Due Date/Concert Date - what do you think
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Topic: Due Date/Concert Date - what do you think
Posted By: surfergirl
Subject: Due Date/Concert Date - what do you think
Date Posted: 03 August 2009 at 9:33am
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Hi Ladies, As (some of you) might know Pearl Jam and Ben Harper are coming to Chch!!!! I am sooooo excited. But the concert date is the 29th of Nov and my due date is 20th (of Nov)...Is this possible? Or am I dreaming? Surely I can do this? What is the 'closest' to brith (before and after) concert stories you have heard? What to do, what to do?? ------------- http://www.alterna-tickers.com"> 
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Posted By: AandCsmum
Date Posted: 03 August 2009 at 9:52am
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Ohhh hard one...
If you go early or on time & have a normal vag birth you could do it....bleeding though?? Dunno if I'd got super pregnant. I missed out on the big day out cause of being heavily pregnant. ------------- Kel http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: NovemberMum
Date Posted: 03 August 2009 at 9:52am
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hmm thats a difficult one.
my only concern would be if I have the baby before the concert would I even feel up to going to the concert. eg you have baby on tthe 27th. I dont know how much the tickets are but I imagine they wont be cheap..so say you do buy them and end up having baby late and dont end up going to the concert.....unless you manage to find someone to buy them off you . if the dates were the other way around ie concert 20th and due date 29th I wouldnt see it as much of an issue ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: CuriousG
Date Posted: 03 August 2009 at 9:53am
Personally, I would say you are dreaming. I haven't been to a concert heavily pregnant but there is no way I would do it!!!!!  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: surfergirl
Date Posted: 03 August 2009 at 9:56am
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I'm wondering about asking if there is a 'wheelchair' area. (I do think I am slightly mad...but I just think this might be a really amazing concert) ------------- http://www.alterna-tickers.com">
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Posted By: CuriousG
Date Posted: 03 August 2009 at 9:59am
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There will be other concerts too I am sure! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Natalie_G
Date Posted: 03 August 2009 at 10:04am
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I wouldn't risk it either you could end up wasting the money spent on the tickets. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: surfergirl
Date Posted: 03 August 2009 at 10:07am
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Stink...this is not sounding good. I was just hoping someone would come on and say something like..."Yeah, I went to a concert if full labour and it totally took my mind off things" LOL. ------------- http://www.alterna-tickers.com">
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(and I do know there will be other concerts... and I'm not really 'that' upset...a baby is HEAPS better than any concert I'm sure!)Posted By: jaycee
Date Posted: 03 August 2009 at 10:07am
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Concert, not sure - lots of crowds and pushing (unless it is seated?) also being a week after EDD???
but I did go to a Super 12 final on my due date with Amy. My MW said the excitement and jumping up and down might get me going (no such luck, she arrived a week later  )
As for feeling uncomfortable - it depends on the person. With both of mine I was OK and the day I had Sophie I was at the park, on the see-saw at lunch time and she was born at dinnertime  .
It would be a great concert though  -------------   
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Posted By: Peanut
Date Posted: 03 August 2009 at 10:36am
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I am hearing you!
I am gutted as wanted to go to Black Eye Peas soooo badly but their concert is the 13th of Oct and I am due the 15th Oct...not to mention it is in Auckland......Really don't think I could do it! -------------  
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Posted By: lilfatty
Date Posted: 03 August 2009 at 10:38am
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I went to a concert heavily pregnant however I was seated and it was at Vector and I used the lifts etc, however its not the most comfy thing to do!
I DEFINATELY wouldnt go if baby was 9 days old though, and id say that at that stage, you will covet sleep above everything else in the entire universe! ------------- Mummy to Issy (3) and Elias (18 months) I did it .. 41 kgs gone! From flab to fab in under a year  http://www.femininefitness.co.nz/category/blog - LFs weight blog
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Posted By: Mum2ET
Date Posted: 03 August 2009 at 12:10pm
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I totally agree with that- i remember being in bed by 7.30 every night just after Ella was born, so the idea of going to a concert really wouldn't appeal to me. and there is the issue with b/f as it can be around that time they go through a bit of a growth spurt and just want to feed constantly. Sorry! ------------- Mum to Ella (5) and Tom (2) |
lilfattyPosted By: kiwisj
Date Posted: 03 August 2009 at 12:14pm
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Awwwww cr@p timing! (the concert I mean lol)
I went to Kylie when I was 30 weeks, not knowing my waters would break a week later and C would come early. Even at that stage of pregnancy it was actually quite tiring - and we had seated tickets so I could have a rest between songs. Walking up and down stairs to get to the loos was a pain in the ar$e too! I agree, if bubs has just arrived you probably won't want to leave them either. ------------- SJ Callum - Dec 2008 Daniel - Oct 2010 |
Posted By: mummyofprinces
Date Posted: 03 August 2009 at 12:21pm
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I know of someone going into labour at Kylie here! She was about 38 weeks.
