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Hello all,

I am now nearing the end of my pregnancy (39 going on 40 weeks) and I have reached that point where I feel like I want to rip my hair out from the boredom.

This is my first pregnancy and baby and I have been very fortunate to have little to no complications or symptoms through out. With everything all ready and set up for little one and every surface in the house cleaned and scrubbed a thousand times over (even deep cleaned the cars) I'm struggling to think of ways to occupy my mind until the big day.

Babies have this wonderful power of showing up when they feel like it and so to expect them to arrive on time is wishful thinking. I'm very excited and terrified to meet my little one and so is their dad!

But until then does anyone have any advise for when you reached this point in your pregnancy and how you handled this? I just feel like I'm over being pregnant now and my mind feels like its now moving onto the next stage of wanting to welcome little one into the world, being a new mum which feels very weird and I'm not sure what to do.

I remember feeling the same before my first baby was born.

After she arrived, I yearned for the days when I had nothing to do.

You're going to get a thread full of posts telling you to put your feet up now, because you'll never be able to again, once the baby arrives.

And it's true!

Maybe book some things that you’ll not be able to do / struggle to do for a while once baby is here eg
Get a haircut
Book a nice restaurant
Go to the cinema
Go for afternoon tea

That’ll help pass the time and also make you feel good :)

Thankyou! It just feels so weird right now how my mind is so hard wired to find things to do even though I know that relaxation is what I need right now 🤪🙃

Have you started planning for Christmas yet? That has distracted me for a while 😊

Best advice I was given was to mentally prepare to be two weeks later than your "due" date. Has certainly helped me feel more at ease with my own, now "late", arrival.

Agree with PPs, feet up, you time, dinner, cinema. Perfect!

If you have another child after this one, there will probably be very little chance by to be bored at the same point in time!

Enjoy OP and good luck for your impending arrival!! Xx

Get a haircut and your nails done. You don’t know when you’ll get to do that again.
Go to anything that requires an appointment that you’ve been putting off. Soon you’ll need to find a babysitter just to visit the dentist.
Carry a small handbag, or better yet, NO BAG. Enjoy wearing clean clothes that stay clean.
Tomorrow when you get up, take a lovely long shower. I don’t think I’ve had a lovely long shower for years now….
I would say sleep but that’s not always easy at this point of pregnancy, so get headphones on and meditate or listen to music.
Enjoy the sound of silence.
Enjoy listening to music through headphones as soon you’ll be on constant alert for your baby/toddler/child waking up.
Have a nice date with your partner and enjoy the 1-on-1 time. Reminisce about the good times and hang onto these memories in the early hours of the morning when tempers get frayed!

This is a difficult one really, because the old adage is true. You just don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.

But somehow…. Despite all that…. It’s all worth it!

Good luck for your baby’s arrival xx