[toby]

38 Weeks and 1 Day / 13 Days to go...

The routine is getting monotonous...

Pee in a cup / Step on a scale / Freak because the needle on that scale has far surpassed any number I've ever fathomed I'd attain / Move into a room & get naked from the waist down and try to look modest in my lovely paper sheet...

The nurse asks..."How are you feeling?"

I mean really....what does she truly expect me to say?

I answer "Fat and tired of being pregnant."

She just chuckles cause she's heard the same remarks from every other 9 month pregnant woman that comes in.

The OB comes in...does the internal...a quick ultrasound to check the heartbeat and fluid, and I'm thinking....ok, get on with it! Tell me I'm progressing like a champ and this baby will be here tomorrow! Tell me that all those contractions I'm feeling are doing something in there!

...sigh But no, I hear the words..."No change and I'll see you next week."

Really, is there such a thing as being pregnant forever? Cause I feel like I'm heading for the Guinness Book of World Records!

[Madeline410]

I'm right there with ya!!!! I am convinced I'll be the first terminally pregnant woman. Last week she told me I was 1 cm dilated but made sure to add, very quickly, "but I'll still see you next week" so my excitement only lasted a few seconds lol

And I say the same thing when they ask how I am... "huge and my ribs hurt" lol... they just laugh...

[Kelly]

LOL, I felt that way too! She told me I was 1 cm dilated and I got kind of excited, so she says, "but don't get too excited, you could stay that way for weeks".

It WILL end and you will be holding you little ones soon!

Only that starts a whole new book of things, (sleepless nights, baby constipation, projectile vomit, a little game called "try to hit the kitty with my stream of pee", LOL, etc.) But they are well worth it!

[Mary Beth]

Remember -- the AVERAGE pregnancy is 40 weeks. You are just barely into your due month at 38 weeks. And first timers are more likely to be late than early.

Even before inductions (considered at 41 or 42 weeks depending on the doctor and the well-being of the baby as determined by various monitoring methods), babies very rarely went past 42 weeks and only in the most extreme cases up to 44 weeks -- usually that meant a mistake in the due date.

[KahlansMommy]

Hehe, I'm right there with you (same due date too!) I just have to keep reminding myself that I'm not even due yet and that it could be another week or two after that even! I'm trying to at least make it until the 20th before I start getting too frustrated. Once I make it to the 20th the gloves come off and I will start doing what I can to get her out of here!

[#5in2005]

another day is almost over, so that means you're one day closer to having your baby. Not too much longer now.

I'll spare you the details on how I am not sick of it yet.

[~Trina~]

awww I feel for you!! I can't imagine how it feels to have that!! I've been ... i dunno...blessed? that my longest pregnancy has been 38 weeks and just a couple days... but I imagine I would be going nuts after that point!!

Hang in there .... I've never seen anyone terminally pregnant!

[kazza]

Right there wiv ya girl

I am 4 days over due and starting to think it will never end.

Try and stay positive.

Kaz

[crystalclear]

Amen. Some days I think my belly is stretched so far it's going to just explode.... and then I calmly consider that possibility with the positive thought of 'well, at least then they'll Have to take her out'....

[lilangel91284]

Im am with you.

I have 3 days till my due date and i was told in July when i was going into pre-term labor that this baby will be here in mid-september.... HELLO its October and NO baby yet.