The waiting game...

Those dang babies never show up on time! They are either late or early. The due dates can be off by a week. I bet your wife is even more than ready to get the birth over with than you are. lol At least you are there with her. That helps her out emotionally more than you know. Are you having a boy or a girl? (I know you must have said, but I have forgotten) Try and get some last minute things done around the house, grocery shopping, chores, whatever, to keep you busy and stop starring at her belly. Maybe some little short walks if she's up to it. Help her relax and get some rest. Hope baby decides it's time to enter the world soon. Congrats.

P.S. Make sure there is gas in the car. I actually had to stop at the gas station on the way to the hospital when my daughter was born. lmao
 
Ah the due date.... I was born two weeks past my due date, much to my poor mother's dismay. :ooh:

My two kids were induced. Convenience on my schedule :D (Well, the first one was a convenience-induction, the second was a doctor-ordered induction.)

I hope baby makes his/her arrival soon, those last few weeks are THE WORST.
 
I've heard the same act that put you in the waiting game, can also help speed you out of it. Go make the most of your time!
 
Matt13C said:
I've heard the same act that put you in the waiting game, can also help speed you out of it. Go make the most of your time!
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*IF* she's up for it...

Some women are fine with bedroom sports at that late in the pg, others are not. (Feeling like a beached whale does not lend itself to feeling particularly sporting sometimes...)
 
I can understand that women at that late stage (or even before) might feel like a "beached whale" and less attractive, physically worn out and feeling cumbersome, but I have always thought that pregnant women look incredibly beautiful. (sexy too) The Mommy to be thing is just cool, exciting and special. I know many men feel this way too. We just have to work a little harder at being more understanding, accepting, generous and kind when they feel this way. It's such a physically, emotionally and hormonally draining experience for them and a little scarey. We really have the easy/fun part of the whole experience.
 
MQAAord said:
Ah the due date.... I was born two weeks past my due date, much to my poor mother's dismay. :ooh:

My two kids were induced. Convenience on my schedule :D (Well, the first one was a convenience-induction, the second was a doctor-ordered induction.)
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I was over two weeks late and enormous! I weighed almost 10 lbs! My Mom had to have a cesarean. Ugh. I don't think that had that inducing thing back then either.
 
I'm probably not the best female to give her opinion of being pregnant, as I absolutely hated it. I hated gaining weight, I hated being fat, I hated not fitting in my clothes, I hated not being able to see my feet, having my ankles swell to ginormous proportions, being out of breath as my lungs lost the battle for abdominal space, and most of all not being able to sleep on my stomach. Yes, it was worth it to bring my kids into the world, but the actual 9 months of being pg were sheer misery. (And I won't even go into what it was like actually having the baby...!)
 
Yikes!!!!!!! lol See this is where the patience and understanding part for men has to come into play big time. Plus some women have morning sickness from hell and then there's that having to pee all the time thing and appetite issues and not being able to tie their tennies and a whole bunch of other stuff that they suddenly cannot do. Oh and the spontaneous crying jags. That's the hardest thing for men to handle. We are just helpless when women cry. Generally clueless what to do and we usually say or do the wrong thing no matter how hard we try not to.

No need to be concerned about feeling like you did. Can you imagine if men were able to get pregnant? There would be wars, huge whimpering and who knows what all. And the giving birth part? We'd never make it. They would just have to dope us up til we were unconscious. Seriously. I mean look how we behave when we have a cold. My daughter was really shall we say, "incredibly grumpy" most of time she was pregnant with my grand kids and she normally is never that way. It was quite the personality change. After they were born, she was fine again. My first wife, who was normally a PITA in many respects was more pleasant when she was pregnant. Go figure. Some women are happy, some up and down with the mood swings - fine one day not so much the next and some just are not happy campers the entire time. It's just is what it is and everybody if different.

I remember the clothes thing. Women often think they look horrible in everything while they're pg . My daughter in law has been feeling that way now for a while and they make much cuter stuff than they used to for pg women to wear. Plus her back is killing her lately. My son told me yesterday that she started crying because she went to take her rings off to do up a couple of dishes and she had a hard time getting them off and back on again because her fingers have swelled up some and she wasn't too happy when he tried to make a joke about it. But then he had already had a small go around about the steering wheel in her car that he couldn't adjust up any further because of her growing belly and made some joke about that too, I guess. I warned him. He didn't listen. I told him if he keeps this up he won't be sleeping on the couch, he'll be sleeping in the garage. lol
 
A Life Aloft said:
My son told me yesterday that she started crying because she went to take her rings off to do up a couple of dishes and she had a hard time getting them off and back on again because her fingers have swelled up some and she wasn't too happy when he tried to make a joke about it. But then he had already had a small go around about the steering wheel in her car that he couldn't adjust up any further because of her growing belly and made some joke about that too, I guess. I warned him. He didn't listen. I told him if he keeps this up he won't be sleeping on the couch, he'll be sleeping in the garage. lol
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Your son needs to be more sensitive. Just remind her that this is all what she wanted......she wanted a kid. :D
 
Yeah, I didn't actually have the luxury of wearing shoes the last several weeks... :/ not only would they not fit my gigantic swollen feet, but I couldn't tie them anyway. So slip-on sandals it was, even in January.

I smile everytime I walk by racks of maternity clothes now, because I know I'll never have to wear them again. :D
 
MQAAord said:
I'm probably not the best female to give her opinion of being pregnant, as I absolutely hated it. I hated gaining weight, I hated being fat, I hated not fitting in my clothes, I hated not being able to see my feet, having my ankles swell to ginormous proportions, being out of breath as my lungs lost the battle for abdominal space, and most of all not being able to sleep on my stomach. Yes, it was worth it to bring my kids into the world, but the actual 9 months of being pg were sheer misery. (And I won't even go into what it was like actually having the baby...!)
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You sound exactly like my wife. Loved everything about having our daughter except the 9 months carrying.
 
MQAAord said:
Yeah, he tells her that and she'll be apt to shove those rings somewhere he will find most unpleasant...!
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Unless it's an immaculate conception, there's a price that comes with having kids. Everything costs something.

:D :D
 
MQAAord said:
Yeah, I didn't actually have the luxury of wearing shoes the last several weeks... :/ not only would they not fit my gigantic swollen feet, but I couldn't tie them anyway. So slip-on sandals it was, even in January.

I smile everytime I walk by racks of maternity clothes now, because I know I'll never have to wear them again. :D
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My wife and sister actually went to Sketchers and bought her three kinds of flip flops in different colors like three weeks ago. All I know is that one pair was pink because my wife was giddy over their idea and waved them in my face as she and Betty were scurrying out of the house to bring them over to her and I was trying to watch Top Gear. It's the little things in life that get women excited. lol
 
MikeD said:
I hope he owns a motorhome.......or a 5th wheel trailer! :)
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No, but my brother does, it's parked in my fricking hangar. He might need it if he doesn't watch his step. At least he'll be closer to work a little. lol We had another talk (again) so I hope he is behaving himself. I haven't gotten any more frantic calls......yet.
 
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