To be pregnant and really really fed up

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I'm almost 30 weeks pregnant with my 2nd child but hating every bloody second.

I can't even really put my finger on why, but with working full time, looking after my three year old, running a house ect I'm just so tired and want to sleep all day, but as soon as I go to bed I can't sleep as baby moving/pelvic pain/needing the loo keeps me awake!

I fell over at work yesterday (went up to hospital for monitoring, all is fine with baby) so took today off as I'm quite sore and still shaken up. I'm due back at work tomorrow but am completely dreading it, which is weird as I normally love my job!

I feel like I'm in a foul mood all the time and constantly snap at my partner which isn't fair as he's not done anything wrong!

I dunno, I just feel like I need a break from.. Well, everything and everyone 😂 Then I feel guilty for feeling like that. Even on the rare occasions I do get the odd hour to myself I can't relax as I just think of all the stuff I still have to do. I'm not going on maternity leave for another 7 weeks but am counting down the days!

Does/did anyone else feel the same? Yes, this baby was planned and I am genuinely happy and excited to have another baby, but at the moment it just all feels so rubbish!

I should also mention that this pregnancy has been quite tough physically. I had bad morning sickness until 25 weeks and still get nausea pretty regularly now, have bad pelvic pain, am having to have regular scans and take aspirin because my first baby was SGA.... Nothing that millions of other women don't experience too, but my first baby's pregnancy was an absolute breeze and I naively expected this one to be the same 🤦‍♀️

I was fit as a fiddle with all three of my pregnancies. No sickness, no issues of any kind. But by golly, the first two were the longest 9 months of my life!
it was just never ending, and so uncomfortable. Plus I was so tired as first one was high needs. I was miserable really.
I had number 3 when they were older, and it was totally different. I was so chilled, didn’t worry about anything, knew it would be my last so tried to enjoy it. And I really did!
Thats no help to you though. I do sympathise.
Being pregnant is a gift of course, but it’s really long, and hard, and unrelenting, and uncomfortable. I think I also found around the 30 weeks so hard because you felt like you’d been pregnant for FOREVER, but actually still had ten weeks to go!! And it would really hit me. I’m no help! 😂

Yep. 34 weeks today, but had an MC just before this pregnancy (with no period in between) so I feel like I've been pregnant for about 42 weeks...

3 MCs in total so incredibly grateful but I'd also like to be able to put my own socks on without getting out of breath...

I'm anaemic, the iron tablets make me constipated but I'm also knackered and out of breath so need them. I had a weird episode a few weeks ago which landed me in hospital (they thought it was a stroke initially, luckily just an atypical migraine), polymorphic eruption of pregnancy rash (so itchy but seems to have cleared up thankfully), and I had covid in second trimester. Oh, & I've had thrush five bloody times.

I just want this baby here, delivered safely and my body back please!

I felt like this with my second pregnancy not so many months ago. Bad pregnancy, busy stressful job, devotion to DD, house renovations the list goes on and it was horrible. However now I'm due back to qork end of maternity and I wish I could rewind and do it all again. You are so close to the end your baby will be here before you know it. Try and look at the positives of your current situation before baby arrives, concider 1:1 time with your child, freedom without a baby and all that entails, and try as hard as it is to relax and take time for yourself. Perhaps speak to work and take a few days holiday to relax. Good luck you will be fine

I'm 34 weeks with DC2 and feel the same. Just restless and irritable and grumpy and fed up!

I'm a lot more sore and achey than first time round as well, which isn't helping.

28 weeks with a 3 year old too. Drained isn't the word! The sickness is still going on which is completely different to the first pregnancy too. If I can get to 37 weeks I might ask they to just induce me and get it over with!!!

34 weeks with DC2 here and have a 3 year old. So fed up. Can’t get comfortable, have constant heartburn, exhausted all the time. You’re definitely not alone!