When will this baby come???

I've been there angela&avery (ds was almost 3wks overdue). I can empathsize!!!

Sending you happy (SHORT) labor vibes and wishes for a healthy babe!!

I am in the very same situation (as you know!), except I'm not itching. I feel the very same way. Are you getting asked yet about inducing by friends and family? I know they don't know better, but I feel like they don't trust that my body will do what it's supposed to do, and then I start wondering if that ever happens...after being here for so long though, and talking to other women here i know that my body will do this and that it will happen. I really, really hope it's soon though. I am so ready. I have been experiencing prelabor for 3 weeks now and it is getting so, so, so old.

And I know that nothing will happen until my body is ready, she is ready, etc. But if my body is not ready, then why has it been acting like it's ready for 3 weeks? Why is she so low? Why is my cervix so ready? Why do I keep contracting but they don't turn into anything "real"? I know that my body is working slowly to get ready, and that 3 cm is progress, and 80% effaced (just like you!) is progress, but I don't care anymore--if it doesn't put a baby in my arms, then I just wish it would stop.

Sorry to whine so much. I made lunch plans for today and for monday to keep myself distracted. Hopefully I'll at least get to cancel the one for Monday.

I hope I didn't hijack your thread...

Hey, hang in there. I can say that put I don't honestly know how you feel. My DS was born on his actual due date, of course when I was least expecting him, LOL. My stretch marks when he was born were so itchy, red and raised it was horrible, we just kept trying different lotions.

The trick that worked for me was I used the breast pump for about 5-10 minutes on each side the night before he was born, I didn't think it worked but I went into labor about three hours later.

Interesting about not really feeling or having contractions at the end of pushing, I had no interventions, I gave birth at a birthing center, and I felt the same way. There was no intensity I felt like I was just pushing whenever I could or had the energy to do so. I pushed for four hours so I am not sure if that had something to do with it? How long did you push? I am curious let me know if this happens again with this baby.

Good Luck and just know the baby will come when it is ready, easy for me to say, huh.

Megan

SAHM to
Landon 10-23-02

{{{{{{{{{{{{{hugs}}}}}}}}}}}} oh and patience

Your baby *knows* when it will be the *right* time to be born. Trust your body and baby and it will happen when the time is right.

It isn't always the answer you want and I remember keeping this mantra on my fridge when I was getting anxious. I was SOOOO uncomfortable those last couple of weeks!!!

Hang in there and peaceful birthing.

just kinda updating..... nothing new.. more cramping last night.... no clear mucuous as Hilary described.... drinking some bad tasting Raspberry Tea hoping to get things going....... have a little gas, not sure if that means anything.... .... a tad bit of cramping but nothing important this morning.... : ...

i would love for this baby to come...... im so tired today after being up for an hour or so in the middle of the night last night with cramps... my poor ds, im so cranky today.. we are going to have a chill out day today.. watch some noggin, cuddle have a nap together.. we need it....