To want this baby out NOW

[strawberrycake]

(2 threads on here, I'm asking for it)

I'm 39 weeks tommorrow and bloody fed up of being pregnant. I've shifted from big to huge this week and feel suddenly housebound as the high street is my absolute maximum walking distance (and that's a push). Bump is HUGE, my back hurts and I barely feel balanced with a beachball loosely stuck to my same-size hips. Plus I seem to live in a sea of acid. I just want a baby on the outside now, he's out staying his welcome! I'm a bad mum I guess but I want to move freely again. I know he's better off full term...but I'm selfish and fed up and acid-ridden and grumpy and kicked-to bits...

Im not stupid enough to tell a 39 week pregnant woman she is unreasonable...

i went to 41 weeks with both of mone..

console yourself with the fact that you rbaby is staying in there cos its not ready yet and.... you can only possibly be pregnant for 3 weeks before they offer you an induction

lol...thanks biddysmama.

I believe he realised this week he hadn't left a singe mark, so is eating for England to leave his (stretch)mark before his big exit. Two appeared yesterday and another overnight. One week and I'll be a roadmap... I know it.

Oh, I sympathise. I was so fed up with my second pregnancy I was counting the minutes. And I too had the acid indigestion. Horrible

Definitely NBU. I'm 39+3 and I've been feeling that way since around 30 weeks.

Moaning feels good! Another moan- if he drops any further I swear he'll be lower than my fanjo somehow...over rather than through?

YANBU! I feel for you. With my second i was 15 days over before i had ds, all 9lb 8oz of him

Is he your first ?

I wish someone would measure my bump, I've heard recently that many midwives check it with a tape measure. It would lay my mind at rest that it's just a big bump, not a giant baby! I'll ask her next appt (40 weeks) though I'm hoping not to make that appointment!

Awww I really feel for you, I had DD2 in the New Year so it's all very fresh in my mind.

Everybody said 'Oooo enjoy the calm before the storm' but all I wanted to do was be able to get myself up off the setee without having to employ a crane!

No - I agree, it's not the calm before the storm, unless the calm before the storm is being unable to sleep, lummocking about like a whale, and being obsessional about whether pictures are straight

YANBU - as much as your mind is telling you baby isn't ready, you body just wants it to get a move on. I went 2 weeks late with DD & could have killed cos I was so frustrated. I doesn't feel like it now but it will be worth the wait.

i get that too agentzigzag..'enjoy your rest while you can'....ime of 3 other children i got a lot more sleep over the 24hr period when baby was born, they do sleep an average of 18hrs a day after all, than when pregnant. i thought i had breezed through my other pregnancies but at 38+1 weeks i too am DESPERATE for the birth, fed up of sore hips, back, knees, shoulders, heartburn, throwing up multiple times a day and all the 'you still here ' comments. aaaaggghhh

YABU - but only because I am 40+3 and I want this baby out sooooooo bad and I'm struggling to cope with seeing others have their baby before me!

I've reached the stage where I alternate between thinking "there's no baby in me - it's all been a big mistake and I'm not pregnant" to "what if something is wrong? Have I felt her move recently? etc" It's all very draining. DD was 39+5 so I really wasn't expecting to go overdue at all.

So in conclusion OP, I feel your pain.

BTW - nicked this off another thread last night for my facebook status to answer all those people that keep asking, "have you had it yet?" It makes me smile

http://www.haveyouhadthatbabyyet.com/

damn, try again

www.haveyouhadthatbabyyet.com

Lol at the link mad

YANBU - I went to 40+12 with mine. Worst 3 weeks of my life - I thought I was going to lose my mind. The last bit of pregnancy is the pits.

Hope it is all over for you soon.

Not that it's a competition but with DD1 I was 40+16 when they eventually decided to lever her out How I got through it I'll never know, although I didn't have to do much as I was in hosp for the last 10 days...thankfully no cooking/cleaning etc.

Yes, YABVVVVVVU - I had DD at 27 weeks. I would give ANYTHING to have felt very pregnant. Most people didn't even realise I WAS pregnant.

Sorry, but comments like this make me cross, jealous and grumpy. Enjoy it - it's showing you that your body, unlike mine, has managed to do its job and keep baby safe inside.

Can feel your pain - am 38 weeks so not quite cooked yet but the acid indigestion is driving me insane, feel like gagging at the wiff of gaviscon because have drunk so much I may drown in it and to top it off have now got thrush (sorry if TMI!)
I just keep reminding myself how lucky I am to be this uncomfortable though

I'm with you. I'm 41 weeks today and completely fed up! Good luck.

YANBU, but I hate to say it, it gets worse when if you go over your date (even though the rational bit of your mind knows it's only an estimated date)

DD was 39+4, so I never expected to go overdue with DS - he was 40+10 - longest fortnight of my life....

no one is pregnant forever though, even though it feels like it at the minute

I also went 41 plus with both of mine, the last months is tough, backache and for me massive very painful feet and ankles on my second, you just have to get through it. There's no easy way round, just hang in there, your baby will soon be on her/his way.

Also many people, mw's now unofficially consider 42 weeks to be full term these days. That's why so many are induced, they just haven't been pregnant long enough.

Yanbu to be fed up, it's pants being so near and yet so far. Just remember the little chap just isn't cooked enough yet!