Suggestions for last few days before motherhood?

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So I'm 39 weeks booked in for a sweep Monday and suddenly realising my days before becoming a mother (forever) are numbered. My OH works weekends so I am going to be on my own.

Anything new Mother's wish they had done or done more of in the last few days??

Get your legs etc waxed if that's what you're in to, also get your hair dyed if that's what you have done.

I didn't do either and I'm 12 days in with hairy legs and terrible roots

Read books, have copious amounts of ice cream, go to the cinema, sit in cafes and watch the world go by, take naps, go for a nice walk without having to take a boat load of toddler/newborn nonsense with you.
OP the list is endless! I didn’t get a chance to enjoy my maternity leave as I have a toddler (who is adopted) and my baba was early.
Have a lovely relax and then get ready to meet your little baba. :)

Drink an entire cup of tea.

I wished I had done more lounging about doing nothing. I think I had the idea I needed to do all the things I couldn't do after, but this time I have planned 5 weeks before due date to rest, potter and kip as much as possible.

whiteonred

I get what you are saying, I really do, and I'm certainly not judging anybody.

I only posted my views because on MN there does seem to be this thing where you are never allowed to say it might not be difficult, you might have an easy baby (or even an "easy enough" baby) - there is always the over-catastrophising where every baby has to be difficult, holding parents at home, keeping them busy every minute, no time for a cuppa even - and if not you are really, really lucky -

whereas most people I know just get on with it, go out when they need to, cook food, do the housework, go back to work - live life without too many changes.

The day before DD was born I was frantically fixing fencing on my horse's field and pulling up ragwort and made myself quite tired and physically exhausted before labour even began, so I would say dont rush around madly!

Relax in bed with good book - go for pedicure / manicure

Go out for dinner, we have a due date dinner out tradition (done 3 times now).

Go for coffee and order another and another (even if it's decaf). I reckon Beyond has one easy kid. Our first was a refluxy drama, who became the perfect cheery baby parcel at 6 months (solids and sitting up). We took him everywhere, had loads of fun then. But I had no hot tea before he got meds and stopped screaming day and night. It took a while before hair cuts or facials surfaced again and reading for fun has been virtually absent for four years now.

Now we have three kids and I spent the week before our last one arrived holding ill toddlers. The night the fever broke in eldest was when my contractions started...

@beyondthepage same here. I ate meals with both hands while DS was on his play mat and painted my nails and watched endless tv with him there. You never know what you'll be able to do. You can't bank sleep or anything else for that matter so I never understood why people told me to do it. I had an emcs in the middle of the night so any sleep I'd had was ruined. I went for lunch with my in laws and pottered around. Nothing special but I was enormous so it was what I could manage.

I reckon Beyond has one easy kid. almost Drizz - I have 2 "easy enough" kids.

It happens sometimes and it is as valid an experience to talk about as any other. Otherwise anyone logging on to mumsnet for advice only gets the misery side of the story.

Sometimes it is an actual delight. Sometimes it is not. Often it is something in between. People tend to be scared off from posting the good experiences.

You're a lucky bugger beyond and you're right re: not giving the wrong impression. But at the same time, when you're desperate with a screaming newborn, usually at 3am, you prefer the recognise responses. And I am not desperate with this newborn, he's easy enough but still the assumption you can carry on as normal is not entirely accurate in our household.