Is time flying for you too?

[zjande]

It seems that this pregnancy is just FLYING by!! I can't believe that some of you are 33-34 weeks! That means that we're actually going to start seeing birth stories right here in our Nov DDC in like 4 or 5 weeks!! The thought nearly makes me tear up.

I see myself in the mirror & I watch the HUGE baby parts jabbing out of my belly & I just can't believe how fast time has flown. It seems we were just crying with insane joy over the pos. pg test & I was JUST getting excited over my tiny belly bump. And today I am 30 weeks!! OMG! Thirty weeks!!!!!! That's like, really, really pregnant!! :LOL We're going to have a baby! I real live wiggly tiny human, lying between DP & I, kicking it's teeny feet, in a matter of weeks. Ten weeks is not very long at all. Am I ready???? I don't know! :LOL

All along DP has felt like time is dragging, he jokes about how LOooonng pregnancy lasts because he's so anxious for the baby to come & everyone to be healthy. But all along I've laughed & said this pregnancy thing is just flying by for me! I remember vividly how time felt like it dragged on forever when I was pg with my 1st. I counted down every single day until my edd, I was soooooo anxious & excited. I didn't really have much else going on at the time. I was 17, living with my parents & going to a high school for school age mothers. I lived & breathed pregnancy & newborns all day every day. These days my days are MUCH more filled. And they fly by. Like this: ZOOOOOooooooooooooooooom.

How about you?? Is time flying? If this is your 1st does it seem like the days are dragging?

I'll have to laugh at this post though in a month or so when I am SO fed up with being pregnant & huge & uncomfortable that I can't WAIT for labor & every minute drags. :LOL

[BensMom]

It's my 2nd and I do feel like time is flying by. I was 30w at Xmas when I was preg with Ben and I felt like time after that just dragged....

Now that we are back from vacation, and Ben is settled in school, and DH is settled into his job, and I am settled into SAHM-hood....I can finally start getting ready for babe and here I have only 9 weeks. It's as if I can just now start to prepare and plan for the babe!

Next month I have a Blessing that my friends are throwing and a shower that MIL insists on throwing. Then there is all the fun fall stuff I want to do - pumpkin patches and halloween parties and decorating. I really feel like these last 2 weeks of Sept are my last calm weeks. And then I am sure this babe will be late, so Nov will feel like its 6 months long. :LOL

[Gunter]

This is my first babe and I totally feel like time has flown by! It's amazing when I think that I am 7 months pregnant. Wow.

I just had my mother's blessign last Friday. We go to LLL Conference at the end of this month. I am a guniea pig for the local ALACE Doula training in mid-Oct. then we have our annual halloween/chili cook-off/keg party. Taking Nov. slow then DH has at least a whole month off of work when babe comes. Wow!

[DreamsInDigital]

I have a confession to make. This is my third and I keep hoping time will slow down because I am having such a hard time coming up with the money for the things I need not only for the baby like diapers and such but for myself like my birth kit and supplies, mama pads, nursing pads, nursing bras and post-partum clothes. I keep thinking I can get something next paycheck and then something comes up, one of the kids needs new shoes, Kolaiah's birthday, both boys had massive growth spurts, Gabriel started school and we need to move at the beginning of next month and I'm freaking out that I have tons of baby clothes and not much else. So I'm hoping and praying that this baby comes at like 43 weeks so I have enough time to save up money.
Whew. Thanks for letting me get that off my chest.

[gonnabeamom]

DID,




It's my first and it's flying. It seems like since we got pregnant life went into overdrive. DH's grandfather died, DH's grandmother got sick, we were booked in some way or almost every weekend between May and July. Since July everything has been a great get the house ready festival (which means doing neglected repairs and finishing half done remodels, not getting the nursery ready, etc).

Oddly enough the months and the weeks have flown, and the days sometimes drag. Particularly when I'm tired and moving around feels like a lot of effort.

[samsmamma]

yep, in some ways time is flying. If I'm as early as I was with Sam, I could be done in 6 weeks, which is hard to believe. On the other hand, the days are endless, especially today for some reason, I guess because I'm starting to feel really tired and sore.

We're just trying to get things ready at home - I ordered Welcome With Love for Sam so I hope he likes it, and we're getting stuff cleaned and ready. It's all hard to believe! But we really want to prep this time since we never got to with Sam since he was so early!

