Hurry up please baby!!
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Topic: Hurry up please baby!!
Posted By: HelenElla
Subject: Hurry up please baby!!
Date Posted: 23 October 2005 at 5:37pm
I am soo sick of waiting! I've been having contractions every day for the last 3days and they start getting stronger and more regular then they slow down or stop! They will keep me up all night then stop by morning or they get really strong and painful but irregular but nothing happens!! I wouldn't mind the pain or sleepless nights if it actually ment I get to meet bubs soon but they way this is going I'll end up putting up with this for the next 3and a half weeks until they induce me or something!
Sorry but I really needed to get that out  a good moan always seems to help.
Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Is there anything I could do to hurry labour up? Anybody have any advice before I start to tear my hair out? 
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Posted By: lenabeanz
Date Posted: 23 October 2005 at 6:44pm
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The "fun" waiting game ay? - I didnt have that problem, was induced with Arna because of Toxemia... Looking back I wish I could have gone into natural labour - inducement was painful..
Have no advice really - got the stories about a bumpy ride in the car - walking - raspbery leaf tea etc.. Hope things kick in soon, has the midwife checked you out or anything? Fingers crossed that tonight is the night!?!? Feel free to rant and rave ------------- http://www.snugglepie.com"> 
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 23 October 2005 at 8:10pm
| i had a good few days of contractions like that. I really understand your frustration! It drove me crazy and a few nights I was completely in tears! I have no suggestions for bringing on labour (tried everything and nothing happened). I would suggest taking some panadol when the contractions start and just trying to get some sleep. My midwife told me to, i ignored her, and when i finally was in labour i was tired having not slept well the few days before. If it's real contractions, they will get stronger and wake you up, so you might as well get some sleep while you can! |
Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 24 October 2005 at 8:35am
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I had one night of contractions about 5 days before Joey was born... ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 24 October 2005 at 9:25am
| I think Becca.L went through a good couple of weeks of contractions before Josiah decided to come. She can empathise with ya |
Posted By: HelenElla
Date Posted: 24 October 2005 at 12:29pm
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No midwife hasn't checked me yet, she might this week. I've tried taking panadol for the contractions but it doesn't seem to helped, I am able to get to sleep sometimes but then the contractions wake me up, it's been well over a week since I have been able to sleep more the an hour at a time, I try to sleep in the afternoon to catch up on sleep but have the same problem. My midwife just tells me it's just my body getting ready for labour and to hang in there. I feel like crying most of the time it's horrible! I try to ignore the contractions but that doesn't help!!
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Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 24 October 2005 at 2:43pm
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Nikki's right, I did go through something similar, so I know just how you feel. My midwife told me I had "irritable uterus" - lots of irregular, often quite strong contractions that didn't do a damn thing as far as bringing on labour goes. I guess it was the uterus equivilent of a tickle at the back of your throat - annoying and pointless.
Talk to your midwife, get her to do an internal examination. If there has been no softening or thinning of the cervix, then talk to her about options to bring on proper contractions rather than the stupid braxton-hicks ones you are suffering through now. My midwife told me of a number of herbal remedies to help bring on labour (other than raspberry tea). You might be able to get something made up for you at a health store. Make sure that you talk to them first, and that the person who assembles your order is familiar with how the products can effect pregnancy. ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: HelenElla
Date Posted: 25 October 2005 at 9:08am
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Thanx It really helps to know someone else has been through the same thing. Hopefully my midwife will be able to help when I see her on thursday
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Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 25 October 2005 at 10:14am
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I'm glad I could help. Feel free to PM me if you ever want to. ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: paigesmum
Date Posted: 25 October 2005 at 2:22pm
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With Paige my contractions started on the sunday and were on and off through the night, enough were i couldn't sleep and on the monday they kept slowing right down my midwife came around in the afternoon and said about breaking my waters I think I was 2 or 3 cm dialated at the time Isaid yes and she did it about 3.30 and by 5 I was ready to go to the birthing home.
