Maybe this baby is waiting....

[*GreenMama*]

until I hit senior member status? I've only got 23 more to go with this post!

I keep saying, c'mon baby, I've made you a hat, booties, scarf, bought you a winter jacket, The cleaning people just came today and its time you did too, but alas...

So maybe its the senior status... c'mon people help a mama out!

[renaissanceed]

Could be - I've seen babies wait for that senior member status before

[Googy]

I wish this were the case for me! I got mine and NOTHING!!!

Our new theory is that she's waiting to come on Thanksgiving just so it can be as inconvenient as possible for everyone...

[lisarussell]

Um yeah- I thought mine was waiting for cotton balls.

She better not be waiting for her blankie because I only bought 2 skeins from that dye lot and since it was on sale, they might not have more and that was 4 days ago, so chances are slim that it will ever get finished. I'm going to need like 12 more. And that will be like $70 And I'm not really in the mood to spend $70 on a baby blanket I have to make. So, if she's waiting for that, little blankie diva, she's got another thing coming to her.

[chrysalis]

[chrysalis]

now i fear baby may be waiting to come ON toms (bio fathers) bday which is 12/04!!!!! one DAY before i hit 42 wx!!! oh please baby, NOOOOOOOO!!! any day but THAT one. ugh.

[renaissanceed]

My babies seem to like to wait until it's election day. It's strange how they get these ideas in their heads. And it's not like I talked a lot about politics before they were born.

[*GreenMama*]

Originally Posted by Googy

Our new theory is that she's waiting to come on Thanksgiving just so it can be as inconvenient as possible for everyone...

Yeah, I thought about that too. I can imagine the hilarity that will ensue when I go into labor with my brother, sil, and niece in the next room. I love them, but I feel this "I want solitude" pull, and a house full of people sounds like JUST what I need while in labor.

Plus, who's the hosp staff that lost the office pool and had to work on Thanksgiving???? Yeah, nothanks.

[*GreenMama*]

Actually, at this point I'll take any days BUT Dec 1 or 2... The 2nd will be the 1 year anniversary of my mother's sudden passing, and the 1st just holds too much meaning as the last time I saw her. I just don't want to be forced to celebrate another birthday on those loaded days. The 2nd is already my youngest SIL's b-day, and thats hard enough.

And I don't need to hear the "gift from your mom" or "gift from god" talk that will happen if baby does make its appearance on one of those days. I just. No.

[Grace24]

My baby and I have an agreement. He's due Friday and so he's gonna come on Saturday because of the full moon. He just is, that's all there is to it.

So there. Harumph.

:

[Undercover Hippie]

So far we have passed a lot of the things I thought baby was waiting on... DH going back to work, big sibs' Thanksgiving parties at school, a few dates that many people "had a feeling" about, our new cooktop getting installed. So, my current theories on what baby is waiting on...

-To not be a scorpio... maybe he feels more like a saggitarius.

-To make sure his birthday is late enough in the month that it will fall on Thanksgiving every now and then.

-For the one time my MW possibly could not make it to the birth (tonight from about 9-midnight when she is picking up her son from the airport).

-For me to get into a really big project that stands no chance of being finished with a newborn in the house... I did just buy a pattern and 4 balls of yarn to knit a sweater for DS.

-To be the latest and/or biggest baby I have birthed yet.

-For me to have a complete and total breakdown...

[Lizzie9984]

I think as far as mine goes, they're just dragging their feet procrastinating for the sake of procrastinating---Just like DAD does :

Yeah, their personalities are going to be (stubborn) mirror images, I can tell already....

[Lizzie9984]

Originally Posted by Undercover Hippie

-To make sure his birthday is late enough in the month that it will fall on Thanksgiving every now and then.

-To be the latest and/or biggest baby I have birthed yet.

-For me to have a complete and total breakdown...

^^I could see my kid being that devious with any one of these.
Especially the last one.

[wwisdomskr]

I just finished wrapping the last Solstice/Christmas present in the house... So that can't be an excuse. Of course, I haven't bought anything for him yet...is THAT the problem?

I'm going for a haircut, tonight (if my midwife makes it in time for our appointment...). So, I'll be nice and cute for the birth...

What the heck else is left?

I have my bedroom postpartum basket all set up...

I do need to get to the passport office, but had decided that can wait till January. Is baby insisting that his oldest sister's passport be renewed before he joins us?

Wait! I figured it out! We only made one belly mask and it's for my dd1 (since she was 2 months premature and didn't get one...). Dh had a rough time helping me with it because of his broken finger, so we've been thinking we wouldn't make the second one. Okay...that's it...baby wants his own darn belly mask.

Got it.

[lisarussell]

OK, undercover hippy mama, we have way too much in common.


My kid could be waiting for Thanksgiving, just to get a jumpstart on sibling rivalry. My DD#2 turns 11 on Thanksgiving and does NOT want baby coming then.

Could also be because baby wants to get a jumpstart on sibling rivalry by picking on DD#3, whose birthday is Dec 2nd and does NOT want the baby born on her birthday.

Maybe, like Undercover hippy mama suggested, she wants to be a Sagittarius instead of a Scorpio.

Maybe she wants a December birthstone instead of a November one. it would make my mother's birthstone-charm necklace way more balanced.

Maybe she wants to come on MY birthday, December 7th. That would also mean driving me completely insane in the process, another vote for undercover hippy mama's complete mental breakdown theory.

Maybe she's holding out until I buy that $70 yarn (back to the blankie diva theory)

Maybe she wants to be SURE to ruin my Thanksgiving movie-date-tradition (we're supposed to see ENchanted this year)

She's already bigger than any of my other kids (I am measuring 45 cm, is that even POSSIBLE?) maybe she wants to rip me in half or something on her way out.

Hmmm, she's scheming something, I know it.