Hello again ladies,
Hope everyone's doing OK. I went to the doctor's this morning as I have a horrible prickly-heat type rash from my boobs down to my thighs that is driving me NUTS, and while I was there (saw a locum) discovered that the blood tests I had done 2 months ago came back showing I'm anaemic but that no-one had bothered to contact me!! No wonder I've been feeling so effing knackered!! Am now on iron tablets - you other ladies who've been prescribed them, did they help? And are you horribly constipated?!
I've also discovered 2 horrible hideous stretch marks on my tum this morning, which is really annoying as I've been slathering on the Bio Oil (at quite some cost, I must say!) religiously every day. I was so smug not getting any with DS1 and naturally assumed I wouldn't get any this time either, but was still a good girl, greasing myself up like a slippery pig each morning. Sigh. Never mind eh, worse things happen at sea I expect.
Just been over to see a friend who's just had her second baby (her DD1 is the same age as my DS1, 2.6) and it's really started to hit home that that's going to be me soon - trying to feed a baby while keeping an eye on a toddler who's running amok with the felt tips and ramming bits of cake down the back of the sofa.
It was quite good in a way because she was able to give me some tips (no.1 was 'tape a LOT of Peppa Pig and always have the remote to hand') and I was able to remind her how horrible late pregnancy can be with a toddler to look after, so we were both cheered up by the end of it.
Anyone else so massively uncomfortable that labour & birth are looking quite appealing? Forgive the rant but I just need to get out of my system the fact that even though I long for bed all day (that'll be the iron deficiency) when I get to bed I can't sleep because I have:
- chronic acid indigestion
- chronic back ache
- restless legs
- a massive bump in the way of everything
- need to wee every 30 mins
- baby kicking me in the ribs / foof all the time
- unbelievably itchy torso
- leg cramps
...plus a toddler who gets up 5 times a night and a husband who snores, but that's nothing to do with the pregnancy is it.
Anyone else fancy a moan? Go on, it'll make me feel less like a miserable old be-atch.
Hope you're all having a good Friday night ladies - I'm got a glass of wine coming my way once DS1 is in bed and I don't even care about the indigestion it's going to give me! (Bring on the Masterchef quarter final!!)
And Rtuff if you're out there, we need you to start the new thread asap I think!