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[MrsMoe]

Originally Posted by BensMom

I think all care providers who make statements like this to women in their late 3rd trimester should be tarred and feathered in the public sqaure.

I agree

[Bex80]

Aw, Jenn :LOL and thanks MrsMoe. It definitely put me into a tailspin that I am just now coming out of.

MM, how are you feeling now that you are a day overdue? Is it any harder than the day before your EDD or anything?

s to all of us!!!

[sarahcecile]

I am about to change my answering machine message to say:

"Hi, you've reached Ben and Sarah at --------

No, we have not had the baby yet. You will be the first to know when we do.

I you have a legitimate reason for calling, please leave a message and if we feel like it we will call you back."

People have been coming out of the woodwork to call and ask if "we've had the baby yet" and "how I am feeling" which is a thinly veiled question that really means, "are you in labor".

No, I have not had the baby yet - I am not even due for almost 2 weeks!!!!!!!!!!! And I feel like I am really really really pregnant and it aint all that much fun and the more times you remind me every day how crappy I feel and how my baby isn't here yet and how I will probably not get to meet the wee bean for 3 or 4 weeks the crabbier I get.

I almost hate to go out in public because of the insensitivity.

Also - why is cleaning a permament condition? We got the house scrubbed for our 37 week visit and that went really well. And now we have to keep it that cleaning. Knowing that everyday from now on could be THE DAY.

Sigh....

Hang in there everyone!!!! We can do it. Thank you for letting me vent!!!

-Sarah

[AmyGirl28]

Originally Posted by Bex80

4. I cleaned the dickens out of my entire house and had it *perfect* on Tuesday. Now the laundry is piling, crumbs are gathering, and stuff is getting cluttered. It would stay nice if I weren't the *only* person trying to keep it that way. I know the important stuff is still *clean* clean, like the bathrooms, kitchen, nursery, bedrooms-but the common areas really get to me.

5. I had to take the garbage to the curb AGAIN this morning. This is a mjor grumble for me because dh professes that he is really going to do a lot when Abigail gets here, but I guess I don't get any help while I'm 39 weeks prgnant?

OMG you read my mind! I am having the SAME issues with the house and DH with the trash. Ugh!

[Bex80]

Amy, isn't it *so* cool to waddle to the curb with the trashcan? Ugh. I feel like the neighbors must be thinking *tsk tsk, poor girl has to take the trash to the curb!* :

Sorry you are in the same boat.

[s_kristina]

I just found out Wednesday evening that I will not have any chance of having a waterbirth WAHHHHHHHH! I have been looking forward to a waterbirth since I found out I was pg. I knew that the hospital here only had one tub versus several where we lived when I got pg, but now the one room with a tub is being used as a freaking waiting room! They are doing some kind of renovatoins of the floor and for some stupid reason thought that the best place for a family waiting room was the one room with a tub in it. The regular rooms aren't anywhere near big enough to bring a birthing tub in to either, I thought about as soon as I found out the tub was out. I am going to have totally change my ideas of what I will have to help me out in labor. I loved being in the tub in early labor with my dd so this is really going to suck. Also having hands so swollen it is hard to type makes it dificult to vent and whine about these things

[SoulJourney]

kristina... I'm so sorry to hear that you won't be able to have a water birth!!! How disappointing to have something like that come up at the last minute! :

I'm going to go ahead and whine a little while I'm here...I've been soooooooooooooooo emotional the past couple of days, I just have NO control over my aqua ducts at all! I cried pretty much all day yesterday for one reason or another. I'm really not used to being this d*mn sensitive!!! My friends always used to tease me about how much of a *boy* I am, and here I am 9 months pregnant and crying at the drop of a hat! I'm just thankful I wasn't an incredibly emotionally sensitive person *before* I was pregnant...God only knows how I'd be now! And I can't get comfortable to save my life. My hips hurt sooooo badly when I try to sleep...arrrgh!
I'm doing whatever I can to get things moving...I walked a bunch this past week, but it doesn't feel like it did anything for me. *sigh*

Ok...that's all I'm going to allow myself to whine! Sorry girls!

