Raspberry Tea!

I remember those days! Sex didn’t work for us, either. Finally, I walked up 18 flights of stairs and then 1.5 mile right after…my daughter was in my arms 36 hours later.

She looks beautiful to me compare to Jessica.

Oh, forgot to add, I homebirthed a 9lb11oz boy and later, a 9lb girl. Just because a baby’s supposedly growing fast (as they’re supposed to do at the end!) doesn’t *always* mean a mother cannot birth her child without interventions.

With all my pregnancies I’ve hit that wall where I’m so tired and frustrated of being pregnant – some of my emotional rants about it have cost me some friends who just didn’t understand it.

I’ve had pregnancies of 40w3d, 40w3d and 41w6d (yes, almost 42 weeks!). My body just cooks babies a little longer than the arbitrary 40-week mark. Although you best past 40 weeks – especially with my last baby – I was trying everything with my midwife’s input (castor oil, sex, massage, nipple stimulation, eggplant parmesan, and I don’t know what else) and the day of I’d had my membranes stripped with black currant oil applied to my cervix, and a plan to start black and blue cohosh tinctures (given to me by my midwife – but I never did get around to taking them since that labor/birth was an hour and a half from start to finish). You can get desperate and emotional at the end, that’s for sure.

it feels like shes been pregnant forever, i think it’s a girl. omg, i hope that she goes soon into labor! can’t wait to see that beautiful baby!

I read the comment about castor oil and I agree with the above poster who said it can cause more damage then good. I did everything to make me go into labor with my now 2 1/2 year old son. I tried the castor oil, which just made me so sick, and caused him to have a BM while inside me. He could have died from it. He spent 30 hours in ICU and then until 6 weeks old they were concerned he would be blind and deaf. Thankfully, he’s fine, but that is something to take into consideration.
I did the sex thing, didn’t work. I even did the various foot massages, and Aidan still refused to grace him with his presence. What actually caused my monkey to come into the world was me being scheduled to be induced at 8 am on Feb. 23. Aidan, apparently not happy with the idea of having someone else make his decisions, did something at 3 am, broke my water at 4 am, made me have contractions 45 seconds apart AS SOON AS HE MADE MY WATER BREAK(!!!!!) and was born at 6:15 am. I swear he’s my boy–late for everything, then 10 minutes before I’m supposed to be somewhere rush, rush, rush.
Nothing will cause the baby to come until the baby is ready. Everything else is just in vain.

I agree with Stephanie. I hope she’s not feeling pressured into ‘getting the baby out ASAP’ because those last few weeks/days are something to enjoy, not feel rushed about. The baby WILL come out when it’s ready. What works for one woman – sex, pineapple, walks, massage etc – may not work for another, so I don’t like to assume anything.

http://www.aafp.org/afp/20010701/practice.html

ACOG states that women should NOT be induced or sectioned for suspected large babies.

Such hogwash we women are fed…and believe too.

WOW! I feel so bad for her! It seems like she is more than ready to have this baby! I can’t wait to see a birth announcement! Having said that, I think it’s a girl!