February Lovebugs of 2016!! 16 pink, 15 blue, 7 yellow

[MariaF]

gumb - I was losing my plug over 3-4 days before waters broke. But hopefully as its your third it'll be this weekend!

 

[gumb69]

I just have tightening in my lower back for the last hour. No pain anywhere. I'm off to bed hopefully I'll wake up in labour!!!! Good luck ladies x

 

[MariaF]

So I kept saying I had no twinges or anything...well last night I thigh labour would start
Stomach was hard pretty much all night and painful at times. But it wasn't period/back type pains - just more general stomach ache. I'm guessing these are BH
Still, can't be too long

Any more progress for anyone else?!

 

[Quantea]

Not much new here. I'm now getting almost constant BH, like you MariaF, but nothing organized like the other day. And I also hadn't felt anything until 2 days ago. I'm not sure if it means something might happen soon. Only 5 days left!

Are you still having them this morning, MariaF?

 

[rollachick]

I wish i would have a sign that things are getting closer. No show no increase of bh. Nothing!!! So frustrating. Only 4days till my due date and i was so sure ild be early this time hes lying posterior but nothing ive looked up seems to be helping him turn the right way.
My midwife said at my next appointment she could do a stretch and sweep if i wanted to but i dont no if i want her up there and everything ive read is pretty 50/50 of if itl actually help or not. Has people here had positive experiences with them?

 

[Quantea]

I wouldn't know rollachick, but the truth is I do find the idea of sweeps a bit unpleasant as well. Cervical checks are uncomfortable enough already... But I guess if they do work it might be worth it?

 

[SpudsMama]

I've had two sweeps. The one with my daughter I had on my due date and I didn't find it painful or uncomfortable at all. It didn't work, I wasn't dilated enough apparently. I also had one with this baby last week and that was horrible, I couldn't wait for it to be over, but she was very vigorous It obviously hasn't worked either considering I'm still here 5 days later. It did set off several hours worth of regular BHs though which seriously got my hopes up!

Just had a very freak bout of sickness and loose stools, despite feeling absolutely fine today, and I also lost my mucus plug at the same time. Eeeep! Hopefully it won't be long until I start feeling some decent contractions because I'm sick of the occasional round of painless tightenings I've been having all week

 

[gumb69]

We are all so close!!!!!!
My lower back tightenings disappeared. I am awake since 3 am. My youngest woke up and I couldn't go back to sleep
I had a productive day so far, I put all the small clothes away that don't fit my little boy. I've loads in the attic which I never sorted into sizes though!!!! At least he's only 22 months old so there's not that many. I cleaned the car seats.
I'm tired now though. I'll have my dinner then a power nap. Baby quiet today going to see if can get him/her to wake up
I think I'll make my induction now. I was so hopeful after my show yesterday. Oh well. 4 more sleeps!
Hope you're all having a great weekend

 

[Jaxvipe]

I woke up this morning with some irregular contractions but they have went away... Booooo. I bought some clary sage oil for my baths, maybe that will get some good contractions going. I hope that my Dr will do a sweep next appoint since I was already 3cm last time. I'm terrified that DH will be at work when I go into labor and we won't get to the hospital fast enough since I had a pretty quick labor with my daughter.

So crazy we are all on labor watch! Sending labor vibes to everyone!!!

 

[Cherr]

I wish i would have a sign that things are getting closer. No show no increase of bh. Nothing!!! So frustrating. Only 4days till my due date and i was so sure ild be early this time hes lying posterior but nothing ive looked up seems to be helping him turn the right way.
My midwife said at my next appointment she could do a stretch and sweep if i wanted to but i dont no if i want her up there and everything ive read is pretty 50/50 of if itl actually help or not. Has people here had positive experiences with them?

