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December 2013 Moms
Joy+BabyNumber3
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Any of you hoping to AVOID a day for your baby's birth? (holidays aside)
Joy+BabyNumber3
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My MIL is already pushing for this baby to be born on her birthday, 3 days before my Due Date. And since I have to deliver on my own before my due date to avoid a repeat c-section, my OB will be stripping membranes at 39 weeks, and I'll be getting acupuncture, plus anything else I can thing of, so there's actually a good chance it may happen. Ugg....
She was not supportive of our last baby at all. And anything she finds unsatisfying with our kids "must come from you Joy" and anything she is pleased with "They get that from our side of the family". Even when my son had tan skin, that came from HER, the white mid-west person, not the half-mexican mother from California (ME! - huge eye roll) Every cry my daughter made was my fault, "my son NEVER cried as a baby, she must get that from you". If our baby was sick, "my son NEVER got sick as a child, she must get that from you", etc., etc., I mean, I know I will just never hear the end of it if this baby comes on her birthday. OMG. That's the one day I am dreading.
Expecting Baby #3 to complete our family.
I have an adventurous 2 Year Old Toddler Boy & thoughtful 4 Year Old LIttle Girl!
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Re: Any of you hoping to AVOID a day for your baby's birth? (holidays aside)
Ew gross. I hate your MIL for you. I hope you can avoid that day at all costs!
Personally, no I have to days to avoid and have a c/s scheduled already.
GOOD LUCK! big time.
Well doesn't she sound like a bundle of joy to be around?!
Although I would feel a bit bad if our baby was born on Christmas or New Year's, I can't really avoid when he/she is ready to come out.
Good luck with the date, though! I hope, for your sake, that it lands on any day BUT her birthday.
Christmas...but given that I'm due 12/5, that won't happen, lol.
so I'm pretty ok with anytime once I hit 38w
And you know - I don't mind the sharing birthdays with another person. My DD was born on my Aunt's birthday (who I adore) and my Aunt was born on her Great Aunt's birthday - so I thought it was pretty cool.
My son was born on a cousin's birthday and that didn't bother me, either.
Oh ladies, fingers and toes are crossed on this one, that I can just avoid that date!
Your MIL sounds psycho!
No days I want to avoid. However, it would be fantastic if I wasn't late for once! We induced with DS at 3 days later, and DD came on her own 6 days late. So it would be nice to have the baby on the time for once.
Oh, that would upset me, too, just for the fact that you are going to love the names you pick and want to use them regardless of the day your baby comes!
I hope your DH comes around on this one! Hopefully you'll pick names that he falls in love with, and just start calling the baby by that name over and over until December so that at that time, he won't want to use anything else!
Ughhh that sucks. Your MIL sounds like a peach.
Not hoping to avoid any days in particular. I'm due Christmas Eve so I've already made peace with the idea that I could have a Christmas Day baby.
No matter what they are going to have a birthday around the holidays, can't be avoided, so the particular day doesn't bother me.
She sounds awful. I hope you have your baby as far away from her birthday as humanly possible.
What does your husband say about her behavior?
ETA: I'm not avoiding any days. She's coming when she's coming.
I am hoping not to have LO on Christmas. Since I'm also due on 12/31 I'm hoping Im not a week early
hoping to avoid my SIL's birthday, which is one day before my due date. Since it's my first and I'm measuring a bit behind (b/c I ovulated late) I don't think I'll hit it. I actually think it would be kind of cool if they shared but I don't think she'd like it that much.
I hope to avoid Christmas for obvious reasons, but that would mean I was more than 2 weeks late! So I'd be pretty uncomfortable as well!
I've already arranged for two friends to bring me sushi and a bottle of wine to the hospital room. I'm due the 28th so I could go Christmas, New Year's or anywhere in between!
BFP#3: 2/9/13 EDD 10/18/17. Team Green for Round 2!
yuuck, I hate your MIL.
Cross your legs on that day, and that day only. Do a headstand...whatever is necessary to stop the baby from coming that day! (:
your MIL sounds like a real peach. I'm sorry!
I'd obviously like to avoid Christmas/Eve (due 12/10), but my mom's birthday as well as DH's uncle's birthday are within a few days. I'd kind of like the baby to have their own day.
Don't get me wrong, I'm still eating sushi here and there now, but I'm going to devour a pile of raw sushi!
BFP#3: 2/9/13 EDD 10/18/17. Team Green for Round 2!
Baby GIRL due 12/26
Your MIL sounds like a real peach. Hope you don't deliver on her bday... I agree that you'll probably never hear the end of it.
I'm not avoiding any days.
That's rude of her considering you have no control over the situation.
That being said I'd like to avoid Christmas and Christmas Eve if at all possible.
Mommy of four munchkins!
aww, sorry, sounds like that would suck. I hope for your sake that LO is NOT born on her bday!
I actually do have a day I want to avoid, but I'm hoping it shouldn't be that hard. I'm due Dec 2nd, & my brother' bday AND our roommate's bday (she is like another family member) is on November 27th, so I REALLY want to avoid that day because that would just be too much. In all honesty I hope to avoid the last week in November in general, because of Thanksgiving. I'm hoping our LO is born sometime that first week in December - not too close to Thanksgiving OR Christmas, that would be perfect!