30 weeks pg and having a bad day - please cheer me up!

[BillBrysonsRucksack]

I've still got 10 weeks to go and I feel like crying! Baby brain has well and truly kicked in and this morning I discovered I've lost my house keys.

Earlier in the week I left my handbag at the swimming pool after DS's lesson, and then managed to walk all the way to the car still wearing those blue plastic overshoe thingys.

Yesterday (before losing my keys) I spent about five minutes trying to get into the house using the wrong key.

Basically, I could do with cheering up cos I feel like a right muppet!

I was 30 weeks last week and it felt like I had a marathon to run having already done a few already. I had started to feel really big and slow and was getting sick of the "aren't you huge!" " Are you sure that there's only 1 in there?" "not long now!" comments. This week I'm feeling a lot better about everything, maybe it's just getting used to it or maybe it's the fact that I now have a single figure of weeks to go. Hang on in there, embrace the baby brain and try to laugh at how crap you are rather than get bogged down in it

Thanks for replying oh4.

I've managed to deal with the 'aren't you massive comments' by posting cutting remarks on FB regularly. These have included a suggestion for NHS issue baseball bats for pregnant women.

Got a and biscuits now so feeling a bit better!

My dd3 is 5 weeks old, and yesterday I drove to the gate of a multi storey carpark having completely forgotten to pay at exit, I use this carpark all the time, I cried when the parking attendant who is usually a horrible jobsworth was really nice and just raised the gate without a fuss. Not sure how this is supposed to cheer you up but when I got home dd3 gave me a big smile, yes I know she's only 5 weeks but she did honestly - genius baby!!

@ wiggles

Can't wait for bump to smile! DS1 is 4 now and it still cheers me up every time he smiles at me!

Hi Bill, I feel your pain. I have 7 days 'til my due date and find myself doing increasingly stupid things. Recent ones have included dropping my open handbag down the stairs of our apartment building and having to spend 20 mins trying to pick everything up, taking my car keys out of the ignition-putting them in my handbag and then spending an age searching the car wondering what the hell I had done with them so I can lock the car.

It's very frustrating. My friend always says she pushed her degree out with her newborn as she has turned into such a wally.

I relish the times when I do stupid things when I'm alone as I am sick of the exasperated look that DP gets when I do them in front of him.

Hi Cora, at least I'm not the only one! I know mostly the stupid stuff I'm doing is insignificant, it's just really getting me down today IYKWIM. The seemingly entire lack of pelvic floor is also not helping matters...!

Oooh ladies, I feel your pain. I'm 32 weeks tomorrow and yesterday, whilst munching on watermelon in the garden I choked and what happens when a pregnant lady coughs violently? She pees herself. Worse still was next door (who is a delicious cross between Alexander Armstrong and James Nesbitt) bobbed his head over the fence to make sure I was okay, and then thought he'd have a lovely chat for oooh, a good ten minutes, whilst I sat in my own pee, praying the seat wasn't darkening around me

And now, I'm just in from DS' Parent's Evenings. I spent 20 minutes sat outside his Year 1 classroom waiting to see the Year 1 teacher. He's in Year 2. And I managed to unpack my entire shopping tolley onto the conveyor belt in Sainsbugs on Sunday for me then to realise I didn't have my purse. Saving grace is that it's not forever ... I hope ... Chins up and all that!

I did the same in the supermarket the other week- by pure chance my childminder was behind me in the queue and paid for my shopping for me!! I was mortified!
Currently 31 weeks