Anyone NOT feeling impatient for baby to arrive?!

[Jen H.]

Seems like many of us are desperate for baby to arrive even when not at due dates yet. Anyone NOT feeling this way??

I'm just not ready in so many ways yet. I turn 37 weeks tomorrow and I hope baby stays put until at least 39. There's just still too much to do!

[Dreamer]

I'm definately not feeling impatient yet... I'm only 36w2d though, so ask me again in about 3 weeks!!

Seriously though, I don't want an "early" baby, unless he needs to be born early... I'd much rather go into labor at 40+ weeks knowing all would be well with him, developmentally...

I also have a facial & pedicure scheduled for August 3rd (40w3d--which is also my 'official last day of work unless baby comes earlier') and I would REALLY like to make that appointment! They're doing cranio-sacral work during my facial and accupressure during the pedicure that should/could jumpstart labor and at the very least it will help me relax and calm down enough, loose the 'gotta go, gotta go, gotta go' mentality I have to use while I'm working and ALLOW me to relax enough for the baby to come... I'm REAAALLY looking forward to that whole experience so I'm hoping he'll hold off until August 4th at least!!! :

Whenever he wants to get here will be fine with us though... I can honestly say we are 98% ready for him!!! I need to strip diapers this weekend (which I could do during labor if I had to) and the birth pool will be here Tuesday (which I could do without if I had to)... other than that, we are completely, materialistically, ready... Now mentally, *I'm good*... my dh will *manage*, and my ds is going to just have to *adjust*, whenever the babe decides to show... I can honestly say though, I think my ds is more mentally prepared for the birth than my dh is!

Alayna

[pwit]

I'm 39 weeks tomorrow. I certainly wouldn't mind going into labor today but my first was 2 and a half weeks late so I think I'm in denial that I could go into labor today. Hard to get impatient about something you don't think is going to happen soon.

[luckydog]

Originally Posted by pwit

I'm 39 weeks tomorrow. I certainly wouldn't mind going into labor today but my first was 2 and a half weeks late so I think I'm in denial that I could go into labor today. Hard to get impatient about something you don't think is going to happen soon.

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Except I'm only 37.5 weeks. I know I'm likely to get more impatient as labor becomes more imminent, but right now I feel like the little man is still very solidly gestating away and I'm currently free of angst or impatience. (I am a little bit impatient to be closer to my due date already, but that's a different thing.)

Based on journal entries from my last two pregnancies, it seems like there is a mental threshold I cross (last time it happened around 38-39 weeks) and that has not happened here yet. Maybe I can make it NOT happen.

I'd love for ONCE to just be toodling along, happily pregnant and then BAM one day I'm in labor - without having all that stressful "any moment now" angst I usually suffer for weeks and weeks. Ha! Fat chance, I'm sure.

I've accomplished the first step though - utterly resigned to a 41 week pregnancy. I probably should make 42 the magic number and expect an August baby, or I'm potentially going to be SO annoyed.

[Ashersmum]

I'll be 40 weeks on Sunday and I'm still in denial that I could have a baby any day. All my 'stuff' is ready, my birth pool set up etc. but I still have no signs of impending labor and I keep forgetting that there's really a baby in there. I went into labor on my due date with ds1 so we'll see what happens with this one. I'll have to get real sometimetime soon....probably as soon as the first contraction shows up!

[heggie]

I'm 40 weeks and 4 days and even after all of this time it doesn't feel real. I had a doc appointment this morning and he is talking induction either tomorrow ( ) or next Monday/Tuesday. I'm willing to be a little more patient and avoid the induction. Unfortunately I have no signs of anything happening--I've been 80% effaced since 37 weeks but am just starting to dialate (not even 1 cm today). Couple that with my family history (mom induced at 43 weeks with all 5 of her pregnancies) and my placenta starting to show signs of deterioration, it's not really looking good for going into labor naturally.

[becoming]

Well, just when I start to think I'm totally ready, it hits me that we will really have a new baby in our house in probably less than 3 weeks! That is a very overwhelming thought. I know it will all be okay once he's here, but just the thought of having three young children (including a newborn!) in our house makes my head hurt.

[FreeRangeMama]

I am very happy to be pregnant still. I am just over 38 weeks and was very pre-laborish for the last couple of days but seem to be over that. I still have no birth supplies though I am ready in every other way. I don't even feel like buying birth supplies, I can make do with what I have.

I feel strangely happy to be so very pregnant (despite the constant nightly leg cramps, increasing pressure with contractions, and other late pregnancy discomforts). I am still measuring 5 or more cm ahead and have gained 45 lbs!! I am heading to the lake to hang out in my bikini to get some sun on this monster belly

I have never been so comfortable at the end before, but I have gone "late" with 2 out of 3 of my pregnancies (42 weeks, 41 weeks, and 2 days shy of 40 weeks) so I know it could be up to 4 weeks before this one comes. Nice to just be content, it is so much better than feeling miserable and impatient!

[Shelsi]

I go back and forth. I've just turned 37 weeks so it's still early and I really don't expect anything to happen anytime soon. My mom and grandma all went to 42+ weeks (grandma went to 46!!). I had ds at 39 weeks but I was induced with him and I hadn't even dropped, dilated, or effaced yet so chances are I still had lots of time left before natural labor would have started.

I want to see and meet my baby so badly but I'm terrified of labor this time around and I'm terrified of what life will be like afterwards with 2 kids so I'm just not in that place yet.

