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 10 Ways to Enjoy the Last few Days of Pregnancy
So you are over 37 weeks pregnant, and just can’t wait to have the baby in your arms. Yet you have no sign of contractions, and these last few weeks have been longer than the whole 9 months… If this is your first baby, you are probably not aware of the great change that will soon happen to your life. You think that other mothers where exaggerating when they said that they were not sleeping at all, or that their life changes completely…
So here are a few tips on how you can spend the last few days of your pregnancy:
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Sleep, sleep and sleep – once the baby is born, you won’t sleep for more than 2 or 3 hours at a stretch (if you are lucky). Sleep will become a luxury and you will wish that you had slept all throughout your pregnancy. So go to bed, relax and enjoy!
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Watch a film ideally at the cinema – it is hard to go to the cinema with a newborn. Too many people, too much noise, and nobody will be nodding approval when the baby starts crying in the middle of a scene. So enjoy your last cinema outings with your partner or friends. This might be the last film that you are watching…
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Blow dry your hair – go to the hairdresser, get your hair cut, get it coloured, treat it, and blow dry it. Enjoy the feeling of spending a morning at the hairdresser hopping from stool to stool. It will be difficult to do the same with a newborn.
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Stock up your fridge and freezer – with the new baby wanting you every minute, you will not find time to make a cup of tea, let alone cooking, especially in the first few weeks. So stock up your freezer with sauces, frozen pies, burgers or other things that will just need baking or heating up. You will find them very handy once the baby is born.
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Enjoy some you-and-me time with your partner – this does get rare when a newborn is around. Go out for a candlelit dinner and talk to him about your day at work, your feelings, your anxieties… Once the baby is born, your discussions will be about the baby 99% of the time. Candlelight dinners will become as extinct from your agenda as a dinosaur and even the relationship between you will evolve. Enjoy your last few days of honeymoon now that you can…
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Have a drink with friends – Newborns seem to have an inbuilt ‘mother-sit-down-detector’. As soon as you take a seat they start crying, once you walk around the room, they stop. Not very helpful when you are sitting down with your intimate friends, gossiping over a cup of coffee. Call them, and meet them up tonight, tomorrow might be too late!
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Just decided to go out? Then do so, and enjoy it. With the baby around, outings become planned missions. You’ll have to wrap him or her up, get all things sorted, get out of the door, only to realize that s/he dirtied the nappy...back indoors, and start again from square 1.
Take your time to put on make-up – when you have a newborn in the house, anything which is not essential takes second place. Make-up will reduce itself to a quick brush of mascara, and maybe lipstick. Enjoy the feeling of having hours at your disposal to go through the complete make-up ritual now that you still can.
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Read a book in a day – when you have a good book, and want to get through its last page, you forget about everything else and just read it. But with a baby around the house, your reading periods will be reduced to that little half hour when s/he goes to sleep, provided that you’re not too tired by then and opt to go to sleep too.
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Wear something nice, go to your parents, and let them notice you. – When the baby is born, everyone will simply ignore you and coo over how cute this little bunting is. You may wear your best designer dress, or have the best hair day ever, and still nobody will notice. Your little work of art will take all the limelight, while you’ll smile happily in the shadows!
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