Needing Encouragement

[slmcgaughey]

I am due tomorrow and I am so done.  I am dilated to 3 and 80 percent as of Tues.  My doctor stripped my membranes on Tues and still nothing.  The thing is that it feels like my entire pelvis is coming apart. I have severe pain in my back and front and both hips with a lot of pelvic pressure. It just hurts to do anything, sit, stand, lay down, and walking is almost impossible.  We were walking around Walmart yesterday trying to get something going and I nearly hit the floor three times just from sudden searing pain in the front of my pelvis.  I am so ready to be done.  My oldest son is leaving for the Army tomorrow and I don't want him to miss his little brothers birth and my second son is graduating next Friday and they are having the graduation outside on the football field.  I can't imagine sitting in the bleachers still pregnant, let alone facing my ex-in-laws looking like a whale and waddling like The Penguin from Batman.   I went in to OB last night just because I was in so much pain.  They monitored me for a couple hours and sent me home, telling me I was a little dehydrated and to drink a lot more water.  When I got home I was so frustrated, I cried for like an hour.  I just want to all of this to be done and over already.

[AnnieBrooke]

OK, not an option, then.  

[slmcgaughey]

Missing the graduation is not an option. It is my son who is graduating, then he is going in to the Air Force.  The only reason I would miss that would be if I was in the hospital in active labor.

[AnnieBrooke]

Well, good luck, it doesn't sound like your son will be there for his brother's birth, but you might have a good excuse to miss the graduation (i.e., you'll be in the hospital).

Is there nothing to do for pain at all?  A home remedy like a bath (not too hot)?

My doctor told me when I was 39 1/2 weeks "There is nothing we can do to make you comfortable at this point, all we can do is make you less uncomfortable."

Frankly, I'd give the graduation a pass even if you aren't in labor.  I went to a New Year's party three days before I was in labor, and all the pictures of me have me looking like a huge balloon.

[KarenDiane]

I'm sorry you are so uncomfortable. There really isn't anything you can do except try to convince your Dr that you need this baby out! My son was 10 days late but I wasn't dialating or effaced. I kept telling them he was too big but they wouldn't listen. When I finally convinced them to induce me, he was 10lbs 3oz. Healthy as a horse though. Good Luck. I hope you can find a comfortable position.