OK girls i thought i would start my own thread too...

i had a strech and a sweep this tuesday and i have been squatting and doing my onw strech and sweeps with the help of my DH since last weeks....all in all i may have done 4 at home and 1 in hospital....i also managed to BD this past sunday and had good contraction thsi tuesday before my strech and sweep....

this resulted in me seeing the first signs of my show..which is coming in drips and draps...so i had a show tuesday after my sweep which was minor, more yesterday and today i have had stained mucous all day.....i also managed to BD this morning which i am hoping will do something...my cervix is very low and soft...

i was give the choice to have induction but am not really keen on taking on that risk as my motto is there is only one way to go....OUT....

so i let my body and baby decide as to when and stick to more natural methods.....as i cannot want to risk the chance of a c-section...(which, yes i know i can have with a natural labour too..but i'd rather have nothing else to blame if that happened..!!!)

on tuesday i was bout 4 cm so i suppose i may be still that as i only had minor contrations to day after BD...however my babie feels very los and my pelvis is starting to hurt quite a bit now while i walk around like a duck at 2m/h.

one minute i am fine the next i have pain in my pelvis and alot of pressue but no contractions so i know i wont get far this way......however i am praying tommorrow will be the d-day......as i read that BD will take affect 24 hours later as does a strech and sweep.....

i have another one booked for the coming tuesday so yeah....it looks like i will be dragging this on and on until my due date or beyond..but i know i am more than 50% effaced and i do think even maybe 5cm dilated.....

all i need is your prayers that something will happen, asap....as in now, in a couple of hours or whaver..ideally i would want her now...

anyway will keep you posted on my progress....

love and good luck to everyone else....

love yas

I hope you go soon!  Sounds like you are doing everything you can.  Good luck! 

Im going that you will go having this baby tonight. At 5cm you are very close. Keep waking to get labour going.

Oooohhhhh!!!!!  Sounds like you are so close...I am so excited for you!  Good luck with your labor and delivery!  I pray that it is easy for you.

O.K............

NOW CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT IS HAPPENING...THIS IS THE MOST STALLED LABOUR SIGNS I HAVE EVER HEARD OF AND EXPERIENCED....I TRIED TO KEEP MY HOPES UP ALL YESTERDAY AND STILL....NOTHING.......

I MEAN..GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

WHAT IS GOING ON???I FEEL LIKE A JOKE.....

TODAY I THOUGHT LOOK..I WILL TRY NOT TO THINK ABOUT IT..I DID MY USUAL SCHOOL RUN WITH EVERY SECOND PERSON STOPPING ME AND ASKING HOW I FEEL AND SAYING YOUR STILL HERE???YOU LOOK READY TO POP!!!!OH YOU POOR THING!!!!!...YATTA YATTA YATTA..........

THIS IS DRIVING ME INSANE..MY DH PERFOMRED A MILD CERVICAL EXAM ON ME TODAY AND I ACTUALLY FELT LIKE THE CERVIX HAS MOVED UP AGAIN....I HAD NO MORE SHOW TODAY EITHER DESPITE THAT......

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY FRSUTRATING....I WENT FOR A BRISK WALK AND I JUST TRY...TRUST ME TO NOT THINK ABOUT IT BUT........THIS IS GETTING RIDICULOUS....WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH HER SHE WANTS TO COME OUT LOOKING LIKE SUMO WRRESTLER AND IN THE PROCESS KILL ME DOWN THERE TOO?????..I MAY HAVE TO SAVE UP FOR A FANNY SURGICAL CORRECTION PROCEDURE AT THEIS RATE!!!!!!

I EMAN AT 33-36 WEEKS I WANTED HER BADLY THEN BUT HOPED AND AT THE ADVICE OF OTHERS DIDNT DO ANYTHING TO ENHANCE THE CONTRACTIONS AND SIGNS I HAD OF EARLY LABOUR....I THINK HAD I DONE SHE WOULD HAVE COME THEN....CAUSE I HAD ALL THE SIGNS OF IMPENDING LABOUR THEN.....

NOW HERE IA M FOR OVER A WEEK DOING ALL I CAN OF WHICH SOME IS EVEN RISKY TO GET HER OUT AND SHE IS HAPPILY PLAYING IN THERE....AND NOT MAKING AN APPEARANCE!!!!!!!

I REALLY....REALLY DESPERATELY WANT HER NOW.....NO MATTER WHAT I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO MAKE CHOICES OF INDUCTION, OR FEELING THE WAY I DO OF WAITING....

