The phone calls have started

[~Hestia~]

In the last week my sister has called once & my mum has called twice to see if "anything is happening". Keep in mind I still had 3 weeks to go when all this started!!
Can't people understand that if "something happens" I will tell them?
Oh & today mum also throws in "are you getting more sleep at night?"

[willow5]

Ah yes I remember thie phone calls

Drives you insane.
When they asked is anything happening? I started just saying "yeah I've been really busy this morning done lots of washing gonna watch a movie soon"

[rfm08]

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Ah yes I remember thie phone calls


When they asked is anything happening? I started just saying "yeah I've been really busy this morning done lots of washing gonna watch a movie soon"

thats a good one, might try that next time! u poor thing, and when your heavily pregnant getting up to the phone constantly is a lot harder than it ever was!

[MeganH]

I so know how you feel.

I have to remind everyone that I will let them know. I have just put on my facebook and msn status not to ask coz the answer is no.

Some people say it sympathetically like "Oh you poor thing, you still havent popped yet". Ok so they are trying to be sympathetic about it but, as If i Dont know that I havent popped. Like no Joke. You reminding me doesnt make me feel any better, neither does your sympathy, are you going through this right now? NO!

It all starts about 4 weeks before you are due I reckon, right when you are getting to the point of being totally over it and need people to take your mind off of it rather than remind you are are the size of a beached whale and you literally feel like one too coz its so hard to get off your bum to do anything.

My MIL is driving me insane. She says the most stupid thing "I thought you wouldv'e chucked it out by now"!!!!!!!!!!!!! I HATE HER SO MUCH. What a dumb thing to say.

I just want to hide away from the rest of the world until this baby is out.

OMG, yes I totally know how you feel.

Oh and I forgot to mention. After baby is born, you become the most popular person int he world and people you never see or you havent seen in ages are suddenly popping in to see you, then after, you never see them again. Dont bother, seriously.

Sorry, vent over. Thank you for bringing up this subject, it gave me the opportunity to get a bit of my chest.

[Evie76]

Megan - I second EVERYTHING you just said.

[*noni*e*]

oh yeh totally agreed!!
ive got people saying "havnt you had that baby yet" and theyve been saying ot for a few weeks and im not due yet!!! grrr its very tempting to just not tell anyone when he does come just fpr a bit of peace when in the hospital hahaha!!

[NaeNae]

have you got an answering machine? you could invest in one. There was a thread ages ago about this very issue and I remember a suggestion that went along these lines:

leave a recorded message " Thank you for calling X & Y. If you are calling to see if we have had the baby yet, we haven't but assure you that we will get in contact with you once we have. If you are calling for something else please leave your message after the tone "

Oh man I so cannot wait to have one of those

[ladybird11]

My mum has a horrible habit of telling me 3 days after my dad has been admitted to hospital as she doesn't want to worry me...(just an ongoing issue, obviously, but thats another thread lol).

So I like to give her some stick about it from time to time

I told her after one such "anything happening" phone call "nah, I would have to wait at least 3 days until after the baby was born before I tell ya"..

She got the message and I no longer have to wait 3 days before finding out when Dad is in hospital lol!

[JordieC]

If peope ask me if anything is happenign I would say that "yes, it had, the baby has come - oops did I forget to tell you??!!!" That's nasty i know!

[Evie76]

It's PAINFULLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Leave me alone!! We rang you when DS was born, what makes you think we won't this time? You're never THIS interested in us any other time.............It really gets in my craw. REALLY!!!!

[*TripleJ*]

hmmmm i guess im one of the lucky ones i didn't get the phone calls but my mum did ask me everytime i talked to her

[BrightSparkles]

Tell them the dr got it wrong...your due date isn't for another week or so...

[2CheekyMonkeys]

i feel for you, having had two pregnancies got 10 days over i know how you feel! it is the worst!

[Rosy]

Just wait until after the baby is born if you think that's bad!! My mum called or visited once a day (sometimes twice) for the first 57 days after Chloe was born. It was ridiculous. If I didn't answer the phone she'd try the other phone, and then keep calling back until I answered. Eventually I had a whinge to my grandmother about it and I think she must have said something because soon after it slowed down. She would just ring and say 'how are you, and how is Chloe'. No other reason. I would feel like saying 'we're the same as yesterday when you called', but I didn't. She did the same before and after Becky was born in April, although not every day, mostly every two days. I think in mum's case she just needs some drama in her life - she wants to live vicariously through me! The more chance of drama, the more she calls!

[Rhia]

Yeah this is just starting to happen to me. If its not family its random people in the street. I really hate the question "So how are you feeling?" obviously Im feeling fat and tired! Do they expect me to say 'great I feel like doing cartwheels and backflips everywhere' grr!
Ive been told people in my family are FRUSTRATED that baby hasnt come yet. He isnt even due yet!!! and THEY think they are frustrated-how the heck do they think I feel!
Oh and to add Im sick of DP mum saying to me 'oh he is only going to be small, yeah, just a small baby' Like she is some kind of psychic doctor just because she has had 2 babies. Mind you they were both 4 pound!
UGH this topic really gets on my nerve, thank you for starting it!!

[MeganH]

Im sick of DP mum saying to me 'oh he is only going to be small, yeah, just a small baby' Like she is some kind of psychic doctor just because she has had 2 babies. Mind you they were both 4 pound!

I hate being told Im gunna have a big baby, as if they know. Ive seen people with small looking bellies who have larger babies and visa versa. Also on the sex of baby thing and how you are carrying, oh you are carrying high or low or wide etc etc. How would you know how im carrying? Ive had a girl and a boy already and carried the same with both. My belly was huge with both, one was 7lb 7oz the other was 9lb 13oz!!!!

I got a comment by someone I dont now the other day that I havent dropped so Ive still got plenty of time. Ummmm hello, how would you know? I never got that drop with my previous pregnancies and if I dropped any lower my stomach would be lower than my crotch. And as If I wanna hear that I still have plenty of time to go. She doesnt even know when I was or am due.

I know I have vented once already on this thread but these last few days I need to vent alot and thought Id take the opportunity again.

[Evie76]

Everyone's a freakin' expert - on nuthin'!!

I suppose they find this sort of thing fun. It all really annoyed me with DS - but is REALLY annoying me this time......... s'pose 'cause I've been down this track and they were all flamin' wrong anyway.

I don't mind if they do this sort of thing - just do it in the privacy of your own home so we can't hear you. I'd rather my ears burning than to listen to your constant obtuse and incorrect predictions.

The sad thing is, it doesn't end when the baby's here. Everyone's an expert on that too. ARRRGG... I think I might lock the front door!