I'm not sure if I'm going to do well with the waiting this time around...i'm not sure why either. With ds i knew when he was concieved but his due date was made based on LMP which gave me extra cushion (maybe 4 days?) and i was lucky to get that considering he was 11 days overdue calculated on conception! I did OK waiting for him. I knew that first babies come late etc and I worked up until 39ish weeks and then waited around for another 2 doing NOTHING but I did it. I didn't have doubts or anything.
With dd I was doing great too. I knew how late ds was and just accepted the fact that i could go over and even when i was just a few weeks from the DD i KNEW i had weeks to go and was fine. She ended up coming exactly on time and almost surprised me I think!
Now don't get me wrong, I was large and uncomfortable and just ready to be done in the last month. I was mentally ready and all that stuff but I didn't feel like I was done like i do now so early.
Somehow I'm here at 37 weeks and with my track record there is just no concieveable reason that i won't have to wait another 2.5+ weeks before baby is here. But I'm done. I feel like i should be hitting 40 weeks in a few days instead of weeks. It's not really because of uncomfort either! I'm doing fairly well with getting around and sleeping, I don't have heartburn although my stomach contents do get pushed up to my clavicle a lot but otherwise from being a bit shockingly large I'm doing well physically. I have a stretch mark that has grown which seems to mean i'm bigger than i've ever been but i don't quite match my pics from dd yet... *scratch*.
To top it all off there is NO GOOD REASON that i should even WANT to go before next week. I have spring break right now, shopping and many many errands to do. Plus I NEED to get my iron iv so that I can birth at the BC instead of the hospital, not to mention that i haven't quite finished my homework for the semester, still have a couple of VERY important things to file/research/write that i should not be doing (or may not have time to) after he's here!
But somehow here I am not feeling like I have the patience anymore. I'm ready to go into labor, I'm even considering what I can do to help things along. I had a ton of pineapple and some sex yesterday!
So is this something more common with subsequent kids? Am I being totally weird? Maybe my busy busy busy life that has suddenly slowed down has put things into a different perspective?
With dd I was doing great too. I knew how late ds was and just accepted the fact that i could go over and even when i was just a few weeks from the DD i KNEW i had weeks to go and was fine. She ended up coming exactly on time and almost surprised me I think!
Now don't get me wrong, I was large and uncomfortable and just ready to be done in the last month. I was mentally ready and all that stuff but I didn't feel like I was done like i do now so early.
Somehow I'm here at 37 weeks and with my track record there is just no concieveable reason that i won't have to wait another 2.5+ weeks before baby is here. But I'm done. I feel like i should be hitting 40 weeks in a few days instead of weeks. It's not really because of uncomfort either! I'm doing fairly well with getting around and sleeping, I don't have heartburn although my stomach contents do get pushed up to my clavicle a lot but otherwise from being a bit shockingly large I'm doing well physically. I have a stretch mark that has grown which seems to mean i'm bigger than i've ever been but i don't quite match my pics from dd yet... *scratch*.
To top it all off there is NO GOOD REASON that i should even WANT to go before next week. I have spring break right now, shopping and many many errands to do. Plus I NEED to get my iron iv so that I can birth at the BC instead of the hospital, not to mention that i haven't quite finished my homework for the semester, still have a couple of VERY important things to file/research/write that i should not be doing (or may not have time to) after he's here!
But somehow here I am not feeling like I have the patience anymore. I'm ready to go into labor, I'm even considering what I can do to help things along. I had a ton of pineapple and some sex yesterday!
So is this something more common with subsequent kids? Am I being totally weird? Maybe my busy busy busy life that has suddenly slowed down has put things into a different perspective?
I HATE being pregnant. This time hasn't been so bad. I'm huge, way bigger than I was with the other (although a lot more of it's belly this time around) but physically I just feel great. But last week, I just felt done. I'm ready to have the baby in arms already. Of course this wars with the reality that I will be pushing this sucker out at some point soon (and yes I do remember all the pain from before). And it wars with having nothing done. I am not prepared to have my classes move online, my house is a mess, and I'm supposed to pack a bag? Yeah I have a lot to do and I'll be cleared in two weeks so I need to really bust my a$$ on this stuff.
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