So fed up with the indignities of pregnancy and genuinely embarassed!!

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NC as I really am embarassed by some of this. I am just in the third trimester and this is the reality of my pregnancy;

• when pregnant with DS1 I suffered with post partem drip - in this pregnancy it has gotten soooo much worse meaning that thick, green mucus runs down the back of my throat most the time. This is so bad now I am quite often gagging and being sick. I constantly have to go to the bathroom to cough up this disgusting stuff.
• I have a horrid cough which I can't get rid of, every time I now have a coughing fit (at least every ten minutes) I wet myself a little bit, then I am a paranoid about smelling, so carry spare panty liners, knickers and trousers wherever I go.

I know the baby is healthy and I am so, so grateful to have him growing away well in there but I am strating to feel really embarrassed about the above. It stops me going out or seeing people as I never know if I am going to wet myself or start gagging away and being sick. Dr's say they can't really do anything and I will need a sinus operation after pregnancy. Really getting me down, and then I feel selfish for not just celebrating the pregnancy as it was a really tough road getting to this point and I feel so blessed to have another baby on the way.

AIBU to moan. Too embarrassed to share with people in RL!

That sounds horrid! YANBU to moan. As much as you're pleased to be having a baby, it doesn't make the experience of being pregnant any more fun.

Yadnbu!! I am in my third trimester and fed up and don't have the sinus thing, so you get an extra medal from me. I feel the same as you, so lucky to be pregnant and healthy but sometimes I just want to moan about being pregnant. And if one more person says not long now.... I will not be responsible for my actions!!!!

Oh it sucks. I hate it when people like pregnancy so you are my new best friend.

I swelled in my soft palate (and everywhere else) so I would wake myself up with my own snorning and snorting. Had carpal tunnel syndrome so had to sleep with my arms splayed out by my side. Dreadful flatulance for at least 3 weeks from 20-23 weeks. Could have brought down a city with the smell. Never felt "fresh" down there from 2nd trimester onwards, constantly damp and not with piss but with just a moistness that wouldn't quit and seemed to serve no purpose. They ruled out amniotic fluid and said I'd "probably wet myself" but it was just general dampness I think.

By the end I was so swollen I could only wear my husband's size 10 crocks (khaki brown)

It shouldnt happen to a girl. Yet it always seems to

Oh God, the indignities...
I started to snore when I was pregnant - DS1 is nearly 5 - apparently I haven't stopped!
My pelvic floor is shot. If I don't do the exercises it is OK, when I remember and do them - trickle...
At the end of each pregnancy I could only wear flip-flops - in winter...
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome - yup.
You don't get told these things beforehand...I reckon the birth-rate would plummet!

Pregnancy - put your dignity in a bucket by the door - pick it back up in about 9 months!

God yes. I'm constantly embarrassed about smelling. Can't decide whether it's just my improved sense of smell, but even just after a shower I can smell myself. Grim. Pantyliners, clean pants, wipes, a shower and a bath every day and I still pong :(.

Well I've just returned to my desk after another mucus attack, gagging in the office and throwing up in the bathroom, this is seriously getting annoying and still 12 weeks to go!!
Must focus on little baby in my arms, must focus on little baby in my arms, repeat, repeat, repeat!!!!

I had terrible wind when pregnant. I remember having to abruptly leave aisles when shopping so that no one would suspect the smell came from me.

I also threw up very suddenly. Out the window of a moving car. And into the midwife's lap.

I never went back to collect my dignity. I still wet myself whenever I get a cough or jump on a trampoline. I go out and realize that I'm still wearing the tiara my kids put on me, or that I have kid snot on my sleeve.

YANBU. I never had pregnancy glow. I still don't have a fully-functioning pelvic floor either

Post-partum I lost the last shreds of dignity by doing a shop in Tesco Extra with my shirt unbuttoned after I fed DD in the car. I like to think I would tell the shattered-looking mother with new baby if I were another shopper seeing her in that situation...

Weeing oneself while vomiting always seemed to me to represent a particular low.

Hyperptyalism - producing excess saliva - was one of the most embarrassing products of my HG. If I swallowed it, it made me sick, so during one hideous day-long meeting at work I ended up going into the loo every 10 minutes, often not to vomit or wee but simply to spit.

Post nasal drip I think it's called. Post partum means after you've given birth,

yes I had more catarrh too, it's grim especially combined with morning sickness...should improve as winter turns to spring though OP. Hang on in there.

I also had the cough from hell during the last month of pg..I was pretty much bed bound by then and I also used to wet myself when I coughed. I thought I'd never recover.

Baby is now 7 weeks and I feel like a new person - seriously you do recover, immediately they are born things start to improve x

you're right outside it is Post Nasal Drip - silly mare that I am!!