Plans around your due date!

[CityKity]

Just a light hearted thread to ask what you were up to (aside from work) the week of your due date and beyond?
I know the replies will likely range from essentially climbing mount Everest to being on bed rest but I’m throwing it out there anyway!

For context I’m 37 weeks today with my first and am not really sure what to do with social commitments around and after the due date. I’ve turned down 2 weddings (one abroad at DD+4 weeks and one locally at DD+1 week), but not sure what’s normal for more casual plans/dinners/plays etc.
I know most babies don’t arrive on their due date so I don’t want to be unnecessarily cautious, especially as I’m still feeling physically well.
How far from home did you go? Any crazy stories of waters breaking on the tube etc 😅?

Absolutely made plans for seeing friends and dinner. In fact I was out for dinner the night o went in to Labour.

aside from that, everyone else was at work on my two weeks maternity leave during the week… so I walked, read, watched TV, cooked, met NCT friends for coffee and got tube into work to meet colleague and husband for lunch / coffee

fond memories

i got labour ready 😂
I was actually having mild contractions while having a pedicure!

I was supposed to go to my friend's baby shower when I would have been 40+3 which I remember thinking would have been a nice distraction if there hadn't been any movement by then. I think my mother in law had also booked a fancy restaurant a few days later with the same idea in mind. It was lovely to have something 'normal' to think about but my waters broke right on my due date and that was that!

I just carried on as normal. Saw friends, ate out, went to museums etc. I figured no one would hold it against me if I couldn’t do something because I was in labour but I didn’t want to hang around doing nothing just waiting. I was in the cinema when my contractions started with dc1 and with dc2 I was hosting afternoon tea for 6 with my tens machine on in early labour.

I'm 36 weeks today and I'm sleeping a lot 🤣 I haven't really done that this pregnancy due to toddler and work. I finished up on maternity a week and a half ago, and my DD is in nursery 4 days a week. I'm using this time to rest and pack our hospital bag and toddlers bag for grans. DP works but when he's at home he's helping build stuff.

We're also going to be moving house a few weeks after DC is born so it's utter chaos 🤣.

Still managing to go out and about and see friends and go to Costco and furniture shop. Although it's bloody tiring.

Being induced in about 2 weeks so trying to cram everything in!

DS1: wedding at 37 weeks, worked til 38 weeks.
Went to a charity event a few days before due date, and took the AGM minutes before dinner. Went into labour typing up the minutes.....

DS2: started ML at 38 weeks, went away at 38 weeks (to my parents for Xmas, 3 hours away), was due to meet up with a friend for breakfast and a catch up on my due date, but DS2 had other ideas and arrived at 7am that morning, so I cancelled.

You could be "waiting" until 42 weeks. Bookstiff in. Anyone you know well enough to arrange stuff with us likely to know you are heavily pregnant, and might need to cancel. That said, the wedding abroad is probably a good call - you are unlikely to have a passport. The local wedding might be possible, but you won't be able to commit to it, so probably needed to decline.

Agree it's good to make loose plans beyond your due date to avoid just sitting twiddling your thumbs!

At 40+6 I met a friend at Westfield, 20 minute waddle to the train, 35 minute train. My family were falling over themselves about what if something happened but I just had to keep busy! Plus, if my waters broke in John Lewis I might have got a voucher ;)

Other than that I walked the dog, had lots of baths, mooched around my local town and met various people for coffee or lunch.

DD finally arrived at 41+6 so I'm glad I had plans

@Spottypineapple my family are the same, my mum would have me on bed rest from month 7 if she’d had the choice.

@CatsOnTheChair yup the local wedding I declined just out of politeness as I wouldn’t want to mess up their numbers last minute. Also tbh I went to a wedding at 34 weeks and it was a bit exhausting by the end of the night.

Good to know you ladies all cracked on with it! I’m trying to squeeze in gallery plans, cinema trips, dinners with friend to basically keep busy and take my mind of things but it does feel odd putting things in the diary post due date, even though it could be another 2 weeks!

I’m 36 weeks today and I have a hen party next weekend that I organised (I’m MOH) for 13 girls. And then as I turn week 38 it’s my best friends wedding…

Went into labour 38+3 or 4 last time so wissssssh me luck girls!!

currently spending my days on mumsnet while my toddler watches CBeebies and I eat junk food

I started maternity leave at 38 weeks, then spent the time going for coffee with friends/family, swimming, walking. My eldest sister had planned an afternoon tea to celebrate (like a baby shower kind of but no gifts) at 39+4 since it was the only day everyone was free but my waters broke the night before so I spent that day being induced and baby was born at 39+5!

I’m planning on carrying on as normal but will stay fairly local and obviously remind anyone I make plans with that I may need to cancel!