Who's not due yet?

[*MamaJen*]

There are still 11 days left in the month of December and I know we're not all overdue yet. I've officially got about a week to go. Who's still with me?
And one more thing.
I will shout it from the rooftops without being ashamed: I am not in a rush to have this baby! I am enjoying the last few days of pregnancy! I am not miserable, in pain or feeling homicidal! It's sunny and 74 degrees in Austin! This entire pregnancy has been a pleasant experience!
There. I said it. Don't put a hit on me.

[cravenab00]

8 days left here.

emotionally, i'm not at all ready. and i want baby to stay put. but physically, i'm in alot of pain and really ready for it to stop.
hard to balance the 2.

[mamatoliam]

I am not 'due' until Sunday. I too am enjoying the last little bit. I am doing all the things on my to do list I didn't think I would get to, like my 2 1/2 yo scrapbook from birth and a pregnancy scrapbook for this new baby. I might even get around to sewing that waldorf doll, lol. Also enjoying the last little bit with my 'baby' as the baby, spending lots of time with him doing whatever he wants and today even cleaning my house again (maybe for the last time before the new baby.)

[mamatoliam]

Also can I say the not wanting a baby on Christmas pressure is really getting to me now, so I think I am telling baby to hang on a little longer.

[Kealli]

"Due" on Saturday, but it is my first and I guess I'm just expecting to go later.

[Momma2DoubleCuties]

Not due for 9 more days. This is the longest I've been pregnant though out of all my pregnancies, which I'm thinking is a bit backward. But whatever. I feel good during the day, night time sucks and I'm so anxious to have this baby in my arms where I can really watch him. I'm still worried that something will happen because he isn't as active, which I don't blame him there isn't much space left to move, but I just want to smell him, love on him and see who he looks like. It'd help my worrying a lot!! But honestly I don't feel like I'm about to birth a baby anytime soon, I feel the same as when I was 6-8 months pregnant, just a little bigger.

[Elsaraw]

Today is technically my due date but I don't feel due at all so I'm ignoring it. Earlier this week I thought it was time but now I feel really good and just normal, though very, very large. I'm hoping for another week because I like having the baby inside and I will miss that feeling very much. I'm going to miss being pregnant.

[sophi4ka]

I am due on Dec 30!

I check the December DDC several times a day, and every time see someone's post that they gave birth. I so much want to be there too!!!
The lady that was due just before me at my midwife's practice gave birth already, so now is my turn. I cannot think of anything else other then having this baby already. Feels like I will not be "unpregnant" ever. I know I am suppose to enjoy those "last days of freedom", rest and relax, but it is SO hard to do!

[Lizzardbits]

I am not due until this Sunday. Up until last friday, I was super happy to remain pregnant, I was feeling pretty good except for my broken crotch (SPD). Then, *dun dunt duuuuuhhhhnnn* I started false labor, lost gobs of mucus, and then gobs of bloody show, and having a LOT of cervical pressure that exacerbated my SPD even more. All of that cr@p has put me firmly in the "DONE" category. I will miss my long stretches of sleep, and the easiness of taking care of baby whilst in utero and having my own time schedule per se, but the frustration of stop/start contrax and brused to ON-FIRE pain in my pubic bone has put me in the spot of welcoming any labor pains just to end this prodromal madness.

Confession time: my insane hormonal pregnancy brain dealing with this prodromal labor and SPD pain has ME, non-interventionalist that I am, wanting to take the amnio-hook that the community midwife has in the birth supply kit that is here and use it!!! ARRRGH! Get out of my head!! Get ye behind me S@t@n-amnio-hook!!! Baby isn't done baking yet--Patience Grasshopper!

I am going to go eat some chocolate, as at least that temptation won't do too much harm.

[CowsRock]

I'm "due" on Christmas. Midwife thought I might go early but it isn't looking like it. I'd prefer to avoid Christmas but I'm really just taking each day as it comes and kind of don't really care anymore...I may start to feel different if I go really late, but I always assumed I would go late. Who knows...point is, yep, I'm here and not due as well. And I'm also content to wait.

