End of May Due Daters!! - Page 2

[loni1090]

I am due May 31st. I am soo waiting to deliver, but I have no idea if I will be early or late. With my first DS, I had a feeling I would go early, and he was 5 weeks early. I have no feelings whether this one will go early or not, so I am just waiting and feeling for any s/s of labor. Nothing so far

[mightymoo]

I wish I could just count on it either way. I'm so stressed out our childcare situation. We live across the country from family and really only have a few close friends. Well, the friends who would be my first choice to watch DD just had a baby of their own (and they have a toddler too) so I can't ask them to watch her, which leaves just one other (childless) couple. They are inexperienced in terms of watching kids, but DD is 2, I'm sure they can handle her and I trust them in terms of doing the right thing, but DD doesn't know them that well - she has only spent limited time with them. It's a huge favor to ask of them to watch her during the birth so I just didn't feel comfortable also asking them to make time to come baby sit her on 3 or 4 occaisions, KWIM?

Well, we have my FIL coming out 5/21 or 22 - so after that he'll be here to watch DD (and she feels very comfortable with him). So I just need to make it to the 22nd. Considering that's before my due date and DD went 17 days AFTER her due date, I probably shouldn't be worried, but I still am. I just am concerned about the logistics of my friends watching her (they can't watch her during the day, so they may need to pick her up from daycare, etc) and if she wakes up in the middle of the night upset and doesn't find Mommy and goes hysterical what kind of start is that for our new family?

Five to six weeks is such a long window - I wish birth was just a TAD more predictable. Of course it doesn't help that the little devil in my ear keeps reminding me that if I had just planned a cesarean rather than a VBAC none of this would be a problem. :

Ok, I'm done venting

[annakiss]

Mightymoo, I must say that childcare trouble is NOT a good reason to have scheduled a cesarean. Your body can and will do this!!! Could you maybe hire someone like a doula to do childcare???

[mightymoo]

Originally Posted by annakiss

Mightymoo, I must say that childcare trouble is NOT a good reason to have scheduled a cesarean. Your body can and will do this!!! Could you maybe hire someone like a doula to do childcare???

I am absolutely not scheduling a c-section. I am just saying that the back of my mind keeps reminding me of how much easier it would have been if I had just gone along with the flow, y'know? Naturally the back of my mind does not remind me that I DO NOT want to recover from a cesarean with a toddler, or the other reasons I'm doing a VBAC.

The problem with the childcare is that my daughter doesn't know any of them, not that they aren't trustworthy, so no solution is going to work perfectly at this point. I looked at doulas early on - just way too expensive. I am already paying big bucks for a very experienced doula to attend me at the birth, not to mention going to an out of network hospital which could cost us big.

[APmama2three]

I am due with #4 on 5/28/05 using my conception date. I am planning a home water birth and am very anxious to get my hot tub next week. I was wondering if there is anybody else do about the same time as me and how you are doing now. Any signs? Nothing here yet...

[valeria_vi]

APmama2three,
I'm due on the 27th and planning a home water birth. It is our first. I have a home visit with the MW tomorrow and she will be bringing the birth tub. yei!
no signs for me at all yet. but I am very happy about that. i still have too much work and too many things on my plate to have this baby. life is so crazy, i'm gonna loose my mind. i really wish it would finally calm down for me. I have not had the time to site back and really anticipate this baby's arrival. that is sad.

[APmama2three]

valeria vi:

Well, I now give YOU the permission to do some "sitting back and relaxing" to anticipate your baby's arrival. Seriously, you need to have some time to "get ready" for labor and birth, especially if this is your first. What do you need to do still? Are you working? Do you have your birth kit and all that jazz ready? Do you have the baby stuff ready? Do a little bit each day until you are "done" and get organized, and also, take lots of breaks, put your feet up, drink water each hour, eat healthy snacks, take care of YOURSELF and your baby, and enjoy these last two weeks or so. You will thank yourself for it later. I am pretty much taking the "month off" and only getting ready for baby. I have put everything else pretty much on hold, despite the fact that I have a ton of stuff to do. It can wait. What is important is that I am relaxed and prepared for labor and birth. Rest. Sleep well each and every night. Eat healthy choices. Have fun. Have peace. Enjoy...

[Eaglevoice]

valeria vi- I, too, hope that you can get some time for yourself to sit and enjoy the last few weeks of carrying this child. It makes me sad to think how stressed you must be with all of that weight on your shoulders from work. I hope you're able to get it all sorted out so that you really can spoil yourself like you deserve!

[june'smom]

Hey all,
I am due on the 31, but I am feeling like I could go early. But then I worry that I am jsut setting myself up for disappointment. DD was born right on time. I am dialated a bit and had some bloody show yesterday, but much less today. The baby dropped a few days ago, and they say that CAN be a sign with 2nd babies. I am trying not to get excited. We still don't have everything for our birth kit and our new diapers are in the mail, I think. Dh doesn't want me to go yet because he has a show with his new band this weekend and he really doesn't want ot worry about me the whole time. Or to miss it for that matter.

I hope all is well with everyone.
Louise

[loni1090]

I am due May 31st. My first was 5 weeks early, but I apparently passed that mark. I have a wedding to go to June 4th, that I would like to go to. My DH is a groomsman in it. I guess it just makes me nervous if I am late, that I might go into labor the day of the wedding. It's my DH's close cousin, so I would hate to ruin it by being late. Oh well, you never know when you will go (unless you have a sceduled c-section!).