[PicnicBear]

Seems like we are all on the same page here -- it's my first and I can't beleive how the weeks just tic away. Thursday is when my "new" weeks start and tomorrow is, yet again, another Thursday. That puts me at 32 weeks. I am a little resentful that more work keeps coming up for me to do, as I had posted in other posts, I really wanted October to just think about me and the baby and enjoy that time, and the special time with DH before everything changes so dramatically for us. But I have more assignments of course. I think people are trying to be helpful because they want to help me get stuff done before the baby comes, and I appreciate that. But I do want things to slow down a little so I can enjoy things.

[SoggyGranolaMomma]

Yup.33 weeks tomorrow for me! My goal is to pack my bag tomorrow for the hospital.

Last time, I was admitted directly to the hospital and didn't have anything packed yet (I figured I'd wait until 35 weeks!).

It's been about this time with my last two pregnancies that my blood pressure starts to misbehave and I get put on home bedrest for a week, then hospital bedrest until they deliver me.

My BP is doing really well this time though, I wonder how far I will go and my last 3 babies have been inductions so I'd really like to avoid that this time!!

[BensMom]

DiD,

I am there with you on the $$$ issues. I still dont know how I am going to finish paying for the MWs, then there are diapers I need to buy (which no one will buy for me, but I am sure I will get a ton of pampers at the family shower : ), birth kit, birth pool, etc etc etc. Lots to pay for.

I can make some diapers and covers and cloth mama pads, I just need motivation (hopefully the sewing bug will kick in after the nursery is ready).

$$ and time. I need a lot of it in the next 9 or so weeks. If this babe comes early, I dont know what to think. I know a lot of mamas would love it, but as long as we aren't talking 42w+, I would be very happy with a full term, 40w babe!

[MamaFern]

ill be 32 weeks on saturday.. time has totally flown by.. i feel prepared but not at the same time.. like im holding on for dear life but having fun too.. some days i wish it would slow down and that i could be pregnant for another 5 months or so.. but other days my body hurts and i just want a sweet tiny baby in my arms... im really trying to enjoy this pregnancy, because i dont know if ill have another one, and if i do it will be years from now.. being pregnant is pretty magical.. maybe this last 9 weeks will go slower now. the days do seem to drag on, but i also have 2 kids to care for durring the day and its a handful! by evening i just want to curl up with a book or my knitting, but ive been pretty sleepless..maybe if we just all stop sleeping time will slow down :LOL

[Belleweather]

Time is absolutely flying with this pregnancy... it's completely unreal! I can't believe I'm so close to being a mama at last that I really feel like I need to find a way to set some time aside from school and work and nesting and trying to get the house together and really kinda deal with the fact that I'm excited and terrified all at once, because I've been so bowled over with dealing with all the things I have to do that I feel like I've been stuffing my feelings about pregnancy and the baby and motherhood and not really letting myself feel them... which is, I'm afraid, not only cutting myself off, but a good route to problems after the baby shows up.

I think I need to give myself a present and take a day off, perhaps drive somewhere a little out of town and take myself to lunch and for a massage somewhere without DH or anyone else, just to have the quiet to think and reconcile with this new sense of self that I've got to find.

[spiritmomma]

Flying by

I agree that time seems to slip away. I can't tell if I am contented to have a babe inside my belly or really want to look at the babe face to face! Both times are so special...
And my life has been a whirlwind since I got the news in late March

My relationship with DH has gone from utter dispair to blissful second honeymoon. He went from ignoring me and our developing child to being attentive and nurturing. We've been in counseling for 2 months now.

I have so much "planned" for this baby... Like co-sleeping, bf'ing, slinging, and so much of it depends on the baby and what the baby wants. So I am eagerly anticipating having to throw all my "plans" to the wind and let the baby guide me as a mother.

[dziejen]

It's flying here too! This is baby #3 and like you, DreamsinDigital, I too am getting nervous about getting the $$ and things I need before it is too late! I have a small diaper stash started (24 prefolds and 3 covers so far) and lots of clothing from friends and family but there are things that I haven't got yet and my EDD comes closer every day! Both of my girls were born past their due dates (6days and 10days) so I am wondering if I will get some more time this time too or if this little one will surprise me and come early. I was 29 weeks on Monday and my appts are now every 2 weeks which makes me feel like things are really picking up speed!! I am very anxious to meet this new little one though!!