[HumbleLuna]

Hi Mamas...

Yep, I am due on Christmas. I am just starting to feel ready for the baby. I have been having a lot of new sensations going on. I feel a lot of low pressure and have lost a lot of mucus. I am starting to feel like I am the only one left. I am not too uncomfortable, sometimes I wake up with horrible heartburn,but that is really my only complaint.
It is hard to wait when there are so many new babies every day.

[cravenab00]

Originally Posted by Lizzardbits

Confession time: my insane hormonal pregnancy brain dealing with this prodromal labor and SPD pain has ME, non-interventionalist that I am, wanting to take the amnio-hook that the community midwife has in the birth supply kit that is here and use it!!! ARRRGH! Get out of my head!! Get ye behind me S@t@n-amnio-hook!!! Baby isn't done baking yet--Patience Grasshopper!

:
i'm so glad i'm not the only one with these thoughts jumping into my head! I was just telling someone earlier, that i'm so glad that I am UPing, otherwise, if i'd been seeing a doc i'd be like "what? induction you say? where and when?"

[Momma2DoubleCuties]

Ha!! I was thinking the same thing. I told DH I should just go to the knitting store and get a crochet hook. :

[Ms. B. Sprout]

I'm not due til the 28th, and feeling pretty good. This has been a very enjoyable pregnancy thus far.

I am VBAC-ing with gestational diabetes, though, so I would like to *NOT* go 18 days late like I did with my first birth.

[Belleweather]

I'm not due until New Year's Eve. I still think (and pray) that I'll go a bit earlier than that, but yeah... I'm just anticipatory, not anxious yet.

[seaheroine]

Originally Posted by Lizzardbits

Confession time: my insane hormonal pregnancy brain dealing with this prodromal labor and SPD pain has ME, non-interventionalist that I am, wanting to take the amnio-hook that the community midwife has in the birth supply kit that is here and use it!!! ARRRGH! Get out of my head!! Get ye behind me S@t@n-amnio-hook!!! Baby isn't done baking yet--Patience Grasshopper!

:

pretty much.

[penquinmom]

I'm here and due in 7 days.
Never really thought I'd get this far since DD was born at 38 weeks and I had a nasty stomach virus at t-giving and they had to check me (irritable uterus due to dehydration) and I was very soft and almost completly effaced.
That said, I wasn't ready until this week, but now, I'm done, ready, whatever...
I think the baby engaged yesterday, I cant wiggle the head anymore and it feels like the head is right down against my pelvic bone. I had lots of contractions yesterday, on and off, but they stopped with lying down or taking a bath.
So anytime would work for me...I too would rather avoid the actual Christmas b-day, but more for my 2yo's sake this year than anything. She is so excited and is counting down the days to Santa on a cloth calender thing we have every day...so I'm eating pineapple and trying to move as much as I can stand it..we'll see.

[PGinthe612]

Not due 'til Saturday, definitely feeling I will go longer, and it isn't helped by the fact my docs are pushing for a primary c/s due to "possible macrosomia." Not looking forward to duking it out with them tomorrow at my appointment.

[f&p'smama]

I hit 40 weeks the day after Christmas, so I guess I have 5 days till due date as of tomorrow.

My twin pregnancy was so much harder than this one. I have hip pain, waddle instead of walk, am up every 2 hours to pee, have swollen limbs and feet and am cranky, but I really can't complain.

Mostly I feel content to wait till the baby is ready to come. My 37 week twins were very difficult to get nursing and even my sister's baby who was born at 39 weeks was not easy to nurse, so I am hoping getting closer to 40 weeks means that nursing will go more easily. I do get antsy from time to time just to meet this little one, see what s/he looks like, know the gender, etc.

I am also VBAC-ing and feel like my odds of that go down after 41 weeks, so next week I'll probably be getting in the get out now baby mode!

[stellimamo]

I'm not due till Sunday and really don't think I'll see this baby before NewYears. But dh really would love for me to have him over the weekend because of his work situation: both vacation time and his traveling. I'm not in a huge hurry but I really want to snuggle my baby!