Rant!!

[LittleKirk]

Aaargh! I am just not having a good week and I need to vent a little bit!!

I've had a constant stream of texts as Kong if the baby is here yet (I'm not due until Saturday) and when I kindly inform them that I'm still pregnant and I will let them know if the little one comes along I get a response asking why I'm still pregnant, how comes it isn't here yet, isn't it about time they made an entrance. yes, yes it is but despite everyone deciding they're midwives and how early I'm going to be as its my second I have explained I was over with my first and the baby will come eventually when they are good and ready too.

I also have a friend who is due 4 weeks after me and I get a lot of texts from her asking what names I've chosen, how will she know what labour feels like, when will her baby came and hahaha how funny would it be going into labour at exactly the same time and our babies were born on the same day and why don't I just wait to be induced and she'll try and speed up her spontaneous Labour (and also do I know how to do that and it will work).

I feel like crap (it would seem that I have the flu now as well) and with an increasingly disturbed sleeping pattern this does not make for a happy mummy at all.

I'm being as calm as I can with my 3 year old because he's not doing anything a 3 year old wouldn't do but it seems that after that I have no patience to deal with anyone else!! boyfriend included!!

oh and my asda home delivery... all the treaty things I ordered for me to help me feel better... substituted and not even for something similar.
Grr!

sorry.... am just incredibly sensitive at the moment... I just want to curl into a ball and cry... and I can't curl into a ball!!!

Roll on labour... you need to evict that baby! lol! ;-)

People drove me mad with the constant "haven't you had it yet?", last time. In fact it drove me insane! Anyone would think it was like a named day delivery service, that failed to deliver and needed complaining about. Babies come when they are good and ready, nothing is going to change that.

My mil was the worst phoning me multiple times a day, with stupid advice (like if baby completely stops moving its a good sign that labours on the way - where the f did she get that utter crap from) and complaining how baby hadn't come on the most convenient day for her and complaining some more about how unacceptable it was that he was a boy and it was our fault for finding out (apparently if we hadn't he'd have magically turned into a girl because that's what mil was demanding). Thanking my lucky stars she's banned from ever communicating with me in anyway now and only allowed to write once per month to dh, so I won't get that this time.

I advise ignoring people once they've been told you will tell them when DC will be here, they'll get the message. Its what I resorted to last time.

I am massively feeling for you. I am getting the same texts am currently 40+5 and every morning wake up to at least 5 or 6 messages asking me where the baby is....well it's where it was earlier.

do people honestly think I won't tell then once she arrives?!?
hope you have yours when baby is ready and just ignore people (I have stopped answering haha).

My last pregnancy, my SIL was due 6 weeks after me and around 39 weeks she merrily said to me 'wouldnt it be brilliant if you were 3 weeks late and I was 3 weeks early!' .... and I didn't speak to her for a week. Haha. Bit of a hormonal reaction there!! (As it was we were both late,her more than me)

It is a SHIT time. You have my absolute sympathies. I am in tears every morning because I just want something to happen now!! My boyfriend keeps telling me this one is going to be early (well I'm due Tuesday so it's not got much chance left now!) He knows nothing! So fed up. Sympathies....

I stopped telling people the actual due date. When someone asked me when baby is due I say end of Oktober.. When they try more to find out the exact date, I just tell them "we have decided not to tell anyone the date, but we will tell you the gender"
My SIL is messaging me every week asking when due date is. I always write back end of Oktober or just ignore the message.
It is so annoying when people ask of baby has arrived or when due date is more then once.

Good luck to everyone. Soon you will all be cuddling your baby!

I am so doing that next time (keeping the due date to ourselves or adding two weeks...) I hate the labour predictions - "ooh you'll definitely have it in 48 hours" - how could you know that?! Sympathise with the early morning blues, another night of no sleep, a barrage of texts and still no baby. I feel acutely aware of other's impatience - I know they want to plan visits and it would be good if baby had made it by the weekend etc but it just really frustrates...

Me and dh have kept due date private this time (except from my family). I'm due 16th Feb but we've just said end of Feb, early march in the hope that people don't start asking until I'm a week or so over due.

Ugh those texts sound extremely annoying. I am now planning to turn off my mobile from 39 weeks! You have my sympathies.

People are just excited for you! Better that than not interested right?

It will be over soon! Good luck!

Like the idea of giving a vague/late due date. We're 21st Feb and have told people it's the end of Feb. Only gives me one week extra though. Wonder if they'll notice if I say the first week of March?