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Am I the only one hoping they go past their due date?
If I go past my due date DH will be able to take more time off. I will also be done with my student teaching. My family would be able to come and visit me.
I think I might be crazy. I just remember how uncomfortable I was at the end.
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Re: Am I the only one hoping they go past their due date?
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You go girl! Hold that baby in!
I wanted to go past my due date with my first. I felt great and it would've worked out beautifully with maternity leave. Alas, he came three weeks early.
With this one, I'd be happy to hit May 1, which is 38 weeks. It's a pipe dream, but a girl can still dream, right? I'd happily take the aches and misery of 40 weeks if it meant a healthy, full term baby who came home with me from the hospital.
looks like you aren't alone...
Personally I'd like to go anywhere from a week before my due date to my due date but no later than my due date. DH has to relocate and we have to move from MA to TX before June.
I am! I may also be crazy, but I'm done nursing school May 6, and I'm due May 3. If the baby could just hold out till the 7th I will be one relieved lady!
I'm already paranoid clinicals are going to put me into labor with the lifting and standing all day. The good thing is I just have to walk right down the hall to L&D, but I'd love to hold out until I'm finished.
With DS, I wanted him to stay in as long as he could. We were selling our house, renovating the new one and I had a ton of work to finish for my business. I needed as much time as he was willing to give us. I would wake up in the morning and say "ok not today honey, they're tiling the bathroom." He stayed in 2 extra days for us, I was grateful.
Thanks! I've been keeping my legs crossed extra tight - looks like it's working!
I did up until last week...we didn't know when we were moving, but we got in our house last week and so now I'm OK with her coming any time. DH keeps giving her a pep talk to enjoy my nice comfy uterus, but I really hope this is the first of many times she doesn't listen to him haha!!! I'm ready to be done with work now, so if that means that she will be here, I'll take it!
I wouldn't mind it. Although, this is assuming I'm not totally miserable and worthless as I assume I'm going to be. My house is already a mess and I have been having trouble keeping up with my dog. I don't want too many more weeks of this!
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Up until about a week ago, I wanted LO to come late so I could finish teaching the quarter at school and not coming back at the end of the year. At this point, I think my few weeks ago self was crazy, he can come any time after Sunday (37 weeks).
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I want to go three days past. DH has finals the full week after I'm due and finals reviews the week of my due date. I'm due on Wednesday and I would love to go into labor either Friday or Saturday. That way he'll be able to go back to school for his finals on Monday.
I might even talk to the doctor about getting induced.
I just don't want him to miss any of his finals.
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The other day I was having the worst senioritis and was just ready for maternity leave to begin. Then I realized that every day I work, it's another $200. I am back again to baby can come when baby is ready! My DH and mom both think his arrival will be between 40-41 weeks, so March 22-29. But the average for 1st time moms is 41 weeks, 3 days which is April Fools Day.
But I don't want to get stressed about a possible battle my ob/mw practice over induction, so I still kind prefer that he shows up before anyone has to mention the word induction.
Up until last March my grandmother had 7 children, 9 grandkids and 13 great grandkids and not no one was born in March (my Grandmother's bday is March 17) until great grandchild came along and was born on her birthday. She was one happy great grandma
Nope. I would rather go past the Estimated due date... Since, it really is just that. Little man will let me know when he is ready. I believe too much emphasis is put on clinical definitions.
Best of luck to you!