40 weeks today and.....

[QueenOfFlamingEverything]

No twinges.

No show.
Nothing.

Just outrageously Bad Tempered.
With DD I went into labour on the due date and she was born the next morning, and I just assumed it'd be similar this time round.
I might kill the next muppet well-wishing relative/friend that Just Rings To See How I Am.

Bet you go into labour at 3am.

No help really.

Just thought maybe you wouldn't mind if I had a bet...

OK do not answer the phone as it will annoy you more
and hate to tell you but dc2 cam 9 days late
now go eat a curry bounce on a birthing ball all while having wild sex!!

GOOD LUCK

I stopped answering the phone some days ago as it was getting increasingly difficult not to answer it with 'FUCK OFF' [grump]

I'm 40weeks on Sat - I have been either COMPLETELY avoiding everyone and everything, or walking about looking serene and smug about things, saying "oh, the baby's going to be fashionably late, what can I say, it's stylish" - depending on my mood.

I am actually extremely fed up of still being pregnant (for some reason had my heart set on a 39wk baby!) but I save the moaning for DH and on here, and tell everyone else "don't call us, we'll call you." FIRMLY!

DO love your description of 'outrageously Bad Tempered' OP. That's kind of how I feel, and I'm eating enough cake for two royal weddings!

I know how u are feeling OP. 41 weeks tomorrow and everyone including midwife didnt think id make it past 38 weeks. The irony gets worse when iv not had a single stretch mark throughout the pregnancy until the day before my EDD!!

I no longer answer the telephone, emails or door. I huddle on the sofa with a blanket eating jaffa cakes. yum. :D When asked or commented 'still not dropped yet?' i smile sweetly and say no, when inside i want to scream 'does it bloody look like it?!'

Oh and i have tried every old wives tale to induce labour..at least twice. I feel ashamed of feeling like a two year old throwing a tantrum for not having baby yet! but at least we are at the end now, well...someone did tell me this morning that apparently Jackie Chan stayed in the womb for 12 months!! no ta! :P

Happy due date! ;) Its my due date too, woke up this morning and no baby at bottom of bed, whats going on?!?

Cat x

Cake!!! Aaahhh, lovely cake....

I've been trying to engage in Wholesome Pursuits all day, like picking about a tonne of blackcurrants and making an enormous summer pudding - its like cake but healthier, or at least it would be if I didn't plan on having tiramisu ice-cream with it.

But where is the baby exactly?

SpecialPatrolGroup you lost the bet [weeps]

Damn it - I was convinced...

Right, new bet - 3am tonight...

Fingers crossed (legs uncrossed)

I know how you feel Queenofflamingeverything as my due date was last Monday and my other DCs where born 2 weeks early. I was very fed up at the beginning of the week and very angry too but I have sort of made my peace with it because at the end of the day, if DC3 is not ready to come out, he won't and no amound of wishing and sulking on my part will make a difference.

You should think of it as the baby being very considered and giving you a well deserved break (as it probably will be a while before you have an other one). A few things that helped me staying upbeat this week are doing my hair, painting my nails, having a facial (i.e looking life a person and not just a pregnant hypo), going for long walks and having lunch with my friends (nice friends that will cheer me up, not friends who will go on an on about baby not being here) and you never know...today might be the day...

All the best, I am sure I will be around to keep you company for a few days still!

Oh its so tedious isn't it, the way everyone says the same things.... 'where's that baby/today's the day/what still no baby/oooh you're going to burst/ad infinitum'.

A facial... now that would be divine.

Busy bouncing on my ball whilst MNing and drinking hot chocolate.

just ignore the "well wishers" and treat yourself....do something you enjoy you will feel more relaxed and that might be all it takes, and if it isn't, you will have had a nice time.

And now you won't burst. Just ignore them and do your own thing....

It is frustrating, but there is not a lot you can do and making yourself miserable because of the "well wishers" isn't the nicest way to spend your last hours/days of freedom.

