Only 3 days overdue but losing my mind :(

[CoffeeMum]

DS arrived at 38+4, so I assumed my second baby would be early too...maybe that's why i'm struggling so much with going past my due date.

I can hardly move around, can't get off the sofa, can just about get to the local shop. I can't really play with DS as am so big and immobile, and i'm being so grumpy with my poor DH. I'm generally awake from about 3am every day at the moment, as I wake up about four times a night to wee, and then can't get back to sleep before DS wakes around 5am [hm]

I'm exhausted, I have been having period pains for about two weeks. I was randomly sick yesterday [may have been too much chocolate though!] I've had a couple of spells of contractions over the past two weeks but both came to nothing and left me even more frustrated - and i don't even know if they were contractions or BH's - what's the difference anyway?!

We can't really do anything as I feel so awful, and I don't want to stray too far from home in case i go into labour, but it's not really made this the most fun Christmas ever.

To top it all off, i'm one of these women who can't wait to meet her baby, but is generally pretty scared about the whole childbirth thing, so i feel like it's just hanging over my head at the moment. Labour with DS was 29 hours from start to finish, and pretty gruelling - i'm so scared of the pain this time round

Oh yes, and everyone around me on is on tenterhooks for the baby which is so sweet and everything, but is doing my head in!!! I am not just a vessel, I am a person too!!!!

Just wanted to vent really, thanks for letting me get that off my chest.

Aw poor you. Does sound like it's all about to kick off! With dd (second baby) I had cramps and early signs of labour for a couple of weeks, then suddenly went into labour, which lasted 7 hours. Your second labour will be quicker and easier.

Good luck, I'm sure it won't be long.

I'm 2 days over as well

Thanks both. Scorps, at least you sound a little more positive about it all than me - well done! Is it your first?

Picante, yes, i suppose all the signs are there that it might happen at any time, but in a way, that makes it all the more frustrating because i keep psyching myself up, only for nothing to happen. Good to hear about your nice easy second labour though - fingers crossed i have the same experience ahead of me, and if not, bring on the epidural!

I was due on the 24th but, unlike you, was 2 weeks late for DS which has made the waiting game this time round MUCH easier as I have really prepared myself to be 2 weeks late again...and so far that's the way it seems to be going (and I am coping surprisingly well- perhaps Christmas has been a good distraction!). Anyway, you haven't got long to wait now and soon the agony of the waiting game (which I can really relate to) will seem a distant memory. Good luck!!