6 weeks to go still and fed up of being pregnant!

[Minkus]

I am 34 weeks with our second baby and I am SO over this pregnancy thing it's untrue. I feel ungrateful for hating being pregnant this time round, but am finding it really tough - need to vent hence my long long list of gripes below;

1/ I am bored of my own thoughts, I can't think of anything other than babies/ childbirth/ labour/ newborns and it's driving me insAAAAAAAAAne!

2/ I can't sleep properly because I keep getting cramp/my nose is stuffy so I breathe through my mouth and it gets as dry as old shoe leather which wakes me up/ds wakes up and needs resettling/ it hurts every time I turn over/ baby squirms and wakes me up/ once I'm awake my mind goes into overdrive and I start thinking about the 1001 things (well ok about 10 things really) that need doing before the baby arrives

3/ I am sooooo tired during the day

4/ I am scared of what my life is going to be like once the baby is here

5/ I still feel sick all day long and it's really wearing me down (had hyperemesis earlier in pg but that's gone now)

6/ My skin is horribly dry and I've got dandruff

7/ I don't like any of my maternity clothes

8/ I have to wear flat shoes as otherwise I look like an egg balanced on two pins and wobble everywhere I go

9/ My libido has gone walkies and I miss feeling sexy with dh

10/ I'm apathetic about everything and would be much happier if I could just go to sleep and someone would wake me up when my labour starts

11/ I can't see my pubes but just know that they are ginger and very very bush like. Plus my legs have been shaved once since September and I no longer need to wear pj's in bed as the hair on my legs keep me nice and warm.

12/ My patience with ds is reaching new lows nd I feel really bad about this

13/ I want something to eat all the time but just do't know what it is! And everything I try and eat is wrong.

14/ DH thinks I should be nesting by now and cleaning like fury but all I do is sleep eat and mnet and end up feeling guilty when he gets home that I have nothing all day apart from 1 load of washing and put dinner on. I'm failing as a wife!

There are lots lots more but these are the main ones

Please add yours to the list so I know I'm not alone in feeling this rubbish!

[Amberc]

I can't sleep either and wake up every 45 minutes during the night to pee and to turn over. Lack of sleep makes everything much worse but I fill my days of waiting (38 wks preggo) with Animal Cops Phoenix on Animal Planet - kittens and puppies to cheer me up. Unfortunately being so bored I do keep ordering things from the internet and now own the EU nappy mountain.

[whomovedmychocolate]

31 weeks and could agree with all those and add the following:

(1) Being out of breath by the second stair when I used to run up them constantly.
(2) Massively painful braxton hicks which everyone keeps saying 'ooh but Braxton Hicks don't really hurt.
(3) 'Haven't you had it yet/ooh any day now' comments from shop staff.
(4) If I can get down on the floor to change DDs nappy, I can't get back up again and she's reached the age where it's hilarious to leg it, covered in shite and take her poopy nappy with her.

[mum2b1]

Am 31 weeks and sooo bored and kinda lonely at home all day.
Some days got no energy to anything so then feel guilty havent:
cleaned the house
walked the dogs
been more productive
made a fabulous dinner for hubby

Bedtime is no longer something to look forward to as I cant sleep well, hav eto get up to pee all the time, cant get comfy, turning over hurts my belly etc etc

In the day my back aches, legs ache, if I odnt eat I get dizzy, if I do eat I get indigestion.

list goes on.

Feel bad for feeling bad as I want this baby sooo much....

[finallypregnant]

All of the above. Feeling yer pain girls.

[Minkus]

It really is pooh isn't it. I'm feeling a bit isolated and lonely at home too mum2b1 and I think this is making it worse! I haven't got much social interaction so I don't even feel like me, let alone a normal me. Waaaaah it's not fair!!!

[milkmoustache]

The only light at the end of the tunnel is that many of the aches and pains, tiny bladder, breathlessness, back ache etc etc will disappear INSTANTLY when the baby finally arrives. OK, to be replaced by sore boobs and knackeredness, but I remember many things improved massively just hours after DD arrived.

[Sketchi]

I'm also 34 weeks and crabby, preggers with our 2dd!

Can't gert over how much i am peeing, promised myself will do pelvic floor and stomach crunches after this one pops out.

Hoping baby will come at 37 weeks (full term) so that I won't feel as bad aand it's not prem.....lol I will be trying my old tricks if it's not here by 39 wks, it worked for dd1.

[LikerabbitsBX]

To be honest I am feeling exactly the same!

All what you say is how I feel also....I just dont want to have a preggy belly anymore. I know that sounds awful and I know that as soon as it is out I will probably wish for it back in again due to lack of sleep and life change....but hey!

