Due Sept/Oct/Nov 2016

So...I reupholstered the dining room chairs, I am just about done with the nursery minus washing and putting away clothes, husband finished the office desk and this weekend I plan on meal prepping and installing the car seat and packing our hospital bag. Work is of course picking up and I couldn't be happier about any of it only I suddenly feel like crap!I would say in the last week or so I just feel different and extremely uncomfortable. Two nights ago I woke up with contractions that wouldn't let up for an hour mixed with the most awful menstrual like cramps. I never felt like this so I'm wondering if we'll go early? Anyone have any input?

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So...I reupholstered the dining room chairs, I am just about done with the nursery minus washing and putting away clothes, husband finished the office desk and this weekend I plan on meal prepping and installing the car seat and packing our hospital bag. Work is of course picking up and I couldn't be happier about any of it only I suddenly feel like crap!I would say in the last week or so I just feel different and extremely uncomfortable. Two nights ago I woke up with contractions that wouldn't let up for an hour mixed with the most awful menstrual like cramps. I never felt like this so I'm wondering if we'll go early? Anyone have any input?

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A couple nights ago I had some pretty regular contractions also but they fizzled after an hour or so and nothing since :/

I am swelling EVERYWHERE. Horribly, painfully swollen. BUT I still have to get stuff done so I power through. So hard to do when my legs feel like they are going to burst with every step but it is what it is. The swelling isn't going anywhere and niether are the tasks that need done. Part of me hopes that the specialist will want to bump up d-day when he sees how bad the swelling is tomorrow. The absolute earliest it would happen is next Monday (since I won't see my reg OB till Friday) and I will be 37+1 then so.... I really, really hope he wants to bump it up.

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Two, I had really bad swelling the last two days too..just on my feet a ton which I'm sure that's why but it is a terribly uncomfortable feeling. Today my back is killing me..

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Two, I had really bad swelling the last two days too..just on my feet a ton which I'm sure that's why but it is a terribly uncomfortable feeling. Today my back is killing me..

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I feel your pain. ((((Hugs))))

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Nursery - all done..or very close to it!

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Very pretty. Baby J is sleeping in our room so our nursery is more of a big closet with storage lol. All her clothes are hanging up or in dressers in there along with her swing and other gear.

Had my specialist appt yesterday. Still so incredibly swollen (very painful) and my BP is creeping up but not in PE range yet with no protien in my urine. Appearantly, I have an amnio leak and my fluids have dropped rapidly and into normal range (from 29.94 last time to either 18 or 22 this time as she measured twice). I knew something was different and had even told my best friend on the way there that I thought my fluid levels would be lower because my stomach feels different and I can feel her so much easier. She is still breech, not that it matters since I will have a c/s either way. I have reached the point that I am just ready to have her. They won't take her yet but I am very ready for her as soon as she is ready and willing. I am willing time to hurry up till the 29th (scheduled c/s day). Still have 15 days though and with the pain from swelling it feels like an eternity away :(

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Two, baby will sleep in a co-sleeper in our room for awhile but I still have to have the nursery done-- I like things just right. Lol. It sounds like you have a ton going on physically and normally I wouldn't be for evicting the baby early but it almost sounds like she's better off in your arms at this point. Keep us posted and hope you feel well enough to get some things done!

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Two, baby will sleep in a co-sleeper in our room for awhile but I still have to have the nursery done-- I like things just right. Lol. It sounds like you have a ton going on physically and normally I wouldn't be for evicting the baby early but it almost sounds like she's better off in your arms at this point. Keep us posted and hope you feel well enough to get some things done!

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Honestly, I am not big on early eviction either (except that they always schedule my c/s b4 40 weeks) but I was uncomfortable in previous pregnancies but never true pain. By the end of the day my legs and ankles are so big that my ankle is wider than the widest part of my feet. I have excess skin from losing a ton of weight and the skin on my belly is swollen to 4+ times it's normal size, weighs about 10 pounds all by itself, and is painfully tender. My lady bits are so swollen that DH and I couldn't do anything if we wanted to... etc. Basically from the belly button down I am swollen plus my face is getting puffier too. All that mixed with a climbing BP and an amnio leak and I am just ready to have her here where I know she is safe in my arms and just be done with all this pregnancy crap. I will be term in 4 days too so it's not as if she would be in any danger of prematurity issues at that point. I'm just ready. The thought of being cut open is always a painful prospect but compared to what I am dealing with now it doesn't seem all that bad. It seems like welcome relief. Esp since I can take pain meds to manage THAT pain and I can't do or take anything right now that helps. Heat and cold don't touch it, tylenol might as well be tic-tacs... I wish there was something but nothing works. My specialist's office says to elevate my legs at least 20 mins a day. Last night my legs were propped on pillows for more than 2 hours with absolutely zero change in swelling or pain levels. Even after being off them all night they are still uncomfortably swollen this am and as soon as I get out of bed to get to work on the house they will begin swelling back up. It's all up to her and my doc though. Lord knows I can't do anything to get her here unless she is ready or unless the doc decides to take her.

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Ugh two elevating my feet rarely works either except at least they're better when I wake up in the morning. I agree, I think at this point you two would be much better off together with her outside the womb. Would your doctor move things up since you are term at this point?