Laying here watching heroes on the couch and have been contracting for the past 30 or 40 minutes. Waiting to see if they get stronger and if they continue for a while but praying that this is the start of labor!
Besides the usual pregnant stuff like swollen feet, hurting Virginia and feeling like a balloon ready to pop...I woke up with a super sore throat. I will lose my mind if I get a cold right now !!!
I wake up with a sore throat sometimes due to heartburn. Maybe that's it?
Cranky from being woke up by a well meaning friend 'just checking in!' at 6am this morning. My Virginia hurts. My hips hurt. Just generally cranky and while frightened of labor and absolutely terrified of having a baby that I will have to care for, I've passed that point where IGAF.
My last 2 appointments both drs had told me that I had EDD wrong - I've been thinking it was the 18th. Its apparently the 16th (today). Both drs had counseled inducing this Friday if I was still hanging around by my appt on Thursday, and I'm more and more just leaning to doing it and getting this the eff over with. Makes sense anyway. I'm AMA so it sounds like its safer for me and baby than to wait, I'm not going to be allowed to induce on the 21st we know already cause of the weekend, Monday is almost a week overdue and thus goes against the AMA safety thing... and if I can't have a 21st kid I'd rather have a 19th kid (this whole pregnancy has been a 'its all gone 19' thing anyway - from the Dark Tower series for you bookworms. Just hoping they'll let me go in early enough to maximize my chances of making it thru before midnight. Probably not...sigh).
So really, my symptoms are all mental sh!t today. The physical stuff is there, too, but I'm mostly trapped inside my mind, running in circles.
When my doc suggested induction this week at this morning's appt, my whole body relaxed, like "finally.. we know when this is gonna happen."
Maybe we'll end up delivery buddies on Friday. I hope the induction stories are just those-- horror stories and that ours are like those mentioned on the board-- similar to a spontaneous birth.
I cant take it any longer!! Ahhhh!!! I feel like im living in a nightmare. I know im not the only one but I WAS NOT PLANNING ON BEING OVERDUE.(let alone 5 days past.. No end in near sight). I thought things were moving forward after everything yesterday.. But now im doubting it. Im a mess to say the least.
All i can do is hope for a random quick transition into real labor that will catch me off guard and restore my happy . I miss my happy.
ETA: X( Was running a bath while posting on here..finished my post.. Went into the bathroom.. To find my dog. In the tub. Enjoying MY BATH. Not cool. Did that really just happen!!??? What the F.
So sorry but your dog made me laugh so hard. I have a lab that would do that in a heart beat.
@Sammy K huzzah! I'm SO happy for you! Stay put just one more night, LO! I was really jazzed to see that post from you.
@klkonwi sorry the benadryl failed you. Do you try to take them at all before you go to bed? I take mine right before bed and it doesn't make me drowsy right away to sleep (I still am usually awake reading 1-2 hours) but I do believe that they help me to have better sleep once I finally get there.
@Westypet maybe we will! If it happens, I hope they will let me come in early enough to start and finish the process same day. Of course, all labors are different... No guarantees. It could be 12 to an unknown amount of hours. I could go in for induction on Friday and *still* end up with a solstice baby after laboring for almost 2 daysdays (gods, that would suck, wouldn't it?). I'll know more about if we are doing it on Thursday!
GOOD NEWS! The hospital called and they're taking me off the waiting list! I don't have a time yet because my OB's office didn't tell the hospital that Cervadil wasn't necessary, only pitocin, so they are clearing that up. She was going to call me back to tell me what time to come in tomorrow! Hold on baby girl, just one more night!
ETA: 7am! Tomorrow is baby day!
So excited for you! Praying that everything goes smoothly and you are able to relax and enjoy your labor. I know how scared you were from last time so I really hope that this time is so much better for you.
I've had so many issues with this pregnancy that I didn't have with my first - I had trouble gaining weight in my third trimester, they thought the baby was low birth weight (she's not, but we needed extra testing), I've had horrible anxiety and prodromal labor, and now I have this really gnarly spider bite on my neck just under my chin that has ballooned in the three days I've had it. It's super swollen and painful today - midwife said to take benadryl and rub cortisone cream on it 3x a day - but I didn't take so much as a tums with my first and it squicks me out to take anything. And I don't know what kind of spider it was but it bit me in my sleep, which FREAKS me out.
All I want is for baby to be here so I can treat this stupid bite without worrying that I'm doing permanent damage to her in there.
