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@travelingbrit: They just got it at my dr's office. Does your dr know that the CDC recommendation changed? It literally just changed to "recommending while pregnant" in the very end of October...My dr wasnt even aware until I told her it was on the CDC website and she looked it up. But I'm pretty sure both Walgreens & CVS clinics have the Tdap...That's where my dr was going to send me if they didn't have it, but they ended up having just received it.

So.....it looks like I'm not a December mama after all. Liam and Ethan were born by emergency c-section on November 7th. I ended up having HELLP and they needed to get the babies out as my body wasn't happy with them in there!

Everyone is doing well- I got home from the hospital a couple days ago and the babies are still in the NICU, but they seem to be doing ok!

I will post my birth story a little later, but for now here are a couple pictures....

@littlehunny: congratulations on your cute perfect little babies!!!!! So happy for you and hoping you are getting settled in well and recovering nicely.

@littlehunny: Congrats! They are precious and look like they are doing so well!

@littlehunny: Oh my gosh they are so beautiful! Congrats, Mama!!! Times TWO!

I am starting Evening Primrose Oil today after reading about some success with it on here.... My dr said that sex, ie sperm, is the only thing that's been medically proven to help get things moving. I'm going to do both because even though I'm scheduled for an induction on Dec 2nd, I'd LOVE to go before that and avoid the induction, or at the very least- have my body as ready as I can so that hopefully the pitocin and my body can work together!

I made a joke on the Bump Love thread that DH and I are going to have to start having more sex (as difficult and awkward as it is, and we end up busting out laughing a lot when my belly gets in the way!), so it's going to be Penis vs. Pitocin, And after I added EPO to the mix, it's Penis and Primrose vs. Pitocin:)

I just wanted to share that my mom, after this past week's Super Drama with the vaccine issue, has called me a couple of times after several days had passed. And we have not mentioned it, but I know she knows how upset I was. My brother had called me after the whole debacle went down, and I ended up crying my face off to him and I'm sure he relayed that. Anyway, still no word from my sister, and still not ready to call her myself, but I got a package today of clothes and things for Harper from my mom. She had a card inside that basically was a super sweet apology, and she said she wished that she could take back everything and could have just been more open to the whole thing, and she knows that my request came from a place of me loving my daughter so much, and she knows what it's like to love your daughter more than anything:) Obviously, I sat on the floor going through the box and just cried my face off.

I am about to call her, as soon as I pull myself together, but I have DEFINITELY been a lot more emotional this week, and I'm driving my own self nuts.

Also, our chihuahua peed on Harper's new pink Pottery Barn Kids rug in her nursery. I have steam-cleaned it and made 2 trips to the store to get stain removers, but I can still see it. I pretty much cried the whole time I was trying to clean it up.

I have had anxiety about how things are going to go with our little dog who thinks he runs our house once the baby gets here. I've fretted over it and read some stuff about how to make that work. Well, his little pee spot on Harper's rug sealed the deal for how this is going to work. He is banished to downstairs. No more sleeping with us (he is annoying bc he'll bark if he hears stuff and I worried about him waking the baby), no more having the house to himself when we're gone. He will live downstairs, where we have wood laminate and tile, and he will not be going to the carpeted, Pottery Barn Kids rug-decorated upstairs. So even though I'm so upset about the stain, it solved a bigger problem because I do NOT even feel bad about the life he is about to start living- or has actually started living because I shut him in the laundry room when I left both times today!

@chopsuey119: Thank you:) Yeah, this dog...He does not even KNOW the line he crossed this morning... I didn't know if I wanted to beat him or put him up for adoption when I saw that pee spot on her beautiful rug! Life as he knows it is about to be a very distant memory!

@PrincessBaby: btw nipple stimulation during sex can get things moving along!!

@travelingbrit: I've got nothing! I don't even feel BH contractions. But I feel huuuuuuge.

@travelingbrit: I have had a little bit of an AF feeling deep down in my belly here and there. My DH comes home tonight from working offshore, and last week, the couple of times I went to the gym (I do the elliptical just for 20 or 25 mins now), I came home and felt crampy. The second time, I woke up the next morning- the same day as my appt, Friday- and was still a little crampy. When the doctor said I was dilated to a 1, even though that's not very much AT ALL, I decided to not go to the gym until DH gets home- just in case that cramping was dilation!

