And here I still sit....
39 weeks along as of Wednesday... Yes, not quite 40. Saturday I had contractions for 6 hours (averaging 11 minutes apart). Then they dwindled and returned to wake me at 4am. Then they vanished. Spent Sunday recovering from how tired all of that makes you. I'm so tired of being teased. I should have went the elective c-section route, there's so much going on in life and my family's lives that the uncertainty really makes for a hard day, day after day. Tomorrow is my 39 week appointment. I'm going to ask that my doctor sweep my membranes. I'd like to be out of the hospital by Friday, yes it's selfish but I have other children who have lives that carry on with or without me as well as my husband.
Just needed to vent. Please keep your criticism to yourself today should you have something negative to say. I'm an angry, uncomfortable, tired pregnant woman and there's no telling what could happen.
Your just about there! don't give up now! please don't ask your doctor to do that proceedure.I will respect your wishes to not be negitive & make you more unhappy. just please heed my heartfelt warning don't do it ! let nature take her course and I'm assuming that your baby has given you no reason to think she's(he's) unhealthy so please just don't rush this! plenty of women for decades no centuries have had busy lives more so without the modern conviences of life as we know it today, just let mother nature fullfill her duty to you and your child and you do the same to mother nature and your child (& MOSTLY YOURSELF!) relax you'll be fine! If FLGIRL means your in florida (or if your just from florida living else where then disregard this comment) I know that heat /humidity can be a ball buster! esp when your at 39 wks! but i've been keeping tabs on our weather down there and it doesn't seem to have been as hateful this winter as it could have been!
Bah. You have every right to be unhappy! You're huge, hot, sleepless, uncomfortable, barely able to breathe and have swollen feet (at least this applied to me at 39 weeks). Starting at about 32 weeks, I'd go to sleep hoping that I'd go into labor in the middle of the night. I'd tell my bump that it was okay to come a little early...that pleading eventually turned to demanding ("get this baby out of me NOW.").
Do the membrane sweep if you want. I had mine swept at 40 weeks with my first and went into labor 5 days later. I don't know that the sweeping had anything to do with when I went into labor or not but what can it hurt?
I was required to have a c-section with my second after having an emergency c-section with my first. While the recovery from a planned c-section isn't thatbad, I still would have enjoyed not having been cut open. I also had to wait an hour to see my first child and 4 hours to hold my second (he had to be under an oxygen tent for a few hours). I know it's maddening at this stage but it will be so much easier on everyone when you look back on it.
Girl, hang in there! Do what you feel you need to do to make yourself happy and less stressed.
need2besize4, why should she skip the membrane sweep?
Hey do the sweep. Your doc wont do it unless you have deffinite signs of dialating and thinning out. Thats the only way my doc did it for me. And you know how well it worked for me!!
Good luck and heres hoping for an easy labour and delivery.
Thanks ladies. There's nothing like a pregnant, or past pregnant, woman to cry on the shoulder of. And hey, I'm not asking my doctor to break my water. I'm only asking him to help me along a bit. If nature isn't ready to take its course, then nothing will happen, right?
It's actually quite comfortable here, weather-wise, in the Daytona Beach area. I may even pick my little one up from school and take a stroll beachside!
Here's to pregnant women everywhere, past and present. We're truly amazing creatures!
God bless you, hon. Watched my lovely do this twice and still stand slack jawed in wonder!
After watching her go through the rigors of eclampsia (more good stuff from 'Mother Nature') I can now say, unequivocally, that if the good Lord had foisted this job off on men the human race would have stopped *COLD* in one generation! ;-)
-CD
My doctor swept my membrans around 38 weeks because he was going to be on call that weekend and hoped labor would start soon. I had the worst contractions that night, and I was sure I was going to go into labor. Then they stopped. He refused to do another sweep at my 39 week appointment because he was not going to be on call. I ended up having my daughter a few days later. LOL! It was a big joke with us because he wasn't on call when I had my son, either, so he thinks I didn't want him to deliver my kids. :)
Be grumpy, be tired, be pissy. It's your right as a very pregnant woman!!
Original Post by vanessa1031:
Be grumpy, be tired, be pissy. It's your right as a very pregnant woman!!
It's probably one of the only times you can get away with it!
