Anyone else in their 9th month?

[jd11365]

I've been such a "trooper" through the pregnancy says my husband, but quite frankly...I'm done. I would prefer not to be a trooper anymore and just have a baby! Everything aches, I don't have to tell you about bladder issues, my stomach can't possibly stretch anymore, and sleeping is almost painful. Heaven help me if this baby is late!

Jamie
EDD 5/9/03

[sunny2003]

Hang in there - we are almost there! Last night/this am we had a little scare - couldn't sleep and thought my water might have broken so off to the hospital we went. Turns out I didn't break my water but I did experience some early labor pains that have since subsdided and so back to the waiting game! The funny thing is that this did kick our butt to be more prepared - we went around the house at 5 am putting together the last touches for the hospital - it looked like we were going away for a month or something! This was our dress rehearsal! and we really have to get our taxes done too!

:)

[stillplayswithbarbies]

Hang in there, it's over before you know it. :) Well, not really, it drags on and on for awhile yet, but I am trying to be supportive here. THe last two weeks are just awful. I think that is natures way of getting us all riled up and bitchy so we can be strong to get through labor. :)

We did the same thing, procrastinated getting ready to go to the hospital. So there I was in labor all day while hubby finished painting the nursery and packed the bag and put stuff in the car.

My baby was only 4 days late. I'm wishing early deliveries for all you mommies-to-be suffering through those last weeks. :)

...Karen
Jake age 12
Logan Elizabeth 3/25/03

[Rachels]

Almost there! It WILL end, I promise! It's a good time for a massage, a pedicure-- whatever makes you feel pampered. Hang in there!

-Rachel
Mom to Abigail Rose
5/18/02

[APG]

I'm right there with you. I'm due 5/1/03 and CANNOT wait to give birth!!!!

[zen_bliss]

Due April 30. Everything has been a beautiful, healthy, fun walk in the park until WHAM she dropped last week. Now I feel like one of those really fat men with the flap o' belly hanging down over the belt. Everything from going to the bathroom to walking (crawling) up stairs is a real trial, especially as the temperature goes up here in L.A. My center of gravity is quite dramatically shifted and my knees feel like they might pop! who knew? I'm not in a hurry, though. These are the last days and I enjoy them and all the leisurely reading... Although the compulsory nap requirements from first trimester have returned. And, I sort of like the idea of an early May delivery.

Worst of all though, my bizarro MIL is obsessed with 'an Aries baby' and accuses me of thwarting her (um... my due date is April 30). I do mean OBSESSED, no 3 min conversation can go by without a reference. thank heavens she's on the east coast and afraid to fly. Ah, the serenity to ignore it, 'cause I know it's only the beginning of idiocies endured...

[heidi_timms]

I'm due May 5th and feeling the same way. The baby seems small because I'm not huge, but she is pushing on my spine. I just started physical therapy for my back. She hasn't dropped yet, so my heartburn is still in full force and sleeping is the most painful thing-my back is killing me! I don't really want to deliver early-I still have so much to do, but I can't wait to be done. I guess we should just enjoy these past few days before the real work begins!!!

[parkersmama]

I completely empathize with you!! I'm due April 29 and have been pretty miserable. The doctor says that the baby is "very low" in my pelvis which is causing almost unbearable contractions (even in my back which I didn't have the first 2 pregnancies). Like I couldn't have told him she is "very low"! LOL! I am having a terrible time sleeping...up just about every hour to pee and drink more water not to mention being unable to get comfy while lying down. :-) My 1st child came on his due date, and my 2nd was 2 weeks early so I've totally gotten my hopes up that this one will arrive early as well. If I go much past 38 weeks, I may just lose all ability to function!!

Here's hoping we all go soon!!

[jd11365]

I personally feel that 8 months is long enough! This last month seems to be a beast, and I really had been so good through the whole thing prior. I gained 5 pounds this week because I can't really move around as much as I had in the past months (granted it could be the Reeses peanut butter eggs special for Easter-lol) and I hate to go to bed knowing how I'm going to feel in the morning. BTW...my mother has this whole thing with having an Aires baby too...how bizarre! Though, to tell you the truth, I would love to have an Aires baby because that mean an early baby!

