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

[petisa]

I'm sure we will be fond of them porcamiseria! Do you have a fan you can set to blow directly onto you all night? As CakesandRoses says, it makes for v comfortable sleep!

CakesandRoses I love my fan, and I totally agree with you that resting makes you feel like shit! I'm nesting like mad and just keep going and going. My dd (2.3yo) picks stuff up for me sometimes, but a lot of the time it's just me saying hopefully "DD, that! Over there! Can you pick it up for mummy, please? Please..? "

Poor you inzidoodle! My dp works 6 days til late too, and I'm nesting like mad too and want everything done now too, but can't because there's a wee person in the house who wants to paint or read books with me or break the dvds... but I don't have SPD, that must be so hard. I'm sure you'll be glad to see the back of that!

Wow, a thread full of people who feel like me, it's great.

[Jamiki]

Hi, My name is Jamiki, Iam almost 35 weeks and I am definately OVER it.

DS2 was 2wks overdue and I am dreading the same happening again.

I haven't been too bad with fatigue but sleep has disappeared and today I feel as though I've just hit a brick wall.

I didn't get up properly til lunchtime. My first lie in ALL school holidays and THANK GOD school goes back tommorow.(AUST).

I also am wondering if I am mad to go for number three, but all those lovely mums who have four, five and six inspire me!

Congrats to the mums whose lovely bubs have arrived.

[Mercedes519]

God, what am I doing? I am actually jealous of you MNetters who are lying on the floor crying as I'm on a train to London for a day of meetings. Am 30 weeks with spd, train was cancelled due to a fire so am having go the long way and couldn't find my tickets when I got to the station and nearly sat down and cried at the ticket lady. WTF was I thinking???

Don't know exactly how pregnant I am but do know I have 28 working days left!!!

[Doodleydoo]

Can't sleep, grumpy with DD who I really want to do fun stuff with prior to dc2 coming (am 35+6), house in turmoil because I am a muppet and decided that the broken kitchen needed fixing and had a while your at it attitude (moved hse 7 months ago ffs, why didn't I get round to this earlier!!!) House full of dust, builders, mess...........sob.

And realised that my maternity leave starts 14 days prior to baby coming, when all I want to do is go back to bed and sleep.

To make you all feel better I got stuck trying to roll over in bed at 1am this morning - not fun, comfy or amusing in the slightest and it bloody hurt.

Also not entirely sure where the last 6 months went and am beginning to panic that it is all not going to fall into place!

[June10]

hello, I'm new to posting but have been around a while, I hope you don't mind me butting in...

Firstly, my thoughts on cake are good - especially carrot cake (well it's full of carrot goodness isn't it?

Secondly, I have a question about this nausea thing. Has anyone ever had it between 5am & 6am (only) in the mornings? I am waking up with it but it goes after an hour & i'm back off to sleep again.

[Mercedes519]

June10, could it be heartburn? I get it when I'm hungry ? That said I get it when I eat as well so have make the most of the 5 minutes in between!

[Threelittleducks]

Aww, I love this thread.

I feel like crap - I feel so lonely and isolated and guilty for not being able to run around after my son or being able to take him places where he can run around because I can't chase after him. So angry at the bus service around here changing their routes so there's busier buses which is hell with a pram and a bump. Pissed off at the weather and all the horrid rain keeping us indoors.
Just annoyed at life in general.
I hate feeling so useless.
And I have aaaaaages to go.
Humph!!

[shieldbug]

I've been feeling guilty for not enjoying being pg, especially when so many women would love to be pg and can't. I love the thought of a LO soon and have been desperate to get pg, but now I'm 6 months with a bump the size of nearly 9 months (I kid you not), achy, nauseous with indigestion, tired, sore and GRUMPY, I'm less than thrilled with the whole experience.
On the positive side, I love the baby already and still get excited by kicking (even when it belts me in the bladder), but can't wait to be "normal" again.
doodlydoo I hate turning over in bed, it's soooo uncomfortable and find I have to place my hands on the bump and heave!
Here's a question- how big can your bump get before you explode? .Seriously though- given my current girth (due to humungeous fibroids) she cannae take anymore cap'n!

