Is it effin time yet???????? - Page 2

[FelixMom]

I'm happy where I am with this pregnancy, but it's going by waaay too fast! It's probably our last one, and I just want to put up my feet and enjoy being full of this unknown potential new life.

I'm slowing down. Needed TWO naps the other day just to make it through. Too bad I have a 17 month old that needs less sleep than me.

I for one actually hope this baby shows up anytime after Feb 8 so s/he'll be born in the same Chinese astrological sign as his/her mama. I'm born in Year of Rat and prior to Feb 8 this baby#3 would be the tail end of Year of Pig.

[Carlito's_wife]

Uh oh. I think I wrote that post in too much of a hurry. I didn't mean I would want my baby to come out now. I want to hold her now yes, but I don't want her to come out now. I am just anxious. I know how hard it would be on her to come out at 29 weeks and that is why I put I would never want my baby to suffer. Maybe I am being overly sensitive *I am told I do that from time to time* but it seems like everyone is kind of wondering what the h*ll is wrong with me. Of course I know she can not come out now. I am sure she won't try to either. Both of my other children had to be induced, I just am anxious.

And someone asked about why I would want my doctor to check my cervix. Well it has been a little over 6 years since I have had to get prenatal care and I don't know if I just am remembering wrong or what but I thought there were a lot more appointments like that. Maybe they weren't checking my cervix but I know they were doing something in there. But then again there are a lot of things I have completely forgotten about pregnancy. I saw my little sisters 8 month old baby for the first time this past week because I am visiting home and I swear it was what I would imagine a 3 month old baby to look like. But everyone tells me I am off my rocker because he is huge for an 8 month old. : Then there is my belly. I swear I just do not remember ever being this big or uncomfortable with the other two. Of course though like I said, one is from 10 years ago and the other from 6. I guess there is a lot I don't remember.

But I didn't mean to offend any of you who have had preemies. I felt kind of goofy when I wrote this post as you can see by the title of it but I guess no one can get my humor because no one knows me. But no I am not some selfish monster who would want my child to come out at 29 weeks. I am just an anxious and uncomfortable pregnant lady who is getting tired. I don't know anyone who would wish for something bad to happen to their baby. Sorry to those of you who took this post so literal. :

[flapjack]

This is the internet, y'know? Sometimes, when you can't hear a person's actual voice and inflection, it's hard to read the words for the letters.
What I've found is that in the 9 years since having my first, antenatal care is getting progressively less and less intrusive. There's a few more medicalised tests being offered, like the routine screening for bacteruria, but antenatal checkups are now a long way apart (7 throughout pregnancy. I don't see my midwife again until 34weeks) and some things, especially in labour, have changed drastically. It used to be that they hooked you up to a monitor as soon as you got to hospital, and some midwives even brought a monitor to a homebirth. Now? They get the doppler out. So I do get what you mean.
BTW, my old GP once said to me "third pregnancy, worst pregnancy, best baby" and you know what? I think she's right. The third one tends, in most cases, to be the one where you carry widest (as in, your navel is further away from your spine), have most Braxton Hicks contractions, most time spent in very early/ prodromal labour, most exhaustion, most everything. And the births? Just go read the birth stories forum, stalk the earlier DDCs and I would put money on the mothers having the hardest time, complaining the most, really REALLY struggling- 9/10 of the time, they're having a third baby. I don't know why, can't explain it, it just seems to be how it is.
Jeez. I didn't help at all, did I? : We're all dooomed!

[ksera05]

Originally Posted by flapjack

I have a HUGE amount of respect for Ksera05 and her gorgeous girl and the other mums of preemies and micropreemies, for the patience and devotion they put into raising these tiny children and the faith and love they have invested in them. And every time I read one of these sigs, I say a silent prayer that that mama makes it full term this time. WHY would anyone want their baby out now? Having seen a 24 weeker when we buried my daughter, I know how fragile and vulnerable this life inside me is now, and I want my son kept safe inside where I can protect him.

aww Helen thank you

OP - thank God you're still pregnant. that's all I can say.