I had a sweep done with my first... had it done the day before my due date... went in at 10 am had the sweep done (which I couldn't even feel) baby was born at 5 30 that evening

 

[rollachick]

I wish i would have a sign that things are getting closer. No show no increase of bh. Nothing!!! So frustrating. Only 4days till my due date and i was so sure ild be early this time hes lying posterior but nothing ive looked up seems to be helping him turn the right way.
My midwife said at my next appointment she could do a stretch and sweep if i wanted to but i dont no if i want her up there and everything ive read is pretty 50/50 of if itl actually help or not. Has people here had positive experiences with them?

I had a sweep done with my first... had it done the day before my due date... went in at 10 am had the sweep done (which I couldn't even feel) baby was born at 5 30 that evening

Ohhhh hope i follow that exactly!!!! My appointment is at 10am and its the day before my due date

 

[MariaF]

I had some BH again this morning. Was even going to start timing them. But after an hour they fizzled out.

Currently at hospital, waiting for the second blood draw for repeat GTT. Starving! And the waiting area is next to a coffee shop. Another 40 minutes to go and I can buy the largest pastry and cup of coffee

I'm still such a bag of emotions when thinking about these last few days and the imminent arrival and what it means for our family It's still totally surreal to think we'll have another newborn as early as tomorrow but no later than about 3 weeks from now!!!

 

[gumb69]

Hope your test went well Maria
I've done some serious nesting today. So I'm laid on the couch for half an hour before the kids come home.

 

[Quantea]

Looks like we're all still here waiting then. Hope your test went well Maria! How come they're checking again this late?

 

[MariaF]

I've had sugar in my urine at every check up since 16 weeks. Plus bump is measuring a little bit big. Had normal Lucozade test done at 26 weeks - all normal. But because of high wee sugars they sent me for a GTT at 31 weeks. Since then sugar still in wee and mw said apparently things can change as quickly as 4 weeks from the previous test so she's playing it safe.

It was the same story with my daughter. High sugars in the wee, normal blood sugars so I'm not that worried.

Yeah, after a flurry of announcements it's gone quiet again! Still, not long until the next February Lovebug is here

 

[DaisyDreamer]

Glad your test went well Maria. Definitely a bag of emotions here too over the bundle


Just having a moan here.... Woke at 3 AM with horrible CTS which I needed to hop in the bath for ASAP.... Been having an awful headache since before then and even had MS when I woke up after going to sleep again. Have been feeling weird and anxious the past few days.


I hope being this miserable gives way to something soon!

 

[gumb69]

I'm going to bed early now, so that I'm one step closer. So tomorrow, I'll be able to say " I'm having my baby tomorrow!!!!"I know I won't sleep much tonight or tomorrow night. I'm going to check my bag tomorrow.i was supposed to get my hair done today but that didn't happen so will do it tomorrow
Good luck ladies, hope something happens for us all tonight x

 

[mommylov]

No changes for me... last week I was at 1cm and 50% effaced and the week before that I was at 1cm and 25% effaced. Induction is scheduled for next wed the 17th and my next appt is tomorrow so we will see if I have had any progress. I have had some tightening here and there but nothing super painful or anything. Also movement has slowed down a little which scares me but I know they say that can happen at this point. Also starting to have little moments of getting nervous about labor and delivery as this is our first child and I dont know what to expect. I dont even know if I have passed my mucus plug or not yet but Im thinking I haven't.

 

[hannahjex]

Well after my rant on the 5th about all the BH that invariably amount to nothing, I went into proper labour that evening and our daughter Malaika Hope arrived by emergency c section on the 6th of Feb at 1:50am, weighing 6lb 14oz

It was all quite traumatic in the end - I was in the 1% and suffered a uterine rupture at my old c section scar during labour but luckily they got to her in time (I was already in theatre being prepped for a section when it happened) and she came out screaming. We're back home now. She's beautiful and I'm so in love, her big sister loves her too and is so enthralled.

I think I've managed to upload pics - if not, I give up now! xx

 

[mommylov]

Congrats Hannah!