Contraction, no contraction

I am currently 8 days overdue and until this evening I’ve felt nothing. Not a single twinge.

I caved in and had sex with OH this evening. I’ve felt so fat and huge and definitely not sexy that sex was the last thing on my mind. We decided to go for a stroll to Tesco after, I kept having pains in my back on the way there and back. It was like a burning/period pain sensation.

I’m not sure if what I felt is actual contractions or just pains because my body is going through the mill at the moment. My theory on it though is that I’m going to know when I’m in true labour, enough for me to get to the hospital in time. Even if what I felt was contractions what is the point on dwelling on it, winding myself up further if it is nothing.

It’s hard to get excited by every pain and twinge when your 8 days overdue and it is your first baby. No amount of articles or pregnancy books can prepare you for what labour feels like. It’s often described as an intense period pain, but I am sure I will never be prepared for the pain to come.

Oh well, women were chosen for a reason to be the ones to carry a child for 9 months and then give birth. Our bodies were made for this and I intend on letting nature take its course no matter how much it’s going to hurt.

I shall keep you all updated.

Love to you all

Mummy Bee
Xx

Thought for the day

Lovely blossoms open when they’re ready. Attending births is like growing roses. You have to marvel at the ones that
just open up and bloom at the first kiss of the sun, but you wouldn’t dream
of pulling open the petals of the tightly closed buds, and forcing them to
blossom to your time line. -Gloria Lemay

The end of pregnancy is just a waiting game. And I am happy to wait as long as it takes for my bumble bee to come when she’s ready.

Love to you all

Mummy Bee
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Yes, I am STILL pregnant

“Has she not made her appearance yet?”
“I bet your fed up”
“Your so big”
“Any news”
“Felt any twinges?”

No.
No.
No.
No.
No!

Yes, I am still pregnant. Of course she hasn’t made an appearance yet. Of course I’m fed up that I haven’t gone into labor yet. Thanks, I’ve always wanted to look really big and people feeling the need to tell me. No news, do you think I’d be standing here talking to you still pregnant if there was? TWINGES?! If you call severe SPD which cripples me in my sleep making it impossible to get out of bed for a wee then yes. But labor pains? Again, I wouldn’t be standing here fake smiling through your persistent, repetitive and predictable questions.

Why is it that a stranger in the street asking you these types of questions then feels the need or thinks they possess the right to grope your belly pushing and prodding followed by their opinion on weight, gender and birth date?! It drives me insane! Everyone who has ever had a baby (even if it was over 50 years ago) thinks they are an expert on pregnancy and labor.
I am slightly upset and emotional at the moment. Every woman surely is once their due date comes and goes. But I’m perfectly happy to carry on my everyday business waiting until my baby wants to arrive.

What I can’t stand is the world and its wife telling me what I should do to make her come. I’ve tried all the common ones to ‘home induce’, which might I add is a load of bollocks. Ladies out there don’t put yourself through it all. It just made me exhausted, deflated and hurt! Sex for me is uncomfortable at the moment, walking makes my SPD flare up and raspberry leaf tea makes me gag. Why do us women feel the need to be put under pressure by society to get YOUR OWN baby out by everyone else’s schedule.

I know it will only be a maximum of 1 and a half weeks before I am induced and that is not long so in the mean time I’m going to chill out, shut the curtains, turn the phone off and wait for my little bumble bee to come.

Sorry for the rant! Hormones must be everywhere….

Love to you all
Mummy Bee