Lets have a good rant!

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i think sometimes were all expected to looooove being pregnant,but lets be honest! between the constant vomiting for the first 20 weeks,(being hospitialised 10 times for hg) COUNTLESS needles,backache,rib ache that feels like my ches is going to collaspse,constipation,wind,:o heartburn,insomnia which is relentless, extreme fatigue, stretch marks all over my ever expanding fat ass(sexy),dizziness and palpitations, im starting to wonder could i ever do this again, im 35 weeks and 5 days.my mood is so low i literaly cant drag myself up of the bed to do anything an to make it worse my house is slowy falling apart with my continous struggle to keep up with the housework, which in turn makes me feel guilty and like a failure.:(

dont get me wrong! i want my baby more than anything! i just suuuuuuuuck at pregnancy!!!!!

whos with me? :)

I'm nearly 10 weeks and have been SO sick. Have had to have time off work due to being sick so much throughout the day (also sick at night)When I'm not being sick I feel on the verge of throwing up pretty much all the time... it's been quite hard. My boobs are so sore, have headaches, aches and pains.

This may be my one and only child!

rubbersoul..you have my sympathy. I had terrible MS from week 4-17 and it was like yours nausea that was constant. It is the most draining part of pregnancy I found. Even now at the end in terrible pain and discomfort I wouldnt trade it to go back to those weeks. Hopefully it will go in the next couple of weeks as for most people it only lasts up to week 12 or 13. Hang in there!

Thanks Lennon80, I am praying that is the case!

I just went to get my eyebrows waxed and managed to have a funny turn because I felt so sick. I panicked and then felt really faint, I made a right prat of myself. At least I have neat eyebrows now though.

I suffered from anxiety for a good few years before I got pregnant, but had managed to get rid of it. Now the anxiety and panic are back because of the constant nausea. My poor dd doesn't get to go out as much because of me feeling poorly and I just feel like the worst Mum in the world.

I can't wait for this to be over.

Rocklover, I dont even really suffer with panic or anxiety (once in a blue moon) but I have actually found myself having a few panic attacks and a lot of anxiety during pregnancy. I have had this more so in the last trimester so I do think some of it is hormonal too not just about the nausea (although that surely doesnt help). Sometimes (I have tried explaining this to DH)I get waves of anxiety that I have no control over and no idea where it has come from as I will be sitting there really calm. It doesnt feel like the anxiety is coming from me. Its really really odd!

I cant wait for it to be over either.

First Baby due on Friday - mw thinks it will be late. Urghh !!!

Had a good pregnancy but sick of carpal tunnel syndrome. I dropped the toothbrush this morning and knocked my glasses off the sink - luckily they landed the wrong way up. My last pair smashed this way !!

I cry at anything even X factor !! I look like a beached whale and I want to lie on my tummy, drink wine and eat stilton !!.

Been very lucky and should not moan but if Men had to have children I think the human race would be full of only children families.

Be careful that your guilt, lack of energy and reduced coping with everyday tasks etc aren't actually a symptom of proper prenatal/antenatal depression (yes it exist and is very common) - although it sounds like you deserve to be a bit pee-ed off with the way your pregnancy has gone! Good luck!

I'm only 8 weeks and have nothing to grumble about really other than the pain and torture of giving up smoking very suddenly and the inevitable horrors of waiting for a 12 week scan that I'm convinced will show nothing (a pessimist is never disappointed...).

Please watch this - it might cheer you up! Absolutely classic 4 Yorkshiremen Monte Python sketch. This ranty forum just reminded me of it... please don't be offended! I mean it in a nice way. And I hope to be able to grumble too, soon, but just don't feel "allowed" yet in case it turns out I was just a miserable old not-even-pregnant person.

oh where to start! now 36 weeks, so thankful to be pregnant, but am seriously not built for it!

-ended up in hospital with HG at start

• continue to be sick

-people continue to ask me if im still being sick -aching hips that make me walk like ive had an accident

• awful heartburn
• mega drooling at night
• trying to turn in bed is like doing a three point turn
• feel exhausted constantly

-can't have pate at my sisters wedding next week :( -im was never a big drinker but would do anything for an ice cold can of strongbow and two silk cut

i think i could go on and on, can't wait to hold my baby though, will make it all worthwhile! finish work tomorrow, so that should let me sleep more! yey!

hello yes I hear you all!

36 weeks today and the size of a semi detached. SPD doing my head in, more or less housebound with it, which is just fab. Poor DS doesn't understand why mummy is such a crochety bitch, but he does try and help. Would love to crack open a bottle of white and drink the bloody lot. Can't go out without crutches which is horrid and my DH didn't help when he said ha ha you look like one of those scroungers, I hit him with my crutch. Low blood pressure right the way through which resulted in me fainting and being a potential keel over risk all the bloody time. House move from hell hasn't really helped matters either, ended up back with the parents and sister from hell who won't even speak to me, so that's nice. No appetite to speak of and if just one more person says but surely you'd feel better if you exercised I shall beat them with my crutch too!

Can't wait for my baby to be here. It's all so worth it in the end.

Ooooh people like me!!

I'm so glad I found this thread, was starting to feel very bad for hating being pregnant!!

