vonniebeth wrote:I'm late to the party, but while I can get Britney not wanting to use a name that has gotten wildly popular (there were many Sarahs, Katies, Erins, and Maggies in my high school class. In fact, there were two Maggies that had the same last initial, so we called them by their first and last name), an overly unique name isn't much better. My mom gave me a traditional Celtic name that nobody knows how to pronounce, and it's embarrassing to hear your name be butchered on the first day of school or watch teachers stare at the roster and call you by your last name. While I personally hate the name Penelope (it reminds me of The Amanda Show), I would rather Brit name her that rather than something totally weird.
When I was in high school, there were two girls that had the same common first name AND the same common last name! That would be terrible. People would just describe them instead, and teenagers aren't always nice about that and it was often physical attributes.
Aboogabooga wrote:imapumkinseed wrote:Aboogabooga wrote:I think right now she's just taking a break from it in preparation for the baby. I'm sure she'll get back on once she's here and they're settled. I expected jess to do the same but I guess she didn't need to.
Also, what is it like when you're just waiting to go into labor? I know every mom I've ever met is just ready to give birth already but I feel like I would have so much anxiety because it could happen at any time. Lol I would be really scared. I'm sure I sound like such a non-mom but I'm genuinely curious
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Being overdue is like no other feeling in the world, lol. You know that it could happen any minute, but at the same time it feels like it's NEVER gonna happen and you'll just be pregnant forever. And by that time you're SO done being huge and pregnant that the pain of labor doesn't even seem like that bad of a trade off. Plus people look at you like a ticking time bomb... I actually got kicked out of a rug store, lmao. The owner looked at me like I was a freak of nature and asked when my due date was, "oh last Wednesday." And she was so freaked out that my water was going to break all over her Persian rugs that she asked me to wait outside. I just laughed and made sure to waddle a bit extra and groan and hold my belly on the way out.
Haha that's pretty funny!
Thank you all for insight. I thought I was the only one that would feel that anxiety but I guess that's normal.
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I think I was bravest with my first! I was just so ready. Yes, a bit anxious, but at that point I was sick of being pregnant and ready to become a mom. With my second, I wasn't so much nervous about the birth or anything, but more about leaving my eldest and worried about how he would adjust, and I hated being away from him (he was still so young). I'm currently expecting my third, and my anxiety this time is more about what if something terrible happened to me during labor/delivery, and I had these other two kids left behind that were motherless? I know that's horrible thinking but that's how my anxiety works. I just have to try not to think about it. Also, I'm way more worried about the pain this time! Not sure why.
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