To just want my mum?

[ipswichwitch]

Feel free to tell me to get a grip or whatever, but I feel like death warmed up.
I'm 27 weeks pregnant and just been diagnosed with a raging case of tonsillitis. I'm getting hot and cold sweats, feel like shite and can barely swallow air never mind paracetamol. All I want is mum to come look after me - she's the best when you're ill. She would bring me lovely drinks, home made soup, lovely fluffy nice smelling blankets (unlike the manky cat hair ridden thing I've been wrapped up in all day), and generally make a fuss.

DH is being fab and taken over since he's got home from work, and MIL has been great too. Just not the same as having mum though is it? Or am I being a self pitying arse? Fgs, I'm in my late 30's and feel like I've never needed her so much in my life! But she lives 100's of miles away and cares for Step dad who's ill himself.

So, either join me in a self pitying wallow, or tell me to woman up!

Aww, poor you, I hope your illness goes away soon. I don't think it's pathetic, there's nothing quite like your mum for making things better, I don't think we ever stop wanting their support.

YANBU!

Mums are the best. My mum used to do this thing when we were ill, she would tuck the duvet round us really tightly and wobble us. Snuggle down and give her a ring for a nice chat.

Mums are great when your poorly, mine would make a bed on the couch and give us hot ribena. Lunch was always Heinz cream of tomato soup with bits of white bread floating in it

I feel like this when I am ill, lucky she lives a 5 minute walk.

Awwww Ipswich, bless you. YADNBU. Mums are definitely the best. Hope you are feeling better soon. x

YANBU it must be very common.

I came home from Tesco's to find My DD who's now 22 laid out on my sofa wrapped up in her old duvet and pillow which she had dragged out of the airing cupboard.

I thought her and her DP had split up and she'd moved home which frightened the shit out of me! Turns out she had a stinking cold and wanted her Mum to make it better

Had to go straight back to Tesco's for chicken soup, Lucozade and a box of ultra soft tissues for her precious nose

I still occasionally head for my mums when I'm feeling ill. I live 30 miles away

In fairness, the last time I had full on flu and couldn't get out of bed to get drinks or anything, and there was no one here to look after me.

YADNBU! mums really do know how to make you feel better. It's like they want to help and make it better, where DH just does what he feel he has to IMO. I'm very sorry your mum's not there to look after you, can you at least call her and get some much needed TLC? Hope you feel better soon.

Yanbu, my mum is the best, I don't know eat I would do without her, I am dying today, she went to the chemist and got my lots of yucky medicine made me dinner and sent me home to go to bed and took my ds fir the night to give me a rest.

I will do the same for my dc, even when they are big lumps!

What not eat

Get well soon ips

Aww, YANBU.
During pregnancy, and with a newborn were the times I have missed my mum the most since she died 15 years ago (I was 13)
Hope you are feeling better soon.

Poor you, YANBU, hope you feel better soon, tonsillitis is horrible.

I remember my mum coming into town to go food shopping with me when I had a kidney infection as I wasn't sure I could make the ten minute walk to Tesco. bless her, she travelled 90 on the train to do so. lucky she did as I fainted outside Tesco, and she took me home and looked after me for a week. I was in my late twenties but mum's are wonderful.

I hope you feel better soon

Thank you all. I'm tucked up in bed watching inbetweeners :)
DH has done his best, but not the same as mum (of course I didn't tell him that!) mums are just fab aren't they. Will ring her tomorrow for sympathy :)

I'm 41 and want my mam when I'm ill especially being sick I actually cry . Nothing wrong with it us 7

I am 69 an often want my mum but she's been dead for over 20 years :( I love it when dd [39] says she just wants a bit of mum and dd time-it makes up for not having mum and me time :)

YANBU. I've only just had a cold this past week and I've been the most pathetic woman in the world. Mums are so much more compassionate when you're ill, they really are the best to have around!

Hope you feel better!

I don't think we ever grow out of needing our Mam sometimes.
I was 41 last time I was really ill, in hospital, and as soon as my Mam walked in I just burst into tears and held my arms out for a hug and regressed to being about 5 again
Hope you feel better soon ipswich tonsilitis is miserable at the best of times, let alone when you're pregnant too :(