Hi everyone! My name is Elle. Tommy and I are having our first little baby boy Anikkyn Thomas (not sure of the sp yet) on April 7th or hopefully before then!! I am currently in week 38 and very uncomfortable and anxious. I wouldn't mind waiting until my due date but we were tricked into thinking our son would come a little earlier than expected!! At 34 weeks and 4 days and 34 weeks and 5 days I was in the hospital both nights recieving shots of brethane to stop my 2-3 minute apart contractions. We also found out then that I was 1cm dialated and 50 percent effaced very early on. That was pretty scary but the shots seemed to keep him in there. Ever since then I have been very uncomfortable with tight regualr contractions and lots of pressure down below. At 36 weeks I found out that I had progressed to 2 cm dialated and 80 percent effaced with baby's head at a 0 station ready to be born! Unfortunatly here I am weeks later and haven't progressed at all since then. It hurts to walk, sit and do pretty much anything that involves not laying down on my side with a pillow under my belly. I am desperate to have him any day now and have tried walking - ALOT, and castor oil once. I did not have a good experience with that. I figured it may work because having been in 'early labor' for weeks i was a good candidate to 'push' my labor along. It didn't work..just made me sick after only 2 tbsps and still no baby. My family jokes and says he must just have his little feet hooked into my ribs not wanting to come out of mommy! I want to meet him so bad, I can't sleep and am always uncomfortable the only payoff would seem to be that I actually have him here in my arms. My doctors keep telling me that it is very usual for first pregnancies to go all the way to 41 weeks and then I'll have to be induced. I don't think I will last another 3 weeks. The contractions are really getting to me. I am most scared of my contractions coming very closely as they did a couple of weeks ago and not really being able to feel them or just feeling the tightness and no pain and missing my Que to go to the hospital. I am confused on how to time them so i just rely on if they hurt or if my water breaks it will be time. I am praying everyday that my water breaks. I would like to go that way, even if its in public. Then I will know for sure that it is time. I wish my little buddy would come out soon to meet his very anxious mommy and daddy. I can't wait to be a complete family!! Any day now.....