Jamie
EDD 5/9/03 or 5/12/03 depending on which ultrasound you go with. (I personally like 5/9 for obvious reasons, so that's the one I go with!)

[StaceyKim]

i am 4 days late and it's annoying especially when insensitive people keep calling and asking "well.........any news?".
trying to be patient but i am ready now! :'(
i cannot wait to be a mom already.

[Rhonda36]

me, me, me!

Due May 11th with our first (it's a surprise), and absolutely don't think that I'll make it until then. Still working full-time and dreaming up ways of how to get out of it (any ideas?)... baby might be dropping a little, but it's little tush is still tucked up under my ribs so I get out of breath just TALKING. My DH thinks that's funny.... men.

As for Aries babies -- I'm actually holding out for a Taurus. I'm a Scorpio and dated an Aries once. We don't need that kind of friction in our house!!

Hang in there, girls.
Rhonda

[zen_bliss]

i feel s o s l o w
i actually had DH put his hand on my bottom to push propel me up the steps yesterday cause i totally ran out of steam halfway up. it feels like her shoulders are in my pelvis. when i sit down in the bathroom i feel like i am IN the toilette. according to my doctor, that "gas" i've been having is actually lots of contractions. i thought it was just the baby moving around and my body saying 'hey, there's no room, give the muscles a second to adjust' but i guess it's really the other way around, the uterus contracting and the baby saying 'hey there's no room, so i am going to ram my foot out your side'.

the aries thing cracks me up! it got so out of control last week that i almost completely exploded about it. this is what put me over the edge:
MIL: "so, i was talking to my girlfriend and i said, 'you know, i think that girl is trying to thwart me and have a taurus.' "
self: (eyes rolling back in head, temples pounding, teeth clenched) "Mmmmm."
Yes, she referred to me as "that girl".
DH is on 'deal with your mother' duty from here on out.

i cannot figure out the motive, since i finally looked it up out of curiosity. if you put a lot of stock in the astrological personality profiles, a taurus would be very harmonious with DH and my personalities, and an aries would be SUCH an ongoing trial. and, my OB is out of town til my due date. who would wish a stand-in doctor on a first-timer? not nice! oh well, we've almost made it to the cut off, april 19. she left a message on our voicemail yesterday. "(long, deep withering sigh) i guess this baby's going to be a taurus." click. yaaaaargh!

i do hope we go to the due date so we have a license for one last romantic interlude ;) ... though i'd rather run nekkid through a pack of hungry bears with an arse coated in honey than have pitocin from all the tales i've read. so, we're planning on an april 30 dinner at Caioti, an LA restaurant with a 10+ year reputation for a labor-inducing salad! a secret balsamic vinegar is supposed to be the magic ingredient...

[sunny2003]

Oh Zen - that is too funny! Hope no one has to rub honey anywhere with hungry bears around - but what have you heard on pitocin? I also wonder why your mil is obsessed with an Aries baby? Of course my mother has told me that I must wear long sleeves and pants for a month after the baby is born to ward off arthritis - let's hope it's not too hot when she comes to visit!

At my 38 week checkup this week, my ob told me she thinks I will go the distance as well to my due date and that the baby will be 8.5 lbs! Yikes! Well, that's not much of a surprise since dh and I were both over 8 lb-ers! and she also is on vaca until the 28th, 2 days after my due date - but we'll see how it all pans out! I'm just glad we finally got our taxes in since that was hanging over our heads!!

Here's to a romantic dinner for you and a yummy salad!

[StaceyKim]

I am still waiting for the baby to arrive! I am now a week late and the doctor will induce next week if I don't go on my own. They will be using Pitocin. Anyone have good experiences getting labor induced with Pitocin????

Going for a long walk....hoping to get labor going!!!

