is anyone else feeling a bit pathetic?

[MadameCheese]

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

[MadameCheese]

Great news wonderstuff hope you have/had a lovely birth and also look forward to hearing your news xxx

[Doodleydoo]

Good luck wonderstuff! Sadly I was mistaken about the boiler so it seems cold showers until they send an engineer from the boiler company out!

[shieldbug]

good luck wonderstuff hope everything goes well and looking forward to hearing about your baby.

[wonderstuff]

clean hair makes a big difference.
Back from mw am 3cm dilated so was start of a slow labour last night, s+s done - need to keep active, go on a long walk and if I could possibly manage intercourse that would be good too The end is nearly in sight [hopeful]

[Doodleydoo]

Boiler now has hot water thank the lord, but have been told to book a service call as it is less than 6 months old and is leaking in a peculiar place. Now I know I am going to go insane but at least it will be with clean hair!

[wonderstuff]

Oh doodleydoo that would be enough to drive a non-pg person to tears - hope it gets sorted soon.

[Doodleydoo]

I have been having sporadic period pains over the past couple of days (not due for 4 weeks so am assuming its braxton hicks but last time they weren't so painful!) went to have a bath last night NO HOT WATER, so I put the hot water back on, (Was out at work all day yesterday and got back late) woke up this morning still no hot water but the boiler is leaking and as it is in our attic it has leaked through the ceiling and into the baby's room, leaving nasty white marks on the carpet and a need for an electrician - we have so many things going on in the house as we moved into one that needed a lot of work and it has taken time to get it to here but now the baby is so close I am feeling most panicky about it and the wobble is happening. Also apart from not being able to clean myself, there is so much dust and so many boxes of crap around the house that I about to pull my unclean hair out of my unclean head!

[wonderstuff]

Well after a very tearful morning yesterday - bless him dh took the day off I was in such a state - I really thought I was going into labour last night - but no, all stopped, no baby. We are all so desperate to meet this baby. We have told dd the baby is bringing a bike and she 'just needs to ride my new bike' bless her. MW today for a sweep - this has to end soon, it just has to.

[munchkinland]

I have had a good day today, managed to get to the midwife (3/5th's palable) and to sainsburys for dinner and packed lunch stuff, and to dry cleaners to collect DH's suit.
collected DD1 from school, made her dinner, done the washing up.
Now that is it - I am not sure I can do much more...might have to beg DH to make the dinner tonight!!

Tomorrow is going to be a day in bed I can just tell already......

why oh why can't it just even out to make me a little bit productive every day rather than this yo-yo-ing.

[Palace39]

I'm not far behind you. Took me 5 hours to muster up the energy to take a dress to the dry cleaners, and haven't even thought about dinner for DH who has gone to wales and back for work today so that he didn't have to leave me for too long.

Also back off to doc's re SPD tomorrow morning as struggling to get around without leaning on things now.. i feel like such a sap!!!!

Also, i have just discovered how many calories are in chocolate hobnobs. Having consumed half a packet in the last hour i can tell you there are lots.

[MadameCheese]

I was really teary this morning due to feeling so giddy (BP is 100/60) and feeling poor DS is getting a rotten deal at the moment . Text to DH to tell him, no reply. Ah well my only consolation is that I probably won't have made any dinner, how horrid is that? Bad wife + bad mother = feeling utterly pants.

[shieldbug]

Romilly I know how you feel. A random woman thought she'd misheard when I said 3 months and corrected it to 3 weeks. You should have seen her face when I said, no, REALLY, I still have 3 months to go! I don't know yet if I will have to have a cs or not, but like you, the baby's feet are kicking pretty high! Wallops to the boobs and stomach are a speciality (when it's not the other way up and giving my bladder grief!!).

[Romilly70]

porcamiseria, shieldbug, i have got a gigantic fibroid too, and i am so sick of people looking shocked when i tell them I have 3 months to go and they say "but you are huge" and this is complete strangers...

I have been told I have to have a c-section 2 weeks early. the top of my fundus and therefore my DS's little kicking feet are already just below my boobs - at 24 weeks so i completely get the trekkie reference!

also am so not enjoying the sun. please let it rain just a little for some relief / sleep!