Now hot chocolate, that sounds good....might have one too

I'm booking a fancy restaurant for tomorrow night (due date). DH was out of the country this past valentine's day and arranged for friends to take me there as a surprise. He hasn't been yet. My turn to take HIM!

Plus, it will distract me happily, as I don't now WANT to go into labour before I've had their creme brulee again. mmmn creme brulee...

I think I'm going to book lots and lots of treats, to invoke Sod's law. It will totally bankrupt me, but hey, if this kid wanted material possessions it should have showed up two weeks ago, before I started spending it's uni fund on cake to keep me sane...

PMSL blackcurrants

Unfortunately I spent my limited treat budget last week on going out for dinner with DP, assuming I'd have a baby by this time! Now I am stuck peering at the cupboards wondering why the hell I have allowed us to run out of tinned tomatoes, and if it was reasonable to let DD (7) eat the discarded crusts from the summer pudding for lunch (with some cheese and apple, not on their own, but still...).

I think a trip to the supermarket is in order. DP says I should go to Waitrose not Lidl as there is more chance of a hamper if my waters break

ooh, totally worth it! Waitrose hamper, eh? Poshest foetus EVER!

(we keep laughing at the fact that our insurance will pay for me to give birth at a very swanky hospital on NYC's upper east side. To put this in context, I used to live on the (considerably less posh) west side, and still work there. I NOW live outside of manhattan, in the unglam suburbs, where we're very happy ta very much. But where am I giving birth? Oh, y'know, the hospital where all the fancy people go!

... it will be the only fancy thing that EVER happens to this child, now I glance at the wholesale-own-brand-stocked nursery it's coming home to!

Am completely ... had no idea you were pg QOFE! Many many congratulations

It's a weird one isn't it, when things don't go the same the second time round. DD1 was born 12 days early, this time I am just 3 days off my due date and nothing so far. It really pulled the rug out from under my feet when 12 days before came and went as I thought it would happen the same as before.

And I have been avoiding going out in the village for about 3 weeks now as I can't handle the attention and the comments, I know people are just being nice but I am so sick of answering the same bloody questions over and over again, and it taking an hour just to go and get some bread as every bloody tom, dick and harry wants a chat. The best one is 'haven't had the baby yet then?' AAARGH...I feel like saying well yes actually I have, but I thought pregnancy was so fetching that I decided to stuff every cushion in the house up my top and waddle around like a duck because it's just so much fun!

Did you not CaptainNancy??? I s'pose I've been fairly quiet about it, plus we moved and didn't have the internet for 5 months so MN was spared a lot of grumping updates

jendaisy - I get the village thing, we live in a tiny village and in one way its lovely that the ladies in the shop know our names, and in another its kinda not so lovely right now.... DP says he feels a fraud going in there atm and saying Nope, still no baby!

I just haven't seen you around for a long time I think!
I was someone else prev, but a long time ago.
I just look out for you as we were in the same part of the world, though I'm guessing from your posts above you've moved anyway!
Can't believe your dd is 7 now!

who were you [nosey]? We did move earlier this year, hence no internet from Feb til June!

Yes she is 7 and all long and string beany. Very chuffed about the baby, keeps asking me when it'll be here. I manage not to shout I DON'T FUCKING KNOW at her though 'cos she is soooooooo excited.

Ach- I was no-one!
will CAT if you want.

I just ate a toblerone. not a huge one, but it really didn't take long. Am contemplating starting on the ice cream.

Why do I feel like I have PMT when I haven't had a period in approx 120,000,000 years (i.e. as long as I've been pregnant)?

Totally blardy insane, I tell you! This baby has to come out soon, before my swollen ankles/fingers explode, or my bum gets a big as my bump from all the chocolate and cake I've had this week!

I just ate a half a small jar of nutella due to night time hunger getting the better of me.

Wish i had a toblerone im jealous blackcurrants

I wish I had another one....

or was going into labour. I hadn't heard that full moon theory - fingers crossed it works!

changed my name due to boredom lack of sleep

hopefully you go soon...Do you know what your having?

iv got a section booked but still 28 weeks to go seems like forever away.