im actually feeling a little that way myself atm! i still have 6 weeks left, but i have a nagging feeling that this bub may come early... i am actually planning to get hosp bags ready tomorrow, just so they're 'ready' (well, bub's anyway, i suppose i can put a few bits n pieces in for me, but not my everyday suff..)
i would love to be out an dabout keeping busy, but we are so broke atm that im lucky to have petrol to go do the food shopping each week!
Lol it just struck me today that I didn't feel AT ALL like this when I was pg with DD... maybe because I had zero niggles/pains/BH/weird feelings that made me think I might go into labour any old time, and by the time I got this close I was booked in for an induction so it just didn't occur to me that it might happen *before* I was admitted to hospital lol - the day I went to hospital I was out and about with DH, zero concern at all!
The funny thing is, first time around I had my bags packed weeks in advance, had stocked up on baby gear and was fully prepared weeks before my due date, this time around I have been having BH etc and my doctor told me I could go any old time, yet it wasn't until last weekend that I assembled a really basic layette and I still haven't washed any baby clothes or packed a bag yet lol If I go into labour I will be sitting in the shower tidying myself up (haven't been able to book a waxing appt!!) and yelling at DH to just stuff some things in a plastic bag hahahahaaha...
I don't mind going out so much. I know I will get plenty of warning.... and its fun seeing the panicked faces on the shop keepers as they worry if you are going to deliver on the spot! LMAO.
But I do start getting more anxious near the end. I always start worrying about what could go wrong, am I going to cope, can we afford everything we need? I think its perfectly normal.
Ok so i was always thinking wow how embarrassing would it be if my waters broke when i was walking the kids into the school ground!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh my goodness i could not even imagine it. It never actually made me stay home just made me laugh. What a Birth story it would make!!!!!!!!
^ Lol I know, right?! My best friend told me today I wasn't allowed to be at home during business hours hahaha, she wants me to make a spectacle of myself in public somewhere
As if I don't already get enough **** in this town because it's quite small and I'm this tattooed, pierced 'weird chick' lol, I would NEVER live it down if I went into labour in the middle of the shopping centre!!!
At least if I did it in school grounds, a lot of the people there would be mums themselves and would understand hahaha... if my waters broke all over me in the middle of Kmart I'd be dealing with a bunch of grossed-out highschoolers thinking I'd wet my pants!!
Oh LOL, DD was born on EDD+11, so no, i definitely would have gone right off my rocker if i'd been staying in! In fact i went to a house party at EDD+4 ad came in at 3am! Also i went out to the park *after* my waters broke, just to get out for a walk and some air (labour was pretty mild). I was having contractions from 3am until she was born at 6.20pm so i would definitely have had time to get home if i'd had to.
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If I go into labour I will be sitting in the shower tidying myself up (haven't been able to book a waxing appt!!) and yelling at DH to just stuff some things in a plastic bag hahahahaaha...
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