Sarah, who hit 26 weeks yesterday and can honestly say that even though her back is killing her, it is SO MUCH BETTER than the NICU

[Steady101]

While I am ready to meet her already and stop puking, I want her to bake as long as possible. Internals aren't done in the UK or at least my midwife didn't and this time I won't be having them either. I think it just sets the mother up for anxiety and disappointment, personally. You can be a 3 for weeks or nothing and then fully dialated.

[Nature]

Carlito's_wife

[Gunter]

i love spending time with my dd right now and i know that will change tons once this babe comes. plus, you may have read about how i was living abroad and just got back into my country so i need some time to get re-settled here.

like other mamas, i had my babe a bit early and she was small and that freaked me out a bit. all went well but i would like to avoid that stress and worry this time around.

so, i am working on keeping this baby in as long as i can but totally know that s/he will come when ready. i trust that.

[operamommy]

Keeping my guy in till after my EDD is just fine with me! After our preterm labor scare with ds2 at 33 weeks and the bedrest that happened afterwards, I'm more than happy to continue putting up with the back aches, etc. for another 14 weeks!

I'm plain just not ready to have a newborn in the house yet too. I want to continue spending time with my older children, and I have lots of things (both crafty and household-wise) that I want to accomplish before Newbie is here.

Carlito's wife, I do understand your desire to meet your baby, though. I think it's lovely that you're so excited. From what I remember my OB doesn't do any cervical checks till you're right at your due date, and remember, dialation doesn't mean a whole heck of a lot. I spent the last several weeks of each of my pregnancies dialated to 2-3, (and in ds2's case his head was fully engaged from week 33 on) and I know some mamas hit 4 with no baby in sight.

[SamuraiMom]

I just realized that I have never been this pregnant during the winter...I should be hibernating right now. I told DH if he can't find me to look in our closet, I'm thinking of making a cave in the winter clothes I still haven't brought out. All that I really want to do is sleep. A friend reprimanded me for cleaning up after our kids today, she said I shouldn't be doing that with only 14 weeks to go! That changed my perspective, but I really would like to sleep for the remainder!

[CalebsMama05]

Originally Posted by Teenytoona

Can't say I understand your feelings, Carlito's Wife, but everyone experiences this differently. I for now am enjoying this pregnancy. And I'm not quite ready yet (financially, mentally, physically) for the babe.

I agree with not being ready but I am certainly NOT enjoying this pregnancy! my lil princess wants to be our last I guess!

[smokeylo]

When you first posted this I couldn't relate at all, but today I do feel kind of impatient that I have 14 weeks to go! I just like my baby so much, I can't wait to meet him. I wouldn't want him to arrive *now* but I wish I was closer to being done!

[Carlito's_wife]

Sheesh!!!! I am still as excited as ever. I mean you would think with all I still have to take care of I would want a little extra time but with her just moving around in there I am getting more and more impatient to hold her and kiss her little nose.

She seems to be so hyper all the time. I mean I think she is doing summersaults about 60% of the day. I thought she would be too big by now to do all of that but I just went to my best friends sono with her and we are due 3 days apart and I just sat and watched her little boy go around and around in circles in there. I guess they aren't too big yet.

This is just such a new feeling to me. With both of my DS's it was unplanned so things went by so fast and I remember feeling like I wanted things to slow down. But with this one we tried so hard and went through so many let downs that I am a thousand times more impatient than I ever thought possible. I am so happy and full of love for her that I just can't wait to give it to her.

am so excited!!!!! I think though that with the holiday time is really going to fly by.

[trizzle]

I want my baby to come when he or she is truly ready to join the world. And I haven't purchased anything. We haven't set up our house yet (we just moved)--if the baby came anytime soon and could even come home, he'd be napping in one of the few cardboard boxes we've emptied. or a sock drawer. hard to say.
But I do sympathize with the idea of being tired of being pregnant, or at least of the indignities of the process. I do NOT want to hear from my work colleagues how big my boobs have gotten, and I would be really excited to have a day with no pain shooting through my hip and down my leg. And I'd vent about something else, except that I have to go pee again now...just hope I don't sneeze between here and the bathroom...