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[fayebond]

Mere days until Thanksgiving for my fellow USA mamas.  Just curious what everyone's plans are (assuming, ahem, nothing interrrupts the plans in a good way).  

We're going to my family's for Thanksgiving dinner, and some of his sisters are going to be there, with friends from church.  All the traditional food plus lots of Israeli salads.  I made the pie crusts already, and will bake the turkey tomorrow so it can be all cut up and in a crock pot for the meal.  Basically we all hang out and chat and eat and eat and compare the black friday ads from the paper and chat and eat more.  All day, while DH and my Dad do woodworking in the garage as often as they can get away with it (day off = carpentry day).

Would really love for it to be interrupted by baby arriving today, totally take a baby instead.  At this point the birthday is going to be too close to a holiday for comfort anyway (Thanksgiving, Hannuka, Christmas, there is no breathing room anymore) so why not just get out here and we can meet you, cuteness?

[OceansEve]

We are supposed to be going to my sister's. Thing is her in laws, my other sister's inlaws, other extended family are supposed to be there. I really don't want to have the same conversation 20+ times. "Yes, anytime now. Yep, pretty miserable. Yeah, I know I'm big." I've got everything we need to make our tday meal here. I want to go into labor tonight, have her early in the morning, get discharged tomorrow evening. Be home for tday, DH and I can cook our meal and just stay home.

[wendelberry]

Originally Posted by OceansEve 

 I want to go into labor tonight, have her early in the morning, get discharged tomorrow evening. Be home for tday, DH and I can cook our meal and just stay home.

Did that work out for you??

I'm totally stressed because my HB MW would really rather avoid a Thanksgiving baby since she's having a house full of people and lives a long way from us.  Which I totally understand, but I'm not sure how to avoid this...!  We called last night with close but weak ctx and she wanted me to take castor oil to encourage baby to hurry.  (I thought I was having a HB in part to avoid holiday inductions!  Oh well!)  

Anyway, everything's pretty much stopped this morning again.  I'm a bit freaked out with all the super-fast birth stories we've had on here, since really, Baby could be here by lunch time today!   But now I'm thinking it might be better to just wait it out and try for after T-day.  It's hard to switch gears emotionally from pulling forward and doing home labor induction things and trying so hard to have the baby before Thanksgiving, to suddenly trying to wait longer!  I'm not really sure what to do.  DH is now down with flu or something--might just be stress, but that is really the LAST thing I want to deal with right now!!  Anyway, thanks for listening, I guess I'd better go put more ice in with the brining turkey so that I will have done something productive today.

Best wishes for your Thanksgiving!

[OceansEve]

:( I'm sorry your DH is sick! That is the last thing I would want to deal with right now!

I'm still hangin out. I'm with you on the changing gear. I wanted her out, but now I'm thinking... if she waits till the 29th then her bday will never fall on tday.... so I'm torn. I really want to be done, but I also don't really want her bday to fall on thanksgiving.

[wendelberry]

Yeah, I know, though I don't really think there's much chance of this one waiting until the 29th anyway (famous last words, I know!).  DH and I were just talking about how it might actually be kind of neat for baby to have a birthday on T-day every 7 years or whatever.  At least if I had to choose, that's a pretty good holiday to identify with!  My birthday is July 4, but not being a particularly patriotic person I've never really identified with it much, though I do love fireworks!  :)

Ramble, ramble...anyway, I think for my MW's sake I'm going to put myself on bed rest until tomorrow evening.  I can just imagine trying to relax through contractions while sharing the room with someone who is wishing she were somewhere else!!  

As far as being torn and unable to decide-- it's probably a good thing that we don't really have a lot to say about it in any case, right?  

[OceansEve]

hehe I like that, not too patriotic, but love me some explosives :) Sounds like me!

DD2 was born on Dec 27th and she does get kind of slighted on her bday. Though you are right tday is not a bad holiday to be mixed with and it wouldn't be every year.

Wellll.... we can kinda do things.... I had another person (this is probably the 7th or 8th person to suggest it) mention EPO. So I decided I would try it today. DH and I DTD last night so I didn't figure it would do anything. I mean I had such good luck (well it got her out even tho it hurt like hell afterwards) with DTD last time I figure if that doesn't get something going nothing will. Not exactly true. I put in the EPO and about 3 hours later I went to the bathroom and passed a good size piece of plug, not huge, not the whole thing, but that's more progress than I've seen so far! I'm having ctx now that are pretty decent, but they are all over. I'll probably put in another this evening and see what happens. Like I mentioned in one of the other threads I lost a 12 week last thanksgiving, it was rough and I ended up in the ER after passing out. So it would be kind of nice to have a happy birth tomorrow.

I'm such a flip flopper  i can't make up my mind what I want!

[babychak]

Normally Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday but I'm just not feeling it this year. Do we have to go? Ugh. I have a really small family so it's no big deal but I'm just so exhausted these days. We will be going to my parents' house, who live about 10 minutes away, so it's not like we have far to travel or anything. My husband is a foreigner and one good aspect of that is that it means we never have to argue over whose family to spend holidays with. :)

[OceansEve]

Happy Turkey day everyone! :)

[fayebond]

Originally Posted by OceansEve 

I'm such a flip flopper  i can't make up my mind what I want!

That's so me!  I enjoyed the whole meal and now I'm still not sure.  Should baby come tonight?  But if I can hold out one week longer, my brother will be here, and if I hold out a couple weeks longer I can get out of more Christmas events that I don't want to go to, but I really reeeaaallly want to meet the baby.  I am itching with curiousity about thier personality, thier hair (will tehy have hair?  Will all my children have had hair?).

[STLmama225]

We did Thanksgiving with DH's family yesterday and were doing it all over again with my family today. As long as baby can hold on til that's over, I'm good! The last thing I want is to go into labor AT Thanksgiving because then my entire extended family (who are wonderful but highly nosy) will know and be bugging us (or trying to) in labor! No thank you

EDD is Sunday, but I wouldn't be surprised one bit if this turns out to be a December baby. I'm having those "cervical zingers" and sure am having frequent and loose BMs, but that's the extent of the excitement over here

It's good to be reminded that I'm not the only one who's still pregnant! (And kind of miserable!)