Hi guys and welcome back... Well we haven't gone into labour yet, however I haven't had the time to film my update from our appointment this Monday. Honestly I don't seem to have the energy at the moment to do a lot at all. But I at least wanted to be able to update you guys on what has happened. Hopefully when he comes I will be filming a Labour and Delivery Story for you all which I will include a brief 40 week appointment update to refresh myself and you guys!! But for now I'll tell you what I can here!!
While writing this update I'm now 40 Weeks and 4 days overdue! Quite uncomfortable now as at our last appointment he was showing as fully engaged! My hips are agony at night time to move over into any other direction and of course my bladder is the size of a ping pong ball.
I'm not someone who likes to be "moany" or anything but I guess this is reality of going overdue with a pregnancy. It's rather new to me even though I have been pregnant before, I never went over with my first son!! It's a little upsetting that my body isn't naturally starting labour at the moment and really frustrating! My hormones are all over the place too ... Up and down constantly!! Think this is the most hormonal I have been throughout my whole pregnancy, more so because I want to meet this little man so bad!!
My appointment went well like I mentioned he is fully engaged, and we had a membrane sweep done on Monday, But I don't think it's done anything at all.
What's a membrane Sweep?? This can also be known as a cervix sweep. offered to women who are overdue to try and induce labour in a more natural method. It involves an internal examination where your midwife or doctor will "sweep" their finger around your cervix. This is to try and separate the membranes from the amniotic sac. Doing this helps the body release a hormone called prostaglandins which may kick start your labour. The experience shouldn't be painful but this can differ from person to person. You can get spotting afterwords.
I didn't find my sweep painful or too uncomfortable really, but everyone is different and have different levels of pain tolerance etc. Some can also be down to how relaxed you are during the procedure. My midwife was lovely and just said if I needed her to stop then just to say!! I unfortunately didn't have a great membrane sweep, Helen the midwife said in terms of sweeps it wasn't great as I haven't lost any of my "mucus plug" yet so it was still at least 2cm thick!! Not what I wanted to hear, but she gave it a good old go!
So now I have got another appointment on Saturday for another sweep and then we have a date for our induction to be on Tuesday the 21st which I'm kind of hoping we wont need as it will mean going to a bigger hospital for consultant based care. Rather than the small cottage hospital I had my first son at which is all midwife led care.
So fingers are crossed he'll start making movements soon. How is your pregnancy going? Have you gone overdue, if so how long did you go over by? Share your story below!
Love Sara xoxo
