Overdue baby? Fancy a light-hearted therapeutic grumble?

[Sleepy27]

Now 9 days overdue I have given in to an idea to list the worst things about being overdue. It has felt so good to write down the things that are annoying me that I wondered if anyone out there would want to join me in sharing these little annoyances. These are my top 3:

1. Being asked by anyone I meet if I?ve tried curry/raspberry tea/ sex to bring on labour ? including a complete stranger on the checkouts yesterday.
2. Waking up every morning and nothing has happened.
3. Being required to report to people that nothing has happened yet on a regular basis ? if you don?t they will call/ text/ email until you reassure them that you haven?t gone into labour and forgotten to tell them! (Because that will be the first priority!

Sorry for the rant - but please join me if you are feeling the same??!! :)

So true. STOP telling me to have sex, people. We do. We're good at it. As a matter of fact, that's how I got PREGNANT.

"Any news from the baby?" Well, there was a telegram this morning but it had no name on - think it was her though as it said "NO MORE RASPBERRY LEAF TEA, YOU CNUT".

DH gets (at work) "take it you're not a dad yet as you're still here?" Nah, baby's at home, I just thought why bother with her when I could be fixing your IT network?

I don't get to make these responses. I just think them very loudly.

had DS on Thurs, 11 days overdue.

Along with all of the above:

The texts from my mother just asking "is everything ok?" - how I managed not to respond in a rude and undaughterly fashion I do not know, especially as she started doing it from my due date!!

The nice lady in the queue at the supermarket telling me she went 2 weeks over with both of hers - and that helps me how?

I gave birth 4 weeks ago at 42+1 and I'm STILL annoyed about the last two weeks and the 15, yes, 15 times a day I was asked, "No contractions yet?"

And the advice I was offered, in a group setting by someone I didn't know that well to, "Just sit on the toilet for ages, it opens everything up." FFS!!

And if I heard ONE more time, especially from someone who gave birth to a 3kg baby at 37 weeks, "Oh yes, the end of pregnancy is so tough, it's so tiring. I was so uncomfortable, you can't imagine." the last time I heard that I was 41+5 and I refrained from saying anything about being FIVE WEEKS more pregnant because I couldn't say anything without a)crying or b) dropping an F bomb between every word!

The one that drove me up the wall, "Aah, but it's all worth it!" inevitably followed by a hugely annoying smile the minute I dared suggest I might be tired of being pregnant! Of course it's blooday worth it, or the world's population wouldn't be at 7 billion. Again, I seethed to myself.

Still seething, but LOVING my baby so much I want another..just not sure about the pregnancy bit!

I shouldn't even be joining in as I have 8 days until my due date but I'm ALREADY getting all this.....It doesn't bode well for my patience levels!

My mum is right on my one remaining nerve with daily texts. The last just said 'any pains'. I had to leave my phone upstairs so I didn't reply 'apart from the pain in my neck I call mum'.

When I say I'm due in 8 days to all and sundry they all, without fail, say 'ooo, are you sure, you're very small for 8 days to go and you're still very high, this baby will be late'. Cheers for that.

I actually feel the need to defend myself and say 'well, the head is fully engaged' to convince them it 'has dropped'. It obviously doesn't work and they go 'are you sure' again. 'no, I'm not sure but the midwife was' should really be the reply.

The irony is when you first fall pregnant you love talking about it and get so excited when someone notices. Now I just want everyone to leave me alone!

A week overdue. I don't mind the daily text from my parents but it's the "have you tried ......" people.

As for strangers telling you to have a shag. Only when you are pregnant would they dare!

For the tee shirt I might get done today:
Raspberry leaf anything makes my overactive bowel worse
Fresh pineapple makes my mouth blister
I can't eat hot curry ever
Sex - my pelvis has turned to dust so sod that
Walking - how the feck do you think I get about?
Castor oil - I don't want my baby to poo in the womb thanks (this one really pisses me off, dangerous advice even from some MWs)

Sorry shit nights sleep again and a real grumpy sod this morning.

All so true!

41+2 here and it's the texts that are driving me crazy, and the fact that noone talks about anything other than when you'll have the baby. Do they not think I might want DISTRACTED from being so overdue!!!!!!!!

Sick of curry, sick of pineapple (why does it make your mouth so sore?) sick of manky tea, walked for miles, scrubbed the floor (not sure why i bother with a toddler) and there is no way my bits would be able to survive having any kind of sex.

I'm loving the feeling that the entire world is heavily positioned in my pelvis, its a dream.

Note to all- pick a man at the shop checkouts as they dont seem to ask the inevitable question.

on the up site i had no indigestion this weekend.....miracle (but just ate like pig so it will no doubt return)

I feel your pain . Nine days overdue here:) mostly ok, but my cousin who is coming to the birth is annoying me by sending. Get a move on texts and asking if I am definitely being induced.

Wow - I am almost crying from reading all of these posts because they are exactly how I am feeling. 11 days over today - induction tomorrow so I'm extra nervous wanting SOMETHING to happen.

Cantreachmytoes - I think I may end up feeling that way because I am so unhappy thinking that I could have had a week old baby by now... but still waiting.

NoodleRoodle - I completely agree - as if you wouldn't let them know if things weren't ok, so stop asking me and do something useful like tell me a funny story/ take me shopping/ to the cinema ANYTHING but the inevitable text.

I don't know why I didn't think before about going to a man at the checkouts instead of a woman. Brilliant!