I can sympathise, and I have had two "elective" inductions a few days before my due date. At the end of the pregnancy, it can just be so consuming, the thought of getting it over with. But not at 37 weeks. At 37 weeks, the risks to you and the baby really outweigh your discomfort.

Here are my coping techniques, which I intend to use with this baby as I am really beginning to suffer with SPD and other chronic pain issues.

Meditation. If I can get in some proper deep relaxation once a day, I can cope with anything.

Projecting into the future - don't do it. You've got possibly ten weeks to go - but don't keep thinking, x days to go, or x weeks to go. Just discipline your mind every day to think, "another day of important growth for my baby. What will my baby develop/grow/feel today that will be important? I'm one day closer to meeting my baby." Practice countering your negative feelings and yearnings for "soon!" with these thoughts, until they become a reflex.

Take one day at a time. If you can't cope with the idea of a day, take one hour. When that becomes too much, take it one minute at a time.

Research respiratory distress in preterm (yes, even 37 weeks could be preterm for your baby) and remind yourself of these risks when you are tempted to think about elective induction.

Take up some week long craft projects - things that give you a goal to get to the end of the next week *without* the baby arriving. Things that you'd enjoy that the baby would actually interrupt. Personally, I am relishing the idea of the three weeks I'll get of maternity leave prior to the baby being born and I'll be annoyed if he makes an entrance sooner before I've had a chance to really put my feet up!!

Plan something every day that will make you physically feel better, be it a soak in the bath, or a footrub from a partner/kind friend. Plan something for the end of next week - if someone offers you a treat, ask them to book you a pregnancy massage.

But the big thing keeping me very content at the moment despite the weight gain, the extreme fatigue, the pain, the fogginess and the difficulties at work, is the knowledge that this is the closest I will ever be to this baby, that these few weeks now are just a heartbeat in the life I'll have with this child, and that it will be gone so soon, and I don't want to wish away a day of it. Not a day of it, pain, exhaustion and all.