I can only walk for a short while before feeling that I popped in to the London Aquarium and ate a whale! Constantly want to lay down and do nothing!

As for doing the house and making fab meals....that is not on my agenda either....find myself on the net waiting for each day to end and for each week to finish.

As for being 32 weeks with 8 left to go...it feels like a lifetime to wait. Trying to explain how I feel to my other half rolls him in fits of laughter which keeps us going! lol

I said to him just imagine the feeling of not having a poo for about 2 weeks, eating 2 currys from the local curry house and drinking at least 3 pints on top! He replied....very uncomfortable! of which I said YES this is what I feel like everyday! lol Like a fat heffa that cant pass wind! lol

I want to meet the baby so much and love feeling it move but again....this hurts as well! lol I cant seem to win. I dont remember feeling like this with my first but as they say every pregnancy is different!

Please 8 weeks hurry up so I can lay on my belly and snuggle my hands underneath my flat belly!

[FrannyandZooey]

ooh it's a bit tough isn't it
am 34 weeks also
things that have helped:
nice things for ME to look forward to eg meeting friend for cake, not just trying to get on with all the family stuff
a nice really pretty but comfy pair of shoes (Clarks are good)
wearing make up and nice clothes every day (if your clothes are blah wear your old nice jewellery and scarves and stuff)
tell dh how you feel and get cuddles and sympathy every evening

[Tess321]

I'm 35 weeks. I have no muscles in my stomach left so moving about in bed/getting off the sofa/out of a car is a serious mission.

I have this paranoid thing that everyone thinks i'm putting it on and that my dh will think that i'm not in as much pain as I really am or playing on the pregnancy to get out of doing things.

As a result I push myself further than is comfortable and my back is wrecked at the end of every day. All I want to do is sit and do nothing but I feel compelled to clean this frigging house as it's filthy and I dont want people to think i'm lazy.

ok paranoid rant over

[excitedfornumber2]

Oh my god, i am so glad i found this thread, was beginning to feel guilty for hating being pregnant, im 34 weeks today, and my friend visited me yesterday, i proceeded to bore her for over an hour with what was annoying me, i then said im just fed up, and she replied yes i know you have done nothing but moan for the last hour, haha. i too want this baby to come out, and i really think you feel worse when you have another LO, i am getting tetchy with DS and DP and get annoyed with myself for doing it. Also cant sleep for needing to get up and wee, and then annoyed when a little trickle comes out, the get back in bed and start thinking about all the jobs i want to get done, arghhh rant over, sorry to overtake this thread. Thanks for allowing me to sharexx

[Minkus]

Big sympathies for everyone else going through the same thing, sorry though it is nice to know that other women feel the same and I'm not a weirdo! Like the idea Franny of glamming up a bit, will try that I think as I do like a nice accessory!

LikeRabbits, haven't seen you on the July thread for a while hope all is well otherwise. (Apart from hating everything of course lol)

Have another thing to add to my list: bad dreams. Have had a few recently on a theme, basically poor ds feeling worried/ scared/ unsure and they really tug at my heart strings!

Last night I actually woke up in tears. In my dream a friend had him overight as she was babysitting for me so I could go off and do something grown up and she had a family emergency, couldn't get hold of me so left him at a strange overnight nursery and he was frightened and scared, he didn't have his special flannel (his comforter) and was asking "where's my mummy? Where's my flannel?" and lay awake for ages in a strange bed ina astrange place being bewildered and quiet until he fell asleep. You can tell how rampaging my hormones are because I've got tears rolling down my face as I type- if his nursery (a lovely familiar friendly daytime one ) wasn't 15 miles away I would be marching down there now to collect him early and give him a big squeeze. His little life is going to get turned upside down and he hasn't asked for any of that

No doubt tere will be something else to moan about later!

[plummed]

Oh, Thank God I found this thread!

I have been stressing myself out over this for a few weeks now. Just want it all done, I'm fed up of being fat and tired. I'm just over 38 weeks and wondering if it is too early to ask my midwife to help get things started!

My DP keeps telling me to stop moaning, and that is after I make the effort to limit my complaining! Sometimes I just want him to have a go at this... That would be worth watching!

And then he has a go because I haven't cleaned the floor. If I had the energy to mop anything, I would put it to far better use honey, trust me. And cook your own damned dinner! Grrrg...

[gillythekid]

33 weeks, wonky pelvis, sore hips, overactive bladder, fuzzy brain, sicky stomach, no energy.....BUT....great skin, thick lustrous hair, no stretch marks (fingers crossed), free dental care and prescriptions and a lovely baba in my belly. The former makes me want to scream, the latter stops me. How the hell you women with other DC cope is beyond me, my utmost respect to each and every one of you!