Does any body else's family do this or is it just mine?

My family has done this with my past two pregnancies. They start taking bets on when I will have the baby. It really bothers me because I am just trying my damnedest to get this baby to cook as long as possible and they are turning it in to a game. Every time I turn around they are picking a new date. My mom said I would have him yesterday and now says I am going to have him monday. My aunt has been saying her birthday which I believe is the 17th. My husband thinks I am going to have him next weekend.... I seriously have had enough. He will come when he is damn good and ready! Quite picking dates especially when I am worried about him coming that soon. 

They're just as excited as you are.
Maybe you should ask them kindly not to share there weird excitement around you.

I bet you will have your baby on your due date cause it's the best birthday ever!

Let them have their fun. Baby will come when its ready. Its what people do.

My DH Family actually bets cash and whoever is the closest gets the jar.  

Quoting Moses.:" I bet you will have your baby on your due date cause it's the best birthday ever!"

 

they r just excited! my family does that

Do they have money on it?

DH's family has actual bets with large amounts of cash (20 dollars a person). The winner gets half the pot and the baby gets half.


It is totally normal, they are excited. Just laugh, roll your eyes and tell them if you make it to November they all owe you 40 dollars.

I guess I just don't see what is so exciting about a premature baby. It probably wouldn't upset me so much if they picked dates where I was term.

Quoting 1inpink2inblue:" My family has done this with my past two pregnancies. They start taking bets on when I will have the ... [snip!] ... He will come when he is damn good and ready! Quite picking dates especially when I am worried about him coming that soon. "

haha oh god my family did that too.. all betting on when i was gunna have my daughter

It makes me not even want to go over there because they are joking about ways to make my labor worse so I have the baby on days they picked. Like I am super freaked out by frogs and my step dad was telling my mom to throw one on me so I would freak out and go into full blown labor. I gave him a really dirty look and my mom just laughed.

Yeah, I don't see it as a big deal.

They're just having fun. Most people don't understand that having your baby early isn't a good thing. They don't realize that babies aren't fully developed until they are term. As silly as that sounds, if you've never been through it you really don't think about it.

Quoting 1inpink2inblue:" I guess I just don't see what is so exciting about a premature baby. It probably wouldn't upset me so much if they picked dates where I was term."

I can understand that.
Everyone kept saying my daughter would be born on SO's birthday, which was about a month too soon.
I kept saying, "NO. SHE NEEDS TO COOK! DON'T JINX IT."
No, it may be hard to explain, but I get it.

No, my family doesn't play the guessing game they just tell me that I should have my babies when it's convenient for them. My grandma always tell me I need to have my kids on a friday so that my grandpa will be off the following 2 days. Lately it's them guessing how big my baby will be. They keep saying that I'm showing more with this one (It's my 4th freakin kid) and she's going to be a big ass baby. It's so annoying.