Who's left to give birth yet?

[ThrowaBouy]

I have 5 more days until my due date. At last weeks appointment I was 1 cm dialated. Both showers on each side of the family have happend. Work threw me a cake gathering on Friday (1 week prior to my due date!) I was really cranky about that... I guess they lost the card w/ money a few weeks ago and kinda half arsed putting a cake party together on Friday with a days notice. I am ready to take off this last week and finally get some rest destress time to nature me and the baby. One more vent about the work party tell me if this is tacky... a few baby gift items and then the remaining money put on a gift card exacty $64.00 couldn't they round up or even down? I thought that was tacky. It's like everyone gave up their vending machine money for the day. Too little too late? OK vent over. haha Due date approaching and baby and I are doing fine.. it's eveyone else that is bugging me. Anyone else feel this way?

[IntuitiveJamie]

My dh tells me regularly that I am way sensitive these days. I'm like DUH! So take a hint then and stop bothering me!

But anyways, other then that things are as they usually are. I'm due Sept. 24th. So I have 15 days left I guess? I'm just trying to get thru one day at a time or I get to crazy.

[SweetTexasgal]

I am "due" mid-month...so I am here anxiously awaiting my little one.

[mamas2atti]

Due September 24th and everyone and everything is bugging me. You are not alone.

[debra_lea]

I am due on the 14th, so only 5 days away. I don't know how I feel, just sort of like I'm spinning my wheels. Wondering every day "is this the day". Then feeling like I "should" be productive in this time I have.

Last time I delivered on my due date, and I didn't have ANY warning. No braxton hicks, no leaking, no plug. It all happened in 4 short hours, and then there was my sweet boy. Maybe I am headed on the same course.

I really don't want to deliver tomorrow. I just don't want my baby to be born on Sept. 11th....anyone else?

[IntuitiveJamie]

Debra, are you in another country? Cuz tomorrow is only the 10th...so I'm hoping that is good news for you. As far as delivering on the 11th, it wouldn't bother me. I have wondered if it would be wierd and I did talk to my dh about it but I've concluded that no matter what else happened on that day good or bad, to me and family and hopefully my childs friends, it will be a day of celebration for his birthday. I mean terrible things have happened all over the world on prob. everday of the year, but I don't think ppl bring you down on your birthday about it, or even bring it up. This may be a silly example, but my dh said it like this. He said, "I'm pretty sure that whoever's birthday falls on the day of the Boston Tea Party, nobody makes an issue of it and refuses to celebrate that persons birthday" I have no idea what made him think of that moment in history, but his point was taken. Sept. 11 will always be remembered for what happened, but I don't think it will always carry the fear and sorrow (obviously for some it will..) that it does now. Unfortunatly right now we are still in the middle of a war that some consider due to the attacks on the 11th, but it won't always be this way and won't always be so fresh in ppls mind.
Sorry for such a long spiel, I just don't want to feel bad any day of the year that my child may be born, or for anyone else to!

[stacyg]

I'm still here! Due the 21st so have a little over a week left. I'm ready too! So now it's just the waiting game...I figure it'll get here before I know it so I better enjoy this time!

[Plaid Leopard]

I'm here too! Due on the 18th, and I keep trying to tell myself that 9 days really isn't that long. And although my other 3 arrived "on time", I am also reminding myself that I could have 3 more weeks to go .
Everyone is bugging me too, and the past few days my kids have been bickering and arguing and screaming about EVERY %"#ing THING and i just want to hide in my room. Plus for some reason they have started eating like little pigs - refusing to use silverware, smacking their lips, chewing with their mouths open, showing off their chewed up food - and DH just laughs. : I don't know what is up with that.
And, to make things worse, I feel like I am stuck at home. We don't have a car and we live on a big hill and I am scared to take the bus into town with the kids and then have something happen, because it's not like I could just jump in the car or a taxi and come home. It takes 30 minutes at the very least to get home from town, and that it assuming I am right at the bus stop and my bus is right there. Otherwise, with walking to the bus stop and waiting and riding and then walking up the hill it can take an hour or more.
Uh, thanks for letting me vent

[mimiharshe]

I'm still here! "Due" the 12th...been telling myself the 14th. EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE is driving me nuts. I want to be "normal" again!

