Mine happened about a week ago. I just figured out how much stuff we still need to get and doing the math, realized we only have 5 to 6 weeks to do it all, if she doesn't come early. I just freaked out.
I got a print out this past Thursday from my perinatal office listing all of my remaining appts. It listed an appt every Thursday, for the next 3 weeks, then the next week it listed my RCS/Sterilization. Cue freak out moment again.
I have 7 days of work left. This realization was just emphasized when a coworker of mine had her last day yesterday and I was supposed to be trained as her back-up... and never really got to thoroughly learn what she does. So, the "Oh crap!" moment hit the team and now we're stressing, ha.
It also hit me when someone asked me when I was due, and I said next month... and then thought about it, and turned it into weeks... 5 weeks! Holy cats. We still have so much to do.
Me: 37 years old
DH: 39 years old
Married: October 17, 2014 TTC Since: November 2015 BFP: March 31, 2016 DS: November 21, 2016
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@Kate08Young and @DiFazette. Yay!!!! And I'm super jealous. My RCS is scheduled for only 3 days before my due date, 3 days!!! Cmon man! It's Dec 7, which is like 3 & 1/2 weeks. But don't they know how miserable and paranoid I am?!?! lol
Uh, guys. I'm pretty sure I just lost my mucus plug.
Lemme just say I am glad y'all warned me about that. I had never heard about it 9 short months ago and I would have surriously freaked out if I wasn't expecting it to happen. Still freaking out since it seems like it came out early (36+5), but at least I know it's normal.
A bunch of things have made me realize this is soon. 1. I'm done work now (thank you Canada and he long mat leave) 2. Prodromal labor for the past week 3. FILs birthday is Friday and I have thought this entire pregnancy she'd be early and we'd have a baby in and around that date. 4. A insistive need to put up the Christmas decorations because Christmas is my favourite time of the year and I want it decorated when our LO comes home. 5. A lady at the store told me and my DH that I looked like I was ready to pop
@yellingbanana my RCS is also scheduled for 3 days before my due date (planned Dec 5, due Dec 8) ! I'm hoping to be a special snowflake and have my water break the day after Thanksgiving or that weekend lol. just cuz ugh I'm so tired.
@yellingbanana my RCS is also scheduled for 3 days before my due date (planned Dec 5, due Dec 8) ! I'm hoping to be a special snowflake and have my water break the day after Thanksgiving or that weekend lol. just cuz ugh I'm so tired.
^this! RCS scheduled for 12.6, I'm good to go anytime from Thanksgiving on!!
It just got real-er as I'm preparing a basket of diapers and wipes and whatnot just for my bedroom while she's too little to sleep away from me. I want to cry. I'm going to have another little soul to pour love into.
Its getting so real with all these babies being born in this group. It's only November guys!!!!!! (Yes, I think I'm the only person still reasonably comfortable)
What made it super real for me (besides feeling like a baby is gonna drop out of my vagina any day now) is that now at 37 +1, I am 20 days away from my due date! For some reason that sounds like much less time than 3 weeks, lol.
It got real last night as DH and I were heading to bed. He asked me if I had my hospital bag packed yet (no), and he made me promise to pack it in the next few days (37 weeks today). Apparently it's set in for him, which means it's very real for me now.
Things are feeling very not labory for me. And I'm thankful. I want this baby to develop as long as she wants (as long as it's not one minute past my due date...)
@penelope4612 I second not wanting to go back to work after Thanksgiving. But I'd also like to not go back to work tomorrow - so I'm probably not the best judge.
Another moment... getting told in my 36w1d appointment that I am 1.5cm dilated baby is very head down and low... and thinning (no exact effacement amount). Um, what?!
Yup, time to get that hospital bag 90% packed up this weekend. I know it could still be some time, but you just never know.
Me: 37 years old
DH: 39 years old
Married: October 17, 2014 TTC Since: November 2015 BFP: March 31, 2016 DS: November 21, 2016
December'16 December Siggy Challenge: Elf on the Shelf Fails **winner**
My friend (whose due date was Thanksgiving Day) is in labor right now. She and I have been comparing notes and checking in on each other all pregnancy. Yeah, shiz is getting real!
