"cleaning could set off labor"

wypadek · April 2012

"so I'm cleaning, you lay on the couch and relax."

This is what DH said to me last night. My parents are coming into town this weekend, I have my last baby shower, and my doctor is out of town this weekend (we like her better than the other OB in the practice but they're both really good). Because of this DH is convinced I need to take it super easy. I'm okay with this.

I didn't feel the need to correct him that when its time there's nothing we can do about it. And I have a clean downstairs out of it!

Now if only he wouldn't ask me if I was in labor every time I grunted or moved in a weird way that causes pain, or had any kind of pain for that matter.

TamTam624 · April 2012

My DH does the same thing, when I get up to go to the bathroom which is a million times a day he says are you okay are you in labor.

Now I wish he would say lay down while I clean but dont think that will ever happen.

MRSR08 · April 2012

So Jealous...DH wants me to go into labor, so I am pretty much on my own. He only lifts the heavy stuff. He picked up the laundry off the floor the other night and said oh, I should have let you do it because maybe you would have gone into labor. Uh no!

redheadinlove · April 2012

Just saying, I went into labor while everything in my bedroom was on my bed because we were cleaning and organizing. lol

k4slr6 · April 2012

I am cleaning this weekend. I wish dh would tell me that! Instead he pointed out everything that needs to go upstairs before he will put up the swing and pnp. He thinks it is good for me.

Sherbet Lemon · April 2012

I'm cleaning today because I HOPE it'll do something to send me into labor. (Well, that and my house is a bit of a disorganized mess and it needs to be cleaned).

I also keep hoping that feeling the need to clean = nesting = labor, but I doubt it.

Mamasaurus · April 2012

It's a lie! I dusted and vacuumed yesterday and still have my baby inside. The pineapple eggplant kung pao I made at the stir fry bar also didn't do it. Nor did sex. Nor did walking. I am convinced now that the only thing that will do it is if I drive somewhere totally inconvenient to change my clothes, and then my water will break. Like, I need to go to a movie theater in the next county or lay on a couch in an antique store or something.

Congrats on your clean downstairs.

Chelsey68 · April 2012

Can someone tell my DH this? We want to keep baby in another two weeks because of his job, and I have so much housework to do. But honestly if he told me to sit my butt down so I don't go into labor, then the housework would just go undone. My DH thinks cleaning the house is loading the dishwasher. Ha wish it were that easy.

Sherbet Lemon · April 2012

Mamasaurus:

It's a lie! I dusted and vacuumed yesterday and still have my baby inside. The pineapple eggplant kung pao I made at the stir fry bar also didn't do it. Nor did sex. Nor did walking. I am convinced now that the only thing that will do it is if I drive somewhere totally inconvenient to change my clothes, and then my water will break. Like, I need to go to a movie theater in the next county or lay on a couch in an antique store or something.

Congrats on your clean downstairs.

I can just imagine the look on the store owner's face...