...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!!
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.
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.
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*.
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.
lol. My family calls me the biggest hypochondriac in the world. This whole pregnancy the Dr.s tried to freak me out by saying I had a Bicornuate Uterus and that I could go into preterm labor anyday. Finally at 7 months pregnant I saw a specialist who believes it is all a crack! So now even though I am not high risk anymore I still find little things to freak out over. We live in washington but Jared''s family is in Oregon. We rarely go visit his family because I am not covered in Oregon and I fear (31 weeks ) that I will go into labor. also if one day goes by where I dont feel sophie has moved enough I panick!!!
i don't know what I will do when I am as far along as you girls!!
i think my biggest worry is if im out and about with DD and go into labour..
the only 4 people i can ring- dp, SIL or my mum and dad, would all take at least 45m-hour to get to our house from work. and if im out, what if my hosp bags are in the car and i somehow get taken to hospital and cant get my bags? lol argh
my gorgeous dad has offered to take some annual leave days closer to when im due, just so that im not home alone. im actually going to work out today which days will be handy for him to have off! (incorporating dd's playgroup and my grocery shopping days)
Haha... I was sooooooo much more paranoid this time, but I think it was also cos I had to worry about Oskar as well as myself if something did happen. Lucky for me it started at 2:30am. As for having things ready...bahahaha was doing stuff just a day before!
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.
Is it just me?
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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 
) that I will go into labor. also if one day goes by where I dont feel sophie has moved enough I panick!!!
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