I know--let's say we're waiting for the full moon effect...

[BarefootinBrooklyn]

Anyone else due around the full moon (the 24th)? Maybe to give myself a little more patience, I'm going to stop thinking that it could be "any day now" and say "of course not yet, my 'lady tides' are going to get affected by the full moon!" And when I really think about it, it's next week, so that isn't too far away at all. I've always been affected by the full moons, I don't know why my birth should be any different.: It feels like a relief to say that, for some reason.

Here's an article on it...
http://www.birthsource.com/Scripts/a...?articleid=409

Plus, I saw an awesome looking vegetarian turkey in the freezer section of Whole Foods yesterday that was a bit more expensive than the Tofurkey Feast, but I think that this year I deserve it. If I was a very new mom for Thanksgiving, I would probably be eating takeout!

Let's look forward to full moons and bellies full of green bean casserole...

Anyone else have things they're telling themselves to stay patient? (Besides the obvious...that our babies will come when they're ready...)

[xelakann]

I'm "due" on the 19th, but I think I'll have the baby around the full moon.

I like thinking that for two reasons, 1) It gets me through Thanksgiving and 2) it seems primal to have a baby on a full moon.

The new moon only brought mild BH-like contractions, however, it usually seems like the only time I can feel my contractions or there is anything exciting about them is either during the full moon or new moon.

Kimberly

[BarefootinBrooklyn]

I had bh contractions at the new moon too! A friend of mine who had her baby in September had crazy contractions at the lunar eclipse in August...she even went into the hospital and all the nurses were like, "Ah, the lunar eclipse..."

[yogamama74]

I am right there with you. I'm due on the 25th. Its making me CRAZY to think "any day now" especially when people keep making comments like, "baby yet?" My mom text messages me every night..."any sign of baby?" and I'm actually not due for 12 days. Its very hard to relax at all.

I had my cervix checked by the midwife yesterday and I'm dilated to 1 cm and have been for over a week. No contractions, twinges, cramps, nothing. My last two babies came only 3 days early and this one was measuring slightly behind the last couple of months.

I think I want to enjoy some turkey and pie before I go into labor. The 24th sounds like a nice day....

[Valerieg]

That works for me!

I have 14 days left (if you go by EDD...which is pretty accurate for me since I was charting). Everyone keeps asking me when. Maybe I'll start saying the 24th!

*shrug*

[chrysalis]

my EDD is the 21st so that is possible...although i always figured since he's my 2nd baby that he'd come beforehand...sigh. we shall see!

[lisarussell]

When I was severely late with baby #4 (12 days) A lady in our homeschool support group discovered I was having a UC and brought me this book about some (IMHO) wacky women whose husbands shout prayers to God over their laboring wife and the midwives do nothing but pray for the woman, like Birth in Zion or something. No comfort measures, no medical checks. If God wants you to die in labor then it's your duty to lay there on your back and suffer to death. Anyway, after I was done reading the book, I was so much at peace. The feeling I had in my hear was that God's plan is better than mine. Something wonderful is in store, and everything will end up perfect. I floated on air for the next few days, blissfully non-bummed that I was so very overdue. I am very very NOT religious, so gaining a glimmer of hope from this very radical book was odd. One thing is true, though. The way things end up happening are usually better than whatever we had planned. We might like to plan for every contingency and presume to make allowances for everything we can predict; but it's the unpredictable things that end up defining the experience, and making it wonderful.

So- Let's all hope that our unpredictably wonderful births occur with the coming full moon.

One request- I can NOT give birth on Thanksgiving or the day before, because it's my daughter's birthday (she'll be 11) and we have plans to go see a movie (Enchanted) and we're eating a feast (that my KIDS are cooking)

Having leftovers will be a great way to feed the family the next day (when I am laboring and don't want to be in the kitchen) and the next day when I am recovering (and don't want to be in the kitchen).

So my new hope for this baby will be that it's born on the 23rd. Unless she wants to come earlier, then anytime between now and the 19th is just great. I'm sure God knows all about what's best, and would agree with me on all these points.

[Grace24]

Due on the 23rd, already decided not to expect him til the next day/ full moon. I had bad BH contractions last weekend too, at the new moon. Awful.

Possible he'll be even later than that, since I keep hearing that average first pregnancies last 41 weeks! Grr...

[joannalovesyou]

full moon is five days away!

i'm in the boat with those who're hoping to have a full moon baby. as a doula, i've been in the hospital and birth center on many many full moon nights, and i can tell you from experience that it's crazy busy.

[bgb699]

I've been saying since I first found out I was pregnant that this babys coming on Nov. 24 because 1) It's a full moon and 2) it's DP's birthday. What a wonderful present that would be for him!

[joannalovesyou]

i bet this board sees a lot of action at the beginning of next week with birth stories and pictures.

[chrysalis]

i bet so too! i have a feelin' the next few days are going to bring lots of action for us still waiting/due around the full moon. i love watching the moon get fuller and fuller...feeling as if that is what is happening w/ baby gearing up...

[lisarussell]

Maybe I need to actually go outside and stare up at the moon and like meditate on it for a while. I honestly can't believe I am still pg.

Last Wednesday at 1am I started contracting every 3-5 minutes and it lasted for like 4 days. WOW- 4 days, and nothing. So now every day I wake up and do a little "systems check" and say to myself- DAMN, today isn't the day either? WHAT"S UP??? Every night I go to bed hoping to wake up in the middle of the night racked with labor pains, but instead, I wake up refreshed and doing that whole mental thing where I try to convince myself I can make it through another day.

So Full moon is Saturday, huh? Allright. Because if baby isn't born tomorrow, It will need to wait until Friday and at that point, I guess, Saturday will be just fine.

Whatever- even tomorrow feels like an eternity from now. I held a 12 hour old baby last week, and my arms are just CRAVING a warm snuggly baby. My breasts were leaking from holding a rolled-up tablecloth at work the other day (we own a restaurant) It felt like a baby in my arms, I leaked. Isn't that a sign that I AM READY DAMMMMMMMIIIITTT.