Hope something happens for you soon!! Karen. ------------- http://www.babysfirstsite.com"> 
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Posted By: HelenElla
Date Posted: 26 October 2005 at 9:03am
I see my midwife tomorrow so I hoping she can let me know whats happening. I feeling a lot happier now and just coping the best I can. I wish I had found this site earlier in my pregnancy the support is sooo helpful and reassuring. Thanks ladies
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Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 26 October 2005 at 9:48pm
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Let us know how it goes, Helen. Good luck! ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 26 October 2005 at 10:18pm
Good luck Helen!!! Sending labour vibes your way!!!  ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 27 October 2005 at 5:31pm
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All the best helen, hope things went well with your midwife and things are progressing ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: HelenElla
Date Posted: 28 October 2005 at 9:03am
| Saw my midwife yesterday and all the pain in my pelvis and back has got a lot worse to the point where I'm finding it very difficult to walk. My midwife couldn't do much of anything, she just said that most of the pain will be the first stage of labour stating to happen which could last for weeks before real labour starts. My blood pressure was up a bit and the doc said that they wouldn't induce me or do anything about the pain unless my blood pressure gets any higher because bubs is still active and happy they don't want to rush things. They have given me codiene for the pain which helps a bit although I don't really like to take it in case bubs feels the effects(it makes me very drowsy) and I am seeing the physio today which might be able to help. They didn't do an internal because they said even if I was 5cms dilated they wouldn't do anything until I go into full labour anyway. So until either bubs is ready I just told to rest and do nothing! I don't know how when I have a 2year old running round!! |
Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 28 October 2005 at 9:50am
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If you are really concerned about the effects of codine, call your midwife or talk to a pharmacist.
I had a lump removed from my breast when I was (unknowingly) about 10 weeks pregnant with Kiya. I lived on codine for the next couple of days! When I found out I was pregnant, I asked the doctor about the effect the drugs (the general anestetic(?) and the codine) would have had on my baby and was told that they wouldn't have had any. She is a bright and happy little girl now. ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: HelenElla
Date Posted: 28 October 2005 at 10:09am
| It was my midwife and doctor that suggested I take codiene and gave me a prescription for extra strength panadiene so I'm sure it will be fine I guess I'm just a bit paranoid with what goes into my body. I had a cyst on my falopian tube in early pregnancy and was given general anestetic for the op to remove it and they gave me a lot of codiene which I was recovering in the antinatal ward and bubs is fine. I guess after being pregnant for the past 39wks2days I don't want to take any risks. |
Posted By: HelenElla
Date Posted: 28 October 2005 at 3:34pm
Just saw the physio about all the pain in my pelvis and it turns out my pelvis has already seperated ready for birth! If only bubs was ready! She gave me a support belt to wear to hold my pelvis together so that should give me some relief from the pain. I am also booked into a maternity water class, the only class they could get me into is the day before I'm due! So hopefully I'll be too busy in labour to go I just wish my midwife would do an internal so at least then I could know if all the contractions I've been having are doing anything or not.
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Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 30 October 2005 at 8:36pm
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At leas you know why you are in so much pain!! OOOH it can't be long now!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Tastic
Date Posted: 31 October 2005 at 12:15am
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Hey Helen, How you doing? Any sign of a baby yet
Trish |
Posted By: mumstheword
Date Posted: 31 October 2005 at 12:54pm
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hey i know how you feel, ive just got out of hospital.. arrggghh im so sick of that place, i went in on the tues before labour weekend and spent 5 nights on a uncomfortable delivery bed, having contractions long and strong every 2mns, but did i dilate or do anything else.. no. just contarcted.. baby is well and happy inside me being squashed regularly, and as long as she is happy i just have to put up with it, I went threw this for 6wks with caleb and hoped this preg would be diff, but sigh no its not, i finally convinced thrm that i could do it at home instead of beibg depressed in the hospital so for now i get to do it at home, my contractions have been that bad i was on pethidine and sleeping pills just to get a few good hours sleep after 6days of it and very lil sleep. i just want to cry all the time, i cant get comfy no matter what i do and I wanth er out soo bad but because the longer shes inside the better for her, ill keep going as long as the drs let me... ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: HelenElla
Date Posted: 31 October 2005 at 3:06pm
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Thats horrible Judith, my contractions have been so painful too I hate hospitals so midwife has just been keeping a close eye on bubs as well as my blood pressure. Most of the contractions that I've been getting are worse than the ones I had when I was in labour with Chloe. I've been taking extra strength panadiene before I go to bed so I don't get woken up by so many of the contractions, which seems to help a little. Don't worry about the crying I'm sure it's completely normal for people in this situation or at least I hope it is because I've been doing it pretty much everyday now. Bubs is now tightly engaged but is growing so much that he/she is making it difficult to breath again. I'm sure this baby is going to be huge! I've had high blood pressure, headaches and dizzyness as well as swollen ankles the past few days but this morning my blood pressure was down a bit so they just think the rest of the symtoms are due to getting little to no sleep for the past few weeks as well as carrying round so much extra weight. I've been ordered to stay off my feet until bubs is born, but I'm just hopeless at doing nothing and I feel so mean not being able to take Chloe out to the park and simple things like that. My midwife is away from Thursday until Saturday so hopefully bubs will decided to come before or after that. I'm sooo worried about having someone I don't know deliver the baby after I had an uncomfortable and slightly more stressful experience with a midwife I didn't know when I had Chloe. |
