"6 weeks to go"

WhitMN24 · April 2012

is what the email in my inbox declared this morning. Despite being rationally aware of this, emotionally it is a big mix of shock, excitement, sick-to-my-stomachness, and the feeling that I'm outside of my body watching this all happen. As happy as I am about this baby, I can't help but feel a little lost because the life that I've known for a long time now is going to change completely.

How are you all feeling as the countdown creeps closer and closer to your due date?

Soccer5810 · April 2012

I feel the same away. With less then 6 weeks to go and all of this setting in, it almost seems to good to be true and very unreal! I am super excited to meet this baby and hold him/her in my arms, but life will be forever changed and it's a bit scary! HOWEVER, I know that this is going to be the best thing that ever happened to me and I can't wait to be a family of 3

well 5, if you count the dogs! haha

mymonkeykeys · April 2012

I can't wait to start seeing those kinds of numbers pop up on my countdown. LOL Just try to relax. You'll be fine, things will all fall into place and you won't skip a beat.

mountainkimi · April 2012

I know. Its getting so close I feel nervous, anxious but excited too!

I have less than 5 weeks left. Due to my GD, the doctor won't let me go past 39 weeks. So she will definitely be born in May and not June. DS was 3 weeks early too. Its crazy...

Irishsapphire · April 2012

I am just hoping that everything will go smoothly with the delivery. I was on hospital bedrest for the past couple of weeks, but I just got released after a good ultrasound on Friday morning. My placenta moved out of way, so there is no longer a concern for a previa issue. And I am now cleared for vaginal delivery rather than a c-section. But the last couple of weeks have been a rollercoaster with spotting, brown discharge and red bleeding. Now it is a waiting game for the baby to come.

I feel big and like I have heartburn. It is not always easy to sit or to walk or to eat.

kdjudd · April 2012

I'm feeling overwhelmingly excited to meet my little girl, but at the same time I'm feeling very nervous about the labor and delivery. I just want her to be on the outside so that I know she is healthy and safe! I'm trying not to focus on what's going to change after the delivery. I have enough on my mind just worrying about what there is left to do before!

girlsonly · April 2012

I can not wait I am always checking. My countdown. Clock

aligail · April 2012

Well said!! I feel EXACTLY the same way as the first poster when I let myself stop and think about it... Its almost too overwhelming for me to think about at all! At least I know I'm not alone!

WhitMN24 · April 2012

aligail:
Well said!! I feel EXACTLY the same way as the first poster when I let myself stop and think about it... Its almost too overwhelming for me to think about at all! At least I know I'm not alone!

It makes me feel better to know I'm not the only one - thanks, aligail!

jc0n15 · April 2012

I am super excited. However this weekend I was up at my vacation home and it hit me there will be no more laying in the sun all day reading my book this summer without a care in the world. My world will be all about the baby!!

kjem182 · April 2012

We're pretty chill about this, I think. It seems like each year we move and I change my job, so stability is not really our thing. Adding a tiny person to the mix this summer is pretty par for the course, actually.

If I can visualize a situation, then it seems so real and natural to me-I did this each September before the school year began, I do it with each move we make, I do it with every race I run. So to visualize Baby coming and what that means to our life is just as natural. When we eat dinner, we always say 'ok-Baby is here-what does that mean for dinnertime?'. Or if we're running errands and it's raining, we ask 'ok-Baby is here-how do we get him into the store in the rain?'. Of course we can't prepare for everything-I had NO idea what to prepare for in terms of pregnancy, but I think we're on a good path. And labor to me will be no worse than a really, really bad night of food poisoning: the end is in sight as soon as my body gets it OUT OF ME. (at least that's what I tell myself to keep from panicking)

ETA: This attitude is a coping mechanism so I don't freak about the constant moves, new jobs, school years and Baby. If I were normal in any way, I would be hyperventilating at the very thought.

RioG1978 · April 2012

I am right there with you. It's really starting to get real... and scary!

notfrancie · April 2012

I am a total dork and made a paper link countdown chain. Only 39 days left, girls!

I feel worried about life with a baby but I am NOT into being pregnant. I am also NOT into the unknown. Or waiting. So, I think that having the baby actually arrive will be amazing!

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