40 weeks today, 3 false alarms!

Eeeek 40 weeks today! Happy due date to me!

Akeels birthday came and went on the 14th – no baby! I did get him a couple of PS3 games though so he is content with that for now lol. He has also started his 3 weeks holiday now so its nice to have these last few days or weeks together as a couple before baby comes.

We have had 3 false alarms in the last 3 days. I dont know whether to be more embarassed or frustrated lol!

Just a few hours after my last entry at 39 weeks, I thought my waters had gone. I got up to go to the loo about 10:30 and felt a gush….went back to bed thinking nothing of it but then started getting a constant period type cramp and a slow trickle of fluid, so we got up and I called the midwife. She came and done an assessment, including looking at my cervix, and confirmed it wasnt my waters. No. I had just wee’s myself! Babies head was right low down in my pelvis though so she suspected the pressure when I had gotten up had caused some leakage.

That was tuesday night. Wednesday night I got Akeel up at about 11pm as I was having strong and regular contractions that I had timed to be about 10 minutes apart. We didnt call anyone this time as I decided to get up and move about and see what happened. We sat up for about an hour and they stopped. I went to the loo and had lost a little of the mucus plug though (like bloody gel) and baby was definitely putting a lot of pressure on me down there! She spent the rest of the night doing acrobatics so I didnt sleep much.

Then lastnight, I woke up about mid-night with strong contractions again. I decided to ignore them but after about 40 minutes of regular and strong contractions, and 2 trips to the loo thinking I needed a poo but nothing there, I woke Akeel up. We came down stairs and I walked about a bit, and continued to time them. They went down to about 5 minutes apart pretty quickly and then I had one almighty contraction that knocked me sideways and lasted about 2 minutes, then another one straight after so I said to Akeel he had better call the midwife!

But, as predicted, by the time she arrived they had stopped altogether *rolls eyes*.

She performed an internal exam to see what was going on down there but she couldnt find my cervix as it was still quite high, which probably means I wasn’t dilating. After 2 hours of strong contractions we really thought she was going to be a rare little madam and actually come on her due date lol! She advised that she reckons baby will come in the next day or 2 though, and being our anniversary tomorrow we all think that will be when she makes an appearance.

We got back to bed about 3am and managed to get some sleep with no more distractions. I have had a couple of random contractions this morning, but I am just going to ignore them now and assume they are stronger than usual braxton hicks. So we are going to get me some new leggings today and then do about 10 laps round the block.

Come on baby!!!

I also just realised that this blog was one year old yesterday!! Wow, one whole year. I have to go back and read from the beginning later I think just to remind myself how lucky we are….as if I really need reminding