Fed up and over due

[Jnic]

Has anybody got any tips on starting things off? I'm 40+2 and so fed up. The only thing the midwife says is medically proven to work is nipple stimulation but the way too sensitive lol I'm ridiculously uncomfortable especially in this heat and am willing to try almost anything!

[dons88]

Ah you poor thing. I'm sure you've heard all the old wives tales (curry, pineapple etc) my advise is to get down on your hands and knees and scrub the floor - you want that baby's head rubbing on your cervix as much as possible - walking will help with that too but don't overdo it in the sun.

I had a stop-start labour and what finally got things going the last time was a bit of nookie - I won't pretend it was the most dignified or romantic of clinches when I was that size but it did the trick!

I'm sure it feels like it will never start but one way or another you WILL have your baby very soon - good luck x

[Jnic in reply to dons88]

Thank you I might try a walk late this afternoon when it's cooler x

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my best friend and her hubby went out for a drive and went quite quick over some speedbumps, x

[Allyemo1985]

Chin up Hun your baby will be with you soon, get sat on the birthing ball if you have one hip sways and bouncing. Sex I know some don't want to but orgasm is supposed to start you off. And as soon as they offer sweep go for it, little uncomfortable but worked for me had a sweep at 3pm and by 6am I had my baby girl.

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Have u been offered / had a sweep ?

( Not sure why i'm asking that anyway because i dont know any woman its worked on including myself)

I can only imagine how you feel "espicially in the heat" but it may sound riducloys and out of bounds right now but have you tried being intimate with your partner / husband.

I truly believe this method will work (maybe more than the other methods) because sex is proven to relax & set off the muscles around your womb which is probably the main cause of hdelaying the baby's arrival.

By the way "im no expert" but when i was pregnant with my son in 2008 i tried many methods from getting on all fours to eating pinapple. He was 41+4 wks & i had enough.

Try & keep your chin up though i believe many babies have their own agendas & no matter how we try they will only come when they are ready. (unless forced into induction) haha

[ElyAndBelly]

Hey hun

I know EXACTLY how you feel. When I was pregnant with my son last year I was fed up, especially wen everybody was askin me "have you had him yett?" I would flip out LOL

I tried absolutely EVERYTHING !! And nothing worked my son came 1 day before my induction date. I was 41+6 weeks. And not only that my labour started on the 2nd november at 3am and gave birth on the 4th november MY 21ST BIRTHDAY !! At 4am. What I can say is some of them tricks work for people and some done majority of them don't work at all. Walking just gave me braxton hicks that just went awway once I sat down.

Now this is my trick that worked that my midwife recommended me wen I was 41+4. She said "you are tense and not relaxed you need to relax to set off your good hormone" so then I took her advice. I planned a lovely chilled out day and evenin with my hubby for my 21st. I was actually really excited and wasn't thinkin about goin into labour. The next day, labour started LOL

I'm not sayin its 100% guaranteed but I say give it a go. Take your mind off it all (try your hardest) plan a day out with hubby. Plan a couple days out actually. Relax and chill out. You should set off your "good hormone" and apparently that's wat sets off the labour hormone 'feeling good' l0l

Good luck and hope this helps xxx

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I'd get it other half to suck your boobs no harm in trying and don't tell him some milk may come out. .. Will Def be trying it myself. . They can come in handy lol (men that is)

[Jnic]

Thank you all, Iv got a sweep booked for Friday so hopefully that will get things going if no then a long walk and a drive over the Yorkshire bumps is on the cards for this weekend lol x

[gemmw]

I'm 40+1 and really fed up too! I am sick of hearing 'he'll come when he's ready' especially from men that think they know everything on pregnancy and labour because they have kids! I've been living on pineapple and raspberry leaf tea for a wks and on my birthing ball everynight and walking my dog lots but nothing! Curry didn't even work! Got my sweep on friday which I'm praying works ! PlaNning on going for a very long walk , bumpy rides and a hot bath straight after it .. Hope urs works for you hun xx

[Megzey]

sex....I am convinced that is what brought my labour on 2 days early (not actually while we were doing it) a few hours after my waters broke. Let him have it as it is the last you will get after the baby is born for the next few weeks as you will feel like you have been double barrelled by a donkey downstairs for a few weeks.

I wouldn't recommend a curry as you dont really want to go into labour and have a curry coming out the other end as well as sometimes a few days before some woman go into labour there body has a clear out and you can feel like you have got a dodgey tummy(if you get where I am coming from), onion bahjis optional.........

[DrFluffy in reply to Megzey]

Now this has been shown, in theory, to help soften the cervix...

[DrFluffy]

Bless - midwives and the things they suggest and present as 'gospel''!! Nipple stimulation stimulates oxitocin production, but in quantities designed to help you produce milk (it's called the let down reflex), not induce labour, although manufactured oxitocin like chemicals are used in induction (as higher concentrations than produced by 'let down')

The truth is that your body will get going when it is naturally ready. In 12 weeks of performing membrane sweeps on 6-8 women per clinic, I'm not aware of it actually working once... The idea is it produces natural nitrous oxide and prostaglandins and essentially acts as induction... In my experience it rarely works, but makes peopl feel better that 'something I'd bring done'.

I can only imagine how many shades of frustrating being 40 weeks plus is, I'm fat, uncomfortable and impatient at 29 weeks!!

[Carren]

If you think feeling like something is being actively done for you will help you cope with this annoying time, you might as well go for the sweep, as it's not that bad having it done. I'm one of the women for whom it "worked" within the promised 48 hours. Of course at 40 weeks plus your odds of going into labour within any given 48 hour period are pretty good whether the midwife interferes with you or not--the data on membrane sweeps are admittedly far from compelling. But I bet in your current condition you're not particularly interested in data, are you

There's also always cleaning the house from top to bottom. My mother-in-law's claim that this is guaranteed to bring on labour is highly suspect, but it's virtually guaranteed to ensure you have a clean house to bring baby home to, provided your partner doesn't treat it like a bachelor pad while you're in the hospital.

I read a good book while I was waiting. This didn't bring on labour, but my little'un is nearly 4 months old, and I haven't been able to find time for a good book that wasn't on child-rearing since...