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is anyone else feeling a bit pathetic?

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MadameCheese · 13/07/2010 22:42

I'm 30 weeks and struggling. I can only think it must be the weather, I'm sure I felt brilliant at this stage with DS who was an April baby. I find that if I do anything remotely strenuous in the morning I'm shattered after lunch and have to have a lie down whilst DS is kipping (thank goodness he still does). Please tell me I'm not the only one, I'm not even working

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catbus · 13/07/2010 23:17

Yes thanks!! Am 31 weeks and feel the same; none of my 3 sleep in the day but I do have to have a lie down!!

I am absolutely knackered by lunch aswell and sometimes wish I could fast forward to the end now!!

The heat is a killer and I positively whooped for joy when I saw it raining and a bit chilly today! God only knows why I feel so pooped this time but I too am really struggling; you are not alone!!

MummyFifi · 13/07/2010 23:18

Hi Madame, You are seriously not alone!! I'm 29 +3 weeks and am having an awful time with fatigue. My problem is when I go to bed I can't get to sleep As I am still at work I have to get up in the mornings, sometimes after only 4 or 5 hours sleep I then spend the day knackered, looking forward to bed and then once I'm there insomnia strikes! It's sooooo unfair (stomps feet like 3 year old throwing a tantrum). But on the bright side only 10 and a half weeks left

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MadameCheese · 13/07/2010 23:31

. catbus I was thrilled too! MummyFifi getting to sleep is really difficult so I understand this completely. When do you go on mat leave?

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balletmoo · 13/07/2010 23:43

Yup, count me in to this too! And I don't have any other children to keep me busy either so I have no idea how you guys are coping with that...

I've actually taken 2 days of work as a result - I walked to the end of the road today, turned around and came home I felt that rubbish... Hopeless...

Oh well. 27 weeks tomorrow... only 13 weeks to go!!

MummyFifi · 13/07/2010 23:45

Not until 22nd of September!! A week before I'm due need to take all my leave after lo is born because I can't really afford to live on smp but work are letting me work from home one day a week from next week which will help a lot are you on mat leave already? I wish I was!! Just waiting for that lottery win...

PickleSarnie · 14/07/2010 07:22

Me! This thread has made me feel a wee bit better about bawling my eyes out this morning instead of getting in the shower and ready for the long commute into work.

A couple of weeks of no sleep longer than 2 hours in a row without having to get up for a wee or swig gaviscon from the bottle has really taken its toll on me. I'm just over 30 weeks now and I feel like I've walked slap bang into a wall of exhaustion in the last couple of weeks. Got 6 more weeks of attempting to function at work and not spend all day in loo having a kip.

mum2oneloudbaby · 14/07/2010 09:32

well i don't feel quite so pathetically useless now as i'm not the only one.

i'm only 24+2 and supposed to be blooming . i think the heat has taken it's toll and i feel absolutely shattered. Coupled with a toddler having nightmares every night. I was so active and didn't really feel completely shattered and useless until about 8 months with dd.

it's so frustrating and ages to go yet. Any chance I may bloom yet?

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MadameCheese · 14/07/2010 11:25

Bless you ladies for your honesty! I am also contending with my mum telling me that she was bounding up and down stairs at this point when she was pregnant and working as a publican. That and she fitted back into her size 8s immediately after the birth. jjkm you are going through the most exhausting period anyway, be kind to yourself , DS is 2. MummyFifi goodness no, I'm, a SAHM. Even had to go on mat leave with DS at 34 weeks because I was an elephant . mum2 you are obviously having disturbed sleep, I think anyone would struggle with that, hopefully if the cooler weather continues we'll all feel a bit brighter ?

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catbus · 14/07/2010 11:35

Oh I so hope so MadameCheese!!

Despite last night being a total joke; DD1 up with dodgy stomach, DS titting about trying to retrieve lost dummy, and twenty thousand toilet trips and trying to protect my belly from whichever child is in my bed thrashing about..