[gizzyntaz]

I'm here too. I'm due on Wednesday (9/12). I have no reason to expect that I would go early, DS was 19 days late. I just kind of wished I would. Plus, my body has been doing so much pre-labor stuff (I never had ANY with DS) that I have gotten my hopes up.

I'm already extremely irritable with family members subtly "checking up on me". I've only told them "September" and it's just 1/3 of the way through yet!

I NEED to give birth by the 26th or I have to use the hospital :blech: (I can't have a BC birth after 42 weeks) So I feel a bit of a time crunch, but I'm doing everything I can to facilitate delivery when baby is ready. I firmly believe that babies are best coming in their own time. We evicted DS at 19 days overdue and I believe he would have been happy cooking at least another week. He was a big one though, so I'd be happy with a baby coming a little earlier this time. I know it won't be a peanut by now!

I can't really talk about this on any mainstream boards because most people seem to induce by their due dates. It's like nobody believes that you should make it to 40 weeks anymore!?!? I just keep telling myself not to get too down about it (when I'm achy and tired) because I'M NOT EVEN DUE YET!

I'm having more discomfort at the end this time, but I can sustain another few weeks if need be. Plus, this might be my last, so I try to "enjoy" it. I'm eager to meet the munchkin though...

[thewaggonerfamily]

Still here! WAS due on the 4th: There is a lot I find annoying lately, but the especially the "Are you still pregnant calls" Grrrrrrrr. And my kids bickering and whining is about enough to send me over the edge.:

[stacyg]

Originally Posted by gizzyntaz

I just keep telling myself not to get too down about it (when I'm achy and tired) because I'M NOT EVEN DUE YET!

(bolding mine!)

I'm having to repeat this to my mother A LOT!! I told her quit asking me...the babe could wait until October!

[beautiful_mama]

Originally Posted by debra_lea

I am due on the 14th, so only 5 days away. I don't know how I feel, just sort of like I'm spinning my wheels. Wondering every day "is this the day". Then feeling like I "should" be productive in this time I have.

Last time I delivered on my due date, and I didn't have ANY warning. No braxton hicks, no leaking, no plug. It all happened in 4 short hours, and then there was my sweet boy. Maybe I am headed on the same course.

I really don't want to deliver tomorrow. I just don't want my baby to be born on Sept. 11th....anyone else?

Yes, I too am hoping that baby does not even consider tomorrow as a good day to come

I have been crabby for weeks now, and this week is worse because I am having contractions at night, or during the day on a regular basis and they never seem to pick up :

I already know I won't be having a baby until at LEAST the last week of this month, but it does not stop me from wondering every day if it *could* happen today *sigh*

It's frustrating....especially watching how many moms on here have already gone...and here we will sit...gestating on....and on....and on..... :

[beautiful_mama]

Originally Posted by thewaggonerfamily

Still here! WAS due on the 4th: There is a lot I find annoying lately, but the especially the "Are you still pregnant calls" Grrrrrrrr. And my kids bickering and whining is about enough to send me over the edge.:

omgosh....no kidding.

I almost bit my kids heads off today because they were freaking out over a stupid bee in the van in the parking lot of meijer...it was hot and I was SOO tired and my feet hurt! it was...sad *rofl*

[StrongBeliever]

Yeah... I'm sure I'll be around for a while too! My "due date" is the fifteenth... But I bake em' long, so I am not(okay... TRYING not to) getting my hopes up.

To the PPs frustrated with their children... GAH!!!! I know! Can I make like Garfield and mail mine to Abu Dhabi? My step daughter has just recently found nose picking and boogie eating to be terribly fascinating. :

[mghmom]

Well....I haven't posted in this DDC since....waaaaay back in the beginning. We got offline for a long time and then I just lurked.: Sorry y'all. ANyway, I'm due Tuesday, the 11th and I bet I will still be here then and beyond. All my babes have been late.

