Oh good, you're not ignoring me . We're buddies remember!

I need my buddy already and the baby isn't even born yet

I'll have a look suwoo, tbh I haven't checked my emails for a few days x

Heinzsight, did you get my CAT?

I'm 34 weeks and really struggling with this heat too. It's been making me feel sick, bleurgh.

I searched everywhere yesterday and managed to get a reasonably priced air con unit. We've taken it upstairs which is great for the late evening but it's SO heavy, we can't bring it downstairs for day time relief.

I think I'm going to try the ice water in washing up bowl trick. I bought a big bag of ice especially!!

29 weeks - office like a sauna, and just keeps getting hotter and hotter. Actually vomited today, which worked pretty well for being sent home . Planning on working until 40 weeks, but if the rest of the summer is like this not sure I'll cope.
Luckily live in a basement flat - seriously we are never moving. We may only have 1 bedroom, but if I'm going to be pregnant again in summer I want to be here. It's like a cave. Perfect.

29 weeks - office like a sauna, and just keeps getting hotter and hotter. Actually vomited today, which worked pretty well for being sent home . Planning on working until 40 weeks, but if the rest of the summer is like this not sure I'll cope.
Luckily live in a basement flat - seriously we are never moving. We may only have 1 bedroom, but if I'm going to be pregnant again in summer I want to be here. It's like a cave. Perfect.

glad to hear its not just me

may the many of you at term (and over due) go into labour real soon.
feel for those with kids already, i have a 3 year old AND a 2 year old to keep entertained...
also doing the long daytime naps and late bedtimes, its the only way to get thru it, im using the late bedtimes as playground trips after tea.

how is everyone doing with eating? im right off my food atm

i feel for you TheNatty I am 33 weeks and based abroad so we've been getting a great deal of warm weather. today 34+ am currently stuck to the leather sofa LOL. all i can say is cold showers, plenty of iced water and if you are indoors fill a washing up bowel with cool water for your feet it does work!

AC at work is broken. It's a pub so the windows can't be opened. It's full of sweaty men. Tomorrow is my last day and then Maternity leave happens. YAY!
I've found that if you move about slowly you feel ever so slightly cooler than if you say in one place.

poor you upsy, may you go into a speedy and painless labour tonight. stock up the ice.

I am 40+3 today and the heat is really getting to me, it is not helped by the fact that I have back pain when up on feet for longer and a 2-year-old already that needs entertaining. Think I would cope much better just looking after myself.... ah, please baby do come out asap!

pippa, i'm with you on the weeing thing, it's driving me insane. i really can't stray far from a toilet, it's quite limiting!

I had ds2 in august and it was awful coping with the heat. The things that I found helped were sitting in the shade in the garden with my feet in a washing up bowl full of water and ice cubes (bliss), going to bed with my hair wet, and eating lots of ice cream .

sympathy sympathy sympathy.

suffered through the hell which was summer 2006 pregnant with ds, and now suffering again (30 weeks). i let ds sleep for 3 hours today, just because i didn't want to go out in the heat with him more than necessary, even if it means he stays up really late.
i think we might just fill up buckets of water and throw it around in our postage stamp sized garden in the afternoon.

i've heard 31 31 31 all this week. am quite scared. my feet somehow feel like they are burning.

does magicool work? I bought the boots own version and it's crap, just plain water in a can. I was stuck in the ante-natal clinic for 2 hours today as they were running late. My head got so sweaty that it looked like I'd had a shower. And if it wasn't bad enough to be late the clinic was packed with pregnant women (fair enough) and their smelly sweaty partners, I reckon there should be a seperate cool room just for pregnant women. I'm 29 weeks and feel really quite sick of the thought of having to make it all of the way through the summer.

34 weeks here to & its just not funny,but at least im now on maternity leave.Great ideas about the magicool & pepermint lotion,will waddle to the shops tomorrow,not sure i can stretch to the air conditionig,i wish !

Im only 16 weeks...
The aircon at work is playing up and I cant phone maintenance until my boss is on his day off. (He's adamant theres nothing wrong with it and doesnt want to risk his profit/budget!)
Im sat here in my underwear (at home of course) and im still uncomfortably hot and sticky and bleh.
Ive still got all summer to go yet.
Help.

