December 2011 - Support tights time!

[BeeMyBaby]

Had no idea what to call it, sorry. Just googled third trimester and that was the recommendation...

Is this really what the 3rd trimester is like or are we just having a bad week? Looking back at yesterdays messages everyone seems to be suffering. :(

I'm exhausted from being kept up by acid reflux & waking at 4am every morning for no reason, I've had haemorrhoids, constipation, diarrhoea, back pain, excruciating bladder pain, period type pains, horrid excess CM, I've fallen down the stairs & pulled a muscle in my bump & worst of all I have ugly swollen ankles & feet.

Every week won't be like this right? I'll have good weeks & bad weeks?

I'm not even in the 3rd trimester yet.

Honey sounds like you're really suffering. It might improve a bit but most people say the 2nd trimester is the best which means the best part is over :(

honey it's just a bad week. It'll get better. Hugs to you, it sounds horrid. x

I really miss the 2nd trimester; I just wish I'd appreciated it more at the time. I felt normal so I didn't realise I should be savouring every moment. On the bright side; I honestly have no fear of the birth any more; I love the feeling of my baby moving inside of me but I cannot wait to get them out so that my body can get back to normal! Not sure how I feel now about the back-to-back pregnancies we'd been planning now though

I've a bad headache again today but made myself get up (sometimes getting up and getting on makes it improve) but feeling a bit panicky - that's a bad head 3 times this week- worried that those awful migraines I suffered from all the time for months until week 20 are coming back. I only had 5 weeks off. Please Please let it be a blip. :(

Oh no mopsy, hope that headache clears off!

honey, hopefully it's just a bad week. Some people seem to sail through pregnancy- personally I'm not one of them! The best approach is to be thankful for the hideous side effects you don't have , and constantly remind yourself that in a few months things will be better
(or at least swap for different gripes!)

So for example: I'm knackered, have a dee-lightful cold from DH, can't do up my shoelaces anymore, have intermittent heartburn, am paranoid about my
Wretched placenta (that's a bit better at the mo though) and still can't stomach the smell of cooking bacon, but at least I've not got backache at the moment!

I feel the same about wanting the baby out. It's partially the discomfort, but it's more that I'm impatient and just want to get on with it.
I'm bored and dissatisfied being uncomfortable, not being able to move freely. I'm sick of not sleeping... but then I've just been reading a thread for September mums who've started having their babies. Yikes. It isn't the harmonious picture my breastfeeding book gives. They are suffering with bleeding nipples and no sleep, and not being fit to leave the house for 8 days, and how much the babies scream when your milk doen't come in for 5 days,... - It's not horror stories or negativity, they are just sharing their experiences - and despite the troubles all sound quite positive... (The piles sound bad on that thread... they keep threatening with me, and I'm being generous with Germaloids to stop them appearing properly. :( )
Hmmm,.. I think I'll wait a bit before moving onto pregnancy number two. (but then breastfeeding keeps fertility down naturally anyway.)
mopsy sorry to hear about the headaches.
What can we do today to make ourselves all feel better? Any ideas? - I'm going to have a defuzz attempt downstairs...and a bath. Getting up and about does make me feel better, but I can't think what to do - and the grey, dark skies and torrential rain this morning is less than inspiring!!

aethel according to my lovely new MW, unless you've had any bleeding it's highly unlikely the placenta is low enough to cause any problems so don't worry; just look forward to your extra scan. :) Good idea by the way; I might try listing the symptoms I don't have to cheer myself up...or would that just be tempting fate Until yesterday my nice slim ankles were keeping me upbeat but I'm afraid to look at them now :(

Oi jealous of your day; I wish I didn't have to work today but I'm already behind so it looks like there's no other option. Hope the weather clears up for you. Don't think I'll read the September thread...I doubt any of it would apply to me since I've put in an order for a perfectly happy non-crying baby who breast feeds easily & sleeps through the night from week 1. Oh, & I haven't ordered cracked nipples or post-birth piles either so it's all just going to be wonderful :o

oh the sun has come out... for a moment. honey did you find that on E-Bay? I plan on getting one too.
I don't know how much I'm kidding myself, but I think "happy mummy, happy baby" - it'll all be wonderful, nothing bad will happen to me. I'll stick to that.

honey we'd been planning on being pregnant again within a year, I honestly didn't realise how much this pregnancy would take it out of me looking after DS as well. I think we'll stick to the plan though (depending how the birth goes), the way I see it is another pregnancy looking after 2 DC's will be bloody hard regardless of when we do it, I'd rather get the exhausting pregnancy and newborn stage done then we can just enjoy our children.

oimissus it isn't harmonious but it's certainly worth it, tbh the first 6-8 weeks are bloody hard but once you're in a routine and know what you're doing it does get much better. Also remember that people mostly talk about the bad parts. There could be people in early pregnancy reading this thread and panicking because for the last 2 days we've all been moaning about how crap we feel, but it doesn't mean any of us don't want to be pregnant.

Too true!
Not harmonious perhaps, but it will be fabulous and amazing and the most wonderful thing that I've ever done. Thanks seven. Am now going to have a fabulous day of glowing pregnancy! Am determined!

