2 days to go

[spanner7853]

I have 2 days to go until I am due. No signs at all that it will be here before flippin Christmas. Not even dropped yet. Tried the curry and other stuff but nothing working I am in agony and all I can do is sit here all day watching rubbish day time telly. Any ideas. Don't mention S*x as I have SPD and can just about lift my legs on to the bed without feeling like i'm going to split in half. :(

Desperate to deliver !!!!!!!!

[redcrx]

ok, no sex, no trampolining, no long walks and no walking up and down flights of stairs.

Can you get on all fours? or sit astride a dining chair facing back?

how about nipple tweaking and raspberry leaf tea?

[warpig3]

Whats SPD?

[spanner7853]

haha hi Redcrx no I can straddle anything or get on all fours. How I'm even going to get this baby out is beyond me unfortunately. Tried the old nips and raspbery leaf tea and guess what ..... NOTHING!!!!

Warpig - SPD is symphisis Pubis Disfunction- hell in your pelvis. Basically your ligaments loosen up too much which results in your pubic bone seperating and clicking. Sheer hell, wouldn't wish it on anyone. I am not on crutches like some people but as red says I cant do long walks, stairs and the normal stuff that might start me off.

[Pippa68]

Fresh pineapple (not tinned) is apparently a good one.

If you like pineapple, that is!

[warpig3]

Dear God, that sounds awful! Hope I don't get it. Hope something happens for you soon.

[redcrx]

dont tell my fella this, no matter how desperate i get near the end but apprently the hormone in semen is better taken orally then applied to cervix.

nipple tweaking takes age but ive known it work for some as it gets the uterus contracting, not sure but perhaps orgasm will do same. How about getting that without the sex?

[redcrx]

pippa, i think i read somewhere that itll take 7 pineapples to get enough active ingredient lol

I loved fresh pineapple when i was pregnant last time

[Pippa68]

How on earth is it better orally, red?

LOL...it wil go into your stomach, nowhere near the place it is supposed to be (the cervix). I bet a man came up with that one...heh heh.

I agree with the orgasm one..it can get things moving, but only if bubba is ready ~ however this probably applies to all methods :o)

[Pippa68]

Well I suggested the pineapple to a bloke who came into the shop I was working in ~ he was just as fed up as his missus!

He came into the shop two days later with a box of choccies for me as the pineapple had worked. Not sure how much she had eaten, mind ;o)

I have never tried it. Sex worked for me ~ and I went into labour a month early...twice!

[redcrx]

"It is thought that prostaglandins are absorbed more efficiently through the gut than through the vagina."

taken from http://www.babycentre.co.uk/pregnancy/labouran dbirth/planningyourbabysbirth/naturalbringonla bour/

[redcrx]

i tried loads of stuff, apart from oral sex, and i went 17 days over.

This time Im considering everything if needs be lol

[Pippa68]

Flippin 'eck..you learn something new every day, don't you?

Thank goodness my child bearing days are over!

[spanner7853]

orgasms a plenty :) but srtill not shifting. I love pineapple and been eating it til it comes out of my ears lately. It is true you do need a lot of it but still not working. As for the semen I think I would just vomit but thanks all the same. I might have to invest in a chicken baster and try the semen that way. haha

[Pippa68]

Oh yes..do it all, red.

No harm in trying (apart from castor oil..apparently that can do more harm than good) and at least you will have fun at the same time.

Especially if you do it all at once ;o)

[redcrx]

if baby not in right position nothing will get moving, that was my problem.

[Pippa68]

Very true.

I still think that these methods will only work if the baby is totally ready anyway.

Nothing at all worked with my first two ~ and I tried the lot.

[spanner7853]

red if I go 17 days over I will be jumping off beachy head. I cant stand it now and I'm not quite due yet. Got midwfie on Thursday and if she doesn't do something to start it off Im going to camp outside her house. Unfortunately because I want it at home I can't be induced. Unless I have to be for whatever reason. I am going to give myself until the weekend coz the pain is unbearable and ask to be induced anyway. I just want to see the little person now.

[redcrx]

pmsl, can you imagine all at once.

on all fours, having sex, giving oral, tweaking nipples, eating a pineapple curry washed down with castor oil, on a trampoline, having your feet massaged.

video it, if it doesnt work, watching the vid will bring on labour!

[redcrx]

ask if she can do a sweep, that wont be classed as induction like breaking waters are.

[spanner7853]

baby has been head down since about 32 weeks so in right position just flippin lazy or too comfortable to move. I looked on that link. I have laughed to the point of wetting myself which I thought would be the same as crying... but nothing. I might try the nipple thing again even though I hate them being touched. or buying the supermarket out of pineapples. Thanks for all the advice though. Will probably be back here in a week with still no news. :(