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I've been hanging around in a couple of message boards throughout this pregnancy so far, and something really struck me today. One girl on a board is being put on bedrest because she's having premature labor. She posted that she won't be around anymore, and she's just praying to make it 4 more weeks to give the baby a better chance. Now, what's so disturbing about this, to me, is that she's due just 4 days before me. And she will probably have a baby within a month. Oh. My. Gosh. I know I said before that I was happy you're nearing the viability point (basically there now), but I didn't actually think about what that could mean. Honestly, I feel like I'm just now starting to get used to the idea of being pregnant. Only recently have I really started showing. Only recently have I started feeling you regularly and clearly. Even though I go to sleep early and can't move around quite as well as I used to, I don't actually feel hindered like I should for having a baby inside of me - one that could probably live OUTside of me. Does that make sense? It's like the last 23 weeks were warm-up to actually being pregnant, which is only yet to begin sometime in the not-so-distant future. And to think of that getting interrupted by unwelcome labor? Yikes! That's scary.