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  1. #1
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    Dec 2007
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    Is it just me?

    ...or does everybody else get a bit paranoid as they approach the end of their pregnancy?!

    I've had a few little niggles over the last week or so, last night was especially bad but I'm sure it was just because I'd had a HUGE dinner and poor bub was squashed, I felt sick and thought I was going to throw up... either way nothing happened and eventually I fell asleep

    But I have to go shopping this afternoon and I'm really starting to get nervous about leaving the house by myself in case I go into labour in the middle of Big W!!

    Does anybody else prefer to stay at home as their 'date of confinement' approaches, or do you happily get out and about until something happens? I'm just curious to see whether this is a common thing, or if I'm just being really paranoid!!

  2. #2
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    Sep 2008
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    Personally I like to get out and about because I would go mad having to stay in - and it makes time pass more quickly. So although my EDD is on Friday, I have got lots of things planned for before then and after (pub quiz tonigh, lunch on Thursday, cinema Friday, footy Sunday) - I think that the onset of labour won't be that quick so even if I am out will be able to get myself home and sorted ok (I could be proved wrong though but am prepared to take that chance ).

    I know though that lots of people choose to stay in, and some people think you shouldn't be out and about - twice this week I have been asked when I am due and when I say Friday people have said "what are you doing out then!"

    I think you just have to be comfortable whichever way you choose, if I was worried about going out I wouldn't because would be more stressful, but because I feel very relaxed about it would be more stressful forcing myself to stay in.

  3. #3
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    Mar 2008
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    Lol it is SO not just you.

    I won tickets to see The Living End on Fri night and Adam Hills on Sun night...I am being as inactive as possible as it would be great to go if I can and I worry that if I go running around madly I'll drop a baby!

    :-P

    I do however have to go see my social worker every Thursday but last week I felt so tired I took a taxi home instead of the bus.

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    Mar 2008
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    Oh although note that I would probably go mad staying inside if I didn't have university assignments to keep me very, very busy! :-)

  5. #5
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    Dec 2007
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    Lol well it looks like I'm not going anywhere anyway I'm trying to get DD up from her nap and she keeps shaking her fist at me, rolling over and going back to sleep hahahah
    Just like her mummy, *sigh*.

  6. #6
    DoubleK Guest

    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!

  7. #7
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    Dec 2007
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    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...

    Oh, I suck lol

  8. #8
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    Nov 2008
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    Is it just me?

    Its not just you. I still have a way to go but with my other two kids my first indication was my waters breaking and I am a gusher. I had to go to the hospital with my last with a towel inbetween my legs like a nappy. Luckily both times have been at home but I think I am now completely paranoid about it happening in public.