Keeping your mind off it.....

[sophiamama]

So, as a lot of us are approaching due dates (yikes, we are the DECEMBER due date club, right?), what are you doing to keep your mind off waiting for things to start? I'm getting antsy at this point, I had dd at 37 weeks and now I'm 38 weeks pregnant and I just want this baby out, so I have to keep my mind off it by doing other stuff.

Saturday I went shopping for a few new shirts for after the baby comes.
I made brownies yesterday.
I'm knitting.
I washed clothes this morning.
I've read all the books in the bookshelf to my 2-year old and now we're watching Shrek.

So, what are you doing to keep your mind off the waiting?

[Twilight]

School has started back up after the Thanksgiving break, and I have a project due that I can be working on... but honestly nothing keeps my mind off it for very long : I am driving myself crazy!

[She2dancer]

School work!!! I just handed in one paper today, I have another one due on Wednesday, a presentation on Wednesday, one on Thursday and two more lab reports to write that aren't due until Jan 10th, but I want to get them done now so I can spend that time with the baby! That is all I have been doing, aside from directing DH in housecleaning efforts....

[carmel23]

my 2 boys keep me pretty distracted and I've started on my Christmas Cards--I like to write personal letters to a few folks like my Padrino and parents, so I've been working on those...

I've been baking a lot, too--but I think this is just to heat the kitchen up a bit!

[evenstarlight]

In a mad nesting moment i did some furious Christmas shopping online last week.......most of the stuff arrived today so I wrapped presents!

Last week I booked a few things like a manicure/pedicure and a haircut....(now I'm broke)

I'm kind of torn between feeling very inward and reclusive but also wanting to take advantage of all this free time to see people.

[LizaBear]

I've got a sinus infection - that's about all I'm thinking about right now !

[theboysmama]

not doing a thing. I think maybe I am a bit in denial. Also ds 1 came at 42 wks and ds 2 came at 40 wks and I am just 39 so I could still have a while.

[Cuau]

I still have between 3-4 weeks more to go, so I'm still fine. My mom is getting here next week, and I think that's when I'll start feeling all the pressure, with her wanting to do all baby stuff. I'll enjoy this week.

[nursemom2bee]

I am glad to find out that I am not the only one rereading old books. My DH has made the comment that I am rereading the entire home library in days, and he knows it is trouble when I am on my second round through the books. All I can think about is how to get my labor to start and I feel like I am going crazy. It is nice to know that I am not alone is this waiting game.

[njbeachgirl]

I'm 37 weeks--

getting all the christmas cards, shopping and decorating done

organizing the baby's clothes (putting some of the bigger stuff in rubbermaid containers in the attic so the closet is not so cramped)

reading a lot of magazines and some of my birth books

doing some posture/birth ball stuff every day and getting long walks in when I feel good and the weather is nice

enjoying my "couple time" with DH-- we are SO excited and impatient for the baby to come, but I want to look back on these last few weeks before we are parents and remember just a lot of snuggling and date nights with DH

baking a lot

spending way too much time on MDC

cooking some nice dinners, if we ever finish the stuff from thanksgiving

[~*~MamaJava~*~]

Christmas cards! That's a great idea!

I'm 37 weeks and I don't reallllly expect it for a bit yet - the boys were born at just under and just over 41 weeks respectively.

So I'm cleaning out closets, decluttering, doing photo albums...all the stuff I can never find time for normally. Trying to keep my house neat - that's a challenge enough!
Big cooking projects (last week one morning I made 5 dozen stuffed baked potatoes for the freezer).
Shopping
MDC

[Dwmama]

Well my mom is coming into town in 2 days

I also have a lot of things on the calender we can do. Like take my son to see Santa I figure if I still haven't had the baby we can do all that, if I do it isn't a big deal not to go.

[mary3mama]

37 weeks along here too.

I had my list of 'have to be done before baby' arranged so that all that stuff would be done by Thanksgiving and I could relax more -- which is good since my stamina is NOT what it used to be.

So now I'm doing stuff that I'd like to do, but not critical. Like baking, making more diapers and such.

The boys keep me pretty busy, as does routine cooking and cleaning and laundry.

I'm trying to just enjoy these last weeks, since life will get (temporarily at least) a little crazy for a few weeks post-partum. With my boys being 7 and 3, we've certainly gotten into a rhythm as a family group and adding a new (and preciously needy) family member will change everything.

There's also the great unknown of when my daughter will make her arrival. We are all ready for her homebirth...but don't know when. With my first pg, DS came at 35 weeks for a variety of reasons. My 3 year old was born at almost 39 weeks after an induction. So I've never had a 'completely normal' pregnancy in some ways. I'm hoping to just leave things be and wait for the natural progression of things this time...which means just waiting...

[JanetH]

hee hee

sounds a bit like nesting. But I'm glad that it's helping keeping your mind off the baby coming. Here's to the baby coming fast !

[emdeecee_sierra]

Keep my mind off it? I simply can't LOL! I'm still quite a ways away from "due date", too, so it could still be 3 more weeks for me. Which would actually be ok by me- I really do love the anticipation of waiting for labor!!!

Plus I've got DC asking every few hours if today is the day the new baby comes out. So sweet! They are used to a set plan; this vagueness by me is unprecedented ("the baby could come any time now, we won't know until it is happening").

[Harmony96]

I'll be 39 weeks tomorrow, and my last day of work was yesterday. Now I have all this "free time", but today I spent most of it relaxing. I did do a couple loads of laundry though. I too have a list of things that I want to do before the baby comes (organize old bills/paperwork, sew a coat, finish sewing crib sheets, paint basket, pack hospital bag , sew a couple of nursing outfits, organize sewing supplies and inventory my fabric stash). I have this feeling that the baby will wait to come until I at least get part of this list done, but due to the recent winter storm I want the baby to wait at least a few more days, so I'm not as gung-ho about completing this list as I otherwise would be.

Hopefully Monday's temperature will thaw most of the ice/snow away and everything else can be normal.

[Naughty Dingo]

LOL I have been kind of crazy trying to get everything done and accomplished so I can sit back, relax, and get my mind on it

ND

[KrystalC]

I can't keep my mind off it. I'm feeling the need to get up and move around today, but I've done just about everything I really needed to do that involves lots of movement. I can't go walk around outside because we had lots of sleet and snow the past two days and the ground is quite slippery! I want to go to the store and walk around, but my husband won't let me drive (and he can't)... because the roads are slick.

I'm dilated, effaced, and waiting anxiously for labor to begin... but I'm stuck at home and it's driving me absolutely INSANE!!!!!!!