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post #1 of 17
8/20/05 at 1:08pm
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Let me preface this with..... : :

Since everyone in my care is so gungho about this "due date" thing I'm sure I'll have the baby today. Figure care providers have offered all of their testing services for me to decline or accept based on today being the day. They are sure I need a biophysical profile, no thank you, this week if the baby has not arrived "on time".
Most of my friends and family start conversations with "anything going on" "did you....' " are you......" (c'mon like I'm going to keep it a secret if I've had the baby!)
I wonder if after the baby everyone will still be so interested in my cervical activity. Hmmm...now wouldn't that be awkward - oh wait it already is!

So I'm grouchy and done being pregnant. I feel just terrible about it as I'm so excited to meet this little jack/julia person. I'm just not rolling in the joy of pregnancy right now. Dh scheduled far too much work for himself this week and I"m resentful as I just want to rest a little more and I'm not being the mom I want to be to my little boy. And then I feel bad as this is the end of our "alone time".
Going on about 10 days of having contrax every 5-10 minutes for a couple of hours then nada. Lost a bit of mucous plug mon or tues. Feeling crampy and nauseous. I was all excited about these things last week. Now I'm just a bratty hormonal train wreck. This isn't my usual nature!
Tell me - how are you doing today fellow pregnant mama's?!?!?!?
post #2 of 17
8/20/05 at 2:21pm
Well, I'm no longer pg, just wanted to give ! I know it won't help, but it won't be too much longer now!
post #3 of 17
8/20/05 at 3:28pm
Hugs!

Yesterday was horrible. Let me clarify: Today is horrible because yesterday was so exciting. I had so many good hard painful ctx yesterday about every 20 minutes, from about 11 a.m. until I went to sleep. I woke up about 5 times last night, and I only felt one ctx the whole night. Nothing so far today.

Needless to say, I'm feeling like a grumpy slug today.
post #4 of 17
8/20/05 at 4:25pm
I have been doing that for days Kristin...LOL

It truly sucks.. I figure I wont be pregnant at christmas.. *sigh*
post #5 of 17
8/20/05 at 5:06pm

Oh goodie!

I'm glad I'm not the only one in the useless contractions club! I've been having them since Tuesday, for a couple of hours everday, and at times, I'd consider them painful, not just uncomfortable. Today is also my 'due date', though I don't think anything is going to happen anytime soon... like I fully expect to be pg next week. And midwife, on Wednesday, guessed the baby was about 9 lbs in size, so now I can obsess about that. #2 was 9.5 lbs, so as long as #3 is smaller, it's all good... 10 lbs just scares me!

susie
post #6 of 17
8/20/05 at 5:30pm
Today is my date too ladies! SO we can all be impatient together. We went and walked around the mall. I ate spicy food for lunch. It stormed last night, there was a full moon and NOTHING IS WORKING!!! : SO I am going to see my massage therapist this evening, she is going to do pressure points and massage with essential oils that might help. I figure if it doesn't start labor, maybe it will help me feel better.
post #7 of 17
8/20/05 at 8:02pm
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So happy to read your responses. sorry others are feeling like this :LOL one of us is bound to start soon!
post #8 of 17
8/20/05 at 8:10pm
My due date was WEdnesday adn I am all ready to go !!
I am having tons of contractions, even timed some yesterday but they petered out.
I am kind of getting snappy and sassy with strangers, which isn't very nice. At the children's museum yesterday a lady asked when I was due. When I told her , she said " oh you are late, isn't that horrible to be late.... " I actually explained to her that 37-42 weeks is quite normal and good time frame. She looked at me strangely. I don't think she was up for a lesson and I felt like a nut being so funny with her.
The question is just driving me batty now " When are you due???" over and over again.
post #9 of 17
8/20/05 at 9:08pm
Hang in there mammas. Your babies will be here so soon, I promise. I was so right where you are on my due date and 3 days, and a hell of a lot of work later, I was holding him in my arms. Before you know it...
post #10 of 17
8/21/05 at 4:41am
Quote:
Originally Posted by chiro_kristin
Today is horrible because yesterday was so exciting. I had so many good hard painful ctx yesterday about every 20 minutes, from about 11 a.m. until I went to sleep. I woke up about 5 times last night, and I only felt one ctx the whole night. Nothing so far today.
If it helps any, I had a similar experience the other day! It IS comforting to me to know someone else out there went through something similar...
post #11 of 17
8/21/05 at 4:44am
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mama Coltrane
The question is just driving me batty now " When are you due???" over and over again.
Yes, it's finally drive me nutso as well. Especially when people ask "when is she going to show up?" and the same person asks MORE than one time.

Um, like I can answer that?
post #12 of 17
8/21/05 at 5:00am
Take your time, and enjoy these last few days...

Good luck.


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post #13 of 17
8/21/05 at 10:25am
That whole 'when are you due' question - yesterday we went to a 1st birthday party and I swear EVERYONE asked me that question. The only fun part is when they get that panicked look on thier face! :LOL
post #14 of 17
8/21/05 at 10:42am
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kerrie
That whole 'when are you due' question - yesterday we went to a 1st birthday party and I swear EVERYONE asked me that question. The only fun part is when they get that panicked look on thier face! :LOL
LOL. Yeah, as though they would have to deliver the baby themselves!
post #15 of 17
8/21/05 at 12:42pm
Yeah, one of my colleagues here asked late this week -- "So, if I see you go into labor do I call an ambulance or what?" I tried really hard not to laugh at him. How can you be a 40 year old professor and think that babies arrive like in old-timey movies???
post #16 of 17
8/21/05 at 12:53pm
With baby #1 I had my hair cut on my "due date". The hair dresser just about had a heart attack when she asked when I was due and I said "today"!!!

I'm not due until Feb. with baby#2, but saw the title of your posting & it made me laugh. This time around I am actually lying about my "due date" to most people, so I hopefully won't have to deal with too much of this!!

Hang in there & wishes for a wonderful birth!

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SAHM to a spectacular little boy, born 5/2003 :bf Feb 2006!
"When you teach your son, you teach your son's son." ~ The Talmud
post #17 of 17
8/21/05 at 3:24pm
Yeah, the other day I was at the pool, and this lady (who had a baby last October) was there and asked me when my due date is. I said, "Actually, I think I might be in early labor right now," mostly for fun but also because I was having really good ctx that day and was hoping. I really just wanted to test out that response. She almost freaked. "Well, do you have somebody you can call if you need to?"

Seriously, lady. I think the fact that I'm out swimming tells you it's not anything serious. I already told you this is my first baby, and you just had your first less than a year ago.
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