Anyone else fibbing on their due date?

[lindsayjean]

I *think* I am due around July 20th, but I plan to say "sometime near the end of july or beginning of August." We're having a homebirth and haven't decided how many we'll even share that info with until after the fact... and I don't want all the questions about if I was in labor yet like last time.

Plus than maybe I won't focus so much on the date like last time, ugh.

Anyone else?

[bananababies]

Right now, if people ask I'm telling them the due date, but as the date approaches I'll definitely be using the "by mid-July" tactic so people aren't bugging me too much. I also say, when it's getting near, in my most cheerful voice "Well, only 5% of babies are actually born on their due date, so she/he could come anytime!".

[an_aurora]

I am due July 9 but I will be saying "late July."

With DD1 I made the mistake of saying my actual due date and she was born 7 days past her EDD and EVERYONE bugged me. With DD2, she was due February 24th but we told everyone March, and lo and behold she arrived March 5th.

[KimProbable]

I'm being extremely vague and just saying July. It's party so that people won't bug me but mostly it's so that I don't have a date stuck in my brain. It's probably hard to imagine, but I became a giant hormonal wreck when my babies (who I predicted would be born on their due dates) were born late.

[dogmom327]

For the few people who know, I've told them the real date (July 1st) but DS was 15 days early and I have a feeling this one will be similar so really my due date doesn't mean much anyway and is likely an over-estimation of the time I will be pregnant. FWIW, if I go overdue, I'll be just as happy--DS was small (6#) and I'd prefer a fatter baby

[pinksprklybarefoot]

I accidentally told my MW's office the wrong LMP date. I am strongly considering just not telling them it is wrong. It buys me an extra three dates in case the LO decides to go past two weeks late.

[turtlewomyn]

Due July 10th, I will be telling family either July 24th or 28th. Or just "the end of July"

[penstamon]

I have been given a range of due dates!! From July 25-31. I think I will tell my family the baby is due on my late momma's b-day (30th) because I am hoping for that above all.

I havent actually told anyone yet, except for dh, but I like the idea of being vague- late July/early Aug.

[ATruck]

I am going with the due date of my LMP rather than the date I got from charting, because the LMP date is 3 days EARLIER. I am more nervous about the possibility of preterm labor, and 3 days might help keep me out of the hospital, you never know.

[Ianthe]

I just tell my friends that I am due June 30th but will probably have baby in July.

My midwife encouraged me to tell her that I thought my EDD would be around July 6th. Thats OK with me Well.. she said she didn't want to know the exact date, anyway, to give us a little room for going over.

[organic-mama]

According to my LMP I'm due June 24, but telling everyone First week in July. I'm secretly hoping for a July baby.

[Fetch]

I'm on the opposite end.
I'm due July 4th, but had/have ovarian hyperstimulation, so my belly swelled up so much I looked 5mo pg and had to wear mat clothes.
In fact, right now I look about 3mo still and still need to wear mat clothes, but the hyperstimulation is getting much better.

With that said, the people I had come face to face during this time knew right away I was pg just looking at me. Too soon to want to announce it, but couldn't hide it. Also had no interest in explaining why I look the way I do... so I was telling ppl I was "a couple of months pg", or "two months pg", yet I was only about 4wks. Right now I'm going on 7wks.

This time around I'm opting for a c-section because of the traumatic vag birth last time, so I will probably deliver end of June depending on how the baby is doing.

[LilMamiBella]

I think I'll tell everyone early August. If my mom knew that I was due around her birthday she'd think we did it on purpose or something Then she'd be telling me to have it on her birthday. Like I can make it happen or something.

[lindsayjean]

Yay! I love that I'm not the only one. I'm only like 5 weeks pregnant right now, and we've only told my in laws (my husband couldn't hold it in lol), but they live 8 hours away so it's not that big of a deal to me if they know the real date because they can't just come over or something

Lindsay

[springbride]

We're just over 6wks pg right now and due July 8th, but have told people (like the 2 we've told haha) that the baby will come sometime mid July! One gal asked me what the actual date was, so I told her, and she smilled and said, hey, that was my son's due date too, and he came on July 17th! ...how encouraging! haha
We'll tell the family the middle of July, so that we don't have all of the younger sisters calling every day after July 8th to 'check on us'

[folkymom]

I did this with my last pregnancy and it worked out great. I think giving yourself an extra couple of weeks is really helpful in weeding out all of the annoying attention you get at the very end (especially if you go late!)
I think I'll just tell my extended family "end of July"

[mangofandango]

I'm due in early July, based on my calculations...so I think I'll just tell people early-to-mid July. It didn't even occur to me that you'd get hounded around the due date, but I suppose that would be how it would go. Heh. I'm such a newbie. (My mom had 4 kids, but I was too young to register this sort of thing. )

[blissful_maia]

Hmm... I hadn't considered it, but maybe I will! My dds were born 19 days and 11 days past EDD (and I encouraged the latter a little with herbs etc). I can't stand being harassed in the last couple weeks of pregnancy, as though I'm not PAINFULLY aware that my EDD has come and gone.

[BlessedEarthMother]

My "due date" will be July 15, but I will say that my "birthing time" is the end of July.

[treehugger75]

I'm not fibbing, I'm just being a bit vague. My due date is July 9th and I know it could be anywhere around there. I just say I'm due in mid-July. My first was 2 weeks "overdue" and I went nuts. My second came a day "early." Both of them came out exactly when they were supposed to.

I am hoping for a late June baby, though, because DD is a May baby and DS is a July baby - I'd like them to each have their own month.