30 wks and not coping here either

I am also having to househunt. Off on school run now, I only hope the ice cream man is there

if still not convinced, tis also good to have wholly washable shoes with a newborn >bitter experience<

also (whispers so style and beauty section don't hear us) crocs or croc-a-likes

yank buy men's flip flops or large ladies and cut sole to your soze foot. you need tohe plastic strips to not cut down too much. very cheap and double as what you need in hospital to happily use their shower rooms, loos etc xx

I have given in and made DP fetch the air conditioner out of the shed and its heaven

I had been resisting because DS is 3 and loves buttons and I knew I would spend most of my day telling him to leave it alone lol I have decided that my need to be cool is much stronger though lol

He is currently sat in front of it with a paper windmill laughing at how fast it is spinning lol

I'm 34 weeks and boiling too. I have just carried about 40 boxes from the shed at the end of the garden to my drive.

I nearly collapsed.

Have finished work now, so no more lifting for me.

<<relieved>>

madremia09 its been hotter here then in spain lately, thats why we are all complaining!

i am hiding indoors with windows open and a fan on. laying on the floor in my underware PMSL!

I'm 32 weeks tomorrow, and I've developed 'cankles'. I've never seen my feet/legs look like this, it's quite disturbing! The loose sandals I thought would see me through this pregnancy are on the last notch, and they look terribly with swollen flesh poking out everywhere. Am very resentful at having to buy something else for only two more months!

Yeah, it's shit. Am 33 weeks.

I'm full of mucous so can hardly breathe, getting stress from work though I am signed off and have a very lively 3 year old for every single minute of the next week.

Cool shower.

I'm 22 +3 and already suffering with this heat - got to go through this whole summer preggers!! - & also am diabetic and the heat is apparently extra dangeroud for me, joy oh well, off to lay in the garden with a book for half an hour before it gets too mad, so I can get a bit of colour, then will hide behind curtains with a fan for the afternoon

i live in spain and im pregnant.if you want unbearable you want to come here! i´ll swap!!!

i would love to go swimming to cool down, however i have no costume and im not buying one for 20 quid when i have 2 and a bit weeks left!

air conditioning units sound fantastic, i wish one of you ladies lived nearby i would just hide in the house with you and drink ice cold drinks.

I'm 38 weeks too and I am seriously suffering.

The hotter I am the more I drink- the more I drink the more I wee.

My gym's swimming pool is a god send- seems to be the only way I can relax / cool down.

Ice pops are also the way forward

Much sympathy. I'm only 21 weeks but my feet and lower legs take any excuse to swell up like an elephant! I bought some cooling peppermint gel from the supermarket and beg dh to massage it in every night dh lovingly massages it in every night. Its effect lasts about half an hour and really cools you down.

Massive amounts of sympathy ladies. I'm not pg now but have done pg in the heat and it is not fun. Carry water everywhere and insist on seats etc on the bus. Those sprays like Evian and Magicool also make you feel a little fresher.

I also found that a fan directed at my feet worked better than a fan pointing at my body for cooling down.

Hang on in there and eat lots of ice cream.

All the best.

I dont think I can take much more of this heat
I am 31 weeks with twins and the size of a house! I feel trapped in the house as it is too hot to venture out and night times are a nightmare as there is no air.

I had DS in july 2006 durin a heatwave so I think the weather has a problem with me being pregnant lol

Luckily I am NEVER doing this again

I am with you ladies! Got no sleep last night despite a fan (am dreading the electricity bill!). Noticed my fat puffy toes yesterday... nice.

I'm going to have a look at air-con units today - if this is what's in store for August then I think it's worth it.

most of my pregnancies have been over a heatwave although this year was my first time of being very heavily pg in it and I felt it!!! Luckily dd3 was born 2 wks ago..hang in there not long left!!