[Rhonda36]

Okay, I've had it -- I'm biting the bullet and going out on leave next week. I don't care what my boss says (he's got me cataloging and moving heavy oil paintings around today... normally I would say fuhgetaboutit, but maybe it will put me into labor and that would show him!).

And then there's my sister -- five years younger than me with two girls ages 10 and 6. So I'm whining a little yesterday about the really rough day I had the other day, lots of contractions, felt a little queasy, couldn't get comfy, etc. And she called me a PANSY. Can you believe it? I wanted to reach through the phone and throttle her (good thing she's 1/2 the country away). She's such a know-it-all anyways (like never leave the window open at night in the baby's room... hello? we don't have air conditioning and what if it's 90 degrees out???). I guess I would have had an easier pregnancy if I wasn't 36 instead of 21 like she was when she had her first...

And I still haven't forgiven her for her comment about my choice to use cloth diapers -- she said "I hope they leak all over you and your house smells." Nice, huh?

Whew. Thanks for letting me vent. I needed that. Only a few days left for those Aries babies -- bring on Taurus!!!!

Rhonda
EDD 5/10/03

[jd11365]

Yeah, I loved when my sister said, "Really...I only gained 12 pounds in my pregnancy." Like that was nice to hear! Thankfully we have different mothers...I can't imagine sharing all of the same genes with such an insensitive being!

Hang in there...my only hope is that the dr. said I was 1 1/2 - 2 cm dilated and 70% effaced as of Thursday. He said he thought the baby would come by Wednesday... Though I know it could still be weeks, but for some reason when he was talking this week it gave me some hope! Although, on the other hand I'm so freaked out---ohmigosh---we're really having a baby!

Jamie
EDD 5/9/03

[RiaHannam]

Hi Jamie,
I'm due 5/9 too! Although I'm NOT in a hurry if you can belive that! I have 3 other kids (almost 12, 9, and 4.5 yrs) and this is my last so it's a bit bittersweet to end the pregnancy! I'm usually about a week late too so mentally I'm hanging in there well. My sleep IS starting to suffer a bit but other than that I'm feeling great. I'm carrying very low so I can breathe just fine and amazingly don't have to go to the bathroom constantly (baby's head is not engaged yet). I do have to go once at night though!

I'm sending all my labor vibes your way! I do hope you deliver way before me! Send any *late labor vibes* my way - I'll take em!

Maria

[sweetbasil]

I'm due the end of June (ugh) and had one of the most humiliating experiences of my life tonight. So embarrassing, I wouldn't post it in the lounge for everyone to see....

We got a new bed for DS and it was delivered and setup on Monday. Every morning and every afternoon when he wakes up, he asks me to lay down with him- so I've done that 4 times with no problem. Well, the stairs were causing a nice knife-stabbing pain in my lower-baby tummy area, so while DH gave DS a bath, I decided to rest on DS's bed. It's a twin, with a nice wooden frame, and I was laying in the very middle of it, weight evenly distributed, catching my breath tonight when- you guessed it- the bed collapsed. I'm already irritated about how much weight I've gained (still 20+ lbs less than with my first pregnancy), and then this. I stayed calm as I called DH in and asked if we could switch duties for a while, but eventually burst into tears (of course). He stopped working on the bed and hugged me, gave me the sweetest little pep talk about how I was the best home our little baby could ever grow in, that I've never been more beautiful, etc....but still, how discouraging!

Turns out, the installers only used half of the screws that were provided (the little baggie-full was still stapled inside the bedframe, unopened), so it took DH less than 10 min. to get the thing put together (better than before), but I was still pretty hesitant to sit on the edge of the bed with DH and DS during story/prayer time tonight. It held up fine, but I'm gonna rethink laying with DS after naps from now on!

Is it June yet? :'(

[Rhonda36]

aw, Julie... you poor thing. I've been silently looking at the permanent dent I've made in the couch cushions and trying to look the other way. Your husband sounds like such a sweetie. Those delivery men should be strung up by their... toes.

Hang in there. As the midwife said at my appointment yesterday, there's never been a case of a woman being pregnant forever.

Rhonda
Now 3 days late with little surprise Taurus baby