Getting Nervous....

AprilCachet · June 2010

My due date is Saturday and this baby just doesn't seem to be showing any signs of coming. I am so scared I will have to get induced. This baby has until 42 weeks and then I don't really have a choice...

MrsTiara · June 2010

Remember: the average length of a pregnancy is over 41 wks! Relax and have some sex (not that I felt like it at all last time!!).

LindseyJW · June 2010

your baby will come!!

"signs" don't necessarily mean anything. i showed signs early and delivered at 41.5. i was 3cm dilated and 50% effaced at 38 weeks. 4cm/80% at 40 weeks.

are you walking?

did you make the scalini eggplant parm recipe?

drinking tea steeped from thyme?

AshasaurusRex · June 2010

Make sure you doing lots of walking and getting lots of sex (and make sure you get your's)! Instert an evening primrose capsul every night right before bed. It may take a little while, but baby will come!

mh2t · June 2010

I didn't have any signs until I went into labor - at 2 a.m. on my due date. DD was born the following evening. You still have 15 days! Birthcare will work with you and recommend natural ways of inducing labor if you start to get uncomfortably close to the 42-week point. Two of the other three women in my Bradley class had their babies more than a week after their due date - one was 11 days, and the other was a full 14 days over. They both had successful homebirths. Don't freak out - it will happen!

AprilCachet · June 2010

Thanks ladies! I really needed some encouragement because fear was sinking in and I am sure that the last thing that will help!

I guess it doesn't help that everyone around me keeps asking when this baby will be here and when will they induce etc...

I admittedly outside of sex and walking have not done anything else because my mind had always been he would come when he was ready but I think yesterday it just hit me that he may not be ready when I want lol.

Lindsey is this tea just Thyme? Can you give me more info?

I will buy some EPO and try this eggplant Parm. this weekend.

LindseyJW · June 2010

yup, just thyme. germanwife2be, who is a pre/post partum RN suggested it to me when i had reached my EDD wtih tomas. it didn't work for me, but i drank it every day anyway! she said to just steep it for 20 minutes or so, discard the leaves and drink. the only thing for me was just giving up that the baby wasn't going to come. haha, the day i decided that he was just going to stay in there forever, i went into labor! go figure.

i doctor up the parm recipe. i make double the sauce and add extra black pepper, garlic and red pepper flakes. i also add extra herbs (oregano, basil, thyme) to the sauce. you can bake the eggplant instead of frying it, but if you fry, double dip (eggwash then batter twice) so the batter stays on better.

i'm going to PM you a fear release exercise. try it tonight.

AprilCachet · June 2010

Thank you so much!!!

sweetkakes419 · June 2010

My MW told me to drink Red Raspberry Leaf tea. It's not the same as just any old raspberry tea. I got the one by Traditional Medicinals. It just tastes like regular black tea but is pretty good with some honey.

In addition to lots of sex, do you have a yoga ball? I sat on that almost all the time I was at home for the last week. Sitting and rolling around on it can help LO drop into the pelvis. I went into labor at night at 40w6d and delivered the next morning.

seahorse mama · June 2010

Here's what has worked for friends and what I'll try if I need to:

acupuncture

big pan of lasagne

big pan of brownies

sexual pleasure sounds good too. nipple stim.

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