For some reason, I'm the MOST impatient with this pregnancy, though. The others I could wait it out and it was almost funny toward the end (watching folks' reactions and stuff), but this time I am simply MISERABLE and IRRITABLE and so mad at the world and the injustice of it all that I am still pregnant.

I think mainly it's because I have every sign in the book of impending labor and yet.....no labor. Contrax day in and out, mucous stuff every day, even a little bloody show last week, but nothing ever turns into anything. I think I might have thought I "paid my dues", so to speak, with doing okay having my other DC so late. And it set me up for major emotional disappointment. Ugh. My poor husband.

And yes, like the rest of you, I am so frustrated with other people. Trying not to be, but it's hard. So sick of "you're still here?" "You haven't had that baby yet?" and my least favorite comment "have you tried ______?"--as if I haven't tried ever last possible thing except castor oil to get this baby out! Ugh. It makes me so : . Most people say "walking." Which makes me feel like they think the reason I haven't had this babe yet is b/c I'm a lazy slob who doesn't walk.

Whew, I feel better getting some of that out. Anyway, I'm here. I'm in some sort of weird time warp where all I can think about is getting the baby out, but I'm here.

Best wishes to all of us still gestating.

[forestrymom]

Still here--"due" on the 23rd, but I found our for some reason yesterday, the mw has the 25th--good news for me because baby will be evicted or I will have to UP the end, at 42 weeks. That's 2 more days for our little man. I did allow her to check my progress on Friday, because I have been having horrible contractions all day and night, and I wanted to know if it was worth worrying over, and its not...dilated to maybe 1 and 50% effaced. This is more progress than I ever made with dd, but still nothing to get my hopes up over.

I have been getting calls too, and its still 2 weeks away. I can't believe people can be so rude and inconsiderate. Dh says they call because they care, but if they cared, they would leave me alone. They are being selfish and nosy, imo, because obviously, if we had the baby and they didn't know, it would be because we didn't want them to know! Sheesh!

I am totally irritable and worn out too. I feel awful for my poor dd, because she is used to a high energy mama. these days, though, i'm lucky to get down on the floor at all, let alone up and down, up and down, up and down.

And, she has suddenly decided she will only sleep if she sleeps with me, which has never, never, in her life, been the case. She hated sleeping with us all along, but now, she will only sleep if she's right next to me. Its wonderful, because I always wanted to cosleep, but now I'm having nightmares about how I'm gonna have them both in bed with me, as she is such a squirmer. Dh has moved to the recliner for most of the night , as we only have a queen and I am taking up a lot of room with all the pillows I need to sleep comfortably.

So, there's my update. We can do it Mamas!

[J-Bean]

My goodness, I've been feeling ready to go into labor now for like 2-3 weeks and now all of the sudden I feel like I've passed the hump...maybe it'll be another 1-2 weeks somehow. Somehow, as in I'm not sure how I'll keep holding the baby in for that much longer, but somehow also since it's already been so long. The baby's head is all in place and low, plenty of bh's but now a mysterious lull in the contractions, and lost the mucous plug 1.5 week ago. I was super irritable and tired for like two weeks, over a week ago already, but now feel like this last calm is kind of nice...minus annoying people. Good luck mamas! I'm waiting too. Happy birthing!

[AdalynsMama]

Due mid-month as well... Getting excited!

[gina871]

Originally Posted by thewaggonerfamily

Still here! WAS due on the 4th: There is a lot I find annoying lately, but the especially the "Are you still pregnant calls" Grrrrrrrr. And my kids bickering and whining is about enough to send me over the edge.:

My was the 5th, but I realy thought that it would be closed to Aug 31 based on date of conception. So If I had a dollar for every call. The baby would have at least a few new outfits.