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[bdavis337]

In the last 2 days I've listened to a lot of strange ideas about why I'm "still pregnant", here are my favorite responses and statements from folks so far:

1. Tomorrow's your due date, right? So when is your induction then?
2. You'rd NOT being induced? But you're 40 weeks, isn't that when you're supposed to get induced?
3. Aren't all these contractions you're having bad for the baby? (this is my personal favorite!)
4. If you're dilated already, why aren't you in labor yet?

Feel free to add your own foolishness!

[luckydog]

I think I'm uber-scary bitch when I'm this pregnant. So far no one has DARED say this kind of stuff to me!

With that said, my 15 year old DSS's mom has apparently filled his head with all kinds of uninformed propaganda, and now he's all worried about Jake and me not being in the hospital for the birth.

The kicker though was when she scoffed to him that it didn't make sense to use Jake as a nickname for J@ckson when everyone knows the right nickname would be Jack.

[bdavis337]

Every morning, Tom asks "so how did you sleep last night". And very morning I reply "like I always do when I'm pregnant". And then he says, without fail "well, I didn't get to bed until midnight myself....". As if HIS bedtime is something with which I am concerned at this point.

[LISSA~K]

I guess mine would be the amazed comments about how I am still pregnant 9 days after my due date and how my mother keeps pointing out that if I had an ob, I would be in the hospital getting induced. Um yeah, that's one of the reasons I have a midwife

[SleepyMamaBear]

oh my favorite so far, has been from my own mother after a MW appt:
"so, how dilated are you?"
"i dont know. not 10 cm obviously"
"what do you MEAN you dont know, didnt you CHECK???!" *look of shock*
"no, i dont needs anyones hands in my sensitive vagina right now, and beleive me i will KNOW when i am dilated enough, i will be pushing a baby out of my crotch, until them its not an issue!"

i have also heard from friends of family, VERY mainstream people:
"havent had that baby yet huh? better get ready for the induction"
"what do you mean you are going to have her at home, thats unsanitary!" (our local hospital just had a staph outbreak in the NICU, yeah and my HOME is unsanitary?)
"after Addys birth i would think you would be racing to the hospital!"
its Addys birth that is keeping me so FAR from the hospital!!!!!

[LISSA~K]

I have to add another. My mom told me today that I should probably stop eating so the baby doesn't grow any bigger. I swear she was only half kidding

[tammyswanson]

Originally Posted by AddysMama

"what do you mean you are going to have her at home, thats unsanitary!" (our local hospital just had a staph outbreak in the NICU, yeah and my HOME is unsanitary?)

My MIL called me today and said I 'have' to go to the hospital (yet again), since DH told her (when I said not to tell ANYONE what we are planning): so then I started telling her about all the staph infections in hospitals that people catch, like that woman in Florida who had her arms/legs amputated for a flesh eating bacteria that she caught when she went to birth there.

[SleepyMamaBear]

well you can tell her that a hospital near someone you know lost 5 babies to staph in the NICU. where its supposed to be MOST sanitary.

[bdavis337]

Unsanitary? Oh geeeeeez.

Tom asked me tonight (just before refusing sex b/c "it might start you into labor and I'm tired and don't want to have to do that tonight") if I feel like I need an induction.

Foolishness is running around unchecked here lately.

[SleepyMamaBear]

oh jeez, Morgan would get an at home castration if he said something so rude. either one of those things.
tho he did suggest castor oil after hearing from a co-worker about his neices sisters aunts cousins best friend... etc.
i told him. sure, you first. when you are comfortable having intense bowel cramping and the trots like you wont beleive for HOURS, then i will be too.

[jessjgh1]

Keep your humour everyone ...laughter is the best medicine...

Jessica
NAK

[jee'smom]

Originally Posted by bdavis337

Unsanitary? Oh geeeeeez.

Tom asked me tonight (just before refusing sex b/c "it might start you into labor and I'm tired and don't want to have to do that tonight") if I feel like I need an induction.

Foolishness is running around unchecked here lately.

I wanted to dtd and midwife said it'd be a great idea to get things going that way when i was about 39 wks. dh was like "no, i need to work overtime friday night, so that's not good for me. i haven't worked OT in about a year, and now when i schedule it, you don't want me to do it... we need the money, you know... you're never concerned about money..." blah...blah... blah... i'm like "ya, you had 9 months to work to make some extra money, knowing kalia was coming and you pick the last 2 weeks i'm due to do it? idiot!"

[bdavis337]

We had a bit of a conversation in this regard a little while ago. He's never been wierd about labor, so it's just bizarre to have him saying things like "whoa, don't want to do that right now, might start you into labor", like some freaky old man or something. So I called him on it, and he admitted that he's really nervous about having another child, and that he's feeling pressured at work to only take as few days as possible (he just txfrd depts, and he's got to prove himself again apparently). I told him "hey, telling me I can't have the baby on the weekend, and that I need to wait until such and such day to go into labor......not so helpful"!

[SleepyMamaBear]

i asked this moring as he was getting ready for work, and i was up for my 6am pee "you wanna get things going today? maybe a quicky before you walk out?"
and i get "yeah, but after work i am going to Maurecios to play basket ball, its ball night babe!"
omg i thought i was going to kill him.
i had to go sob myself to sleep in anger.
wtf, i KNOW he wants to hang out with his friends while he still can. i KNOW he needs to get the excersize in order for him to be a functioning member of society, or he becomes the worlds biggest jerk..
but, UGH!!!!!

[jee'smom]

tiffany... omg, are we married to the same man?!!! when i thought my water had broken, my dh was like, "well, can i still go play softball? you can call me if you need me..." my dh is like yours, and needs the exercise and outlet with the guys (drink a beer or two/manly s**t)... but i was so pi$$ed! btw, he didn't go to softball nor did he make it to work for overtime.

[soybeansmama]

I am so glad that I am not the only one easily peeved these days...

My dad said to me last night:
"I have never seen a pregnant woman as big as you are. Is this normal?" (as he pats my belly)

I don't know why it bothered me as much as it did. I almost cried in front of him...

[SleepyMamaBear]

if my dad said that i would call him a jerk.
i guess i am SUPER lucky my parents are so sappy sweet when i am pregnant.
especially my dad. he gets SO overprotective of me. seriously i become his little princess all over again.
its pretty nice actually.

[soybeansmama]

That's what almost made me cry...both my parents are very kind and thoughtful about the things they say. It was like he was seriously concerned. He wasn't even trying to be rude or funny. It just confirmed my feelings about my freakishly large body...

[SleepyMamaBear]

oh mama!
your body isnt freakishly large, its just perfect. you are carrying another human being around, its going to get BIG. but you are one gorgeous pregnant soon to be birthing mama!