Help! 39 weeks pregnant and I have some questions.....?

well i should tell u that i am also 39 weeks and 3 days pregnant and there is no sign of baby coming anytime soon. this is my second and my first was a normal delivery with me going into labour on his due date on my own. i have lost hope that this one will come on its own so i am seeing my doctor on friday and most probably get an induction date. not very exciting but i feel like i am going to explode now. the due date is just a predictor of when u might have it. its not always accurate. best of luck

I had a pretty big discrepancy between my LMP due date and my U/S due date. The due date was figured at 8 weeks, which is considered very accurate. We have been using that due throughout this pregnancy. (Ironically, the U/S at 20 weeks was exactly the same as my LMP date... but sadly that date has passed and I am still prego!)

With my first, I never lost my mucus plug. Or I never realized that I lost my mucus plug. So you may not witness that splendid event. I have been having the same issues as you for the last three weeks. False labor, prodromal labor, lots of BH contractions and yet I have not started labor yet at 41 weeks. I am sure there are lots of women who have the exact same symptoms and go into labor within a few days.

The best judge, is your doctor. When I started having these issues, he told me that he still thought we were a ways away. Despite the fact that I didn't want to hear that, he has been right on!

If you are having contractions and false labor, I would think that you are closer to your LMP date. Considering you had a C-section the first time, are you going to have a C-section this time? That should make it a little bit easier for determining your leave. My doctor claimed that U/S after 12 weeks are not as accurate as LMP.

Good Luck!

The second one is more accurate, b/c it gets sent to someone who specializes in that kind of thing. It's frustrating i know, but they changed my due date three times! and the third one ended up being the closest. Each baby comes at their own time, and you are more likely to carry the second child longer than the first. I assume you are going to the doctor once a week? How dilated are you? All i can tell you is that when it is time you WILL know...sometimes you won't notice the plug falling out, sometimes you will. With my second my water broke in my sleep, and the next morning i had to be induced. There were never any contractions beyond braxton hicks every once in a while for the last month. Good luck! i know you are probably ready lol.

If you want the baby to come have sex and then go on a walk. With my first baby I started going into labor at 36 weeks because of a hurricanene sthat'sts what the doc told me to do. what ever is in the *** is what the use tsoftenen the cervix to start labor, so go have some fun and have your bundle of joy good luck.

i just had my second, and i too had all the questions you have. i never saw a mucous plug this time around, and go with the first due date they gave you . its easier to know when their smaller. mine was 3days before the first due date they gave me. and i thought i was going to go past my due date because i didnt have no contractions or mucous plug coming or nothing. the only sign i had was a little blood 2 hrs before baby arrived . thats why i headed to the hosp and on the way i started to have bad contractions. just walk alot. i started to walk only 2 wks before. good luck

It doesnt matter if it is march 13 or march 20. You should of been out since the moment you turned 9 months you get a full month or 2months out of work because you have to get lots of rest for labor. Get lots of rest and stop stressing everything is going to be fine all you have to do is ask for those 2months or a month. If the baby is due in the 13 they will make away to make him/her come out. either way you have to have your rest...