WHY IS MY LABOUR STALLING LIKE THIS?????I EVEN RUN DOWN AND UP STAIRS AND....NOTHING.......

HAS THIS HAPPENED TO ANYONE ELSE...YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THE WAY I WALKED TODAY MY WATERS WOULD HAVE POPPED SO LOUD THE WHOLE STREET COULD HEAR IT..MY THIGHSN WERE ACHING MY BACK WAS SORE BUT MY BELLY SEEMS TO BE UNPHASED WITH WHATEVER I DO......

PLEASE PRAY THINGS JUST HAPPEN NOW....SO QUICK I DONT EVEN CARE IF I DON'T MAKE IT INTO THE BED......ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

TMB just hang in there.  I know you are just so ready to be done but sometimes the more you focus on it the longer it will take to happen.  It is like waiting for water for boil.  If you watch it then it takes forever!!!  But if you just take a break and come back in the room it is sure to be boiling. 

So, I guess what I am saying is just try and relax.  Maybe take one whole day where you don't do anything unusal to start your labor.  If you could swing it go get a mani/pedi or facial or something.  Just do something relaxing for yourself.  It sounds like you are pretty far along and once you do go into active labor you should go fast.  So, just hang in there.  Your little one will be here before you know it! 

hi there,

i have calmed down now..i guess i am exhausted..there is so muhc i feel i need to keep up to date in case i go into labour...like making sure that all my kids clothes are in their places so Dh has no troubl dressing them in case i am gone for more than a day, that the basics are in the fridge, that the house is tidy when i go so by the time i come back it doesn't reek of anything rotten or off....the floors are hovered and just the general upkeep is right in case i am not so lucky and end up staying longer than i expect.....

i have family and Dh to help out but my kids re going to be looked after by relatives duirng the day and then by DH during the eveings and night....

i hoover everyday and try and keep things like my childrens school essentials, uniform materials and books in order so life can go on as usual while i may be away......

i just am so ready i guess i am over prepared..the hope and indications i always had with this pregnancy is that i would go early in fact at times too early....so to come this far and think things would  'just' happen' and then they don't is frustrating..it is like your life can get on hold...there is nothing now that needs to be done....regarding the baby.....my physical condition also does not allow me to take the kids out and about like to the park..i can brisk walk but i canot chase my 1.5 year old down the bank as he runs to the local park's lake!!!!!or help my 4 year old climb donw the climbing frame...or chase all my kids through an indoor adventure ground.....

i also did all my grooming few weeks ago..as the last post suggested..i am fully waxed, pedicured and manicured and even dyed my hair...as i thought i would have had the baby by now....

so really...all is done....only the baby is left....

DH is desperate too as he runs his own business and has a lot of meetings and and busniess arrnagemnts to sort out but all is on hold as he cannot fix any dates de to my condition....he never wants to miss any of his kid's birthdays...so yes he is just as baffled as i am that we aren't holding our baby already....

i know fully well that the birth is around the corner and trust me i try for most fo the day NOT to think about it..but it is hard everytime i get pelvis pain, or seem to leak something or the other but no amnio, and feel like my insides are going to come out of my mouth...because the baby is truly big now......i can feel a foot just underneath my breast bone!!!!!

then there is 3 boys who demand lots of attention, and cleaning behind them is important otherwise things start to look and stink and rot if left behind....and that i cannot allow....call me obsessive but i dread to come home with a new baby and my house smells like a dumping truck has released itself here.....

anyway...i know i do wait and i try not to think about it...in fact i have decided to imagine that the baby will go overdue...this is the only way i can justify what is happening here...for now the excitemnt of the birth and even having a baby daughter is clouded by the sheer desperation and struggling condition that i am in.....but i know once something really does start i am only prayign that things will move smoothly and swiftly and i cna come home the very next day......

anyway, i went for another briskwalk with the kids and DH around the block of our street....i even mini raced with DS2 who isn't the fastest of runners...i felt alot of pressure while doing so but no contractions...yet....lets see..as oon as i go inot labour i let yuo all know..providing it starts at home....other than that i wish everyone one here more luck than i had.....so far...LOL

i am ok now will go to bed and just chillll...let the baby be stubbonr and come in 2 weeks..who cares.....GRRRRRRRRRRRR

 If you think you have it bad I remember being induce 2times because my dds decided that they wanted to come to this world late even though I was dilating I was not having contractions! Those are girls for you. Well some girls. Just be patient and it will happend hey! maybe by this weekend ((Hugs)) No matter what you do it just doesnt work. I tried walking nope..I tried tea...just gave me mild pain contractions but nope! So they are stubburn little things like their mother.