With my second, we were living in Dublin, Ireland<\/a> but I chose to come back to Florida to give birth. \u00a0At 35 1\/2 weeks we hopped a plane to London<\/a> for the weekend. \u00a0At 36 weeks, my eldest and I flew solo to Denver<\/a>\u00a0to see my family. \u00a0At 37 1\/2 weeks we flew solo, again, to Florida. \u00a0Hubby arrived at 38 1\/2 weeks (I was convinced baby would arrive\u00a0after my due date again) and that is when I began trying to induce labor. \u00a0She was born at 39 weeks on the dot.<\/p>\n With my third, I started precisely at 37 weeks. \u00a0He was huge and I was uncomfortable and I wanted him out, in my arms and did NOT want to chance anything going wrong and thwarting my first attempt at a homebirth. \u00a0Unfortunately, all the trying didn’t get me far and it was another 3 weeks before he came (just 1 day before his due date) but I did get the homebirth<\/a> I desired.<\/p>\n This one has been different, though. I just hit 38 weeks but I\u00a0haven’t spent the last week trying to\u00a0get things going. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Because:<\/p>\n Plus we discovered shortly after Doodle was born that Hubby and I BOTH were Thursday babies as well! \u00a0So truthfully, it will be weird if this little one isn’t born on a Thursday (even though s\/he will be the only one of 4 born in a different city).<\/p>\n So I feel like I only need to worry about going into labor on Wednesday or Thursday. \u00a0The rest of the week I can relax, enjoy my kids and get ready for baby (we still have A LOT of unpacking\/settling in<\/a> to do though we are finally prepared for baby’s arrival<\/a>!) \u00a0It’s kind of nice not constantly obsessing over when baby will be here. \u00a0If it doesn’t happen this Thursday, then we’ll just wait until next Thursday. \u00a0And if it happens in the meantime, that’s cool too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m definitely one of those mommies that gets over pregnancy at the end and will do (almost) ANYTHING to get baby out! \u00a0Part of my desire has to do with being huge and uncomfortable but there is also part of me that is just so excited to meet my little one. \u00a0Plus I prefer all-natural, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,388],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baby-business","category-the-pregnant-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8908,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8902\/revisions\/8908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"thursday](\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/thursday-babies.png\")
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