With my first, after 26-28 weeks, I began dreaming about birth and raising my new baby. It was ALWAYS a girl and I had a girl. I expe to go late but my water broke 2 days before 40 weeks. She measured 1 day early at every scan and was born 1 day before her EDD.
I feel like this one is a girl too, to the point I want to talk about baby as if I KNOW its a girl. Team Green so we will see in November. This baby has been measuring 1 day late so I am thinking sea monkey will arrive at 40 weeks +1.
@foxairt I agree with @DuchessOfCambridge that the protective feeling is love. I am not an overly enthusiastic baby person either. I am excited for my baby but never had those feelings all my friend's did. I wanted/want this baby and love it to death but it does come across as protective more than anything else I think.
Eta I just re read this and I am not sure it made any sense lol
@kalenp Isn't it amazing how awful those past due date days are?? Since, really, shouldn't we just be glad that obviously the end is SO near?? But it doesn't matter, it's the WORST!!
@kalenp Isn't it amazing how awful those past due date days are?? Since, really, shouldn't we just be glad that obviously the end is SO near?? But it doesn't matter, it's the WORST!!
I've gone past my due date with both - +1 with my first and +6 with my second. It's depressing when the date comes and goes. Though I do like when complete strangers ask when I'm due and i get to be all "last weekend!" and they look at me like I'm about to birth a baby on their feet
Oof, going past due date sounds intense! I am expecting to go late, but because of family history, not intuition... I was two weeks late, and my twin brothers were also two weeks late, which seems insane.
I'm a little late to this discussion but I'll still add my little piece of maybe-intuition: I have had two very clear dreams that my baby is a boy. At first I took it to heart, but I've since been wondering if it's just my mind trying to prepare me for the possibility of a boy since I've always dreamed of a girl. If that's the case, it totally worked: I love the idea of a boy too, now! Team Green, so I have awhile to wait and wonder.
Is it bad that I'm happy he's measuring ahead and am hoping he comes two weeks early (as long as all is healthy and good) so that we can go to thanksgiving?
Is it bad that I'm happy he's measuring ahead and am hoping he comes two weeks early (as long as all is healthy and good) so that we can go to thanksgiving?
All my kids measured ahead but came late. This is my first one to measure a few days behind...I'm so worried that it'll be 2 weeks late!
Is it bad that I'm happy he's measuring ahead and am hoping he comes two weeks early (as long as all is healthy and good) so that we can go to thanksgiving?
All my kids measured ahead but came late. This is my first one to measure a few days behind...I'm so worried that it'll be 2 weeks late!
Is it bad that I'm happy he's measuring ahead and am hoping he comes two weeks early (as long as all is healthy and good) so that we can go to thanksgiving?
All my kids measured ahead but came late. This is my first one to measure a few days behind...I'm so worried that it'll be 2 weeks late!
Well rats, there goes that lol.
Oh sorry, didn't mean it like that your post just reminded me of why I'm so sure this ones going to be late. You could still totally go early!
@MississippiCatfish I'm holding onto the fact that I was three weeks early haha, though I'd really prefer he not be more than two weeks early. But considering I have no control over it, we shall see!
My entire first pregnancy my OB and I were worried I would go early. All of my mothers pregnancies were preterm and DHs mom also had both preterm. I had an appendectomy at 24 weeks and BH all throughout pregnancy. I was never on bedrest luckily, but we had additional scans and monitoring all through out. Each scan Baby was measuring normal but the weight measurement at the end were saying barely 6lbs.
I was induced on my due date 12/22 and DD was 7lb9oz and was 21 inches long, happy and healthy. We were wrong about the concern for preterm delivery, I was wrong on my intuition for gender and the office was wrong on weight and measurements.
@DuchessOfCambridge I was two weeks early and DD1 came at 37+3. It can totally happen but I actually have heard the "myth" that a lot of women go into labor right after a big meal so I would say do your Thanksgiving and baby could be here the next day.
@MKMandeville unfortunately we celebrate Thanksgiving a 6 hour drive away so it's not really feasible unless baby comes early Even then, we'll have to wait and see how he is temperament-wise and decide if we're comfortable bringing him somewhere with lots of people and little kids who aren't concerned about hygiene.
Honestly, I'm hoping my baby stays in at least until his due date. I know it can be miserable to be hugely pregnant, and I do realize a week or two isn't usually an issue, but I just think it would make me nervous to go early.
@liz4382 first and foremost, I want this baby to be fully healthy. My greatest desire is he come into this world with no problems, whether that means he can come two weeks early or needs to be two weeks late.
The Thanksgiving thing is just a perfect-scenario daydream of mine. It's my favorite holiday and I love being surrounded by family and it'd be so fun to be there with LO. But, I would never wish for Thanksgiving over the health of my child. I pick him over everything.
@liz4382 first and foremost, I want this baby to be fully healthy. My greatest desire is he come into this world with no problems, whether that means he can come two weeks early or needs to be two weeks late.
The Thanksgiving thing is just a perfect-scenario daydream of mine. It's my favorite holiday and I love being surrounded by family and it'd be so fun to be there with LO. But, I would never wish for Thanksgiving over the health of my child. I pick him over everything.
