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Mmmm, those cakes look yummy.
Pure torture as I'm currently on my 12 hour fast before GD test tomorrow :(
 
2nd time great cakes!

Lady-K good luck for the GD test.

Rach yay for maternity leave - its getting very close now.

Prelabour signs now: still losing some mucous plug, still no bloody show though, BHs increasing (needing to breathe through some now), insomnia (is that even a prelabour sign - I just can't sleep anymore and its driving me crazy), lots of cervical pain and pelvic pressure still, BMs increasing a lot, bladder not able to hold anything anymore, unable to eat big meals, but was still quite hungry today late afternoon.
 
how do you know if you are losing your plug or not? I keep watching the toilet to make sure I'm not missing anything, but some of my friends told me they didn't notice they lost it at all. Not really sure what to watch for
 
Tankit they sound like all my signs at the moment!!

Im losing sooo much watery discharge is that normal? ive never known so much!! soaking my knickers... sorry if tmi, and its not my waters....
I cant eat big meals im opening my bowels something stupid like 4-6 times a day, im feeling sick and picky with food, so tired yet cant stop nesting!, feel abit dazed - not sure if thats a sign, but i kinda have that feeling i wanna be on my own?!? and the headaches!!! arggghh!!!
 
I had to start wearing liners again because I was getting more then I was before too.....mine isn't my waters either, but I really wish it was!!!
 
tanikit- i could have written your pre-labor signs post myself.

melissa- TMI- you would know if you start losing it. its a lot of mucus usually in chunks. and can be tinged with blood. usually starts coming out as you start to dilate. sometimes you wont lose it until your in labor. i never lost mine in my first 3 pregnancies. lost it last pregnancy and now starting to this time.
 
Thanks Melissa. So when they talk about a "show" is that the same thing? I'm just praying my water breaks so I know that labour is starting....with all the painful BH I get, I am scared that I won't fully realize I am in labour until it's too late to get me to the hospital (1.5 hrs away)
 
yikes! i would not want to be that far from the hospital. yes, thats what it is. but when it starts there can still be quite a while before labor actually starts. i was in my 36th week during my last pregnancy when i started to lose it and my water broke with him at 38+6. and it started in my 35th week this time. it can also start out as just a lot of cm. thats how mine started out this time and now its coming out in chunks, sorry tmi! last time there was blood with it, but none so far this time.

im sure you will know when labor starts. i cant really explain it, you will just know. it might start out as crampiness, or BH, or just back pain. but it doesnt go away and keeps getting more intense. or you might just start to bleed and then you know too.

i hope your water breaks like you said, but that you dont have real intense contractions right off the bat from it. when my water breaks during labor it makes contractions unbearable. but the only time my water broke to start labor it took a few hours for contractions to start. i would not want to have intense contractions on a 1.5 hour drive though, thats for sure!
 
:hugs: everyone!!

Great cake 2nd time!!

Yay for mat leave Rach - i have 3 more weeks (but they are 4 day weeks) left.

Im hoping that my water doesn't break to early cause i don't want to have to go to the hospital before i think the baby is actually comming. I have heard of some womens waters going and then the contractions starting... i would rather it be the other way around to know i have started to dialate or SOMETHING before i head to hospital - which is only 5 mins from my house.
 
I updated the first post with some of the sweep, induction & c-section dates that were given a few days back. Post or PM me if you want me to add a date to your name!!
 
with the drive that we have to get to the hospital, I will be going at the first sign. We are supposed to go to the clinic here first to be checked, and then if they think we are close, they will send us by ambulance. Otherwise, we go in on our own. And if we get to the hospital and they don't think we are close, then we are just asked to get a hotel and wait it out until it is time.
 
wow melissa- i wouldnt like those plans. but hey you have to do what you have to do. i hope you make it ok. hopefully its a normal first pregnancy birth and it takes hours. hope you are not one of those women that goes into labor and delivers shortly after. you might want to have a talk with your LO before labor starts, make sure he has read the books!:haha::baby:
 
:rofl:

my neighbour was like that. She ended up giving birth 5 weeks early. Her water broke around 4 am, and they phoned the pager number and they told her just to come into the clinic at 8 am when it opened, and she was already 5 cm dilated by the time she went in! They sent her by ambulance (luckily the doctor was in that day as well, and he went in the ambulance too), and she gave birth immediately after they got her there. They were so afraid she was going to give birth on the highway. I so do not want that happening at all. :nope: The joys of living in a small rural town!
 
dang how scary. i wouldnt want to be laboring on a big stretch of highway. its uncomfortable enough in a hospital! i hope thats not what you go through :hugs:
 
I hope not too, especially being winter time! That would suck!
 
Why do they send people away from the hospitals where you live? Here certainly in private practice they do not - they will always check and also do a NST or even keep you overnight. There is seldom a space issue and even if there is they can usually make a plan and move you to the labour ward (lol, so many C-sections that the labour rooms are seldom in use) I don't think they would ever dream of sending someone who might be in early labour to a hotel - that would be a way to get into serious legal trouble if baby arrived early. Public hospitals are another story altogether. However if you are in early labour and about 2-3cm dilated they also won't let you labour for the length of times I see on here - you need to dilate at about 1cm an hour or they will plan a C-section and then send you home after that instead.

Sounds like I am losing my mucous plug like you Melissa - last time I only had a bloody show the day before induction at 38 +1.

Is anyone having pregnancy insomnia and how do you deal with it - couldn't get to sleep til 03:00am last night and I am always up before 07:00am. I will be exhausted if this continues til labour. My mind is not racing - I just really can't sleep despite being so tired. Have tried reading and bathing and lieing in bed boring myself and nothings works.
 
all im getting is runny wet discharge at the moment, i started losing my plug by this point with my other pregnancies and dont seem to be getting any clumps or anything as yet!.. hopin its not a sign that baby will wanna come later rather than earlier lol... i never lose the 'full' plug untill im in active labour but i do shed a some before
 
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