Due date grumpiness

Just need to get this out!!!

Its my due date today but have never thought that baby would arrive until April so have never really considered today!! Everyone in both mine and my H's family has always gone around 10 days over due so have always been working on baby being late and have been really chilled about it. No-one (excepted hitched) knows my due date so have not been too hassled by other people either and was just plodding on nicely, making plans for the next two weeks and waiting to see when it would happen.

However yesterday I had a midwife appointment and she did a stretch and sweep. When she was doing it she discovered that I was 2cm dilated and so said there was a 70% chance I would go into labour within next 24 hours. This of course got my hopes up and of course nothing has happened except I spent all night awake thinking about it and have worked myself up about the fact that my body is not doing what it should be doing. I now feel tired, grumpy and fed up.

I need a strong kick up the bum to get out of my grump and stressed out state and back into my chilled out/relaxed way of thinking that the baby will come out when its ready and not before. 

Thanks for bearing with me I am not usually grumpy at all and hate feeling like this. 

Oh its hard isnt it, my waters went but no contractions for 12 hours so all day i spent waiting for it to happen - so i know what its like

Could you arrange to do something to pass the time ? if this was my last baby free day i would meet friends for lunch, then take a long bath with a big bag of chocolate.

How exciting though you will be meeting your baby so soon even if it is another couple of days xx

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Like i said we had a nice cream tea at home on my due date. infact the day i went into labour we had been out for a nice pub lunch - either of them options today?!

Right behind you my dear

I'd try and get a nap in just in case and then I agree trying to get some fun/pampering things in might help pass time/cheer you up. That's so hard to have got your hopes up like that and then for nothing to happen. 

x

Oh cream tea sounds fab , i really want one myself now x

It sounds like you won't be waiting much longer even if nothing happens today, so make the most of having time to yourself while you can!

It's a shame the midwife got your hopes up, I was like you and wasn't focusing at all on my due date as I was sure nothing would happen then (I was right, but things got started about an hour into the next day!)

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I was in early labour for a long time until things really ramped up but 2cm gone already sounds really promising!

Hope you are not waiting too long.

M xx

Its your due date so just think your one step closer to meeting baby...

I can completely sympathise as i went 10days over last time and am in desperate need for me not to be still sat here 10days after my due date this time!

Let your grumpy feelings out, make some lovely plans and think it really really wont be long

Lots of baby out vibes coming your way xxx

Fingers crossed that you won't have long to wait now.  The mw saying that would have got my hopes up as well.  Take it easy and do something nice today if you can.

O my lovely have a big hug

How bout going for a long walk, maybe just walking up and down the stairs, bouncing on an exercise ball, im planning on doing all this this afternoon after my sweep. Im just like you, dont want to get my hopes up but I know I will and if nothing happens I will be so dissappointed. Have you got another sweep booked in?

if i was still at my mum and dad's i'd come over and meet you for lunch or something.  However I'm not but i'd organise to go out and do something and invoke the law of sod.

Ah I know how you are feeling, the same happened to me when I had a sweep, the Midwife said that I was about 2cm and that I would probably have the baby over the weekend (sweep was on the Friday when I was a week overdue), I got really excited, got everything prepared and..........nothing happened, after 3 sweeps she said the same thing, cervix soft, head low down, 2cm dilated, baby would come soom blah blah blah.  I didn't have him until the following Thursday.

Sorry if you didn't want to hear that but lots of baby out vibes coming your way, hope it happens soon

I'm sorry to hear this. I know exactly how you feel. I had a sweep at 39+3 and was told I was 2-3 cms and wouldn't make it to my due date. At 40+14 I was still 2-3 cms and induced! I hope it ends differently for you. Take care. IfI wasn't away on holiday next week we could have met up and that might have worked to evoke the law of sod. 

Thanks so much everyone for your replies - after posting this I went back to bed, cried myself to sleep and have just woken up feeling a lot more cheerful!!

I am going to try and drag H out for a walk later and then make lots of plans for the next few days so I am not stuck at home being annoyed and grumpy. I know this baby will come when its ready and I have never been that bothered about when that is so am going back to expecting it to arrive at Easter and see what happens in between!!