Welcome springbells. If this were a study I think we'd be fast approaching the point where we could conclude that seconds are not always early! It is all very unfair. I've been pregnant for 18 months now...... I deserve my PSB.
It is also the case that there are two due dates the second time..... The real one and then the date your first was born. I am just about to pass the first and then have three days until I hit the second.
With this in mind I have made a momentous decision....l am going to wean myself off symptom spotting. It's going to be hard but I think it would be good for me. I have emailed DH (who has had 'updates' all week
) and asked him to shoot me if I informed him ever again that I have niggles, mild cramps, have lost more mucus, am leaking milk, have had an upset tummy or have a backache that can't merely be attributed to carting a two year old and a 40 week foetus around.
I have further informed him I am now only interested in my waters breaking, actual contractions I can't talk through or bloody mucus at an absolute stretch.
He doesn't think I can do it but I've been living with my resolve since this morning and rather than wandering around with no purpose like a caged animal I have been for lunch with a friend, cleaned the house and had a really nice nap as it is a DD nursery day.
I'm off to make curry for dinner now because I didn't promise I wouldn't still try and bring it on!
Hope katiechoochoo is doing ok. She must have her little big by now I think?