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Is your BP ok? High blood pressure can be caused by having panic attacks and can also cause itching. Maybe when you have one of your episodes run over to your drug mart and take your bp unless you have a monitor at home. Just a thought, im no doctor but sounds like something they need to look into. Good Luck.

My bp had been good, but I noticed this morning that I am extremely swollen. I feel extremely depressed. My due date is tomorrow, and I guess the anticipation of labor, and not being dialated yet. The doctor said on Monday that I had almost no cervic left, but my baby's head had not fully engaged. So until that happens, I will not dialate, and we cannot even talk about inducing.

Hey Quincy, If your really really overly swollen i would call your doctor, and see what she says. Im in the same boat as you as far as the dialation is concerned. Im 38 weeks today and have been feeling awful, Im fully effaced but havent dialated yet. my doctor wanted to strip the membranes yesterday but couldnt because i wasnt dialated at all, and the baby's head is engaged but like you she can still "float away". I ahve been really crampy these last couple weeks so i thought for sure that i was dialating at least a little but guess not. Its frustrating. Good Luck....keep us posted.

thanks for your answer. I get to see the doctor first thing in the morning. I will definitely tell him about the swelling. It has gone down a little, but it is so hard to keep my feet elevated at work. I plan to do some walking tonight. I feel your pain. I just started having panic attacks, which are not fun. I just hope that I go to the doctor tomorrow and he will tell me that I at least dialated a little. I am so ready for her to come. The most depressing thing is that if she does not drop all of the way, because she floats like yours does, then he cannot do anything, as far as inducing.

Just so you guys feel better, I was 0% effaced and 0cm dialated at 39 weeks. My dr was going to strip my membrane, but couldnt becauseI wasnt dialated at all. Well next day I as in labour and baby was born. It can happen fast! Hang in there, and I agree, if your really swollen, make a sooner dr appointment. Better safe than sorry.

I had my dr appt today and he said that I was almost 1 cm dialated!! YEAH!!! But I am sure that it can still be a while before I go into labor. I walked 2 miles last night on the tread mill at the gym, maybe that had some effect on things. Either way, I am going to do that again.

Thanks for the update quincy although you made me really jealous LOL jk. Im trying lots of self inductions methods now, im too afraid to try the castor oil thing so im not going to, but im doing everything from s_x to evening primrose oil and this weekend im going to get some rasberry leaf tea........so im hoping that this will help. Chinese food didnt, neither did the spicy mexican food, they both tasted really good but thats about it. I guess shell come when she wants to, but hey she is already playing games with momma. LOL . Keep me posted, and i will too. I have my next docs appointment on Tuesday and if ive dialated she is going to strip the membranes.......apparently im having a really big baby so we want to help her out as much as we can. Good Luck!

I understand about being ready. I tried the castor oil 3 times in a row, within one week. My dr said that his wife tried it, and recommends it. He said that 2 of 3 tries it worked for her. I don't recommend it, I can't look at orange juice the same. Just the thought of it makes me want to gag right now. I did feel better once it went through my system. I have been drinking raspberry tea for a week now. I also heard about eggplant too. I tried it, but I like to eat it anyway. Last night I worked out at the gym, I was determined to have some kind of dialation for my appt today. I did 1.5 miles (17 minutes) on the eliptical, and 1 mile on the treadmill, and I tried the stair climber, but I only lasted 3 minutes on that, and I also tried s_x last night. Who knows if any of that worked, but I felt better after my workout at the gym. I plan to do it again tonight!!! Hopefully, maybe I will go into labor this weekend. After s_x last night (not to get too detailed, but yall should know) I thought my water broke. I had a huge gush, I mean gush of liquid come down my legs, right after wards, I ran to the bathroom, and before I was able to make it there, it was to my knees. But it stopped and labor and delivery said that it must have been other things releasing. My dr said it could have been a number of things, and it could have been a small amount of water breaking, but there was no way of knowing with out testing it. I plan to do that again tonight. What can it hurt. I told my husband to be a little more forceful. wISH ME LUCK!!!!

Quincy - Uh this may be TMI but if your water has broken even a little bit then your hubby probably shouldnt go inside you. It could cause infection. If your still "leaking" you should go see your doc and have her take a swab to see if theres any amnio fluid in there. I doubt it, but if the nurse suspects that maybe you could then dont do it.....Good luck and i didnt mean to scare you if i did.

I found out from the doctor that my water did not break. He said that it is either fluid that I have had, or the baby put pressure on my bladder. I got prescribed a muscle relaxer to take at night to help me sleep. It definitely helps. However, I am miserable. I am now 40 weeks and 3 days. I really did not want to have my little one on Halloween, but at this point I am so ready. Sunday night I lost my mucus plug. Since then I have lost little pieces of it. I thought again that my water broke at 2 am in the morning Monday, no such luck. My husband and I drove to the hospital, only to discover how to locate L&D. I thought since I did not get much sleep on Monday, and I was really tired last night that I should sleep really well. I did not take the medicine, thinking I could sleep on my own. No such luck. I fell to sleep right a way, and then at 12 am I was up. At that point I did not want to take the medicine, because I knew that I would not get enough sleep before going to work. After tossing and turning all night, into the morning, at 2 am, I decided to get up and get my grocery list together. I cleaned the kitchen, (just loaded the dishwasher) and got coffee ready for the morning, and went through all of my cabinets to see what I needed at the grocery store. I went through my cookbooks to get easy meals to make for my husband, or for him to make for me. I thought that I would be soooo tired coming to work this morning. But it has been a lot of fun. Some of us dressed up for the occa__sion. I came in my overalls, which are rolled up, my hair in pig-tails, fake freckles, blush and sandles. I forgot my straw cowboy hat at home. But, is anyone else experiencing this? I feel like she is never going to be born. I have been having menstral cramps, everyone keeps telling me that it is the start of contractions. I can sometimes time then, and then sometimes I don't think that I pay attention enough to them to write the time down. This morning I thought that I was going to have a nervious breakdown, in the mist of cleaning the kitchen, I laid down back in bed with my husband, thinking, maybe I could fall asleep, and I immediately I wanted to cry my eyes out. I felt like my little girl is never going to get here. Also, the doctor at Labor and Delivery, told me that I was only dialated 1 cm, and that I still had about 2 cm left of my cervix. Although my doctor on the Friday before said that I had only a finger tip left of my cervix, and I was dialated almost a cm. Who do I believe? It is so frustrating. The doctor at labor and delivery also told me that 2 women there were being induced, and their waters broke, but they had not started contractions, however I have a feeling that my doctor will wait until the very last minute.

Walking will only get you tired and increase the pain of contractions. And you will want your energy. Try s_x, like I said before his stuff will help thin the cervix. PS: I wish my doc would give me something to help me sleep! I have only been getting 3-4 hours / night if that.