cesarean! I want to know what it's like to give birth to my own child.

On top of that, I had a stressful situation occur with dh's ex... she filed a restraining order against me preventing me from picking up stepson for my husband's weekend visitation, also saying that he couldn't be in my house if dh didn't get me out of it....

: all because she doesn't like me or the fact that I'm having a 2nd daughter with her exhusband.

 

[~PurityLake~]

Sophia Maria Rosetta P. was born at 12:48 pm on Tuesday, August 22nd. She was 19.5 inches long, same as Abigail, but was only 5 # 8 ounces (Abigail was 9 # 9 ounces). Sophia is so tiny. Her head circumference is 12.5 cm and her chest is just 11.5 cm. She has a thin layer of brown fuzzy hair on her head. I can tell her eyes will be brown like mine. She has her daddy's forehead, nose and chin, and my lips. She is very quiet, but when upset, can really yell! Abigail is totally in love with her. She pets her head gently, and if Sophia cries, Abigail tries to give her a pacifier. She even gave Sophia a sweet little kiss on her cheek. Abigail does seem slightly jealous when she sees me nursing Sophia, but I just give Abigail lots of hugs and kisses and tell her I love her and hold her as much as I can. I keep telling her Sophia is her baby sister. I tell Abigail she has a new baby. I think Abigail is going to be a wonderful big sister. After nursing Sophia tonight, I took a shower with Abigail so she had her one on one time with mommy. She really enjoyed that.

 

[boobyfeeder]

Congratulations Abi's Mom! (or should I say, Abi and Sophia's mom

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[Sahmami]

Well - here I am - still pregnant. I am now 9 days "overdue". Hubby thinks maybe we'll have another week or two to go since we aren't sure about "dates" I was nursing my daughter full time and exclusively - no other suppelments like I did with my first two. The only difference was that with my first two - I didn't have AF for 14 months - so I got pregnant when my youngest was only four months old! (I kinda knew this was going to happen and I danced! when I found out that I was) But because I was nursing we aren't sure of our dates. I kept thinking that its actually later than sooner until I seen other mamas with same thing as me and ended up finding out that they are rather sooner than later so we'll have to wait and see. I do have a lot of "pre-labours" and I can feel lots of changes being made down "there" but apparently baby is still floating - not sure how to tell - but seems that way cuz the back would be on the left then on the right. I would mostly feel fingers in my floor area close to cervix but lately I have been feeling pounding like foot hitting that area meaning the baby is breech and I put my hands down there and it sure feels like foot opposite to just solid round hard thing down there. Seems this baby is moving a lot!!! Hubby likes to say it is because of twins, hehe. Does anyone who is due or overdue have their baby moving so much head up one day and then head down one day and just plain all over the place??

 

[carla72]

sign me up 41 weeks 1 day. I think tonights the night though. I have been saying that for a week now though