Getting it off my chest!!

I’m 39 and a half weeks and felt a few twinges last week. My midwife also said last week that baby was very engaged and we had a bit of a joke that we wouldn’t see each other at my 40 week appointment. I relayed this onto family but ever since my in-laws have been ringing every night to see if anything has happened. The twinges have calmed down and feels like baby has changed her mind!! I’m not even at my due date yet and they make jokes about the baby being made up because she isn’t here yet (sounds worse than it reads, we do have a very jokey /playful relationship) but they’re making me feel like baby will never arrive and I’m not even at 40 weeks!! My mother-in-law was convinced baby would be early and told my brother-in-law who then started asking a lot. We would obviously tell them if we headed into hospital and things ramped up all of a sudden! I wish they’d just wait for news from us :( Just having a rant.. ahhhhhh. I know they’re excited but it’s having the opposite effect right now.
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I hear you and I completely understand! Sometimes it feels like they are far too involved and although it’s coming from a place of love it can feel like such pressure and occasionally (more than often) rather annoying

I’m getting induced Sunday and we’ve told no one for this exact reason! With our first little boy we told everyone what day I was getting induced and right up until he was born it was constant messages and phone calls asking if he was born yet and I am not dealing with it this time either!

We’ve decided not to tell anyone when I’m in labour for this reason, they ruin it for themselves 😂

This would drive me nuts - it did in my first pregnancy with people constantly asking from around 37 weeks onwards 🥲 I’d have to say something to them to get them to stop asking as it’d do my head in! Obviously something polite and along the lines of ‘don’t worry about ringing each night, we’ll of course let you know things start moving along’ but I’d just have to put a stop to it for my own sanity as I know how much it bugs me (even though people mean well!) 🥲

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