I have baby envy

[Valerieg]

All these cute pictures of all the November babies...it makes me anxious to meet my own. I know it could be up to another three weeks for me which is making me sad. I have baby envy!!!

I am so happy to everyone that has already had their babies though and I love reading the birth stories. I check back multiple times a day to read updates!!! It is SO exciting.

I just can't wait to add my own. As content as I am still being PG...I would also like to be holding my baby. Maybe in the next week or so.

[AimeeandBrian]

Me too! Mine could take two more weeks!

[Curlita]

They will arrive! Enjoy your final days or weeks of nesting.

[Valerieg]

I think I may have gone overboard in the last couple weeks...now I'm exhausted and the nesting has subsided completely. : Hopefully I can at least manage to keep it clean because I'll be seriously irritated if my MIL or SIL cleans my house (yes, strange, I know).

I'm enjoying the ease...if you can call it that...of caring for my 2-year-old without an infant around. I keep reminding myself that life is easier with the babe inside. But it's hard to convince myself of that!!!

[Curlita]

Originally Posted by Valerieg

I'm enjoying the ease...if you can call it that...of caring for my 2-year-old without an infant around. I keep reminding myself that life is easier with the babe inside. But it's hard to convince myself of that!!!

I can send my infant to your house if you really think you WANT to be convinced.

Though I don't want to scare you... having a toddler and an infant is just a new juggling act. You add another ball and figure it all out.

[GooeyRN]

Originally Posted by Valerieg

All these cute pictures of all the November babies...it makes me anxious to meet my own. I know it could be up to another three weeks for me which is making me sad. I have baby envy!!!

I am so happy to everyone that has already had their babies though and I love reading the birth stories. I check back multiple times a day to read updates!!! It is SO exciting.

I just can't wait to add my own. As content as I am still being PG...I would also like to be holding my baby. Maybe in the next week or so.

I am right there with you! BTW, we should keep in touch. My dd is about the same age as your toddler. She was born 10-23-05. It will be interesting to see how they react to the new baby!

[scheelimama]

Originally Posted by Curlita

I can send my infant to your house if you really think you WANT to be convinced.

Though I don't want to scare you... having a toddler and an infant is just a new juggling act. You add another ball and figure it all out.

Ditto! Only it's 3 now for me. I have no idea how I'll juggle it all when dh goes back to the sandbox. Even with him here, it takes us 40 min. or more to get everyone and everything together to leave the house. Yikes! I told him today that I'll never, NEVER leave the house again, once he's gone. And yes, in my crazy postpartum state, I almost believe this. It will just be impossible for me to get everyone on the same page at the same time.

Sorry to steal the thread. And I can totally understand the baby envy. When you're in those final weeks it feels like it will last forever. Looking back, it's easy to say, "Oh, baby will come sooner than you think." But when you're living it, it's so hard to be content in the end. You're so anxious to meet the new little life you created. You know, by the time you have your baby, many people in the ddc will have babies a month old or more and will be having newborn envy when they see your new baby pics. I just love this newbornness, but it only lasts such a short time. I love how they curl their legs up still and how they smell and look.

[*GreenMama*]

Add me to the baby envy club. I love updating the list and seeing all the new babies, but ug, I just want the labor to be over and the baby to be here.

I know raising a toddler and baby will be challenging, but you know, I don't think I can keep this little one in me until my toddler is 5 so I'm opting for sooner rather than later!

[chrysalis]

i'm there too. lately i've been feeling sooo tired, and sooo down. plus all these mamas having their babies isn't helping...i am so ready to meet mine. yet i'm not.

i finally gave in and bought disposable diapers cuz i just don't feel i can deal w/ the CD's...i know i know...i just can't imagine carrying a stinky poopy diaper around w/ me in a store or in the car or wherever. i'd rather just get rid of it. sigh...but it pollutes the earth and that bothers me more...

anyway, yeah. i'm ready to meet my baby. i wonder if this is part of the depression i'm feeling...is prenatal depression common? why don't they ever talk about that? i've been in the dumps.

[Kontessa]

I really feel for you mothers having to wait and watch the rest of us go. I can not say enough though, please take care of yourselves. Get lots of rest, LOTS. and do what every you can to make recovery smoother. Baby is wonderful but hard work!

[ComfyCozy]

*grumblegrumble..as if I needed to just spill coffee all over my shirt*

Last week I finally came to the conclusion that life will be much easier when this baby is out. I can barely walk anymore. The thought of putting dinner on the table is a joke. Perhaps it helps that I have my oldest three to hold the baby when I have to tend to the 2 year old, or they could help her out themselves...older kids have their perks... but I can't do anything anymore, it seems. I can't carry laundry from one story to the next. I can barely stand at the counter long enough to put dishes in the dishwasher.

*sigh* I'd love to enjoy nesting right now like I did a couple of weeks ago, but I can't move around to do it without pain.

BTW Chrysalis, I saw you mention the moodiness in another thread-- your body essentially goes through a giant PMS bout before you have a baby. The same hormonal shifts are going on as would happen if you weren't pregnant and AF was about to show. Your progesterone (pro-gestation) is dropping and your estrogen is rising. As a result your body becomes more sensitive to oxytocin and it will eventually result in your uterus contracting and shedding its contents. In our case, we get a baby Non-pregnant women get AF. Women in early pregnancy will experience a miscarriage. But it's the same hormonal shift to get there. You just feel good when your progesterone is high, but if it doesn't drop, we' won't have our babies.

So I will now end this post and go off to continue being a total monster to all those around me.

[*GreenMama*]

Well at least I know why I've been Mrs. Moody-monster of late!!!

[GinaRae]

Celeste,
That's exactly what I was going thru when I went. i was surprised to go early, but relieved too.

[ComfyCozy]

You know, what gets me is that all these poor overdue Mamas have been going through it for weeks longer than I have. I feel terribly for them, especially as someone who has never even hit her due date...but I also know I very well could have my first overdue baby. Who cares if I'm 75% effaced. I WAS 2cm dilated, now I'm back to a fingertip. But these are the biggies:

I can still sit on the floor and get up off the floor. I have never done that past 36 weeks.

I can bend over and crack my back. Again, not do-able past about 36 weeks.

I do not feel like my belly is going to split in two right down the center, which I've felt right at the end with all my full-term babies.

I thought "Well maybe she's small...I guess she hasn't hit 7 pounds yet." I usually can tell when they have, but the MW was feeling around on Thursday and gave me a very funny look when I told her I thought the baby was still a six pounder. Great. Looking at the last couple of days, I'd say the MW is spot on. She's probably just hit 7 (my last two were born at 7#6oz, my biggest baby was 7#10; I don't carry well which is why I end up in so much pain with these smallish babies)

Past history indicates it could be anytime now, but I'll likely go after Thanksgiving. My last 4 have gone at 39w5d, 38w, 39w, and 39w4d. I'm 38w2d now.

Or maybe I'll have my first overdue and 8+ pound baby. I shouldn't sit here and mull it over. I should be planning our Thanksgiving feast that I'll be in too much pain to fix

: I'm in a BAD mood. Anybody got chocolate?