Yesterday I did a ton of walking and we dtd a bunch of times and by last night I was scared it would all put me into labor. I wasn't doing any of it in hopes of inducing labor although I wonder if subconsciously I was? I thought maybe I felt a contraction as I was going to bed so I hurried up and went to sleep to try and make it go away LOL.

Oh and my mom won't be here until I'm 39 weeks so really the baby HAS to stay in until then!

[SleepyMamaBear]

37 weeks here too and not ready for her to come out.
i have everything ready (except my birth kit that should be showing up on my doorstep today!) but i am NOT ready.
i am in miserable discomfort most of the time and it feels like her head is ALWAYS on my pubic bones making the HAVE to pee feeling even more intense, and the spd combined with not being able to sit at the computer for longer than ten minutes without elephant feet/ankles, should make me want to meet her NOW NOW NOW. but i am totally not ready to be done with being pregnant.

[hellen]

I'm not ready yet. I won't be 37 weeks until Monday. There is still a lot to do before the baby gets here. I started a train blanket for my son in April that still isn't quite done. I'm shooting for next week on that. Then I will have time to get ready for the new baby. The king size bed gets delivered next week too. It's been a comfortable pregnancy so I'm enjoying my last weeks of freedom before I have a newborn to care for 24/7 along with a grouchy toddler.

[bdavis337]

I go back and forth lately. Mostly, I am loathe to give up the few quiet minutes I get now that the boys are older. I'm also not looking forward to actual labor and delivery itself, but that's another matter.

[jessjgh1]

I'm due 7/15 and I'm not anxious. At this point with Joshua I had already had him, had been on bedrest for 2 weeks before (w/ threat of induction the whole time) and ended up on bedrest for 6 weeks after, very stressful and b-feeding was difficlt.

So I'm enjoying trying to actually be 'ready' for things... I literally had a crib full of unopened shower gifts to go thru after coming home. The one thing the crib got used for... and I'm not complaining, but it was just so hard being on bedrest and not having a thing ready for baby because I had been unable to travel to my parents for my shower, etc. etc (I even had a 2nd shower and was literally in labor for that one(-;

I'm sooo much a last minute person that making it to my due date or after is really appealing... Even though I have a dresser full of baby clothes ready, diapers, and most things... I'm still just SOOO unprepared. Kinda. I mean, I'm being so laid back because what does a baby REALLY need, not much.... but I'm waiting for a major freak out.

I'm nesting nicely, trying to finish photo books for my son, sewing, hanging photos, etc. and i'm so not an artsy person!

I'm just trying to take care of myself and not lose sleep trying to get things done.

Jessica

[mollybird77]

Add me to this group! I thought I was the only one who felt this way. Both my other kids were 2-3 weeks early, and I've never gotten to experience feeling "done" with being pregnant. Honestly, I've always felt a little jipped for that. Especially with my first baby when I had him at barely 37 weeks. I was totally expecting to be pregnant for another month, and it was all over so quickly that I think it made my baby blues worse than it should have been.

I mean, yeah, I'm totally miserable like everyone else, but despite all that I LIKE being pregnant! I love how exciting these last days are, and I think that's why I can remain patient. I know that sometime very soon I will have an experience that I will savor and remember for the rest of my life. I don't want to rush it!

There's a few superficial reasons I'm not ready yet either. I have a hair appt next Tues, and a date with dh to see Harry Potter on Wed. I don't want to miss those

[newmommaamy]

Add in my DH

I was 37 weeks yesterday and when we talked about how the baby could come at any time I could see the panic in his eyes. I am not really having any signs that the little guy is on the way, but when I said that I am now OK for him to come anytime he is ready DH said to my belly "you stay in there at least a few more weeks" then gave a list of all the things that need to happen before the baby should come.

Haggie- I see you are pretty new, welcome, I hope that your little one decides to make a surprize apperance soon

[jessjgh1]

Oh, Harry Potter is opening that soon. Maybe we can squeeze that in. That'd be awesome.

(I'm soooo out of the loop)

Jessica

[velcromom]

Not very impatient here... while people around me keep saying "Oh, any day now, huh?" I am not thinking that way at all... while we are "ready" stuff-wise and situation wise, I just don't feel done with this pregnancy yet.

My last ds was taken about three weeks too early by c/s and he was so tiny it was hard for him to nurse and hard to wake him to feed... he was just not ready. Right now I am completely open for getting another two to three weeks of growth on this baby and going til the end of the month. We'll see!

[mtn.mama]

Lets see... I'm 38 weeks plus 5 days. I'm big slow and happily pregnant. Our birth house is ready except for last minute stuff, but Honey Pie is still working on the 'wood-fired hot' part of the hot tub. Two nights ago I dreamt that the baby fell out in a bathroom in town while I was shopping. Last night I dreamt the midwives were here. No I'm not impatient, not even that uncomfortable. This might be the only time I get to be pregnant and I don't want to get in a hurry with it. While I'm really expecting it to happen this week, I feel prepared to go as late as July 31.

[marziechar]

I was REALLY eager. For some reason, I really really wanted 070707...but I'm now 38wks and I don't honestly expect the little one before 42 wks (I just have a feeling), so I'm alright.

We have a few things to do still, we have no name (heehee we change every week), and I want to be rested (I haven't slept well in a couple weeks with the heat)....

[Juvysen]

I didn't expect to but then at about 37 weeks I started getting a lot of pre-labor yuck (menstrual-y cramps, achey pelvis - more than usual) so now I just want my baby to come so I can feel better again.