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what did your GUT say about babies' arrival date?
I'll be 37 weeks on August 11...that is our latest goal according to my OB. However, I can't shake this gut feeling I have that they'll be here closer to 35 weeks - the last week of July.
I've been organizing all their stuff and everything because we just had a shower on Saturday - I wouldn't even begin to call it nesting...just decluttering our house! But I also feel like time is running short.
Did you have a feeling when your babies would come? Were you right? Of course I want them to cook until 37 weeks...but I can't shake the feeling.
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Re: what did your GUT say about babies' arrival date?
I swore that my babies were going to come early. I didn't have a particular week in mind but just that they would be early. And as it got later and later in my pregnancy, I starting to get very impatient.
I just had my girls at 38wk2 days (sorry I haven't changed my ticker yet), And they only were born then b/c we went in and got them. I am sure they would have stayed the full 40 weeks.
Obviously I was way wrong!
I originally thought they'd be here on June 14, then started thinking June 9.
Sure enough, they arrived on June 9, at 36w3d. My water broke the night before.
I guess I'll have to wait and see!
To top it off, ILs will be in California the last week of July and they keep telling me NOT to have the babies then - ummmmm...I'm definitely not the one who planned to be gone when your DIL would be 35 weeks PG with TWINS!
I always sort of had a gut feeling I'd make it to my scheduled c/s at 38w.... but I kept telling myself that i was crazy to expect that..... but part of me always felt like I wouldn't have NICU babies and my babies would come right home. It might have been wishful thinking- but whatever it was - I did make it to that day!! and they did come right home!
that doesn't mean that i wasn't scared every day, and obsessing about my water breaking every minute, from about 27 weeks on! lol
My 27w is Sept 7 (labor day, hahaha) I really want them to come on 9/9/09! So that is my goal, but any time in Sept. would be good.
I have no real feelings about it... I feel good most days so I'm hoping to get close to 36 weeks! But things can change overnight so I think I should prob work on my hospital bag one of these days just in case...maybe it'll be like an umbrella- it always rains when I forget mine in the car
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As for your ILs, that is kind of annoying that they'd say that... mine won't even say when they're going to come visit us/the babies- 'maybe' in October, so don't feel too bad
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I have a long way to go yet, but I'd bet that I'm in for a long haul (which is fine with me). I've got the world's smallest cervix that didn't give an inch with my daughter until an hour before she was born. I'll probably be fighting them not to induce the twins...Though I think alot of the lateness with my first daughter was more mental than anything else. Our house was still under construction. DH had surgery 2 weeks before my due date. I refused to let her out early especially not while there was still a toilet sitting in my living room.
Then again I've been wrong about a lot of things...Life is full of surprises.