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With DS I kept saying I wouldn't go early and everyone said I would. Now I am scared of being early with DD I really don't want to be early - I'd prefer late. I am hopeful that I can at the least keep her in until 39 weeks.
I wish there was a way to know for sure
I had no real idea with Alex, and was hospitalised at 28w and he was born at 34w, so six weeks early. I had nasty pre eclampsia.
So when I fell with Ned (and for those of you who remember, I didn't do a test until about 10w) I was told, by all and sundry including doctors, obs, nurses, midwives, basically that if I made it to 32w I was doing well. So my goal, in my head, was 32w, and that was what was going to happen.
So when I got to 32w, I was ready... and then along came 33, and then 34, and then 35, and then 36w, and then I had a scan to see if everything was okay, and they told me that he was 7lbs at 36w... and I completely flipped!
I was looking for a VBAC but OMG if he was 7lbs at 36w he was going to be a WHOPPER! So I begged and begged for a scheduled c/s but they said they were completely booked out for scheduled! (mind you this is Monash Medical Centre so I didn't really believe them!) Thank you Kelly for keeping me focussed during this time!
So along I went at 37w, then 38w, and then had a mini breakdown at 38w because I couldn't handle being this pregnant. I had never been "this pregnant" in my life and I was so huge it was AWFUL. I had a number of days of simply crying and wanting baby OUT NOW..... but it STILL didn't happen.
Mind you I had been told he would have been here six weeks earlier... so each day I had it in my mind that... today was the day....
And then 39w came, and then 40w came, and boy was I frustrated! GET THIS BLOODY BABY OUT NOW!!!!!
But no, no scheduled c/s for me.....
I tried everything... including sex (mind you I didn't like XH at this time either) and all types of other things... but still nothing...
So along came 41w... okay I was COMPLETELY over it.
And then at 41+1 I started with the epigastric pain, the spots in my eyes, and feeling very average.... so off we went to the hospital... pre-eclampsia well and truly setting in again... (had been on aspirin and labetelol on and off during the pg to try and manage high blood pressure - mostly successfully). Had an internal with a little Chinese doctor who had tiny hands... couldn't even FIND my cervix let alone determine whether it was favourable... so got another BIG doctor with BIG hands who told me that my cervix was very high and so closed he couldn't even get a finger in there so they couldn't break my waters...
So they then said... well we can manage the pre-eclampsia, we'll have to book you in for a c/s, you can have it done next week or you can have it done tomorrow...
Bugger next week, DH said, we'll have it tomorrow! Didn't consult with me at all, just said yes, we'll have it tomorrow thanks.
So my dreams of a VBAC went out the window...
And Ned was born at 41+2 weighing 4.38kgs (or maybe 4.48, can't remember exactly) bloody hell, not bad for a pre-eclampsia mum! Mind you he had a 39.7 head circumference (that I DO remember) so I don't exactly know how I would have gone with a VBAC with a head circ that big!
So much for "knowing" whether he was going to be early or not! I was told by EVERYONE he was going to be born at 32w, and I spent the next nearly 10w going out of my mind!
If someone tries to tell me when my next bubba will be born, I'm going to shoot them!
Everyone told me i would have to go early. I was huge (probably something to do with the 30kg i packed on, altho bubs was nearly 5 of that!).. But he came 5 days late! it shocked everyone. U really need to take it day by day and dont get any hopes up that you are going to come early cause you just get dissapointed and you dont want that!
I had a feeling I would go a bit early, but realistically thought bubs would be late as I was 3 weeks overdue when I was born. Oliver was 5 days early.