Well, it sunk in again. Bags are packed, car seat installed, 2 cm dilated, 50% thinned out, mucus plug is gone, her little box of stuff for my room is sitting in my headboard ready to go, boobs are leaking, and I'm due in 2 weeks and 2 days! What?? When did my due date sneak up so fast??
Realizing I hadn't really watched a birth video this go around yet... I did this morning. That's going to happen to me. It seems like this being the second time I should be more comfortable with this. I will simply say I am NOT. I am not not not!
Realizing I hadn't really watched a birth video this go around yet... I did this morning. That's going to happen to me. It seems like this being the second time I should be more comfortable with this. I will simply say I am NOT. I am not not not!
Seriously. On the outside I'm like 'oh my RCS is scheduled in 2 weeks'. On the inside I'm like 'oh my blob!!! I have to have major surgery to get this baby in my arms! What if something goes wrong?!?! I don't want surgery!!!'
I scheduled my induction for Monday yesterday and the office lady who does the scheduling wrote it in a book that looks like the one a hair stylist uses. Here's an appointment for your baby. That was pretty sobering. Even after everything the other day I kind of expected them to be like "well let's not be so hasty." DH apparently was not sharing in my denial and was surprised I was so unsure they were seriously going to make baby come on Sunday.
He's been sweetly telling me about the stork that is going to come bring him. I keep joking in response about hearing of another way he is supposed to come. "Oh no," says he, "don't you worry. It'll be a stork." He's pretty cute.
9 more days, and DH is traveling out of town for 6 of them! Eek! Must get baby book!!! Seriously though, it feels like I'm just going to be pregnant forever.
@mrsg2390 Same here! My original due date was today, revised to Dec. 1 after my growth ultrasound. I'm ready to have the feeling back in my hands and feet and to not have reflux all the time, but there's still a bit of freaking out going on.
Just got all my homebirth documents emailed to me and tomorrow is my midwife home visit!!! Tomorrow (dec 1st) is official "baby month"! And in 5 days I am eligible to birth at home safely!!! It's all hitting me at once!
Re: Shiz Just Got Real
Mine happened about a week ago. I just figured out how much stuff we still need to get and doing the math, realized we only have 5 to 6 weeks to do it all, if she doesn't come early. I just freaked out.
It also hit me when someone asked me when I was due, and I said next month... and then thought about it, and turned it into weeks... 5 weeks! Holy cats. We still have so much to do.
TTC Since: November 2015
BFP: March 31, 2016
DS: November 21, 2016
Formerly known as Kate08young
August '18 Siggy April Showers:
Married: 7/22/14
Baby L: 8/4/2015 August 2015 Moms
Baby E: 11/18/2016 December 2016 Moms
TTC #3 08/2017 BFP 11/27/2017.
Twin B lost 11/22/2017, Twin A doing well.
Formerly known as Kate08young
August '18 Siggy April Showers:
Married: 7/22/14
Baby L: 8/4/2015 August 2015 Moms
Baby E: 11/18/2016 December 2016 Moms
TTC #3 08/2017 BFP 11/27/2017.
Twin B lost 11/22/2017, Twin A doing well.
Shit just got real.
Lemme just say I am glad y'all warned me about that. I had never heard about it 9 short months ago and I would have surriously freaked out if I wasn't expecting it to happen. Still freaking out since it seems like it came out early (36+5), but at least I know it's normal.
Yup, time to get that hospital bag 90% packed up this weekend. I know it could still be some time, but you just never know.
TTC Since: November 2015
BFP: March 31, 2016
DS: November 21, 2016
I will simply say I am NOT.
I am not not not!
He's been sweetly telling me about the stork that is going to come bring him. I keep joking in response about hearing of another way he is supposed to come. "Oh no," says he, "don't you worry. It'll be a stork." He's pretty cute.
Must get baby book!!!
Seriously though, it feels like I'm just going to be pregnant forever.
Married Jan 2008
DD Baby Bells born Dec 2016 5 lbs, 12 oz, 18"
Due with #2 Baby Arya EDD February 2020
Due December 27th with baby #7