Could you drive? I know thats a dumb question of course you are aloud to drive BUT could you physically drive? I'm just trying to plan ahead and think about all the silly little things that *MIGHT* come up.
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Re: If you made it to 36 or more weeks....silly question...
I could and did - but not if I didn't have to (ie- if DH was home I'd have him drive).... all the way to the end at 38w.... but my minivan has a lot of space between the seat and the steering wheel
i didn't like driving those last couple weeks- i was just so nervous.
This - I think I drove short distances... like around town. I really wasn't doing much other than lying on the couch at that point. I think I even gave up grocery shopping because I just couldn't walk around the store anymore.
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Pretty much this.
I was also wondering if I would fit behind the wheel, so don't feel too silly! I drove myself to my doctor appt at 36 weeks exactly because DH had to leave from there to go to work.
I probably could have, but I would have needed to sit way too close to the steering wheel for comfort (in order to reach the pedals) and I didn't like that because if I were in an accident I'd have been so close to the airbag.
I was off for the summer and didn't really have anywhere to go, so I didn't...and DH was really weird about me driving toward the end. I think because of not really being able to twist around to see behind me, sideways, etc.
I went on hospital br at 32w, but made it to my sched c-section @ 36w1d (pushed up two weeks b/c of the PIH). I don't think I could have physically fit behind the wheel and had my feet reach the pedals. At 32w I was struggling. I am short and have really short legs though.
38w1d, and I drove myself to the hospital
I didn't have a problem fitting behind the wheel, but I was almost at the point where I needed a seatbealt extender for my work truck.
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I could, but only short distances. Anything long and my arms would get super sore from the way I had to hold them in order to get around my belly.
Plus my legs would get crampy and uncomfortable. I didn't even like being the passenger in a car toward the end.
I was also KU in the winter (in Upstate NY) and given the roads and the way idiot people drive, I was too nervous to be in the car much from November through January (when I had the twins) because I was afraid if we got hit I'd go into labor.
I pretty much just stuck to weekly grocery store trips and the doctor from 32 weeks on...