[driedapricots]

ha ha, the only tiny crumb of satisfaction i've had in about 6 months...enjoying this thread with feet up and eating ice cream, whilst watching DH do the ironing!!! serves him right for calling me a martyr for 'keeping on' about being uncomfortable...
had a few bursts of energy ntoday (well 10 min spurts) but then did have complete emotional breakdown last night - prompted by the wedding singer film of all things which led me to say to dh "we're not like that" - like i even would want to be "like that"????!! then heard one of his friend's wives literally breathed first baby out in a matter of hours with no pain relief and rather than feel happy for her i am seething..why couldn't i have been like that with my first - and she's still really slim. GRRRR - i am such a grumpy unreasonable lump!!!! more ice cream...

[Doodleydoo]

How about doing anything without puffing!

[munchkinland]

anyone else have an overwhelming desire to curl up in a ball on their knees? I literally can't wait to do this!!

[Palace39]

Ha ha i used the 'i'm growing you a son' line yesterday!! Great minds hey.

I feel most sorry for him actually. For the constantly going out to get things, my ringing him all the time while he's a work, my constant complaining at being uncomfortable/unable to sleep/bored, and my rants about how his mother is going to annoy me with unwanted advice.

I am unfortunately not enjoying being pregnant, which i feel guilty for. I hang my head while i think how i want my body back, and my ribs to be my own again.. But i'm also very much looking forward to seeing my husband and my little boy together, when nowt else will matter.

[guernseygirl]

Ah Palace, good of you to sympathise! Sounds like you've got a fantastic OH too.

The excuse that I'm growing his firstborn son will wear thin eventually, I'm sure. He's an angel and since getting past 20 weeks, my temper has been mercurial to say the least.

We're not arguers, but in the last month my voice has reached hysterical decibel levels because I'm hungry / tired / am bored at least once a week. Bless him, he just agrees to everything and asks me how to make it better. I'll be like cleopatra in a bath of asp's milk by the time this little one is born!

Enjoying pregnancy and very grateful for it, but wish it would last 6 months rather than 9....

[munchkinland]

second thoughts all that typing knackered me out - might just have to have another lie down!!

[Palace39]

guernseygirl yes i've also been completely and utterley awful to my OH at various points, particularly in throwing strops if he won't go to the shop to get me something despite the fact that he does it ALL THE TIME.

Yesterday i moaned at him at 10pm because he was still cleaning up after 10 of my family had been round for a bbq, and he 'hadn't given me a cuddle' for at least an hour.

Suffice to say i am cooking him some top dinners this week in thanks for his acting as barman/chef/cleaner all day long, without the slightest whimper.

I sometimes wonder why he bothers. And how he was single when i met him...

[munchkinland]

Hey all, how nice to read that you are all suffering just as much as me

39 weeks and suffered from Ante Natal depression from about 28 weeks. It has got better since I stopped work but still have down days or "nothing days" today is a nothing day, I got up at 9.30am fell asleep on the sofa at 12.30 and woke up again at 2. now just chilling - have taken all day to do the washing up as I do a couple of plates then sit down for half an hour!!

Just scoffed some ice crean though, so may do a couple more plates in a bit.

Not ready for the baby at all - bought a new moses basket yesterday (the old one was a bit mishappen) but it's still in the box, I just can't get excited about the baby at all - not dreading it at all - just feel like its not really real any more, even though the intermittant downward pushing is reminding me that it certainly is real!!!

I do have random days of nesting where I decide that all the kitchen cupboards need to be emptied and scrubbed - hopefully tomorrow will be one of those days, but until then I am taking comfort in the knowledge that my midwife told me that I have to listen to my body and rest if it tells me to rest....well it's what I tell DH anyway!!

[shieldbug]

Cheers hermya v. funny!
ta porcamiseria that's useful to know.

Lizzzombie don't feel guilty. Take it easy and look after yourself. You deserve it.

[porcamiseria]

shield, none. though it depends on where the bugger is

inside womb, expect maybe some issues
outside womb, should not be too much of an issue

mine was latter category, so no fibroid drama

[Hermya321]

In the interests of spreading the humour, I shall point us all to this ebay ad. It was posted in chat, but I thought it was hilarious.