to want people to leave me alone,I need to get a grip!!!

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I am 39 weeks and due on sunday and Im uncomfortable and sulking..........
I must receive about 15 texts a day about have I popped yet ?/ any movement? / am I nesting?,I turned my phone off this morning only for 4 people to ring my house phone and ask,my husband says I cant screen call as they will only worry.I know its really because they care and Im in a pig of a mood.

everyone who speaks to me keeps saying oh I was so many days early noone seems to have gone over due and I just know I will,Im so need to just give birth.

oh wow is me,I know I need to get a grip.........

YANBU. It's not as if you're going to keep it a secret once the baby is out, is it!!
I actively asked everyone to stop calling me when I was a week overdue because I was a) sick of being pg, b) bloody hormonal and c) quite insulted that they thought I wouldn't have told them if I'd had the baby. No one was offended and it did stop the endless messages/texts, so might be worth doing a group text to let them know you will tell them as soon as you can when the baby is out.

Know how you feel. I am 39 weeks (due on Thursday) I just want to hibernate until the baby is born. Everyone wants to ring, text or worse visit. I will tell them when the baby is born until then I just want to hide away and be grumpy!

I sympathise, am 38 weeks, in lots of pain and running about after a 2 year old, just popped into town and had two total strangers, very well meaning but pointing out that I look like I'm going to have the baby this pm!! Chance would be a fine thing. One woman even said I was doing well to be out and about - what the hell should I be doing, would love to hibernate on the sofa but DD doesn't seem to have granted mat leave!!!

Yes people mean well but in just grumpy and over it too!!

Thankyou.........I dont feel so bad now,the group text is a good idea.
Yesterday I was in tescos and a woman said you look like your about to pop and I wanted to scream no shit sherlock,but dont worry it was an ally mcbeal moment,I just smiled and shrugged my shoulders.

group text on the way out now.

I had to check to see if id wrote this and not remembered, im due today, but thats not going to happen at all!

had a crap weekend not sleeping so thought ig stay in bed all today to rest, no chance the 1st text came through at 10 to 8 from my mum, when i didnt reply i then had my nan knocing at the door to se where i was, then the texts and calls kept coming, i had a bath at dinner time and got out to 5 missed calls from mil and dp's aunt.

i ended up putting on facebook that the last thing id want to do when im in labour is ring everyone to let them know, they will find out in due time if anything happens and when the baby is born, ive not had 1 message since and yet can i get back to sleep!

ha ha - good for you! how annoying, obviously people care about you but as you say, I'm sure you have other things to concentrate on right now other than providing a 24/7 news bulletin! take care x

oh vix I hope Im not in your postion next monday........good luck,go and eat some pineapple,ugh have you tasted that raspberry leaf tea.

change your answer phone message to :
'hello, this is XXXXX. Sorry I can't get to the phone right now but for those of you ringing with an update, no. I am still sodding pregnant. If anything hapeens to change that I will update my facebook/answer phones. Thank you'
Or words to that effect

I am 9 days over today, the texts/phone calls seem to have dwindled out a bit and were worse when I was just a few days over but it is annoying but it's only because people care (which I have to keep reminding myself)! I think everyone has come to the same conclusion as DH and I that baby is just never going to arrive!

We are booked in for induction on Thursday and I dread to think how may texts we will both be getting to see how things are going!!

Am there with you OP. Due on Sunday. My mum texts every morning before 8am to see if 'anything's happening'

Baby's feet are jammed in my ribs and I am alternating between feeling as though I may burst into tears and wanting to bite the heads off all and sundry.

I just want to go to sleep until baby arrives!

Oh, I am not looking forward to this again! I have 11 weeks to go and already people are saying I look 'ready to pop' or that I'm massively huge. Actually I am bang on with my measurements, fuck you very much!!

once again thankyou,im not insane for being stroppy,i just rang my sister as my nephews ds is here and l know they have been looking for it,he left it under the pillow,which i havnt plumped since sunday so there for nesting hasnt kicked in lol,joel said miss is on the phone i swear i heard a cup smash running and she didnt say hello she said............you guess it,HAS IT STARTED???,l said no told her about the ds and she sounded really deflated,poor love ha ha

Missmatched yeah ive tried that tea id rather drink cat piss to be honest!!

Ive just eaten my 3rd curry for tea, had a warm bath the past 2 days still nothing, i do have a pineapple to eat but i ate most of 1 on saturday and im sorry for tmi, but i was shocked at what came out the other end so i dont know if i could risk eating it, knowing my luck id go into labour tonight and disgrace myself in front of everyone in the hospital! i did say sorry for tmi, haha hope nobody was eating!

vix none of that works. Babies come when they're ready.

Also, this site makes for a handy FB status: www.haveyouhadthatbabyyet.com

You can get raspberry leaf in capsules as well you know but I didn't find it helped bring on labour, I still went 2w over and had to be induced; however, I had a very quick (half hour) stage 2 labour with DS coming out on about the 10th or 11th massive contraction, and the placenta came out about 5 mins after DS (MW was reeling it out) - so I'll be taking it again this time around. :)

I'm with you.
40+6 and all comms I get revolves around him not showing.
It seriously pisses me off. I'm trying to be chilled and relaxed about it all, but it's made absolutely impossible by people prodding me all the time. The minute I nearly forget about it there is someone asking where he is or commenting that he 'really should have arrived by now'.. I resent the implications and sometimes overtly rude comments that suggest there's either a 'problem' with me, him or that he's even 'Lazy (even as a joke)'.no. He's just not ready and nhs dates are wrong. Piss off.

Luckily for me it's just DH's mum who's rampant with the contact - and generally only texts him, though has occassionally found excuses to text me (as if testing whether I can reply or not). It is very inconsiderate of people though imo - surely they don't think they're more excited and impatient for the baby to arrive than you? And that you don't need reminding of the fact constantly that it hasn't yet happened.

Flisspaps I love that! lol

The group text worked,although I did get one snotty reply tbh its not from a friend or family,from a gossip who hasnt been intouch the whole of my pregnancy until last week......

flisspaps I love the website ha ha.

monkey with you on random stranger comments. I'm sick of going into town, having everyone stare, and every shopkeeper telling me I look ready to drop. I'm 38+5 and this has been going on for a few weeks. There's also the comment that I must be ready to have the pregnancy over. Actually, it's been problem free and she's not fully cooked yet. Leave her (and me) alone!!