[Cheryl_W]

... going back and forth between "OMG will this baby just come out already, I feel like I'm going to explode!" and "I'm so glad baby isn't here yet, I still have a few things to do and I'm enjoying the sleep!"

I am SO there right now.

One minute, I'll be wandering aimlessly around the house, exhausted, staring at everything and thinking about how different it will all be so soon - and how she can wait a few more weeks, so I can enjoy this time a bit more...

Then the next minute, I'll be sitting at my computer and get a painful kick, contraction or cramp, and just want to be DONE. I feel like I've been doing non-stop crunches for 2 weeks, and she hasn't even dropped yet! UGH

I love being pregnant, I can't really complain because it has gone so well, and OMG I am finally getting my little baby girl!! But geez, my swollen ankles, aching back, and tired brain can't take too much more of this... I really hope I don't go overdue, I'll be SUCH a whiner LOL

Oh, and on the TMI front - I've now been instructed to take EPO twice daily, once in the morning orally and once at night vaginally (hooray) after sex (hooray, awkward) and then drink 2-3 cups of Red Raspberry Leaf tea every day, all to hopefully get me ready for labor and keep me from going overdue.

Do you have any idea how freaking hard it is to get a tiny little EPO tablet up next to your cervix with a big belly in the way, when everything is already swollen AND now too slippery from DTD? Ugh, I'm just glad the tea tastes good. LOL

I think I'll be taking a walk today, to try and help baby drop. They say it could take 6 weeks from when she drops to when she is born, and if that is true, I'm upset already

[jensma]

Have D shove it up there!! (OMG!!)

[Cheryl_W]

LOLOL I've thought of that, but I'd get him to do it after my perineal massage and then there'd be no chance of DTD afterwards - Oh yeah, about that. If any of you EVER use EPO towards the end of pregnancy, and your doc/midwife tells you to use it vaginally, don't DTD after inserting it... The lady that taught our prenatal class talked about a couple who used EPO for perineal massage - hubby's hand got STUCK (and I mean call-9-1-1-need-doctors-help-to-get-unstuck stuck). Apparently the stuff can get really sticky with friction. LOL

[MommyPoky]

I don't think I ever dropped Cheryl, but I didn't get any contractions, my water just randomly broke..I was sure I was going overdue, but went early. Keep hope alive!!

[Cheryl_W]

Thanks for that Wendy... I was sitting here this morning, looking at how she hasn't dropped yet and how I'm actually having fewer and fewer contractions, haven't seen any more of my mucus plug, NOTHING - like *no* signs of labor whatsoever - and thinking "OMG, she is just too comfortable, she's never coming out..." LOL

My grandmother (the only natural labour I have to go by on the maternal side of my family, everyone else was inductions and scheduled c-sections) had the same thing, no contractions just her water breaking and then my mom was delivered 15 hours later - and she didn't even get contractions until like 6-7 hours after her water broke! I want her labor

[Mrs.Paradise]

yeah I was going to say ... my SIL didnt drop at all when she had her first... she said it was a long labor though... sorry... lol I hope she drops soon and its a FAST FAST delivery and labor!!!! I still cant believe that you are going to have this baby so soon!!! it seems like yesterday (for me anyways ) that you just got your BFP!!!! Im sooooooooooooooooooo EXCITED for you girlie!!!!

[MommyPoky]

Originally Posted by Cheryl_W

Thanks for that Wendy... I was sitting here this morning, looking at how she hasn't dropped yet and how I'm actually having fewer and fewer contractions, haven't seen any more of my mucus plug, NOTHING - like *no* signs of labor whatsoever - and thinking "OMG, she is just too comfortable, she's never coming out..." LOL

My grandmother (the only natural labour I have to go by on the maternal side of my family, everyone else was inductions and scheduled c-sections) had the same thing, no contractions just her water breaking and then my mom was delivered 15 hours later - and she didn't even get contractions until like 6-7 hours after her water broke! I want her labor

I want her labor too! They put me on Pitocin when I went in (4 hours after it started breaking because I was in serious denial, I never thought she was coming out). Get all the sleep you can now because those first few days are like neverending sleep deprivation torture!