Yeah, my twins do know way too much. Its my fault.
9th. Not night.
Predict a text got me :smack:
That whole post was wrong. What I meant to say was, I went to the OB today and I’m already one centimeter dilated. So it is really any day now. I just have to get through the 9th because that is the day I’m giving a training at work. If I did go into labor during the training that would certainly make it very memorable
How far along are you? I can’t remember.
My favorite breakdown was when I started crying in Panera Bread because they were out of the soup I wanted and they hadn’t had the courtesy to take the sign down.
Rat bastards.
Please don’t hit me, but you can be 1cm dilated for weeks.
ETA: Also? Anyone who says to a woman in her last month, “Oh, ha ha, you should be glad you’re not an elephant because they’re pregnant for a year and a half!” deserves to be sat on by the pregnant lady. And maybe subjected to the pregnant lady gas, which I notice the rest of you were too polite to mention.
I haven’t been gassy, as least no more than usual 
When I was pregnant with my youngest I was also in nursing school. Contractions started late on a Monday night. Tuesday morning I was supposed to be in class testing out on some sharps skills. I woke up Tuesday and it wasn’t too bad so I said, “Eh, I’m going to class.” With my first I had contractions for four days before finally convincing my doctor to break my water for me because between my mom, my sister, and me with ten kids between us, none of our water has ever broken on its own, ever. I figured I’d be fine.
So I got to class and I stabbed a classmate (brave as she was) and they kicked me out because, apparently, a student in labor is some kind of liability. I passed my skills, went home, decided to go to Game Stop. This was October 19, 2010 and we had pre-ordered Fallout: New Vegas, which was released that day. So I picked up my game, came home and played it a bit, and then went into the hospital.
He wasn’t born until after 11 am on the 20th, after having my water broken of course. I’m still anonymously famous at my school, known as “that one nursing student who came to class in labor.”
Silver Fire, that reminds me of my first labor. I was (too) young at the time, 16 years old, and I was taking some final exams at school. I noticed my contractions were coming every six minutes exactly, but I REALLY wanted to finish the test so I wouldn’t have to retake it. After the test, I went to the nurse’s office and she was mad! She couldn’t believe that I’d sit in class, in labor…
AprilR, just wanted to let you know that my sister was at 1 cm for 3 weeks. 
Also as I’m typing this, my baby is kicking my bladder, just to remind me she’s there. (I say she because that’s what I want, but we don’t know for sure.) This will be my last pregnancy and has been very easy so far. I think I deserve it for what I went through with the last one. Having gallbladder surgery at 20 weeks, developing erythema nodosum on my legs and towards the end, one of the most amazing PUPPP rashes my doc had ever seen! This time around, I haven’t even gained any weight yet!
All you nay sayers! We should start a pool. I predict Friday the 10th at 9am
My due date is June 1st, FYI
Ten point five!!!
I’m confused, was he using the royal we? did he have a mouse in his pocket? or does he have that learning disorder where he says we when he means you? 
I’d have told him to find his brain put on his glasses and go check the kitchen and figure it out for himself, and I’m NOT preggers!
Haha. To be fair he does a ton to help maintain the house and take care of the kids. I was just extra cranky because I was in pain.
Haha! <3
I watched a movie on Netflix yesterday called “2012: Ice Age.” My suggestions after that included 10.5; I still love that movie.
Updates please!
My wife is feeling the same way right now. This pregnancy has been MUCH harder on her than our first one. She’s got 5 weeks to go, and her ankles and feet are so swollen that she looks like she’s wearing one of Tom Dempsey’s kicker boots. Her hands are swollen to the point where she can’t bend her fingers and she’s now getting migraines. She’s been heavily tested for preeclampsia, and so far is good in that area, thank goodness, but it doesn’t make the discomfort any less.
On the minor side, my son also seems to really like acrobatics and kicking, and just pummels her from the inside…way worse than my daughter was (who moved and kicked of course, but not with this kind of power and level of activity).
She’s going to start pulling for labor to start as soon as she hits 37 weeks and is officially ‘full term.’
I am dilated about 1cm now since last Friday. I go back for another appt on this Friday to see if anything has changed. I have actually gotten a huge boost of energy last couple days and feel a little bit better, but it could just be the calm before the storm lol
This isn’t her first rodeo so she probably knows this, but–she should ask to have her membranes swept at every appointment starting at 37 weeks. It hurts like hell, but it kickstarted my labor immediately. Actually, the midwife didn’t sweep my membranes, just trying to get her finger through my “fingertip dilated” cervix did it.
You are soooooo freakin’ nesting, hon. Go ahead. Scrub the inside of the refrigerator with a toothbrush. We understand.
Lol.
Your best friend had her babies two weeks apart!? No wonder she didn’t suffer 
Way back when I was preparing for giving birth, we were told that this burst of energy can be an *immediate *precursor to labor, and that we should REST, saving our energy for the work ahead. IANAD, YMMV.
I just bought this. I feel like a diary cow, haha