Engage already dag nabbit!!!!!

[SamuraiMom]

I know I only have 2.5 weeks left, but I am getting so impatient. Don't get me wrong, I don't want this baby to come before s/he is ready, but could ya just be ready already!!!!! I mean on one hand I really want to just appreciate this baby inside me, I know in less than a month I'll be holding him/her in my arms, but at this very moment, this very zen moment I am having, this moment that I can not escape, where no matter what I do or where I turn I am still pregnant, I want it to be over. I want contractions, I want engagement, I want dilation, I want effacement. Bring it on!!!!! O.K. rant over.

[Gunter]

i hear you. the whole time i have wanted to keep this babe in bc i don't want to worry about another small 37 weeker. but, when i have BHX these days, i think i would be okay with meeting this babe now. HA HA, who knows?

I did major nesting and re-arranged our whole bedroom (and perhaps birth room!) tonight. earlier i bought frames and hung pictures on the walls, too. then i re-organized the birth stuff for the second time! so, yeah, i am getting ready, too!

are you staying active? need to do any last minute baking/freezing of meals or post partum set up stuff? take long walks?

[fearfightswinter]

Completely agreed. My first due date is up in two days, and my second is up in six following that. No signs of dilation or anything yet. Ugh!

[Dea]

ME TOO!
I have had so many BHs that it's like I don't even notice them anymore. Although now they are getting more period crampy, but golly I just want to get this show on the road.
I want to enjoy the last bit of pregnancy, but I want to see my baby like all of the other mamas who've already had theirs. (whine)

[mama_nym]

I hear you! Today is my EDD and I feel better than I have most of my pregnancy. The pelvic pressure that I had for the past week has lessened and I feel like I'll be pregnant for another week at least. I just want to finally meet this little one!!!

[lincap]

I feel the same way too.

BUT now, I am playing the date game in my head. I want my sister to be able to come up, and she can't this weekend. I want my brother here for the birth and he is availble after the 11th.. SO now I am like "ok body/baby - after the 11th BUT not the 16th (MIL b-day), oh and not during a snowstorm- thanks!"

[SamuraiMom]

I just want to get this show on the road.

NO pun intended, right Dea

I do have things to do, but it's big stuff, like getting rid of old mattresses and spacklling and painting stuff, things that have to wait for the weekend and for other people, who are available only on the weekend. I do have to just keep myself occupied, I am just being lazy, but that has nothing to do with waking every hour to flip, or pee, or remove one of my other Dc's limbs from my belly/back/boob/or head !!!!

[smokeylo]

I hear ya. I don't have a real reason to be impatient, but I would like a solid sign that things are moving in the right direction. I feel guilty even saying it out loud! I do wish the baby would drop just so I could be like, ok, we're officially lining up! I know it'll happen in the next few weeks, when it needs to happen... I'm just ready to meet my kid! So is DH. (The cats are ambivalent.) I'm ready for the next thing.