I was oreg with ds1 in 1998 and this time that year was a scorcher. I found a nice huge fan blowing on me indoors helped, plenty of cool water, ice on my wrists and wearing next to nothing lol. I even went as far as wearing maternity cycling shorts...not a pretty sight but i was cooler.

like fruityandnutty I was pg in 2005 heatwave and went and bought an air conditioning unit (£250 from wicks) it was a life saver

I admit I like the sunshine and going for walks during the day in this sunny weather, but the nights are so difficult.

I just hope to heavens the hospital won't be too hot when I go to deliver the baby. Everytime I go to the antenatal clinic I frazzle, let's hope the mat ward and delivery room is cooler

I think its very telling that we are all posting at this time of night. It only just becomes cool enough to think.
My DP is putting me in a wheelbarrow and taking me to the MW on Tuesday for a stretch and sweep, I so hope it works.
Sounds like a B17 in hear with all the fans going.

Am 38 weeks and My feet are massive!!

Been on mat leave throughout June and have the most amazing tan!!

I do like waking up to sunshine and the promise of being able to wear flip flops though. My last pg was during winter but I was still hot it was harder to wear light clothing though during the rain and snow!

Im nearly 28wks and this heat is getting to me badly
im fat, sweaty, tired and grumpy

Its the reason im still up now
ive just had a cold bath and am crunching ice but it isnt working

Its sending my bp soaring resulting in me being dizzy, faint and blurry eyed

I also remember the heat in 2005 AND 2006 DD1 was born july 2005 and DD2 sept 2006 (same time this one is due)

Im melting and swelling all at the same time.

LOL TheNatty! You poor thing. I really feel for you in this heat. If the curry doesn't work, pin an eviction notice on your bump and start talking very sternly to its resident. It's pretty unfair that you shoud suffer all this overheating so babs can languish in a climate-controlled bedsit.

Gosh, I remember the 2006 heatwave - I got pregnant towards the end of that year, and browbeat DH to buy an air-conditioner because I was NOT going to suffer through that at 30+ weeks if the next summer turned out that way. Mercifully 2007 was a washout, but I'm already wilting this time round and I'm not even that far along. This air-con unit was the best pg purchase ever. Bring on the the heat next week - I ain't leaving the house!

nooooo please no..

right where is the curry and the castor oil..

Ladies - hate to break this to you but they're forecasting it to get even hotter between now and Friday
I'm keeping the curtains shut and the windows open in an affort to keep the home temp down a bit (38+4).

I am only 12 weeks and hating the heat and dreading work this week - i work as a nanny so no nice air conditioned office and the aircon is broken on my car as well

Much sympathy from me...I'm due TODAY (baby are you listening in there) and know exactly what you mean.
I sat like a boiled lobster under a parasol in the garden today with my feet in ds's paddling pool. My feet are huge.
And I usually love the sun...
Good idea about the fan mejon - we've got one in the loft I think...

Poor you, I feel your pain (or heat).
DD was born in June and was 2 weeks overdue. I spent a lot of time lying in a bath of cold water in that last week.

I'm looking forward to work - nice, cool air con else would be dreading the 30c I've hard we should expect over the next few days.

Glad our seaside holiday was last week and not next, low 20s was hot enough for me when out and about for most of the day.

I'm 35 weeks and ok most of the time but my face gets hot, very hot. Have slightly puffy ankles too.

Sympathies here - I'm not coping very well and I'm not even pregnant!! DD was born during the heatwave in August 2006. I used to sit in the shade with my feet in a bowl of water. It was very cooling and relaxing. At night, I had two fans on the go - one aimed at my head the other angled up my body from my feet. It was the only way I could sleep. DH meanwhile would be wrapped up in the duvet!

I'm only 31 wks natty and i'm struggling too. can't do anything, i'm a wreck and dreading work this week.

i was also pg in the summer of 2006, it was hell then too!

omg i remember that heat wave, and the 2006 one when my son was born was horrific.

good idea about ice on your wrists

No but I was this time in 2005 when we had a heatwave. It's horrific, I really feel for you. Go and stick your head in a bucket of icy water
Also, try rubbing ice on the insides of your wrists.

...or am i just pathetic?

38 weeks pregnant and feel like i am boiling all the time! cant sleep at night due to the heat, sweating, cant bring myself to leave the house, generally fed up with it!

anyone else? or is it just me