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I told people my due date and definitely won't be doing so next time! I got an April Fool's baby TreeTops but she was due March 22nd! It was a LONG 10 days getting texts and phonecalls and hospital checks and "are you STILL pregnant!?" from everyone i knew...BLAH! The last day wasn't so bad i guess, since i was in labour most of it ;)
We didn't tell anyone we were labouring except our birth buddy Jen so she would come over. MIL kind of guessed but when she called (when about 20mins before DD was born) Jen answered the phone, pretended to be a midwife, and said there was nothing much happening :D
Next time i will be giving either the 42nd or 43rd week date to everyone except XP (who will be coming over to be with DD while i birth - homebirth with both of them there). I also won't tell anyone but him that i'm in labour (apart from DP of course!). I actually was very resistant to the idea of visitors before i had DD but once she was born i rather liked jolly wee gatherings when people came over to meet her and have a cuppa. If i got sick of them i just said i needed to feed her and asked them to come back another day. LOL. One's a lot more in control if one stays at home though.
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"I'm due February."
"When in February?"
"When the baby arrives, it's not an exact science."
(My EDD was 31st January but I knew I was going to be late!)
My mother told everyone I was due the 10th of February because I refused to tell her so I had a lot of correcting to do! Especially as that's my cousin's birthday - his mother was hoping for a January bub!
DH told his family, who were quite good with it. BiL called the 10th and 11th to see if I'd had the baby yet, luckily DH answered the phone and spoke to him! I was expecting DS on the 11th so a bit tetchy at that point - went into labour 7am on the 12th. I was due for an induction that day so I did tell my sister that I was in labour - maybe my mum too - but they knew I was going to hospital so didn't bother me again. Then again, they may have bugged DH that night, I don't know.
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See Ryn i NEVER ask when babies are due, because 90% of the people i know with kids phoned me and went "OMG AF is late, think i could be?" and i work it out from their last AF....cheeky i know. Also ladies who fib almost never remember to remain vague about development - like they'll say "oh we saw/heard the heartbeat this week for the first time" or "You know s/he has FINGERNAILS now!" and i can work out to within a couple of weeks the stage they're at. But then what do i do with my guessed EDD? Nothing much. When i know time is getting on for the mum i start to do things like invite her out for a coffee, take meals over so she doesn't have to bother cooking and invent other ways to fill her time without annoying her too much. I tend not to mention the baby either. When i was at 41+3 i wanted to talk and think about ANYTHING but the damn baby! LOL.
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Bec, my mum could have figured it out. I told her when my 12w and 20w scans were, nothing (even though my 20w scan was at 19w). I told her when the first kick was. But it wasn't because that didn't fit with when she wanted it to be! So I don't mind people figuring it out, but I would like them to believe me when I tell them what's going on!
I didn't tell anyone how Liebs was developing other than the kicks and that the scans were OK. I was sick of hearing how small I was for how far along I was so it was a LOT easier to let people think I was two months less pregnant than I was!
