the dreaded text messages
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Topic: the dreaded text messages
Posted By: NovemberMum
Subject: the dreaded text messages
Date Posted: 17 November 2007 at 6:38pm
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who here got phone calls and text messages asking if you had had baby even before you got to your due date.
everytime I get a text messsage I am dreading it will be friends or family asking me if I have had baby. Had one already arghh leave me alone I will let you know when I have had baby....lol ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 17 November 2007 at 7:14pm
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I did heaps when I had Andrew, I think it was because I was in hospital everyone thought I was having him when I went in. I had to explain that I was in there because they had to keep tabs on the baby not to have it straight away. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 17 November 2007 at 7:21pm
I got heaps too! It was especially annoying when I was overdue  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 17 November 2007 at 8:00pm
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and I was probably the worst, Ana, lol!!! What I did, was every couple of days, I'd send out a mass text saying no news, I will get intouch when there is some, talk to you all later. Thay got the message! ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 18 November 2007 at 9:17am
why do people do it?? it's soooooooooooooooooooooo annoying!!! my nana would come over everyday and 'see how i am'....my in-laws would ring every second night to see if i'd had bubs...yeah she was born a week ago, just forgot to tell you! ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com"> 
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Posted By: CuriousG
Date Posted: 18 November 2007 at 9:31am
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I had 12, yes 12 phone calls one day before my due date. By the time I got the last call, I was answering "WHAT???!" Oops! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 18 November 2007 at 10:01am
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I had Alize 2weeks early I missed everyone txtin or ringing. The funnniest comment that cracks me up is after you have baby and you are walking with a pram or holding the baby and people come up and say "oh so you have had your baby" LMAO..... ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
Busy mum to Miss 15yrs, Miss 10yrs and Master 4yrs |
Posted By: tashzmum
Date Posted: 18 November 2007 at 10:07am
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i had it heaps.. with tashi was due 7th jan, and from christmas everyone was like 'oh your still in one peice then'. we had caller id and an answer ph so i would screen calls!!!we were lucky and lived in an area with no cell ph signal, but when i went to town my ph would go nuts with texts...
and i still had tash a week early.... but we got our revenge. seeing as everyone was so interested as to when i was having tash we rang everyone at 330am new years day morning letting them all know i was in labour  ------------- Natasha Jayde, 1-01-05(7lb3oz) Caroline Elisabeth, 9-04-08 (4lb15oz) Izabella Kate, 9-04-08(6lb7oz) Lexi Brenna, 23-01--2011(6lb6oz) |
Posted By: Tiff
Date Posted: 18 November 2007 at 10:10am
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LOL!!! Tashzmum!!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 18 November 2007 at 10:16am
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LOL Tashzmum, That is so funny!!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 18 November 2007 at 10:57am
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Haha Funny Hollie. My FIL even came up to the hospital when I was induced with Andrew as he hadn't heard anything. He wanted to come into the delivery room while I was in labour ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Jay_R
Date Posted: 18 November 2007 at 1:30pm
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Personally, I think it's lovely that people care enough to want to know! Wouldn't you be more annoyed if NO-ONE was interested at all???
Or maybe it's just me. Joshua was two weeks late and I had a million texts and phone calls, and I thought it was great. If I didn't want to talk to anyone I just switched off my phone. |
Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 18 November 2007 at 2:21pm
"no, no, I'm just taking the dog out for a walk in here..." ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Kels wrote:Posted By: Danash
Date Posted: 18 November 2007 at 4:00pm
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I'm not even 29 weeks and my inlaws ask whenever they ring?!?! They always say we are just looking forward to being grandparents again and I say well wouldn't you prefer a healthy full term grandchild. AUGH! |
Posted By: BabyOnBoard
Date Posted: 18 November 2007 at 4:04pm
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I had DP's family ringing up and asking 'Have you had the baby yet?' DUH I think we would let you know! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: Lisha
Date Posted: 18 November 2007 at 6:51pm
Yep, I too am getting the phonecalls, especially from my parents. I was 3 weeks early with Lucy, so they all think that I should be early with this baby, but it hasn't worked out to be like that this time around! I am freaking out abit about how big this baby is going to be if it is already 2 weeks ahead of itself!!  ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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