I understand this feeling completely. DD was due on 12/22 and I have a very large family that celebrates Christmas on 12/24 and 12/25 along with multiple birthdays. You have the desire to be there with LO and celebrate, but you will always put him/her first. Closer to that time it was worse for me. One day I would cry because I was so ready to meet baby and the next day I was having a panic attack because I felt there was still too much to do.
@DuchessOfCambridge I totally get it! Just sharing my nervousness about going early. My DH and I have joked around also that I better not be in labor on Thanksgiving because we want to be able to be there for dinner. I know you (and all of us) want a healthy baby above all else, regardless of what date they decide to come.
I'm hoping to go late. I really want a November baby. My brother was born 2 weeks early and I was born on my due date . I'm hoping my baby follows in my footsteps because November 2nd or 4th sound perfect to me. In a perfect world I go into Labour late night on the 1st. Labour all night. Clean while labouring (ive heard of women doing this). Get my kids to school in the morning. Go to the birth centre. Give birth. Come home. Rest , call the photographer and be ready and a bit refreshed when the kids get home from school. Both Mt mom's births were relatively short... so here's to hoping that's genetic.
I don't mind going late, but I would love it if baby was born before our anniversary on Nov 26th, so I can say we had 4 kids in the first six years of our marriage!! Just seems like bragging rights. (Totally joking about bragging, not expecting a trophy. We're nuts.)
My intuition was correct with my first two on their sexes. I'm pretty sure this one is a boy (though I'm secretly hoping to be wrong).
My intuition stinks with due dates. I swore my second would be a week early - I just knew it and was so sure. Well, he was almost a week late. With this one, I'm pretty sure I'm going to end up a few days late and with a Thanksgiving baby. Which, TBH, I think would be fun.
My motherly intuition is ALWAYS dead on. Except with my kid apparently. When SD had appendicitis I called it and took her to two hospitals and fought with her mom and DH because I knew she had it and nobody believed me. Sure enough they did an ultrasound because I pushed for it and she had to have it removed immediately and they had complications because they were so inflamed and ready to burst. When SS sliced his head open at school I called DH at lunch and told him I wanted to pull him out of school for the afternoon because I had a bad feeling. We didn't because he wanted to stay for a steel pan recital, sure enough someone dropped a steel pan on the stairs when he was under it and he had to have stitches. My friends daughter was sick with a "cold" and I was talking to her on the phone. When her daughter (5 months at the time) couged I was like take her to the hospital she has pneumonia. Sure enough she ended up hooked up to its and breathing machines for 2 weeks with... you guessed it. Pneumonia. I was SO convinced I was having a girl. I am questioning my gut as a mother now. That's ridiculous isn't it. I have totally come around to having a boy, I'm just like... surprised that my first (and only) intuition about my child was wrong. Watch my child come out as Trans and I'll be like I KNEW IT.
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I feel like this one is a girl too, to the point I want to talk about baby as if I KNOW its a girl. Team Green so we will see in November. This baby has been measuring 1 day late so I am thinking sea monkey will arrive at 40 weeks +1.
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Eta I just re read this and I am not sure it made any sense lol
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I'm a little late to this discussion but I'll still add my little piece of maybe-intuition: I have had two very clear dreams that my baby is a boy. At first I took it to heart, but I've since been wondering if it's just my mind trying to prepare me for the possibility of a boy since I've always dreamed of a girl. If that's the case, it totally worked: I love the idea of a boy too, now!
I was induced on my due date 12/22 and DD was 7lb9oz and was 21 inches long, happy and healthy. We were wrong about the concern for preterm delivery, I was wrong on my intuition for gender and the office was wrong on weight and measurements.
his due date. I know it can be miserable to be hugely pregnant, and I do realize a week or two isn't usually an issue, but I just think it would make me nervous to go early.
The Thanksgiving thing is just a perfect-scenario daydream of mine. It's my favorite holiday and I love being surrounded by family and it'd be so fun to be there with LO. But, I would never wish for Thanksgiving over the health of my child. I pick him over everything.
My intuition stinks with due dates. I swore my second would be a week early - I just knew it and was so sure. Well, he was almost a week late. With this one, I'm pretty sure I'm going to end up a few days late and with a Thanksgiving baby. Which, TBH, I think would be fun.
When SD had appendicitis I called it and took her to two hospitals and fought with her mom and DH because I knew she had it and nobody believed me. Sure enough they did an ultrasound because I pushed for it and she had to have it removed immediately and they had complications because they were so inflamed and ready to burst.
When SS sliced his head open at school I called DH at lunch and told him I wanted to pull him out of school for the afternoon because I had a bad feeling. We didn't because he wanted to stay for a steel pan recital, sure enough someone dropped a steel pan on the stairs when he was under it and he had to have stitches.
My friends daughter was sick with a "cold" and I was talking to her on the phone. When her daughter (5 months at the time) couged I was like take her to the hospital she has pneumonia. Sure enough she ended up hooked up to its and breathing machines for 2 weeks with... you guessed it. Pneumonia.
I was SO convinced I was having a girl. I am questioning my gut as a mother now. That's ridiculous isn't it. I have totally come around to having a boy, I'm just like... surprised that my first (and only) intuition about my child was wrong.
Watch my child come out as Trans and I'll be like I KNEW IT.