Blen That is exactly where I was at your stage, and I was also told that I would go overdue. We even spent a lot of time talking about induction.Yet my water broke on my due date! There is really no good way to predict, anything can happen! Stay strong, you aren''t even at your due date yet so try not to let anyone''s predictions get you down. I found that all the negativity leading up to my labour was really hard to deal with, so I know how you feel. It is hard when they say, "Oh I would have liked you to be further along at this point" or "You will go overdue" or some such thing. For me it felt somehow like my body was letting me down when they made those comments. But your baby will come when he/she is ready, there is nothing you can do about it and nothing anyone predicts will affect it either!Date: 3/29/2009 9:35:43 PM
Author: Blenheim
Bleh. My m/w just came over to do another exam because of the potentially wonky positioning. It was going to be earlier today, but she was at a birth. The bad news - now that I''m 1 cm dilated, she could stick her finger up my cervix enough to determine that it''s still like 3 cm long. (I think I misinterpreted what she said before - thinking that 70% of the work was done, vs having 70% of the way to go.) But, basically, way thicker than I thought it was and no progress in that arena. Baby''s at -2 station, so still fairly high. And all this despite the painful contractions and all of the walking I''ve been doing - I even walked another 4 miles today to try to help it drop more.The good news - she''s now 80% sure that baby''s headdown, and my cervix has started moving forwards which it needs to do before birth. She said to expect a 41-42 weeker. But with all of these false alarms, I''m just feeling DONE and discouraged. Ebree, thanks for asking.
DD thanks so much. I''m taking this a lot harder than I thought I would - I went into pregnancy expecting 41-42 weeks, since first time moms tend to go "late" and that''s when I came along, but with the bleeding episode and all of the contractions I''ve just been afraid of a preemie for long enough now that I feel like this pregnancy is just stretching on and on. And people keep telling me that they only see my body holding out for a few more days, at most, despite me having no real progress so far. It''s getting tiring. I wish everyone (other than you girls, of course!) would just shut up about it. Anyways, thanks for the commiseration/support - I really do appreciate it.Date: 3/29/2009 10:54:50 PM
Author: dreamer_dachsie
Blen That is exactly where I was at your stage, and I was also told that I would go overdue. We even spent a lot of time talking about induction.Yet my water broke on my due date! There is really no good way to predict, anything can happen! Stay strong, you aren''t even at your due date yet so try not to let anyone''s predictions get you down. I found that all the negativity leading up to my labour was really hard to deal with, so I know how you feel. It is hard when they say, ''Oh I would have liked you to be further along at this point'' or ''You will go overdue'' or some such thing. For me it felt somehow like my body was letting me down when they made those comments. But your baby will come when he/she is ready, there is nothing you can do about it and nothing anyone predicts will affect it either!Date: 3/29/2009 9:35:43 PM
Author: Blenheim
Bleh. My m/w just came over to do another exam because of the potentially wonky positioning. It was going to be earlier today, but she was at a birth. The bad news - now that I''m 1 cm dilated, she could stick her finger up my cervix enough to determine that it''s still like 3 cm long. (I think I misinterpreted what she said before - thinking that 70% of the work was done, vs having 70% of the way to go.) But, basically, way thicker than I thought it was and no progress in that arena. Baby''s at -2 station, so still fairly high. And all this despite the painful contractions and all of the walking I''ve been doing - I even walked another 4 miles today to try to help it drop more.The good news - she''s now 80% sure that baby''s headdown, and my cervix has started moving forwards which it needs to do before birth. She said to expect a 41-42 weeker. But with all of these false alarms, I''m just feeling DONE and discouraged. Ebree, thanks for asking.
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