39 weeks and I need to get this baby out before half term 😩 any advice??

I would love for my family to meet baby and they will only get a chance to meet baby if baby comes before half term so they can do the 6 hours drive down to us and book an air b&b. We got luckily with my first that she was born a week before Christmas so they got to meet her during the Christmas holidays!
Would appreciate some tips and advices!

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In the same boat, 39 weeks also!

Are you getting any crampy feelings?

I just had my baby a couple of days ago and I like to think this combination of oxytocin-inducing things helped the day before:
- went for a nice long walk (45 mins round trip, so not insanely long but enough to hit 10k steps for the first time in a long time
- bounded on the birthing ball to be favourite playlist
- took a lovely ridiculously long, hot shower with my favourite songs blasting like a mad woman
- special fun time to end the evening with hubby...

I swear I overloaded my body with oxytocin from all these things in one night! (I'd also done a couple of weeks of red raspberry leaf tea and eating dates...)

My contractions started at 7:45am the following morning and baby finally arrived just before midnight on the same day. I was 38+6 x

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At 3:17am Thursday my 2nd boy Vinny was born 🥰. Such a positive experience this time. I had what I thought was cramping for 24 hours beforehand but was in denial that it was real labour as contractions never got below 5 minutes apart. Eventually rang the birth unit and arrived at 3am thinking I would be sent home. The minute I arrived, my body started pushing and within 17 minutes, baby boy was born 🥰 I was 40W+5.
Good luck to all the other mamas due soon ❤️

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39 weeks and I need to get this baby out before half term 😩 any advice??

I would love for my family to meet baby and they will only get a chance to meet baby if baby comes before half term so they can do the 6 hours drive down to us and book an air b&b. We got luckily with my first that she was born a week before Christmas so they got to meet her during the Christmas holidays!
Would appreciate some tips and advices!

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