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[CallyChook]

Hi folks, as almost everyone is well aware (not like I mention it a lot or anything ) I am hugely pregnant with child #2, apparently a girl this time. She is due on the 9th, so in two days time, and I am really fed up! I reached this stage maybe only in the last week or so with my son, but this time I have been ready and waiting for the first twinge since at least 34 weeks! I seem to have had a much harder pregnancy this time around.

 

I've got a home birth planned this time. My son was a hospital birth and all I know is that I will do anything to prevent the same labour again, it was AWFUL! He was due on the sunday, contractions were set up and painful by monday night, and after being sent home twice, I finally was admitted on the wednesday morning. He didnt emerge til the afternoon, a full 43 hours of discomfort, panic and misery. It was all different than I was expecting, from the slow progress of him being "back to back" to the lack of any kind of urge to push (in fact with every contraction the pain in my coccyx was that bad that I wanted to pull up and in, not push out!) and the finale of a terrible tear which took 3 hours to get fixed. As a nurse, I think a large part of the whole evilness was started by me being on the "wrong side" of the patient/medic barrier, and as panic set in, things escalated out of hand. The care on the post-labour ward was even worse and I spent the whole time crying until they let me go home.

 

Hence my wish this time to stay home, keep everything calm and as normal as possible, and see how we go from there! At the end of the day, if it is as bad again, I have lost nothing in trying to stay home and still will have all the support necessary in hospital if I need to transfer.

 

So, with her shoulders thrashing inside my pelvis like a cattleprod set to kill, I have been trying all the old wives tales I can find. First off, I asked my midwife what she thought. She recommended raspberry leaf tea. She said there is no evidence of it initiating labour at full term, but there is some proof that it can enhance and tone the uterus ready for when labour kicks off naturally if taken from 36 weeks onwards. So I took one cup for one week, then upped it by a cup a day per week, and now am on four cups a day - not only is it good to be drinking plenty of fluids, it doesnt taste half so nasty as I expected! Fingers crossed it might help, it doesnt harm to try anyways.

 

I have also had a couple of very spicy dinners in the last few days but they have done nothing at all, not even made me run for the loo which they normally would! i seem to be made of cast iron these days

 

OH and I tried the nookie approach, which just made us laugh, gave me awful hip pain thanks to the comedy positions we had to adopt to manage it, and in the end we just gave up. I dont know how much detail I can acceptably put in here, but Apparently it's the prostaglandins that help initiate labour, and we didnt reach that point in the proceedings! Hubby said that while he thinks I am stunningly beautifully pregnant, he looks at me and is suddenly very proud of my carrying his child and it's hard to be attracted in that way to someone he sees as Gaia and not Ms Whiplash who is also obviously uncomfortable. I tried not to get too upset at this as I can see his point... I was almost wincing in pain because baby is lying so deep in my hips, yet laughing because of the sheer humour of being a beached whale and feeling kinky!! It ended up being a little bit like an afternoon of cricket called off due to heavy rain, but with a lovely cuddle instead and then we both got overly excited about new baby things and talked for about 4 hours over the virtues of babygros versus sleepsuits and wondering what colour hair and eyes our little girl might have.

 

I read that evening promrose oil capsules are packed full of prostaglandins and a few people have tried using them as a pessary with similar results, but after a week, I am giving up having had not so much as a twinge. Doesnt half make you feel daft too.

 

Over the last two weeks I've walked further than I have since getting pregnant, last friday I managed five miles, and it didnt do a thing. Fresh pineapple was recommended to me, and yet again, nothing. Oh - except a very sore acid tongue!

 

Anyone heard any more tales of what brings on labour? I dont genuinely believe that any of them work, but it's kind of fun trying, after all at this point waiting for an event to happen can get very exasperating and I'd rather be trying weird and wacky stuff out than just sitting around waiting. I'm not very good at being patient, and with a three yr old in the house, I can't even do what first time mums can and enjoy the peace and quiet while you have it - not seen any peace and quiet in a long time!! The only thing I'm definitely not giving a go is castor oil - while this does tend to work with at least 20% rate which is surely good, it is not pleasant! The reason it works is it gives you the runs soooooo badly, that the cramping spasms in the bowel cause the womb to involuntarily contract too and hopefully the contractions then continue on into full labour. However, spending hours on the toilet while contracting doesnt sound like much fun too me, and also can really get you into a dehydrated mess needing emergency treatment.

