Preggo question: Tips for getting things moving?

• Chuffy Posted : 4/19/2007 1:44:35 PM I've been down a waterslide a few times today, but avoided the diving boards..... maybe I'll jump off the top one tomorrow!     My suggestions were walking, and getting your membranes stripped, if I recall.   Is that the same as a sweep?  If not what does that involve? [&:] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• g33 Posted : 4/19/2007 1:46:59 PM ORIGINAL: Chuffy I've been down a waterslide a few times today, but avoided the diving boards..... maybe I'll jump off the top one tomorrow!   My suggestions were walking, and getting your membranes stripped, if I recall. Is that the same as a sweep?  If not what does that involve? [&:]   I think she means getting the doctor to break your water for you?  It involves them sticking a long metal object up into your hoo-hah, if I recall from reading Girlfriend's Guide.  NO THANKS!  0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• g33 Posted : 4/19/2007 1:50:24 PM I did read somewhere that semen has something in it like pitocin that is supposed to spur the cervix to dilate - and that's why they say NO SEX in the month or so leading up to delivery.  I'd say continue having FUN!  0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Cheryl Posted : 4/19/2007 1:52:19 PM s that the same as a sweep? If not what does that involve? Yes, from the couple of places I looked it sounds like the same thing to me.  0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• jenhuedepohl Posted : 4/19/2007 2:08:05 PM Tried it all with both my boys when they overstayed their 9 month lease and had to be evicted. One was 7 days overdue, the other ten - and both were 9 pounders so they'd cooked long enough. We did all the home cures, and the doc stripped my membranes. Even having my water break didn't help. It broke at home for my first, and they broke it at the hospital with my second. The only thing that worked with either of them was good old pitocin. But that worked like a charm. 2 minute contractions right off the bat and they were both out in 6 & 4 hours respectively. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Xeph Posted : 4/19/2007 2:14:53 PM This just made me crack up this morning...especially after going to class last night and hearing DH say, "wow, they are really messy when they come out!"   10-Q! 10-Q!  I'll be here all week!  Put the tips in the Piano Man's jar xD 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• houndlove Posted : 4/19/2007 2:20:36 PM ORIGINAL: Bullymom That's true but it sure beats pooping on the table during delivery! I did that[] Very embarassing! I was in pain and didn't care at the time but my hubby will never let me forget it! And I'm trying to get pregnant right now why again? [sm=eek.gif] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Harleygirl Posted : 4/19/2007 2:26:35 PM [ That's true but it sure beats pooping on the table during delivery!  I did that[] Very embarassing!  I was in pain and didn't care at the time but my hubby will never let me forget it!   Actually that is pretty common.  My friend is a labor and delivery nurse and she says it happens all the time.  0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Cheryl Posted : 4/19/2007 2:34:44 PM When my water broke with my first it was truly gross, then I had to suffer through two rounds of pitocin and no progress. No epidural because it was New Year's Eve and the one anaesthesiologist on duty was in an emergency hystectomy.  After 36 hours a c-section was decided on.  At that point, you really don't care who sees what...whatever happens, happens...just GET THAT KID OUT!  After that, you will never be worried about what your doctor sees again....[] But it is true what they say...you forget all the pain after you see your beautiful baby.  Or in the worst case scenario, a good six months later... 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Bullymom Posted : 4/19/2007 3:14:10 PM I still remember my labor quite well and it has been over 3 years!  They started inducing on Wed. night and no matter what they tried, Maddy refused to join the world!  I was on pitocin all day Thursday and  part of the day Friday I only got to 1/2 a cm.  The doc finally ordered a spinal block on Friday evening.  I couldn't feel anything from my tummy down!  He then took a little Pitch-fork looking thing and had to rip through my cervix.  After about an hour my meds wore off and he said that it was time to push.  After about an hour of pushing, out she came.  7lbs13ozs and 19 3/4 inches.  She wasn't crying or anything.  She just kept looking around like where am I.  She never did start crying until they went to get her feet prints.  She screamed then! 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Cheryl Posted : 4/19/2007 3:18:47 PM Hey, mine's a Maddie too!!!  Maybe it has something to do with the name?  Is yours still giving you pains?  Mine is.....[sm=lol.gif] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Chuffy Posted : 4/19/2007 3:22:20 PM Er, this was meant to be a starting labour thread, not a Horror Story thread!!  Although I suppose the horror stories make you less keen to get on with it and just glad it hasn't started yet! I heard that semen has some hormone in it which is the same as the one they inject into your cervix to soften it and induce you.... but it's nowhere NEAR as concentrate and you have to Do It LOADS for it to make a difference.  Sounds like having membranes stripped is just having your waters broken which will definately start labour, but they won't do that for me yet anyway, I'm not overdue enough.  And I'd rather it start fairly naturally anyway..... So much for being born on Granddads birthday (today) not a hope of that now.... just want to get started now, horror stories bedamned, the suspense is driving me nuts....   Edit:  Time for another hot bath methinks! 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Cheryl Posted : 4/19/2007 3:36:21 PM I'm sorry....the last thing we should be doing is telling our horror stories...please forgive me, I didn't mean to get you thinking about all this yucky stuff.   Hey, maybe we will scare this kiddo out of you?[8D] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Bullymom Posted : 4/19/2007 3:43:57 PM Sorry!  Didn't mean to frighten you!  I'll tell you one thing that I did figure out.  The pain is not more than you can take.  What really helped me during the pushing was that my hubby made me mad.  I was ready to go after him and I tried my best to knock his head off.  But after I was all fired up, only 2 more pushes! Pollypuzu~  Maddy's real name is Madison we started calling her Mad Maddy when she was just a baby.  Even then she had a monster temper!  She is a pain in my rump but I love her to death!! 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Chuffy Posted : 4/19/2007 7:17:17 PM It's weird, I feel like I should be scared and dreading it but I'm not, despite the horror stories!  Objectively I know its going to be yukky and painful and hard work - I have no romantic ideas about how miraculaous and wondewrful it will be, put it that way.  But I still don't mind the idea of labour, contractions and Birth....  lamb to the slaughter, that's me![] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login