Thursday Ticker Change... ? (6/18)

[theBeeMama]

I'm feeling very "Aragorn storms the Black Gate in Return of The King" right now with this ticker change. Feeling the need to rally the troops with a kick-ass motivational speech to get us through these last days. (Notice I did not say weeks. Because, denial.) Except I actually have no motivational speech, so I'm opening up this thread as a "whatever-goes/share your thoughts/lets all hope or pretend like this is our last Thursday" thread.

How many Thursday moms do we have left out there? I know I have a couple EDD buddies who are still hanging on with inside babies. And I'm sure there are some ladies due today! That's exciting! Let's talk. How are you? Trying anything/everything to induce labor or being totally zen and waiting on the powers that be/magical labor dust?

Basically I'm trying to get you to distract me. (The truth comes out.)

Let's hear it, Thursday's!



"A day may come when we flip our sh*t and let the hormones vanquish us-- a day when we totally give into the idea that our children will stay inside us forever... But it is not this day."
(There ya go. A little Aragorn for ya.)

[jessila]

I'm also 39 weeks today. He's a watermelon so I can finally say "I carried a watermelon." Thanks, Dirty Dancing.

I was so optimistic after my appointment last week that I'd have an outside baby this week. Now I'm anticipating he's never coming out.

I think I've eaten 4 pounds of pineapple in the last week because it's delicious . Last night I spent time on an exercise ball to make my hips hurt less. That worked for the pain until I tried to sleep on my sides.

We spoke of induction today at my appointment. She said since I'm already dialated they'd probably just use pitocin and break my water. I'd like to avoid the pitocin part but didn't mention that because I want to think he'll make a debut before JULY.

All my June 25ers-I hope we don't meet back here again!! And I hope that all of the June 18ers magically have a baby by tomorrow.

[ladysif]

Today is my due date according to my doctor, though I've been doing the Friday check-ins because I know when I ovulated. But I want to play so forgive me for jumping in when I only kind of go here.

As far as trying to get this baby out, I'm not doing much. Nothing worked last time and my doctor is of the opinion only walking is helpful; I walked a ton last night and as a result have been sitting on a damn donut all day because it aggravated my hemorrhoids so much (sorry, TMI). So yeah, no sexy time for DH either, poor guy. Having a toddler doesn't help with that either.

Induction scheduled for Monday, Dr. won't let me go later because of GD even though placenta is fine and baby is fine. He's probably going to be big though so I'm okay with it, I don't want him to end up with shoulder dystocia or something just because I wanted to avoid induction. I'm fingertip and 40% and given she nearly lost her arm trying to reach my tilted-back cervix, I'm not feeling optimistic #2 is going to take the greased pig route and induction is going to suck again. My body apparently hates preparing for birth in a timely manner. Really makes me wonder how long I would go if I weren't ever induced! I'm GBS+ this time, so did get Dr. to compromise and agree to let me just try the foley bulb during antibiotic time as that alone was enough to get me going last time and I want to avoid pitocin, too, if I can.

Good luck to all, the end is near!