[ZZ0607]

that went into labor early... did you have an inkling beforehand? With DD and DS I felt like I had lots of time and wasn't in any rush. With this one I feel like I don't have enough time (although for what I need/want to do, 6 weeks is plenty). I feel like I only have 2 or 3 weeks left to finish organizing. Is this merely impatience or some weird intuition? Anxiety even? LoL someone look into their crystal ball and tell me when I'm giving birth! Just curious if I should be ignoring this feeling or heeding it.

[katydid13]

Hmmm. I did have a nesting rush several weeks beforehand, but the week I had each of my babies I thought the world would end before I gave birth. OK, so I'm no help.

[MamaAnna]

Not really. I had some extra energy, but that was it.

[KatieHeitman]

I had a baby shower on the Saturday before Alex was born. Sunday I told DH we HAVE to go get the rest of the stuff I want for the baby. So we did. I had lost part of my mucus plug that weekend too. Monday had a doctor appointment and I wasn't making any progress so the doctor and I both said see ya next week. Well Wednesday night my water broke. So there were signs that I was going to have the baby, but when my water broke I couldn't believe it. It happened in my sleep about an hour after I went to bed. This time around I really think this baby is going to be here in the next 2 weeks. I just have this feeling. So we will see.

[JenAnne]

I never went into labor with Mia.

With Marlee, I woke up having contractions and had bloody show/lost plug when I went to the bathroom. Aside from that, I didn't have any feeling other than going to bed the night before thinking 'Please let me go into labor...'!

[♥womanintheshoe♥]

The only time I felt "rushed" was with #8. I couldn't understand it and ignored it...oops. I felt I absolutely had to put out her clothes 3 weeks before she was due even though I usually don't do that until the week before my due date. Even stranger was when my brother and his wife arrived at our house Dec. 28th and when they left the morning of the 29th I felt an overwhelming need to beg her to stay just one more day or come back from their trip via our house. I again ignored it and thought I was just being emotional and needy...nope! Went into labor that night a full two weeks early (I usually go one week early).

I'm thankful that this time I don't feel rushed at all and am hoping to not go as early as last time.

[Army_Wife]

I never went into labor with DS or DD. DS was 10 days late, and I was induced with DD b/c DH was home on leave. With both of them, I never felt an overwhelming feeling to get things done. I just had a feeling I had plenty of time with DS, which I did. And with DD, I was just praying and praying she'd stay put until DH got home, and she did. This time I feel this overwhelming need to get stuff done and within the next two weeks. I can't shake this feeling that she'll be here before her EDD. I could be totally wrong, and I really don't care if I go to my EDD or even after, but I can't get rid of this nesting feeling and the need to get things organized and ready to go. Maybe it's a sign. Maybe it's not. But at least my house is getting cleaned! LOL!

[laisydaisymama]

I knew lol. without question, I knew.

I knew we were out of time with my first and I went into labor the night we finished everything.

with my second I kept freaking out over everything and even went to the hospital twice for what turned out to be no reason, the third time I was dilated to 2....at 30 weeks. My water broke 2 days later.

my third I was freaking out that she was breech even though everybody kept telling me there was plenty of time for her to turn....I had a c-section for breech presentation, and went into labor (that was stopped) at 35 weeks, I was almost 5cm when I had my section at 37 weeks.

this time I would love to get to 38 weeks but I'm not even sure I will get to August.

[forest]

I lost some of my mucus plug about 1.5 weeks before I went into labor. Otherwise I had no clue. I wasn't even packed. My water broke so I ended up wandering around the house with a towel between my legs packing.

[Trish36]

In hindsight I can tell you that with each of my kids I remember getting a rush of energy and this need to clean like crazy. I was up in the middle of the night washing floors on my hands and knees and with Isabelle I was even scrubbing the shower stall with a toothbrush (cause I couldn't find a regular scrub brush). I pretty much went into labor within a week or so of this happening.
So now that I feel the same need to clean everything and be done getting organized I don't think I'll make it to 38 weeks even. Just intuition I guess. But we'll have to wait and see. If I lose my mucus plug I'll know that labor isn't far away.

[ZZ0607]

LoL I guess I'll keep an eye out. DH thinks I'm nuts. In an amiable way. I've been dying to get DD's bed this week, trying to find ways to get at least the mattresses and wanting it to be purchased and set up like, yesterday so that I can convert her bed back to a crib. And I just pulled everything out of DS's closet (our storage closet--we have no garage or shed), and anything that didn't "officially" belong in DD's closet and purged and organized. I decided at about 6:30 that I HAD to do this NOW. Despite the fact that it probably won't all get put back by 9:30 tomorrow when MIL comes to watch the kids. At least she was gracious about it when I forewarned her.

I don't know if I'm psyching myself out or if I really need to be prepared early. Both the first two were late. There's just no logical reason I should think this one will do any differently.

[momma2princesses]

I knew...but only because i had high BP with all three so far and my midwife wont let me go past 37 weeks...so thats cheating knowing

[mrsjl]

I am wondering the same thing. I was 10 days overdue with DD so I don't know why I think this one will come early lol

I am having my baby shower this weekend, and I am relieved because I was about to go buy the things we were missing because I just feel like I need to have everything done by 38 weeks. I am already feeling the same "doneness" I felt later in my pregnancy with DD. I can't sleep. I am sore. I have been feeling a little "off" the past week. I am swollen beyond belief.

I guess we'll see if I am right or if it's just wishful thinking