Having a premature first born, I never experienced getting to the due date and all that goes with it.
What I have found most surprising is the reaction of friends and family.
I understand that they are excited to hear the news, but a phone call from my mother three times a day to check if there’s ‘any movement yet?’ Come on!!
In the last 6 days I have counted 16 text messages from friends all asking if there’s news yet. My due date is tomorrow, and if there was news everyone would have heard by now! They mean well, I know, but it is just adding to my own frustration of not having news to share.
I am thankful not to be an elephant, I will add, even though I do feel like I have been pregnant for years and that by the time this baby arrives it will be ready for kinder.
So, I figure if anything good can come out of this (besides having very thoughtful friends and family), it is just another lesson for me to learn. When a pregnant friend or family member is nearing her due date, her due date is here or her due date has been and gone, I will make contact and ask something totally obscure in the hope that it will give her something else to think about just for a while.

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