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I am 38 weeks and 4 days pregnant with a baby girl. Pregnancy hasn't been too bad except for really bad acid reflux and heartburn at night which causes me not to get any sleep. Yesterday I was having contractions so I went in and they sent me home. They said I am in early labor and they were confident that I would be back later that night. Well here I am still no baby! plus contractions went away . I was checked at my last appointment on wednesday and I was dilated a fingertip & 80% effaced. Yesterday I was dilated 1 still 80% effaced. A tiny bit of progress. I need to know how to speed things up. I want my body back! I went on a hour long walk today but all I got was pelvic pain and shortness of breath. I heard sex would help but that is out of the question. What else can I do!?
Until your water breaks you should wait. After the water breaks you have to deliver within 24 hours. That's what they told me. Hang in there, another week?
My son (first born) was about three weeks past due. For that last month of pregnancy my wife had me driving her on a rough, gravel mountain road nearly every night. I don't think it helped a bit. Patience is the best gimmick you'll find. (I don't think sex is recommended this far into your pregnancy anyway. My wife told me it wasn't permitted at all during the pregnancy -- or for a year afterwards!)
Sleep. You will want that more than you want your body back.
Start getting things in order, pre-make and freeze some meals, organize a closet or two. She'll be here before you know it!
My second born was 3 weeks past his due date. I heard everything you were supposed to try, and I tried it all, and I don't think it worked. I walked until I was in tears (he was huge and so was I plus it was summer in Texas!).. I don't think it made any difference.
I agree with the other posters. Sleep and get everything absolutely ready and just try to be patient. Babies come when they are ready!
And as far as sex goes, I was just reading how they don't even think it works to help naturally bring on labor even though they used to think that it did. It is safe though, for someone who doesn't have a high risk pregnancy (since one poster mentioned that)...
Sorry, but all 3 of mine were 2 weeks late. I'm convinced if it weren't for modern medicine I'd STILL be pregnant with my 23 year old.
I was so sick of being pregnant, I sat at the top of a short flight of stairs and bounced down on my butt. All I got was butt bruises. (No. I didn't really expect it to work, but I had to try everything)
Sit back, relax, read a book. Baby comes when baby wants.
My oldest son was 17 days overdue, my second son was 12 days overdue and my youngest son was 14 days over. Your baby will come when it is either ready or when your doctor intervenes. Take this time to get some rest and make sure you have done all the little things to make life easier when you get home, like maybe making some meals and freezing them.
Until your water breaks you should wait. After the water breaks you have to deliver within 24 hours. That's what they told me. Hang in there, another week?
That's because they want to be in and out and home for dinner. Baby's are born on OUR time now when it's convient for us... Not when they're ready. If its your first and ur 38 weeks you could go another 5 believe it or not. 43 weeks is usually as long as they'll let you go and I've had several gfs go that long with their first. Baby will come when she comes. We were all like that at the end but there's nothing you can do really.
All that stuff about spicy food and castor oil aren't proven. In for a penny in for a pound. My daughter is 3 and I still want my body back!!! I stopped breast feeding after a while cause I almost felt claustrophobic in my own body being on call all day and night ! I felt like a full service milk station . Of course that was after the hormones made me feel like I was going crazy !
My husbands wife (MIL) delivered both her babies 9 1/2 and 10 lbs at age 18 and then 19 vaginally, no medication. The first of which she had at 43 weeks , which they don't allow anymore.
And when I posted that I went to 43 weeks, you said..
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That was 15 years ago I'm talking now. Mostly only midwives allow for that long a pregnancy not offices. My husband is 15 years older than your son. I'm only talking early 1980's not 40's.
As if it were a relatively rare thing and a crazy thing to expect.
Yet now...
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Originally Posted by Sweetbottoms
That's because they want to be in and out and home for dinner. Baby's are born on OUR time now when it's convient for us... Not when they're ready. If its your first and ur 38 weeks you could go another 5 believe it or not. 43 weeks is usually as long as they'll let you go and I've had several gfs go that long with their first. Baby will come when she comes. We were all like that at the end but there's nothing you can do really.
What you are saying here (in this thread) is contradictory compared to what you said to me in the other thread about big babies.
Now, I am as anti-intervention and pro-mama power as you can get. I think we are advocating the same things here, I am just not understanding the apparent conflicting comments.
The thing about the water breaking is not a hard and fast rule either, the infection risk comes from vaginal exams after the water breaks, and that's the first thing they wanna do when you are in the hospital, so I'd not be worried about the 24 hour thing but more about them keeping their hands out of there!
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. I was checked at my last appointment on wednesday and I was dilated a fingertip & 80% effaced. Yesterday I was dilated 1 still 80% effaced. A tiny bit of progress. I need to know how to speed things up. I want my body back! I went on a hour long walk today but all I got was pelvic pain and shortness of breath. I heard sex would help but that is out of the question. What else can I do!?
