The best and worst things about being pregnant...

[jimper]

Apart from the delivery (worst) and the baby (best) what are the best and worst things about being pregnant for you?

BEST:

Hearing the baby's heartbeat for the first time.
Feeling the baby fidgetting around.
The anticipation of having my baby and sharing this with my partner.
Daydreaming about what she will look like and what we will do together.
Excitement of a year off work!
Shopping and nesting.
Being made a fuss of and feeling special.
Eating whatever I want for 9 months (within reason!)

WORST:
The whole of the first trimester (anxiety, morning sickness).
Mini panic attacks when baby stops moving.
Constantly needing a wee in the night.
Fear of labour and birth.
Worry that I will not be good enough.

WORST: Feeling like I'm actually dying of flu and everyone saying one of three things 1)oo bad morning sickness is a good sign 2)try eating little and often 3)Try Ginger biscuits....
like I haven't thought of these things and they're revealing the 8th and 9th wonders of the world to me

Being an absolute mentalist to my amazing DH...

BEST: There's an ACTUAL BABY growing inside me!!!!!!!!!

Back ache!

All of mine were fantastic from peeing on the stick through to pushing them out! No morning sickness and it was brilliant to wear whatever I wanted to!!!

Thank the lord so many people have admitted they don't like pregnancy on here. I'm 22+2 and am struggling to cope with the fact I still have 17 weeks to go. Don't get me wrong - I can't wait to have this baby but I wish I had a time machine to just fast forward this bit.

Best - knowing i'm going to be a mum for the first time, the relief of everything being ok at both scans

Worst - EVERYTHING ELSE! Sickness, tiredness, grumpiness, hysterical crying fits, fear and anxiety about birth, no sex (forbidden due to low lying placenta and bleeding), teenage style acne, massive arse and thighs, tons of cellulite, no wine, no caffeine, lack of control, strangers passing comment on how i look, lectures from other women about what i should/shouldn't be doing

Saying that, I'm already in love with my baby and can't wait to meet him or her

Worst: All of it. I hate it. I hate being exhausted and fat (yes I know it's pregnancy but I still felt fat) and not sleeping properly and the indigestion (finally, you get carte blanche to eat what you want - but you CAN'T, because it doesn't fit inside your tiny compressed stomach) and being hot all the time and to be honest, I didn't even get any pleasure from seeing the baby move. It looked weird, like an alien that was invading my body.
The birth, actually, was fine, but I was lucky and had a very quick waterbirth.
Then I didn't actually enjoy the next bit either - hated still being a bit fat (why can't your tummy just go back to normal straight away) and hated breastfeeding and all that went with it. Actually, I didn't mind feeding DS, I hated lactating.
But I LOVE DS more than I could even imagine. And now we're thinking about number 2 . . . . But not til the end of the summer. I need a summer not weighing 12 stone.
By the way, who ARE those women who claim to love their new found curves in pregnancy etc. etc.?

Best: Feeling justified in saying to my exceptionally incompetent father, when he visits, that the fridge/kettle/wine bottle/bread is in the kitchen when he looks hopefully at me at the appropriate moment. Possibly the biggest (indeed, only) upside of being more or less unable to move due to gently collapsing pelvis. Oh, and baby knitting. So quick and satisfying! I may never knit for full sized people again.

Worst: Aforementioned gently collapsing pelvis.

Best..umm..nothing good about gaining almost 5 stone, not being able to drink, play sport, tie your own shoes, fit in back of 3 door car and heart burn!! I didn't get morning sickness at all and I still hated being pregnant - can't comprehend going tho all of that and being sick, feel for those that are!

Pregnancy sucks big time..motherhood rocks!! :)

BEST: Lying in bed watching your belly leap about of its own accord

WORST: Getting kicked in the cervix from the inside.

It's all hell apart from the sex dreams

Best, I like chocolate!

Nobody believes me but until I was pg this time, I have never really liked chocolate. I have never got the way some women go on like its the only thing worth eating in the world. I have been known to chuck out Easter eggs the following Xmas! But now......I am the mad woman mugging small children for packets of half eaten Cadburys Buttons :o

Worst. SPD, currently looking for wheelchair hire so I can get out of the house. Nuff said.

Worst: the scans.. No scratch that, the feeling vefore and during the scans. It's like someone wringing my insides. Oh and being so huge (3rd pg in a year) never lost the weight in-between.

Best: every single time I feel the baby move.

Worst thing is the bloody exhaustion. I woke up this morning aching all over and feeling like I'd been run over and I'd had almost nine hours sleep - how does this happen? Also watching myself balloon almost before my eyes. Frightening! And really missing my Saturday night glass of wine too, I'm ashamed to say!

Best (aside from a healthy baby at the end, obviously) is the baby shopping! I love it! Looking forward to some decent time off, too!

Tupperwarewolf just made me pee a bit. Pelvic floors, what are they?

Worst: indigestion, i lived on spearmint rennies at work and swigged liquid gaviscon at home!

Best: all the rest, I really enjoyed being pregnant, seems it 'suited' me, I did get to have the baby in January so wasn't huge in the summer, apparently that's awful! Esp good was not being on a diet or worrying 'should I eat this' for the first time in my adult life!

worst: anxiety and hormonal tearfulness, going overdue, not being able to get twatted

best: feeling the baby move

I actually LOVE being pregnant, it was newborn hell I hated

Best: Legitimate excuse for having a large tummy.

Worst: Everything else!

Worst- extreme tiredness.

Best- the speculation about sex of baby, possible names, what baby will look like etc.

Best: not having to hold your stomach in

worst: ante and post natal depression (twice)

27+5

BEST - feeling the baby move, being spoilt by my husband, husband talking to my belly (so cute!!), eating whenever and whatever I want without feeling guilty!

WORST - back aches, getting up 5 times a night to pee (good practice I guess!)