I wouldnt risk it hun, it sucks big time! I definately wouldnt want to be going to a concert heavily pg or having just given birth. I was too tired! -------------   
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Posted By: sadie
Date Posted: 03 August 2009 at 12:41pm
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I'd have to say it's a bit ambitious. If you haven't had your baby yet, then you most likely will be pretty uncomfortable being a week overdue.
If you have had the baby, then you probably won't want to leave your days old newborn to go out either. If you are breastfeeding, then you will need to stay close by as well. If the gig was a week before you are due then I would take the chance, but a week after is pretty dodgy. They will come again!! I went to a concert at Vector (seated) when I was about 34 weeks. The seats there are so small it wasn't very comfy at all - and I am not a big person. Couldn't have imagined going at full term.... |
Posted By: Bobbie
Date Posted: 03 August 2009 at 12:45pm
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Yep I second the sleep thing. You'll probably be too exhausted to enjoy yourself whether the baby has arrived or not. -------------  
 
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Posted By: Snappy
Date Posted: 03 August 2009 at 12:57pm
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I remember going out when Jackson was 5 weeks old to a work do (Farewell type thing) and I thought THAT was ambitious I was so so tired and I only stayed for an hour. And that was 5 weeks after birth!
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Posted By: Febgirl
Date Posted: 03 August 2009 at 12:59pm
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Maybe I'm a horrible mummy but I wouldn't have had a problem leaving my newborn with DH for a few hours to go to a concert (when DD was a week old I went and had a 2 hour facial/massage which was pure bliss), but as others have said, I would rather use that time to sleep!
If you did get tickets and decided that you didn't want to go for whatever reason, you could probably easily onsell them on Trade Me? ------------- Two little girls under 2! 
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Posted By: sally belly
Date Posted: 03 August 2009 at 1:28pm
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I'm sure it's not part of your plan but if you ended up having to have a c/sect then a concert definitely wouldn't be something you'd want to go to so soon afterwards.
Not trying to be negative, just pointing it out. -------------    
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Posted By: Chickaboo
Date Posted: 03 August 2009 at 4:08pm
Iplanned to go to U2 and then they changed their dates and were coming 25th Nov - I was due 28th- I kept the tickets for a while but then resided to the fact I couldnt go and wouldn't of - so sold them. As it was baby was born 21st novemeber by ceasar so there was no way i could of gone- I was still in the home the night a the concert and my friend who went kept ringing me so i could listen to it and sending me videos of it on my phone  ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: littleLittle
Date Posted: 03 August 2009 at 5:57pm
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Poor you! I was just actually thinking what I would have done if it was U2 that was coming (my favourite band!!) and I was due.
In hindsight there would have been no way I could have gone 9 days after baby arrived - I could barely make it to the other end of the house let alone out the front door due to c-section! But tough decision cos you could get to the day and feel perfectly fine. Good luck with your decision!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: Rachael21
Date Posted: 03 August 2009 at 8:51pm
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I so wanted to go to Guns n roses but was due two weeks before I think so couldn't go and boy I gutted. I actually think you could handle it if they are your favourite band and baby is still inside. However I so couldn't of done it with a newborn, even if bubs is early getting milk sorted will be hard.
If I was you I'd buy a ticket anyway cos they will most likely sell out and you can always sell it if you don't think you will make it. |
Posted By: surfergirl
Date Posted: 04 August 2009 at 9:59am
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After all your advice I think that majority rules and that the most sensible thing to do is embrace my new role as a mother and realise things will change (for a while...) If I *really* need to go, I can sit in the car outside and listen! LOL. My new mantra - "there will be more concerts, there will be more concerts" Now, how to tell Dh that If I'm not going, neither is he (I know I am a MEAN wife!) ------------- http://www.alterna-tickers.com">
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 04 August 2009 at 10:37am
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As if man! I'd totally go 
Or at least give myself the option! Buy the tickets... you never know what will happen as far as when you have the babe. Need I tell you about sitting at the computer 9 days overdue trying to type out my final school work??? I'd have much rather been at a concert! As far as babe goes (if kidlet has arrived), chuck 'em in a sling and hang at the back (/somewhere comfortable). Just pack for Siberia as if a disaster is gonna happen, it'll happen there
In fact, book me in to come along!! I can help out. P.S. When I went to Ben Harper last time I'm pretty sure I spent most of it sitting down at the back just taking in the atmosphere (and errrr stuff)... it wasn't like a damn mosh pit. Kid would be fine. |