Maybe I'm naive but I honestly don't think that it could be much worse than this. This past week I've been getting up at 7am; making DP's packed lunch, feeding all the animals & myself & then working until 11pm or later when I have a quick bath & go to bed & sleep really badly. I understand it'll be a lot of work but at least I won't have a job on top of it all & can take naps when the baby does. As long as I don't have a baby that screams 24/7 I think it'll be great :)

seven totally agree about getting the pregnancy/newborn stage out of the way...I was hoping to be on next year's December thread if I can convince this LO to come & meet us a bit early. Although bfing on demand might make this impossible. I know it's going to be really hard being pregnant with a baby but I can't wait to just get down to being a mum & get my body back too. Also, I don't have any siblings but I always thought it'd be lovely to have someone close to my age.

Seven I totally agree, yes I feel a bit rubbish at the moment, but when I feel him move inside me, I feel truly blessed. I just don't write about that, because I didn't think anyone wanted to hear about my private exultation, but in the interests of balance, maybe I should.

After a termination at 16, I didn't see a doctor for a checkup for 4 months, the whole time during which I was bleeding. When I finally screwed up my courage I went to a walk-in centre, where the doctor diagnosed pelvic inflammatory disease and shouted at me for leaving it so long to be seen. I didn't know if my tubes had been damaged, but thought they must have been...I suppose I thought I deserved to be punished for what I'd done.

I'd only been seeing my now-DH for a couple of months before I knew that I wanted to spend my life with him and have his children, but in the back of my mind, I was convinced that I wouldn't be able to. I came off the pill last November anyway, and we married in February. I found out I was pregnant on 1st April :).

I started bleeding on a Thursday night a couple of weeks after I got the positive test. I honestly thought I'd miscarried...but no, it was a bleed in the womb, but the baby/fetus was fine.

So yes, I may moan about the crapness that is heartburn, backache, constipation and disturbed sleep, but I feel like the luckiest woman alive.

Another episode in my soap opera of a life. We were burgled last night. It is shit, utter shit. Took laptop, tv, phone, keys and bank card. The police have been great though, really quick and a neighbour has changed the lock for us.

As if I needed any more shit to add to the saga that life has been the last 3 months.

Anyway, for those worrying about newborns, yes it can be really stressful and pants for a while, but that uncertainty is SO important. All of the floundering I did when DD1 was new, I can look at now and see how those early weeks were just me figuring out how to be her mother, what kind if mother I wanted to be and DP and I working out how to be parents and in a relationship.

Oh no msbuggy! So sorry for you. I don't know how people can be so evil. :(

Oh msbuggy that's just shitty. Hope you're feeling ok, but I know how it feels when someone has broken into your home. May karma bite the scum on the arse, and take chunks!

Oh NO msbuggy that is shite! Poor you. What a horrible thing to happen :(

So sorry msbuggy, that's really shit :(

sorelip you almost had me in tears with your story. We are blessed.
msbuggy your latest news almost had me in tears for the opposite reason. So sorry - horrid, filthy scum.

I meant to say that I'm celebrating, I went shopping earlier and found pasteurised Brie! :o

Just catching up... glad I'm not the only one who has leaks and gushes! This thread makes me feel so much better! I'm tempted to tackle 'my jungle' today lol, I can't bring myself to go to waxing place I normally go to... its been too long and I'd be
plus I prob wouldn't be able to get up on the bed!

msbuggy I'm so sorry, you really have been through enough bad things :(
honey thanks for your post, I have only just read it. I too am prone to depression, and was on tablets before I fell pregnant as I couldn't exercise due to ME, I find that's the only thing that helps me too, when I'm not in a relapse I gym / dance all the time, to the point where my consultant says its that causing the relapse! Can't win lol, totally agree with yoga, I have too much nervous energy too!

Pasteurised Brie!!?????? You mean up say that I've lived without Brie needlessly for the last 6 - 7 months?????
And if it's pasteurised it's totally safe, right?
Just in a normal tescos?? Where, please?

I had the NICEST slice of coffee cake ever today! Yum! Had a total craving all day and didn't want to actually bake a cake (because then obvs would eat the whole thing) and the local cafe sells cake by the slice (I never knew until this afternoon - I kind of wish I hadn't found out, what will this mean for my expanding bum) and it was AMAZING. That is the best craving fulfilment of my pregnancy so far!

I'm so grateful that I have up to now been one of those lucky women apart from left wrist pain that not suffered with the raft of nasty symptoms. Touch wood I can be this lucky for the next 12 weeks.

I went shopping today accidentally bought another radley handbag but figured it would be my last before I have no money. I was amazed at the amount of prams with tiny tiny babies there were going around I shall NOT be making that mistake. If I need to go to major shopping centres with baby it will be in the week!!

Buggy I hope the police manage to catch the thieving bastards or at least your insurance co comes through quickly for you!!

Mopsy Hopefully your headache was a one off!

Honey hope you feel better and doesn't last until baby is born.

Buggy that's Shit. Have you been in contact with your insurers?

Well, DD & I were treated out for dinner last night and she was well behaved and ate her dinner downside was my feet and ankles were huge and my foot still kills

Brought a travel cot in Toys R Us today bargain as was half price
Going to a wedding fair tomorrow so exciting as we submitted our Notification to marry on Thursday