How did you feel when you were 40+weeks 2nd time? more nervous? less?

[Littlerayofsunshine]

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I'm only 21 weeks pregnant, and to be honest I feel the same as I did last time.

I've never reached 40 weeks but at the end with dc2 I felt no different to with dc1. Until my waters broke suddenly late at night in the same way they had with dc1 and it all came flooding back. I wailed in a way I never have before or since, proper gulping, sobbing, snot streaming mess. It took one very wonderful midwife and a kindly consultant to pull me off the ceiling. Then I was okay again.

I'm almost 40 weeks (on Friday) with no 2.

I'm more nervous. Definitely. Nervous about the birth and nervous about the chaos afterwards. Nervous about how DS will take to his new sibling too, and how I'll cope with a toddler in tow. Actually, at the moment I'm really trying to get myself to focus on how much I've loved every second of DS and the fact that we're going to have another beautiful baby in the house, because I'm losing sight of that and mostly just... panicking.

More nervous because I knew what was at stake iyswim? With ds, my PFB, I had no idea just how much I'd love a little person and how protective of him I was. So with dd I could only think of what if something went wrong? However labour itself, I was fine! Got into my zone, felt more in control and out she came (ok I gloss over it slightly)