 

Defo not the way I'd like our little bundle to arrive!!!

Edited October 25, 2010 by Guest

[Daphne]

and relax .... I love it that you were able to write all that, we can feel your frustration!

 

I have no words of wisdom, I'm just hoping the next hours go past a bit quicker for you. I'm not surprised curry didn't work, given your fondness for those Toxic Waste sweets you really must have a cast iron digestive system Anyway, fingers crossed for a happy and speedy outcome with your little girl

[Rhapsody]

I had a home birth after almost exactly the same experience as you, never regretted it for a minute and my second child was born with me on my feet swearing like a trooper in 6 hours, it was 36 in hospital!

 

I was 2 days over with no2, but one of my midwife team had offered to start me off with reflexology apoparently she had a good success rate, but it was a 2 mile walk pushing a toddler in a buggy that did it in the end..

 

All my best wishes

[Tiggy]

no suggestions just best wishes that everything goes well

[Chucky Mama]

I have sent you a pm..family forum and all that

[Mollie333]

A car ride down a very bumpy road did it for my brothers girlfriend!

 

All the best of luck

[quickcluck]

Pineapple!!!! apparently!

[CallyChook]

giggles at the PM... will try that later

[Happy chickens!]

Ohh that takes me back!!! Good luck with the home birth - I had one with my second and it was so much more relaxing, less medical and more natural.

 

Both mine were 8 days late so I tried many things!!! Unfortunately I think it was time that did it - you never meet a 11 month pregnant woman! Although I seem to remember OH saying don't have the baby Wednesday I've got an important meeting that day, so guess when the little darling arrived?

 

I tried long walks, curries, bumpy car ride over uneven road, nice relaxing baths, cleaning the house etc... I didn't have one but a friend had a success with a 'sweep'.

 

Fingers crossed. x

[CallyChook]

got my sweep booked for 1pm next wed, will be 4 days over by that point if nothing happened. pineapple defo not working here, although i have chopped yet more up for after dinner... just in case!!

 

here in my village all the roads are bumpy, hence our tired old car lol! maybe a bus ride?

 

*grabs coat*

[Rhapsody]

Pineapple!!!! apparently!

 

 

What do you do with the pineapple..?

[Angie]

I hate to say this but .....Baby will come when Baby is ready,

( and its my b'day on the 9th) Saturday sounds like a lovely day for a baby

You will be fine at home more relaxed and able to cope in familiar surroundings.

I know it doesn't help when you have had enough, but that is nature getting you in

the frame of mind to get the Babe out ! So feet up relax and go with the flow

[Griffin]

Do nothing! I've had four babies and absolutely nothing encourages them to come out, they'll do it when they're ready. My last baby was a homebirth I'd chilled out all day at home, had my dinner cooked for me by my lovely OH, wallowed in the bath for a while, settled down on the sofa with him to watch Top Gear and by the end of it the pains I'd been getting were definitely proper contractions. 45 minutes later Georgia had arrived No pain relief The birthing pool had barely a few inches of water in it and was stood idle A midwife turned up about two minutes before Georgia did OH had been positively terrified by the prospect of catching Georgia himself because it was looking as if I was doing it without a midwife

 

The girls hadn't been in bed long when Georgia arrived so we woke them up so they could meet her. My eldest even cut the cord. OH put them back to bed, the midwife cleared up, I had another bath then settled down on the sofa with OH and Georgia again. It was perfect

[CallyChook]

that sounds fantastic Griffin, and hopefully will be like my birthing this time! After the marathon of the last one I doubt it, but I certainly have hopes of it being shorter than 24 hours anyways!