Bier~Well...I feel I shouldn't say this as I will probably incite a riot with you ladies #1 & #2 I don't want to upset little Miss Flgirl as she has politely requested to not be further upset more than she already is! However, with that being said I willl start only for this to be MY OPINON>I am not a MD,OB/GYN,RN or Medical Professional.However 90% of the people I know work for the Florida Hospital group in some type of medical professional capacity & I have a friend who is currently at the USCSB with a GPA of over 4.0 in the PA program along with her own mother who has been a labor/delivery RN for over 40 years. with that having been said thake what I have to say as not a professional opinion however. as stated by a few others in here (refference the past comments), Nature KNOWS what's what. Doctors have charts (true) and diagnostic equiptment (at best) to help them "GUESS" about what date the pregnancy occured they don't know for sure;mom might know the exact time when she conceived (as I thought I did). no one could have been more miserible than I at full term. let me give you some back ground;having never had "cramps" I din't know what to expect. at6 weeks I looked liek 3 months, at 4 months I looked like I was "due".My doctor was convinced that I was carring twins by the 7th month and was "due" right then! he wanted to "take" the babies.I talked to my grandma who was "In her day" a mid-wife as most people during the depression couldn't afford a doctor to "come out to the house"so she "took up" midwifing.My father "an old farmer" himself, my own mother who was never to have children at all (no, I'm her's.Not adopted.) and various others. I had always had beautiful dancers legs now I had "cankles" at best! Varicouse viens, hemeroids, and we were living in Southern california where it's hot and smoggy, not beautiful like Florida where you have sea breezes. I had gotten pregnant at 119; when I finely did go into labor I weighed 187. now, fast forward....30 years; the 1 daughter i delivered, who I waited to give birth to "in mother natures time", when leslie was ready to (NOT HUMAN time) come.my daughter, leslie, was pregnate...but we lost my granddaughter she lived 18 hours because the "doctors" said that her membranes were thin and Paige would servive because they said she was 7 months along.....come to find out: Paige was only 20 weeks! Now what? Believe mother nature? or Doctors? I'll go with "GOD/Mother Nature/the Universe" I think from seeing what medical personell go through on a shift in the hospital, their not gods they are humans with knowledge in a spacific area.you know your body better than anyone else,you take your chances of "knowing" or them "guessing". I'm not really a gambler but if I were....I'd go with Mother nature. With that having been said; as I said, this was just one womans opinion. I don't want any nasty comments returned, I don't want to start a riot & I don't want to get "MOM" twisted I just don't have a whole lot of Faith in Medical doctors!
need2besize4, fair enough. I was wondering if it was simply your opinion or if you had medical backing. You have little faith in doctors and have had some horrific experiences. I understand.
flgirl, I'm hoping you have gone into labor at this point but if not, how did the appointment go?
I went to my appointment. I'm at a 2! He stripped my membranes, stretched me a little bit and then went on vacation, ha ha ha! I'm crampy right now and have a bit of bleeding but it's to be expected. I'm hoping tonight is my night ladies!! Hmmmm, I wonder if I'll have time for dinner first, lol. I'll keep you posted!
need2besize4, I love your name by the way! No apologies necessary on my behalf, you have been thru the ringer. I hope that one day, you'll be able to rely on the medical profession again. There are some bad doctors out there but keep in mind, there are also some really really fantastic ones too!
I just realized that I wasn't signed in a flgirl when I posted above. DUH!
I was wondering why someone else was posting for flgirl, lol!
Well, here's hoping! A doctor being on vacation is a sure way to get labor started!
Heh, good luck! I had contractions like that for 4 sleepless weeks before I finally went into labor @ 42 weeks... 48 hours of 5m apart contractions followed by 12 hours of active labor. Awesome!
I had my membranes swept @ 40 weeks.
My girl came out at a whopping 7lbs 4 ounces. Sometimes they just gotta cook longer. In the end I had a wonderful homebirth. It was great, especially in retrospect.
I credit the consumptive feeling of absolutely hating being pregnant with making days of labor seem WAY easier.
What really pissed me off were people with due dates far beyond mine going sooner than me. I was sooo angry pregnant lady.
Some things that helped me through were:
Focusing on product, not process
Pedicures
Watching the baby shows on TLC while eating copius amounts of chocolate
And finally castor oil. Yeah, don't take that w/o consulting your doctor/midwife
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