To ask Worst thing about pregnancy?

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For me it's the constant burping after every meal - massive giant burps ! Also in the first trimester morning sickness

Nobody should apologise for feeling the way they do due to infertility. It took us years to conceive so I completely get it. It means I've really struggled with not enjoying my pregnancy as I feel like I should.

Heart burn for me without a doubt was the worst

I got off pretty lightly with sickness
But the heart burn and also reduced appetite were relentless

I found the mental side of things hard.

I couldn't have a break, my life changed instantly. I felt like I couldn't eat, drink or do what I wanted - even going to toddlers theme parks half the rides are banned in pregnancy. Being excluded from work nights out etc. My husbands life just carrying on as normal while mine seemed to start overnight. I found it all hard to cope with and it just seemed to last so fucking long and then there was something quite scary at the end of it!

Physically, my back and hips seized up - having to be carried out of the office by a concierge and helped into a taxi and crying all the way home because I was in so much pain was a particular low pint

*stop overnight

The constant anxiety
The heartburn
The back aches
The insomnia
The restless legs!

@PlinkPlink. Ah yes the heightened sense of smell. I've spent most of this pregnancy finding men and women's perfumes hideous and even stopped wearing it myself despite usually being a perfume lover. DH took a nap today after work and I came through to ask if he wanted a cup of tea. I thought the whole bedroom smelt hideous, I changed the sheets and ordered him to shower. Now I'm knackered and wondering whether sterilising a bathroom floor is a thing and whether I should do it...like right now.

Morning sickness
Heartburn
Labour

The constant anxiety of miscarriage and the fear of having another 20 week miscarriage.

Looking and feeling fat and having to wee in the night every hour.

@Kittenbittenmitten sterilising the bathroom floor seems like a good idea to me and totally not over the top.

I cleaned the bathroom the other night out of sheer frustration that for some reason I could smell it from DSs bedroom. Not entirely sure what I was smelling but it needed to go!

Being confined to bed with pre eclampsia. Also the pain I had with DD sitting on my kidney stone

Feeling for those who have the constant anxiety of miscarriage. Once it happens, a successful pregnancy still won't feel quite like you imagine it ought to. I keep telling myself off for daring to be excited during these last few weeks.

Waiting for my body to notice that my baby's heart has stopped and get on with the miscarriage (again) is pretty shite.

The unrelenting all day long nausea. I hate the fact it’s still termed ‘morning sickness’, it should just be ‘Pregnancy sickness’. I had it all day long until 20 weeks and even then it would come back some days. I felt permanently hungover.

I was also always constantly roasting hot and sweaty. Plus the peeing 25 times during the night and struggling to get comfortable in any position at all towards the end.

Yes @PlinkPlink. I was afraid it might affect the finish of the tiles but I've read it's fine to use a very mild bleach solution. I'm thinking it should be clean as possible in case baby is accidently born on it... Another task to look forward to tomorrow.

That's what I'm like. I convinced myself today that I smelled bad despite being clean!

The vomiting, the excess wind, the heart burn, SPD, the anxiety/wild hormones. The inability to sleep or be comfortable at the end. The labour and birth.

Well I had HG which severely affected me from weeks 6- about 20. Still had some remnants of symptoms for the rest of my pregnancy too. I also had coccyx pain from about week 18 til the end which sitting in an office job was horrendous. Not sure which was worst tbh, enduring the coccyx pain at work for months or being bedridden with HG for months. I guess the HG was worse tbf as it was totally all-consuming.

Nausea. All day. Every day.

Jeremy Kyle's (piles) and being general massive with aching hips. Currently 35 weeks and can barely roll over in bed without intense hip pain.

It is EXHAUSTING because ofc you don't sleep due to a mixture of insomnia, anxiety and needing to piss the smallest amount of urine every 39 minutes.

The anxiety of getting to the magic 12 weeks at the start, morning or every hour of the day sickness, SPD, heartburn, labour and feeling awful afterwards.

I hated being pregnant don’t know why I did it four times!

Feeling guilty around those who I know are or have struggled with infertility/miscarriage... I’d purposely try not to talk about how I was really feeling (sick as a dog), how long I had left at work and wore frumpy cardigans to try and hide the bump as best I could... ...because I used to be the one longing for the baby.

Pooping in the midwife's hands was a pretty low point although the embarassment was short lived due to the agony of drug free childbirth and 4th degree tear. So much for a peaceful water birth.

@solongtothedream. So sorry. Both my miscarriages were missed.

Thanks @Kittenbittenmitten. This is my second MMC this year, this wasn't a good thread for me to click on whilst upset and angry.

I'm sorry for your losses too.

Morning sickness by miles. The rest was fine - even labour was great compared to that. I would happily spend a day in labour than a day with all that nausea.