Still No Signs!
I guess my full moon prediction was wrong after all! And hbacmama has given me her guess of tomorrow - I hope you’re right hun! How perfect would that be haha!
So it’s now Monday the 21st, I’m 4 days ‘overdue’ apparently. I’m now betting that Indi won’t want to make an appearance until his daddy has to go back to work on the 30th - I’ll be 42 weeks the day after that!
I’ve tried a couple of things to naturally induce but nothing has worked. Went for a walk earlier and I felt so heavy, it was hard to walk back up the hill to our front door!! Still taking raspberry leaf tablets, the equivalent of 100 cups a day 
My uterus will be able to compete in World’s Strongest soon!
So we’ve got the consultant appointment in 14 and a half hours. Jeff was all ready for induction, I can see his point - he’ll have more bonding time with his son and he’s worried that Indi is going to keep growing and get too big. I’ve told him that nothing will be done until I’m at least 14 days over. He’s accepted it thankfully. I’m hoping he realises that it’s my body on the line, my body that’ll be pumped full of nasty drugs and I’m pretty sure Indi is quite happy staying in there for a few more days!
With any luck he’ll decide to join us before then. So we’ve got another date to keep in mind - May 1st!
Indigo is officially going to be a Taurus child now, he’s missed out being a Pisces like his daddy and an Aries like me. I’ve never known a Taurus so it should be interesting!
So yeah, no signs of anything happening soon. Braxton Hicks are a little stronger and my lower belly feels more painful at times but that’s it.
We’re getting well and truly fed up of people saying:
“Won’t be long now”
“He’ll come when he’s ready” and
“Any signs yet?”
I honestly think I’ll scream if anyone says these phrases to us again! I mean, people have been calling/asking my mother & mother-in-law to find out if I’ve had the baby yet! “Oh yes, she had the baby… we just decided to not tell anyone.” Duh! I doubt I even know half the people who are asking!
If anyone has any good ideas about natural induction I’d love to know. So far I’ve tried walking, bouncing on my birth ball, taking hot baths, getting intimate 
and using a clary sage oil mix on my bump. And the other ones I know of but don’t want to attempt are castor oil/hot curry, eating up to 7 fresh pineapples and a membrane sweep. It’s really hard just sitting around watching the clock, wishing each day away. I don’t feel too bad today but the past couple of days it was really getting me down, which is stupid because I’m barely overdue, if at all! I know myself that due day could be anytime between 38 and 42 weeks! So why am I getting all depressed about it?
… Could it be something to do with the daily “any signs yet?” questions? Hmmm…
Anyway, enough of that. I’ll be back tomorrow after seeing Ms Goddard the consultant!
(Just wanted to add, I had a really cool dream last night… I was sat by a lake for some reason and was joined by a beautiful, tall African woman who was in labour. She sat down next to me and asked for my help, we had a look and the head was already crowning! I caught her baby and handed ‘it’ to her. Then I woke up. It was a very peaceful dream, if a bit too short.)
Pregnancy Dreams Are Wierd!
There must be something going on in my subconscious!
I had a dream about the birth last night. Jeff was in work and I had the midwife coming over for a routine visit. After chatting about what I wanted for the birth I asked her to see what position baby was in and if she could tell what bits were what. So I lay on our bed and she felt my belly, she told me to look down and I’d see the baby’s outline - I could see scales and some strange triangular shapes. Somehow it went from routine visit to me going into labour. I didn’t have time to call Jeff and gave birth to a dinosaur… a tyrannosaurus to be precise - baby sized (as if that makes a difference!). I can just about remember the midwife flapping around in excitement (?!) and me trying to call Jeff and take photo’s of our new ‘baby’. After a while the baby dino turned into an almost exact replica of Willow, one of our cats (don’t ask me how that happened!). The rest of the dream is hazy from there on except the Willow-copy had kittens herself…
Very, very strange!