Then, on Saturday night I started vaginally inserting the Evening Primrose Oil. I read that it won't start labor, it basically just softens your cervix. Since I'm having an induction and am deeply afraid of pitocin making me labor for hours in misery, only to end in Csection, I am going to do as much as I can to get my body cooperative and ready! Anyway, I definitely had some crampiness both Sat and Sun night after inserting the EPO. I felt it a little bit when I woke up and moved around, but by the time I got really moving around, it was gone.

So I don't know if that's just from the EPO or what...

I feel like when babies come early, the mom is always so shocked and never even considered it. And the fact that some part of me, deep down, has been preparing for H to come before my induction date, pretty much means that she actually WON'T come early....And I'll look back at this post in a couple of weeks and be like "I was such an idiot to think I could do things to make her come early!"

@chopsuey119: I don't think I've had BH....Is that weird to have none?

I don't think I've have had any BH contractions yet (I would think I would be able to tell right?)

@rawrasaur: I'm completely with you! I keep feeling "weird feelings" and really out of tune with my body but I have no idea what any of it means.

@PrincessBaby: You're not an idiot for thinking she might come early! I want to be prepared for the possibility that baby Boy comes early too. I actually put my hospital bag in the car today "Just in Case" because after work we're going for dinner with the inlaws at Chima and I don't want to have to go all the way back to Boca to get the bag if something were to happen.

I was going to take EPO and went with SO last night to whole foods to get some.
Well he saw "Check with dr before taking if pregnant" on the label and refused to let me buy it. He told me to check with my doctor first. I told him my doctor was by the book and not all holistic and granola. He asked where I heard about it, and I said the internet. He's like "so you trust some random person on the internet more than your doctor". and I was like um no, I trust like 50 random girls on the internet.

So yeah. Left whole foods empty handed. Well, except dates, which are supposed to make labor easier too!

So far I've started the following regimen to get labor started/make it easier: Pineapple (for dessert and on my pizza), Spicy Food - Lot's of Jalepenos, Eggplant Parmesan, Red Raspberry Leaf Tea, Dates. Will get curry soon too!

I'm hoping someone will make this recipe for me - I'm too tired and SO is useless in the kitchen.
http://www.scalinis.com/Bambino.htm

@chopsuey119: I started with Braxton Hicks a little before 20 weeks too-this is baby #3. I didn't have any with #1, with #2 they started a little later, and this pregnancy they are really uncomfortable. I keep hoping that mean my contractions will be super productive when it is game time and labor will be short!

Well, I'm completely closed. She said the head was nice and low, though! Oh, and I tested positive for group b strep , blah.

37 weeks tomorrow!

Not sure what "contractions" feel like but starting about an hour ago I've been having rhythmic tummy pain. I also just threw up my $70 meal that I ate tonight. I'm lying down, and going to see if it gets worse or if it stops.

@PrincessBaby: hahahah I've never experienced the electric shock!
As for the mucus.. Mine was really long (4-5 inches), clear and stringy. When I looked close I could see strands running up and down the plug--white and pink. People think I'm crazy, but it was so beautiful! lost it about a week before I went into labor

@travelingbrit: Wow, keep us updated!!!

I think I finally had a noticeable contraction this morning. Not sure if the cervical check yesterday played a part (which btw was far more unpleasant than I anticipated). I may have even had another one a little while ago, but I was driving and it was hard to tell. Come on uterus - practice away.

Is @chopsuey119: the only non-FTM on here?
I agree @rattles: about second guessing every twinge.
I WANT TO KNOW WHAT A CONTRACTION FEELS LIKE.
I think I just feel baby moving in there and cramps.

@kodybear: I'm completely with you!! I was crying a little at work today. I'm not necessarily "nervous" but I'm a control freak, and I hate not being in control.
I hate not knowing when he'll come, not knowing what contractions feel like, not knowing if he'll be healthy, or if I will need any interventions. When I think about all of the unknowns I get anxiety!