To be thoroughly hacked off with pregnancy?

[Mare11bp]

Yes I know it's a gift...please don't flame me.

Three weeks to go until c-section, I am very small so the extra 2.5 stone is difficult. One week of work left to go but I am shattered partly cos I was on feet all day yesterday.

I do get help from DP at home, so I can't complain on that score. But have my very energetic DS on my own for next three days as DP working. Don't want to ask family too much, they have helped out a bit last few weeks with DS.

Totally fed up with back ache and my house looks like a bloody tip. garden needs attention but struggling to do it. DP not keen on a cleaner or someone to help with the garden. Cant get on the floor to play with DS, too uncomfortable.

Fed up in short with feeling knackered all the time and sitting on the sofa unable to do much like a spare part. Feel a right waste of space.

Sorry I am ranting. AIBU to put my son into nursery for extra half day Monday? AIBU to rant about being pregnant?

empathyless....is that a word??? i dont think it is. well you get the drift.

I think its completely ok to moan in pregnancy- just like its find to say if you're struggling with a new born, having a hard time with a toddler or find teenagers difficult. I dont see the difference to be honest- its a stage in parenthood and it varies for everyone

The last month is so vile it makes you look forward to labour, that's evolution at work

Moan away!

YANBU pregnancy with a toddler is grim. And yes yes yes! get a cleaner AND a gardener if you can stretch to it financially, seriously, it will be a sanity saver - even if just for the first few weeks. I found with the second baby I had so much less energy for stuff I used to do without a thought. I kept waiting to get some energy to tackle things but 2 years on I'm still waiting!

I would dearly love to be in your shoes, but YAstillNBU. Pregnancy ( with the exception of about 3 weeks in the second trimester) sucks big style.
With a toddler to look after it sucks even more. Looking forward to doing it all again next year.

YANBU apart from being happy I was going to have a baby I hated being pregnant, back pain, sickness & not being able to sleep for 9 months turned me into a right miserable cow!

Not long now for you though, hope all goes well xx

I'm 3 days overdue and am feeling remarkably similar. At least you have a date so the end is certain! I'm not sure mine is ever coming out. Perhaps she just likes it so much she'll stay there another week before clawing her way out...?

I admit to feeling so fed up I actually posted The Kinks "Tired of Waiting" on my FB page today. Well, nothing else interesting is likely to happen to me in this state, is it?!

Feel your pain. Imagine, to be able to breathe properly, walk and talk at the same time, not have swollen ankles and carpel tunnel?

Southernisle If you managed to sit about on the sofa with your pregnancy then you were indeed very lucky. I'm not surprised you are jealous if you got to do bugger all. Most of us won't have that luxury.

YA definitely not BU. I feel similarly, and am only 18 weeks. DCno3 and I had forgotton how vile you can feel. Hideous, hideous, hideous.

DD has decided she won't wear nappies anymore so I'm potty training whilst looking after an 11wo with screaming reflux not to mention I have broke my fucking toe. YANBU but I'd be willing to go back to heavily pregnant for a few days sanity.

YANBU - 31 weeks pregnant with DD2.

I sailed through my first pregnancy apart from the first 16 weeks of morning, noon and night sickness and really enjoyed being pregnant - didn't throw up with this one but had constant nausea for the first 16 weeks which is worse than throwing up because you don't get the respite for feeling better - at least for a while.

Also, constantly knackered, severely anaemic and EVERYTHING aches.

Added to that, this baby is a wriggler and her current favourite position involves having her feet and fists firmly tucked underneath my ribs.

I just can't wait for this pregnancy to be over.

Yes, I know I am lucky and people I have it worse than me (am very glad I didn't get SPD, which looked like a possibility early on).

I also thank the gods of fate everyday that I am not having to walk for 20 days with only water to drink, no food and giving birth under an acacia tree to reach a refugee camp where there may or may not be food.

But I do feel rubbish - and if I want to moan about it, I will!

No I didn't sit on the couch for the pregnancy.

Pregnancy isn't always easy - certainly wasn't for me lost 2.5 stone during the first pregnancy and weight went down to 6 stone, second pregnancy had a stroke and was left with paralysis on left side and temporarily blindness.

But at no time did I whinge about the fact that I was pregnant.

Well I spent most of my last pg laying on the sofa with what felt like sea sickness, sometimes crying, wondering if it would ever end and yes I did winge quite alot about how I was feeling

I'm sorry for you having to go through two difficult pregnancies south, but I took the thread to be lighthearted.

I loved and wanted to be pregnant, but that doesn't mean it was a breeze.

There's absoloutely nothing wrong with saying how hard it is, it doesn't mean you're weak and there are no prizes for keeping it bottled up.