[shieldbug]

PS sorry for the gratuitous trekkie reference. Will try to restrain myself in future!

[porcamiseria]

interested to rewad about the amount of "challenging" 2.5 year olds

I love my baby to death but they are such hard work right now and they KNOW some thing is coming and they act up

so driedaprocots you are not alone

whoever has him when I go into labour are FUCKED!!!

lets hope its a quickie birth..arrive hospital 9am, a few pants, baby out by 10am. then DP can get DS1 before bedtime! and it will be miraculously pain free "like strong period pains"

yeh yeh......

[MadameCheese]

Is it wrong to read your messages and be pleased I'm not the only one who's not feeling bright-eyed and bushy-tailed? I felt really on top form this morning, ready for anything, and by lunchtime felt like an utter space cadet and must have a lie down now

[porcamiseria]

shield I had fibroid the size of a rugby ball last PG, ridiculous

second PG they have "calcified" so have strength

I was HUGE too

[whirleywoo72]

well im fed up xx im on my 4th, all the others have grown up and 2 have flown the nest, im 31wks, with the biggest bump iv ever had,(im carrying to much water) a baby who likes playing on the bladder, i have gest diabeties, and spd, im mobile but i stop and start, went to labour ward yesterday, only to be told im constipated and a bottle of lactulose, dehydrated, and not eating as much has i should, getting comfy in bed, well thats a joke, and sleep, i given up, my husb works, and my 14 yr daughter suffers from lazyitus.
im fed up, and crapping myself, i ate a whole ginger cake last night in bed, my husband came to me this morning and said theres a cake missing, the dogs must of had it, i didnt own up xx he does his fair share, but iv always done it, and i feel useless, watching him do it.

[shieldbug]

porca did the fibroid give you any difficulties during the birth? I keep getting different advice from various consultants as to what to expect.

[showmethemummy]

Hi I'm not pregnant but just wanted to say had my third is now 6months but I still remember how utterly tired I felt at and from 30weeks onwards. It was like I had hit a wall of tiredness.

[showmethemummy]

..posted before i finished (babyfatigue)...but just wanted to say heartfelt sympathies to all pregnant women esp in this heat!!

[Lizzzombie]

I'm only 22 weeks gone and swear I wasn't this tired first time round.
Just had a total emotional breakdown in my midwife appt this afternoon. When she asked if there was anything else wrong which I wanted to talk about I had to confess that no, I was just HOT, TIRED & FED UP!
I just want to crawl under the duvet now, but haven't really achieved anything in the way of housework today so have major guilt over it....and am sat on here instead!

[guernseygirl]

Thanks for starting the thread Madamecheese!

What with the 9 long months of nausea, heartburn, spd, indigestion, piles, thrush, chronic fatigue, vomiting, cramps, mood swings, back ache, headaches, weak bladder and diarrhoea I'm amazed anyone has the guts to have a second baby. Babies must be absolutely divine and stress free when they come out, surely??

Still, perversely, I'm delighted and radiantly happy to be pregnant, as I think we all are.

Wasn't feeling spry this morning (25 weeks) and so gulped down a handful of vitamins. Sadly, forgot to buy crumpets for breakfast so went to work on an empty stomach, hoping to get some porridge when at my desk. Clearly, my LO does not like the healthy lifestlye and I vomited all those pills back up again...then again...then again.

Now sat at home in bed with the gaviscon and feeling very sorry for myself, and for the banshee-like screaming at my husband (the culprit who forgot to buy the crumpets). Poor man.

Has anyone else turned into a complete cow to their overlooked, undeserving and hard working OH's???

[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.

[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

[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.

[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!!

[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]

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

[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....