 

Am sat on the couch perving at the lovely Mr Packham while eating red sweet peppers in balsamic vinegar and honey dressing. No twinges, nothing at all abdominal, but with the most intense back pain and crunching of shoulders down below. Been like this for the last week and I'm beginning to forget what it is like to be comfortable :'(

[Alis girls]

Feel for u Cally - my first birth was awful - 9lb boy 3rd degree tear and horrid staff - I'm a nurse too - and bad PND which lingered for yrs. fast forward 5 yrs and having decided we wanted another baby - i told my dr I wanted a caesarian or I wanted a termination as no way was I having another normal delivery or forceps as it was. Hosp were great was put on antidepressants thro pregnancy - plain sailing - up and about next day and home after 1 night with excellent after care. As a nurse (not a midwife) i tend to look at everything more closely and was determined i wanted to self care as much as poss. My main worry second time round was not coming out with MRSA in my wound like so many women. Good luck hope it goes ok and let us know when its all over xx

[Alis girls]

Raspberry tea I think I was told- some sort of tea and the other thing you were PM'd about

[Alis girls]

raspberry leaf tea - sorry brain is not working today

[Chickendoodle]

a friend had a success with a 'sweep'.

 

Where's Dick Van Dyke when you need him chim chiminee chim chiminee...

[CallyChook]

a friend had a success with a 'sweep'.

 

Where's Dick Van Dyke when you need him chim chiminee chim chiminee...

 

that might scare the baby out.... although i watched diagnosis murder last week with no success

 

tried the pm'd suggestion last night, still am pregnant and still no signs. pah!

[Lesley]

Baby is obviously waiting 'til Sunday - 10.10.10

 

I have a friend who is due around now as well - she is really uncomfortable as well and is only comfortable in the pool for Aquafit. Her first baby only lived for 11 hours so she's trying hard not to complain but we could all see how uncomfortable she was as she walked from the pool to changing rooms.

[CallyChook]

aw, Lesley, blessings to your friend for a thriving and healthy child this time.

 

SPD, it's a pain in the bum... literally! I never had this with my first one at all, i was big and clumsy and fed up but jeeez the agony at nighttimes this one has caused for months now, it really aint funny. and to think in another 5 yrs we'd like to try for another?!! hahahahahah!!!!

[craftyhunnypie]

Isn't Clarey Sage oil supposed to help? I'm sure someone on here wrote once?

I can't really help as I know nowt about birthing babies & never intend to.

Good luck with yours though.

 

Emma.x

[chickencam]

I am afraid that your baby will only come he/she feels like it.

 

My 1st was 2 weeks early, my 2nd 9 days late, and my 3rd 1 day late.

 

Fortunately all 3 births were fairly quick and straightforward, 1st and 3rd in hospital, 2nd a lovely home birth with the only anxiety being would the midwife arrive in time. Se did and the second midwife only arrived 2 minutes before he was born.

 

I had loads of false alarms with my DS who was born at home, including 6 hours of strong contractions on my birthday two weeks before he was born We tried all of the usual methods of getting things moving apart from castor oil, nothing worked. He is still lazy now and won't get up, but he was a lovely easy baby who would sleep for hours.

 

I would have loved a home birth again with my YD, but there was no midwife available at 3.30am when I went into labour and we only live a mile from the hospital. I had to fight to get home that night though, because she was small and it was freezing cold, until a doctor saw sense that it was my 3rd child and I only lived down the road.

 

Good luck for a lovely home birth when it finally happens. I hate that time bomb feeling at the end of pregnancy.

[chicken bark]

I feel for you CallyChook - late pregnancy is very wearing to say the least.

 

I had SPD with my second child and lived on paracetamol. The good news was that he was the quickest, easiest birth of my three.

 

Also I had all my 3 at home - I didn't fancy the hospital and it meant I got really good midwife care.

 

Am I correct in assuming the PM was concerning the correct way to ingest the prostaglandins?

 

Good luck with it and she will come when she is ready. I'd do it for you if I could. (The birth not the inducing the birth thing )

[Aunty e]

A very vigorous sweep and lots of heavy lifting did it for me. My Midwife gave me a sweep on my due date, which felt like being punched in a very private place, and then I went and bought three sacks of chicken feed and loaded them myself. I also took pulsatilla (Homeopathic from H and B), drank gallons of RLT, and spent HOURS bouncing on the ruddy birthing ball. Anyway, I woke up at four in the morning the day after my sweep having contractions and Mog was born just before midnight. Try and keep active, it'll help.

 

Oh, and I did rub my bump with diluted clary sage and had a clary sage bath the night before. And I really wouldn't try castor oil, you'll be expelling enough bodily fluids during labour as it is without that!