Annoying people when your approaching your due date!

[Babycakes1989]

Just a little rant 🤭 didn’t realise how annoying it was until it happens to you !!

‘Just checking in to see how you are’
‘How you feeling’
‘Let’s hope he’s not much longer now’
‘Thinking of you’
‘Any niggles yet?’

I’m not due until Sunday which I’m very aware now 2 days away 😂 however I’m trying to be relaxed as poss and see it as my ‘due from date’ rather than I must have him before then!!!

I swear these messages are making me a tad more anxious when I’ve been so chilled all along! Wish I could switch my phone off 🤭 x

I'm totally with you. I'm due Sunday and keep getting everyone asking. Its not like I'm keeping the baby in on purpose 😅

Yes!!
I'm 'due' next Saturday and it's already driving me mad.

Yessss ladies I’m so glad I’m not the only one 😂😂 feel like a bitch because they are all people I think very highly of it’s just getting a bit much! I know they only mean well.

He will arrive when he is ready!! When people have been asking me I have been just replying with ‘yeah fine you’ in an attempt to just keep it formal 😂😂 xx

This is so annoying I’m due in 2 and and a half weeks so it hasn’t started this time yet. For me it was most annoying at two weeks overdue in hospital waiting for induction to work. I was so annoyed by it and felt all they cared about was getting to meet my baby when I was the one in hospital for days in pain. I switched my phone off and ignored everyone. Of course once he arrived I told them all immediately. I didn’t understand the pestering if the baby is born or any problems arise they would have been informed so why keep bothering me but I was probably being unreasonable as they cared but god it wound me up.

Oh god that’s not what you wanted 😩 yeah I feel like that!! People are more interested in the baby when my main thing that I want at the moment is a safe delivery for me and him. X

Having been through it twice and being 7 years down the line ... in all honestly, it's just topical and people are being nice.
Better than ignoring the fact that you're about to have a new life arrive which should be exciting and something to talk about

I'm still 2 weeks off due date and people are already asking if I've "popped yet" and "come on we want to have baby cuddles"
Yeah, not as much as I do, or as much as I want this baby to vacate the premises. You'll know once I've had it as ill tell you, and no I won't tell you when it's started as I don't want to.
It's frustrating as its only a set few friends. Family haven't asked at all as they know I'll tell them.

It is SO annoying. My first was very overdue and I was about ready to murder people by the time I finally went into labour. “Tell that baby to get a move on!” I’M TRYING!

Redirect them all to haveyouhadthatbabyyet.com/. And if you go much overdue and it starts really getting to you, feel free to tell people it’s annoying to get “any little niggles????” 14 times a day and can they please back off a bit. Mostly they’re just dopily oblivious I think.

This is why I keep my due date deliberately vague, even for my mother!

Haha I was just coming on to suggest you direct them to www.haveyouhadthatbabyyet.com/ but was beaten to it!

I'm now a full week overdue so have had weeks of it! Argh!

I told someone the other day on the phone that yes, actually, I had the baby a couple of weeks ago but forgot to mention it. "Really?", they said. "No, not really, you tit, but stop asking me!". And breathe...

It is frustrating, try a message to all that says, I'm well and will let you know when there is any news, please don't ask me 💚

Just got another couple of texts asking! Aghh

Oh I know exactly how you feel. Please do turn your phone off! I wish I had. I even had messages from Mil suggesting ways to help labour along. One text said 'Oh and if all else fails, sex might help'. Cringe, thanks, I hadn't thought of that I ended up being 17 days 'late' so it felt never ending. Ignore everyone, baby will come when it's ready!

Due date today 😅 I dont think he is coming.

DD is now 6 weeks but was 13 days late so I had this constantly! My answers got more and more curt as time went on... my due date was the hottest day of the year so being hot and bothered made me even more irritable!

This is sad. Imagine how it would be if no one messaged you, asked how you were or cared? That would be much worse

it’s lighthearted - I am grateful and know they mean well but it’s constant despite me saying I will let them know when it’s go time 🤭 Hormones are a little crazy plus I have suffered with extreme anxiety throughout this pregnancy due to a previous loss so I feel the heat a bit when people are kind of asking all the time and I start asking myself yeah why isn’t he here?!

I need to stop doing this to people! I want them to know I remember and care though. Would you recommend just not messaging?

I'll be experiencing the same in Nov I'm sure!

Out of curiosity what would be the better thing to ask your friend who is expecting ? I usually try “how you feeling” I feel like if I don’t ask then they think you’re ignoring the fact!

I prefer the “thinking of you” texts rather than the “how are you?” or “any niggles?” as the latter two sound (to me) like demands for information rather than just supportive

The best advice I got when pregnant was don't tell the masses your due date then they won't be able to text you about it. I just kept it vague and said "it's at some point between when I finish work and Brexit" (in March) which gave me a 2 week window. As it was baby came at 36 weeks so I hadn't finished work anyway meaning I didn't get anyone at all asking me these kind of questions and we've still not had Brexit so I gave myself a very wide window indeed. If I have another baby I'll definitely do the same again.