To be honest though I don't have much to complain about in comparison to some of you but I will anyway! Had morning sicknes from weeks 6-9 roughly, have had intermittent sciatica for the last 3 weeks, I've gone right off the smell of my house (unfortunate) and basically anything hygiene related i.e washing powder, deodrant, shower gel, perfume etc (also quite unfortunate). DP is struggling to cope with my hormonal outbursts and in his words my "personality transplant" I don't think he quite gets the fact that I don't like being this other person either!!
Todays bug bear is the amount of weight I have put on so far - 7lbs at 14+3 - I don't love it, all my clothes are too tight except trackies and leggings. Oh I'm going to be soo glamourous for the next 6 months :)
I reallt don't think being pregnant is for me, although excited at the propsect of becoming a mummy, I just don't think I'm cut out for pregnancy!

Right I feel much better for getting all that off my chest!

Oh and minimuffy I feel your pain - I am so disappointed I won't be able to have my dads homemade pate at Christmas and a magners would suit me down to the ground :)

I know I can have one but what's the point!!??

:) so glad i started this thread! love hearing everone have a good rant! reading all your comments while the fab feeling of acid rises in my throat.... gonna go get the rennies i think ...

I think it's so hard for the close people in our lives.... my DH has been great but the amount of times I've thrown up right before/after the lovely food he's made me, had to run out of shops gagging as it has a 'funny smell', gagged at his deodorant, cried as I feel so sick/want food that is impossible to find/Jack Duckworth having cancer on corrie is soooo sad/my boobs feel like they're being ripped apart they're that sore.

Poor guy!

I think by the latter stages DH's have had enough..mine has limited sympathy now. He asks how I am but I think its token gesture almost now as he knows I will say terrible everyday. I am stuck in the house now and that is making me so miserable too.

When are you due Lennon?

Nov 27th but I think he will come a tad before then as I have been having really painful contractions since 30 weeks. By 38 weeks I think I will be trying every trick in the book to get him out .. its just become way too painful now.

It must be depressing being in such pain and stuck in the house. I can't even cope well with first trimester sickness especially when DH says 'just think why you're doing this, it will all be worth it in the end.' How I'm not going to punch him when in labour I don't know.

May I join in the whinge fest? I actually started my own whinge thread before I realised this one was here. It's actually great (in a perverse sort of way) to hear others as pissed off as I am. I think there is some pressure to love pregnancy and to be all sweetness and light about it. I know a couple of people who had fantastic pregnancies (or so they say) and I'm envious but I can't understand how they didn't suffer in some way.

I haven't had it nearly as bad as some of you poor souls. Luckily I didn't get much MS, mainly nausea for about 5 weeks but that was bad enough. I don't think I could have managed if I was actually being sick (and I'm not even an emetophobe). I did have a period for about 4 weeks between week 18 and 22 where I felt quite good, with plenty of energy and I'm so grateful for that. But now I am just fed up.

I am 32 weeks and I'm having bouts of nausea again and smells are getting to me. My bump constantly aches and baby seems to be all squashed up on my right hand side. Feet are constantly in my ribs and I have the most painful acid reflux. I get terrible lightheadedness (which is by far the worst thing) and horrible bouts of breathlessness which mean that I can barely move from the couch. I am soo tired but I can't sleep for more than 2 hours at a time. I just want to feel comfy and rested but it's not going to happen between now and babytime I think.

On the plus side I can't wait to meet my little man!

Rubbersoul..it is depressing especially as I cant even have people around to the house as I am really busy (when not on these threads..lol) writing up work that I have to send in before he is born. I dont think I would mind so much if I could keep myself entertained with 4OD and Iplayer etc. To be honest as much pain as I am in and even though I cant get comfortable at all no matter how I sit, I still wouldnt go back to those 13 weeks I had of intense nausea and vomiting..that was hell!

Oh writerofdreams its true..there is an expectation that you should embrace feeling like shit and pretend its a barrel of laughs. When people talk about enjoying pregnancy I wonder what planet they are on..This for me has been dreadful from start to finish and I cant remember a week of feeling okay as I had SPD from week 14 as well. My bump aches at the bottom so bad and now because the baby is in an OP position it is really burning at the top as well. Tonight I have been nearly in tears as all I can take is paracetamol and every limb is aching and the babys head on my cervix is nearly making me scream each time he moves!

Christ I want a really loud ranty winge at everyone around me who seems to think I am vaguely interested in their random crap.

28week preg, I think I've winged earlier, but I've up-graded.

I'm at work dragging my carcus through a report/financial claim that has to be in this week. In additiona to the usual pregnancy difficulties I have a horrible cough, restricted lungs and no drugs so feel like shit. DD has the same cough so we've been having competitions over who can keep each other up all night. DH has started refering to us as his consumptive lovelies. What's worse is if I have a good cough I wee myself a bit - oh the glamour of it all.

I'm hiding in my office, explained I'm not well, not taking phone calls and just need to get on top of this report so I can go home early and get myself some rest. So, I've had the entire office coming in to talk to me about possible tiny insignificant projects for next year (financial year that is), why timesheets won't show on the system - the deadline is a week on Friday and the best one, a run down of someone's wife's birthday presents and a look at their cute kitten card - which bit of leave me alone do they not understand?

Right back to it - I feel a bit better now I've taking it out on my keyboard.