The dance of the end of pregnancy

It is, undoubtedly, the most unstable I am emotionally all through pregnancy. I know in my head all sorts of facts (that babies finish the final and important touches at the end of pg, it's THEIR bodies that set your body into labor and they know best when they are ready, that the day they choose and such will make a lifetime effect and no reason to mess with that what so ever, most babies are born within a week on either side of their due date (for non-first-time-Moms), etc.) but my heart and mind struggle to be patient. I am only now 37w and 5d, by actual due date is the 28th... but my second son was born at 38w 0d and my first son was born at 39w 2d (or 38w 2d whichever date you use, I had 2 due dates). Obviously I am not used to waiting very long toward the end. This pregnancy has me measuring 3w ahead so that means I'm measuring past 40w... and that is not comfortable. I also am not sleeping more than 2 hour stretches at night, my boys are acting realllly naughty (my oldest did this last time a few weeks before baby was born, I swear he could sense a change was coming) and generally I'm emotionally fragile and keep feeling discouraged.

I don't know how you get perspective knowing that even a few days will pass quickly - the way each hours feels - but I need to do that. I'm trying hard and praying a lot. :sigh: Hope my next post will be a birth announcement.