41 weeks pregnant and still waiting...

I had planned a home water birth, so had bought a “birth pool in a box”, and in the run up to my due date we got the kitchen all set up to be my birthing room. The midwife had delivered the home birth pack, so we were all ready to go.

My due date, Mon 12th May, had been and gone with no sign of anything happening. We tried all the usual things, clary sage baths, a hot curry, long walks, etc etc, but another week passed with nothing happening, and I was starting to get really fed up with waiting.

On Mon 19th May I started getting some regular pains in my back, which were painful enough for me to need to breathe through them, sitting on my birth ball. I went to bed that night thinking things were going to happen in the night…but nothing did! In fact, I had the best nights’ sleep I’d had in ages, only woke up once – just as well as I wasn’t going to get much sleep for the next couple of days!