FIL knows it all...

[nadia105]

My FIL keeps commenting on how the baby hasn't dropped so there is no way I will be going into labor anytime soon. I realize that MIL had 3 kids and he has seen me drop with the first two babies, but come on!

The first few times it was fine. This babe was very high for a long time and has just started coming down. On Sunday he said it a few times and had a 60 yo friend agreeing with him. Okay, fine. Then he comes over today and proclaims 'you won't even be having that baby this weekend (I'm due Sunday), it's still too high': . Yeah, okay, you're the expert. I know some of this is just me being hugely pg and cranky, but it's annoying now! If the baby does decide to stay in a while, fine. I don't need a daily update about how not close the birth is!

End rant...

[kblackthorne]

...And he probably thinks he's "participating" in your pregnancy by giving you such unwanted "pointers".

My sympathies... Though, frankly, I'm envying your "un-dropped" state at the moment!

(Wanna trade bellies? You can shut up your FIL, and I can quit feeling like my girl's gonna fall out! We just need to switch bellies without switching babies.)

Sorry I can't offer more than a "just hang in there"... Here's hoping you deliver soon and let him eat crow.

[basset]

Ugggghhhhhh, I get that all the time from complete strangers!!!!: A little info to you FIL, I never dropped with my second dd til I was an hour away from her birth!!! Hang in there and keep your ears closed to the know-it-alls!!!

[brittneyscott]

It's common to not drop until right before labor with second and later births. Hopefully it will be soon though to prove him wrong. Sorry you have this going on now. It's hard listening to all the family and friends and even strangers that "know" when you're going to have your baby and other details. I get it all the time.

[savvybabygrace]

Wow. And I thought it was strange when my FIL got all excited to check out my belly cast with dd#1 (boobs and belly, he didn't realize what it was until he saw it, then got a bit embarrassed, lol).

Ask your FIL if he's starting a practice of his own, and if he could predict whether I'm ready to go; I'll send a pic in the mail.

[willoLevin]

Sorry for the family stress. I think, when it is in-laws, it is weirder than just your own parents, and harder to tell them you'd like them to knock it off!

Then again, he's probably just trying to participate in the minimal way that he can. I think, especially for older men of our parents' generation, they got a little bit of a view into the mysterious woman's world of birth, but not really so much that they felt like true participants. Learning this one facet of pregnancy and childbirth may have been his biggest connection to his own almost-born babies, you know?

It helps me to find a positive motivation for others' actions. Hope it helps you feel a little better.

(Then again, I'm still ready to run screaming when I see my own wonderful, very helpful, frequently annoying, live very nearby in-laws coming! )

--willo

[Keeping up]

Well if he could only see me - I have so dropped, not due for another week and a bit and could easily go over. I just carry babies really really low!!! I someetimes think this baby is grind its way out of my pelvis or pop like a champagne bottle!

How annoying