Have you tried/do you have any essential oils you could use?
I haven't tried any - I don't normally use them - but as it turns out, the bite is infected so now I have to go on antibiotics. But as long as it clears up the infection, that's all that matters.
Do you have any tips for starting essential oils? Sites you like, that kind of thing? I'm interested!
I feel like the kid is trying to swim out of my Virginia. There's activity going on in there, and flexing, and repeated bumping with the head into my pelvis resulting in lightning crotch that barely has a chance to fade before the next flash. Wth, kid?
I've had so many issues with this pregnancy that I didn't have with my first - I had trouble gaining weight in my third trimester, they thought the baby was low birth weight (she's not, but we needed extra testing), I've had horrible anxiety and prodromal labor, and now I have this really gnarly spider bite on my neck just under my chin that has ballooned in the three days I've had it. It's super swollen and painful today - midwife said to take benadryl and rub cortisone cream on it 3x a day - but I didn't take so much as a tums with my first and it squicks me out to take anything. And I don't know what kind of spider it was but it bit me in my sleep, which FREAKS me out.
All I want is for baby to be here so I can treat this stupid bite without worrying that I'm doing permanent damage to her in there.
Have you tried/do you have any essential oils you could use?
I haven't tried any - I don't normally use them - but as it turns out, the bite is infected so now I have to go on antibiotics. But as long as it clears up the infection, that's all that matters.
Do you have any tips for starting essential oils? Sites you like, that kind of thing? I'm interested!
I use/sell DoTerra (supposedly the highest/most rigorously tested therapeutic grade of oils) and I love it! I felt lost at the beginning as to what to use what for and where to start with investing in them, but I have found the book (bought it on amazon) Modern Essentials 6th edition to be like my medicine Bible! It's so interesting and useful. My DH is a believer, now, too. We both had been skeptical, but we use them on ourselves and our 11.5 month old. I originally became interested to help DH with his asthma/allergies, and now I use oils for ALL kinds of stuff! Anyway, look up DoTerra online, or someone around you may "sell" it or know about it. I've also heard Young Living is a good brand.
@mellymar Benadryl usually does the trick (better sleep) but not today. The cramps were just annoying enough that I couldn't sleep. I also feel like the kid is playing some instrument in my pelvis. Probably logically his hands......
Besides the usual pregnant stuff like swollen feet, hurting Virginia and feeling like a balloon ready to pop...I woke up with a super sore throat. I will lose my mind if I get a cold right now !!!
I wake up with a sore throat sometimes due to heartburn. Maybe that's it?
I wish I thought it was just a morning symptom and now I have a sore throat, runny nose and I'm sneezing ! Whyyyyy must I get sick now !?
well i'm still awake because I had 3 really painful contractions (but over the span of 1.5 hours). the first 2 times sent me to the bathroom. this last time did too, and i had the famed "bloody show". i know i should go to bed, but i'm feeling a little anxious/excited. (40+1)
Re: Daily symptoms 6/16
Maybe we'll end up delivery buddies on Friday.
I hope the induction stories are just those-- horror stories and that ours are like those mentioned on the board-- similar to a spontaneous birth.
@klkonwi
@Westypet maybe we will! If it happens, I hope they will let me come in early enough to start and finish the process same day. Of course, all labors are different... No guarantees. It could be 12 to an unknown amount of hours. I could go in for induction on Friday and *still* end up with a solstice baby after laboring for almost 2 daysdays (gods, that would suck, wouldn't it?). I'll know more about if we are doing it on Thursday!
I haven't tried any - I don't normally use them - but as it turns out, the bite is infected so now I have to go on antibiotics.
I use/sell DoTerra (supposedly the highest/most rigorously tested therapeutic grade of oils) and I love it! I felt lost at the beginning as to what to use what for and where to start with investing in them, but I have found the book (bought it on amazon) Modern Essentials 6th edition to be like my medicine Bible! It's so interesting and useful. My DH is a believer, now, too. We both had been skeptical, but we use them on ourselves and our 11.5 month old.
I originally became interested to help DH with his asthma/allergies, and now I use oils for ALL kinds of stuff!
Anyway, look up DoTerra online, or someone around you may "sell" it or know about it. I've also heard Young Living is a good brand.
I also feel like the kid is playing some instrument in my pelvis. Probably logically his hands......
Feeling you on the kid playing in the pelvis, tho. Good gods