Getting rid of relatives

[bigpreggybelly]

Does anyone else, as they approach their due date, want to tell their relatives to f* off, leave them alone and stop wanting to come round all the time, or phone or email all the time, or is it just me??

I don't know how I'm gonna feel from one hour to the next. Emotionally or phsically, consequently I don't feel like entertaining and having to pretend its all hunkydory and just want to crawl into a hole and not come out til the baby is out.

Am I normal?

No, this sounds like I wil be! we are already talking about and preparing relatives for a visiting rota when sprog is born. They do all live miles away, though, so we'll need something to make sure they don't all try and stay at once!

I still have another 13 weeks to go but I am finding myself increasingly irritated by people. I'm not feeling sociable at all, I felt like this when I was pregnant with ds1 too. I've started feeling worried that perhaps I'm going to have a premature labour as my symptoms are similar to PMT I feel very much like I am waiting for something to happen iyswim?

I'm totally with you girls! 8 weeks to go and am quite irritated by people asking me the same things all the time.

This week I was asked if I had packed my bag yet and I just know that is the "new" question so will have to have a stock answer for that one when I am asked it 1million times a day.

On the relatives front I would just be a bit rubbish when they come round, sleepy, un responsive, a bit dreamy... make it clear you want your rest etc.

Mine all live at least an hour and a half to 2 hours away so it is that tricky distance where they can't just pop by.

Difficult.

I'm due with number 2 tomorrow and am REALLY grumpy!
Hope baby stays put til we can actually get out of the drive but the idea of people 'popping round' makes me murderous! DP just taken DS out sledging to get away from me and my grumpiness!

im 38 +4 weeks and my mum keeps phoning me every other day since xmas asking the same things, have i started to get pains yet, have i got backache etc. she had me 4weeks pre-term and im gathering she expected me to have my boy early aswell, it gets so annoying, im resorted to not answering my mobile but she phones the house phone and says "i thought you was in labour becuase you didnt answer the phone" im considering not answering either phones now lol

Im 37 weeks and have been like this for ages although Im more worried about them after the birth.

With dd I shut myself off from everyone, once I had had her I wanted every round!

I have recently ignored the front door when I know its people I dont want to see. If one more person tells me how big I am I will hit them!

Luckily the weather is keeping everyone away. I am praying that I have the baby this weekend so that no one can visit for a few days.

Only really feel like this about my ILs (esp MIL).... But maybe thats a whole different thread!!!
actually i've actually become more "clingy" to my mum and dad and and prob in danger of them ignoring the phone in case its me!
But any other visitors can bugger off as far as i'm concerned at the mo - not that i'm sensible and make excuses so that they don't come round, no i just whinge about then to dh (who's also prob v fed up of me aw now!) after they've gone about how much they irritated me!!
really don't relish the idea of more people wanting to visit after the baby's arrived (apart from my parents and close girl friends that is - which is totally unreasonable on dh i know) i'd really just like to shut ourselves away.... But there are so many people who planning on making a visit its untrue - should be gratefull but thought entertaining people and having the same boring conversations over and over just makes me grumpy!! X

My mum has been planning her trip to stay with us since we announced the pregnancy and keeps fretting about 'when' it will be (she's retired so has plenty of time and we've agreed that she'll stay for a week when DH goes back to work).

Everytime she calls she asks when I think she'll be traveling as she'll need to sort lots of stuff out before she comes. All I can tell her is the due date and it's really winding me up that she keeps asking - I DON'T KNOW!!!!!!

The last phone call we had on the subject was her fretting about all she'd need to sort, and then she asked me if I could cancel her weekly hairdressers appointment when I knew the baby was coming!!!!!!!!