DD2 was the only one that slept but has been a total sod all morning..

But the sky is cloudy and trying to rain so there is a 'bright side'!! It only took me 3 hours to wake up properly, so only another hour or 2 before I feel the urge to lie down. Just another 8 weeks to go, then I will probably be like the living dead anyway

Palace39 · 14/07/2010 11:46

I'm 35+2 with my first baby and was forced to early maternity leave on monday with SPD. I now feel entirely useless!

At least while i was at work i felt a bit normal and had some social life, now i can do little as it hurts and i don't know anyone in the area i live so can't even meet a friend for a coffee to pass the time!!

Essentially feeling quite sorry for myself and spend most of the day looking forward to my husband coming home from work so i have company!!

I'm going to make myself cry at this rate...

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MadameCheese · 14/07/2010 17:19

Palace SPD is crap so you have done really well to get so far and still be working . I've just come back from food shopping with DS and it took forever and he was yabbering the whole time, I'm now mentally exhausted too trying to keep up! catbus 3 kids, you're a star!

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Hermya321 · 14/07/2010 20:44

Gosh thank goodness I found you all, was going to start a 'pregnancy wibbles' thread. I hate this, it's really not nice. I've got terrible heartburn, nausea, achey bump and SPD and I just feel quite quite crap.

25 weeks, 15 weeks to go.

nymphadora · 14/07/2010 20:50

26 weeks and shit!

MassiveBumperlicious · 14/07/2010 21:16

30 weeks here too. I loath being pg, though actually I am in a slight lull where I don't feel too bad except for tiredness, but have either felt hideously sick, hysterical through insomnia, massively uncomfortable, and in pain with possible SPD, though that seems to have eased off for now.

I don't do well at being pg. Have had at least 2 weeks off sick and am on medically reduced hours (though that essentially means reduced from 8.5 a day to 7 or so). Not pathetic, it's tough and takes it's toll on your body and mental well being.

mum2oneloudbaby · 14/07/2010 21:20

it's not just me who doesn't bloom in pregnancy then. i always suspected blooming was a myth. As pregnancy is supposed to be a natural state you would think the human body would be better equipped to cope with it!

MassiveBumperlicious · 14/07/2010 21:20

Hermya I have a really achy bump too! I feel bruised inside. I'm huge and not sure exactly how much more weight I can carry around. When I say I've got 2.5 months to go people look at me like this -->

Palace39 · 15/07/2010 15:34

I think the rules should be changed and a stork should deliver the baby. And i'd like a clean one please, not wrinkled and purple and covered in white stuff.

And if you want pathetic this is it- i literally don't know how to pass the time for the next 4 weeks so i have taken to sky plusing various programmes in the evenings to watch during the day. I'm sure i had a life once...

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Rocklover · 15/07/2010 19:21

Yes I am.

See here www.mumsnet.com/Talk/pregnancy/1003287-Feeling-pathetic

I need cake. But feel too guilty as I already look like a heiffer.

mum2oneloudbaby · 15/07/2010 20:12

Feel even more pathetic today I'm in agony and I'm pretty sure its SPD need to speak to MW so she can tell me there is nothing she can do for me.

And Rocklover eat cake forget the guilt there's enough time to feel guilty about eating cake when you're not pregnant and have full control over your mind and faculties.

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MadameCheese · 15/07/2010 22:40

Sod it, let's all eat cake! My washing up pile has reached student proportions so now I feel like a very bad wife, sometimes I don't even tidy DS's toys away because I hate bending down. The other day I was a right old slut and swept them into a big pile to make it easier .

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daisystone · 16/07/2010 08:47

Well I am still sitting here in my dressing gown and have been awake for 2 hours but the thought of having a shower is tiring me out.
Stopped working a couple of weeks ago and although only 22 weeks pregnant I am always knackered by the afternoon.

Oh who am I kidding, I am knackered all the time. Yesterday I made it down to the post office (the only thing I did all day) and it felt like I had reached the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro - I was that impressed with myself!