[Queen of Cups]

Ugh. HUGE fight with DH this morning. Unfortunently with an audience of MIL, my sister, and my parents calling on the phone about three times during it. I wanted to rake the leaves because DH has not done it at all and the grass is all going to die soon because it hasn't seen sun in weeks. Well, everyone freaked out like I was going to literally die or kill the baby if I raked. So, the end conclusion is that I forgo whatever big Christmas present DH had planned for me so we can afford a lawn service to come do the leaves. Sucks to be me, huh? I got a huge guilt trip and cheated out of Christmas because DH was too lazy to rake or mow the lawn this entire month. (He has a chronic back problem that would not be a problem if he did the daily back exercises his dr prescribed, but since he doesn't do them his back is in bad shape and I know he physically cannot spend several hours raking in one day - if he'd done an hour a week for the past month it would have been no problem, but now its too late for that approach.)

[PicnicBear]

hmm-- why doesn't he forgo his X-mas present instead? If you must pay someone, find some neighborhood kids to do it cheap and who will be thrilled to get some cash.

[Bex80]

My thoughts exactly on getting a neighbor child to come and do it. Much cheaper, helps them develop a work ethic, and you still get your Christmas gift!

Maybe I am just greedy, but I would say to forget the leaves and anticipate the gift instead! Unless you guys just paid a lot of money for new grass/sod or something---won't it come back in the spring anyways?

Sorry about the fight mama. That really sucks.

On another note, I had to go to church today and have everyone ask me just "when in the world" was I going to "have that baby???" Ugh. At least people have quit openly commenting on my size.

[Belleweather]

I really don't think I can face going into the office tomorrow and having everyone go "Gee, still pregnant, huh?" one more time. I'm SOOOOOO tempted to just call in sick, or not show up and leave them wondering. There's a part of me that wants to tell them I'm in labour and then hide in the house until the baby actually shows up - only because I am not entirely sure that I can go through another day of "So, had that baby yet?" without decking someone.

[flapjack]

I was threatening to make myself a t-shirt that says:
a) Yes, today is my due date. I have a 10% chance of going into labour today, please don't tempt fate by mentioning it.
b) Oops! We made a mistake- it's not a baby, I just ate too much pizza (but it tasted good.)
c) Pillow not included.

Queen of cups, am I missing something? Could your family not have just hung up the phone and come over to help you out? Or are they not local?
I think we should come and crawl about your lawn on our hands and knees, picking the leaves up one-by-one. Fantastic for foetal positioning, if nothing else...

[Queen of Cups]

Originally Posted by flapjack

Queen of cups, am I missing something? Could your family not have just hung up the phone and come over to help you out? Or are they not local?
I think we should come and crawl about your lawn on our hands and knees, picking the leaves up one-by-one. Fantastic for foetal positioning, if nothing else...

Yeah, they live aproximately 15 hours away - they're arriving on Saturday for Thanksgiving and my dad just insisted he'd do it then. My thoughts on that are: what I really need is for my dad to have a tendonitis flare up (chronic wrist promblem since he started training horses at 15 years old), screw up his knee further (torn cartilegde from a motorcycle accident when he was 18), and probably have a heart attack in my front yard (diagnosed with hypertension over 15 years ago) - that would totally help the situation! DH and I did finally talk rationally about it, and we agreed to do about a half hour each every day this week and then pay the next-door neighbor kid to finish up whatever needs to be done after the baby is born...

The ironic thing is that I'm the healthiest person in the entire family! DH has back problems, MIL has lupus and is therefore allergic to sunlight, my sister has epilepsy and her seizures are brought on by fatique/lack of sleep/stress, my dad has the above mentioned problems, FIL has really high cholesterol he refuses to treat and a very stressful job so I'm convinced he's going to have a stroke at a moment's notice ... and they all freaked that I was going to rake leaves! Now that the big fight is over, I can find it amusing...

[*Amy*]

Originally Posted by peacefulmommy

And I can't get comfortable to save my life. My hips hurt sooooo badly when I try to sleep...arrrgh!

Me too. I hate that. I've been sleeping/resting on my back way too much : because it's the only position that doesn't hurt some part of my body.

[SoulJourney]

Yeah...I've suddenly found that the ONLY place I can actually get more than a couple hours of sleep at once is the couch! *sigh* Before moving to the couch I, too, kept finding myself on my back every time I woke up...made me a nervous wreck! What's funny is my mom said that's exactly where she slept through the end of each of her pregnancies b/c no one said not to back then!