Losing the will to work/deal with everyday life at 32 weeks

[spatchcock]

Apologies for melodramatic thread title.

I've been so lucky with my pregnancy so far - no sickness, fatigue, nothing. Lots of energy.

However, on the cusp of 32 weeks, I just feel like I suddenly can't be bothered. I feel tired, irritable, bored and unable to concentrate. I've completely lost my mojo at work and can't stand my colleagues' bickering.

I just want to go home and leave the real world behind.

Am I just having a bad week or is this a third trimester thing?

Definitely a third trimester thing with me - I completely felt like that with DC1 and bang on 32 weeks too. This time though I've felt like that from the start but then I was 10 weeks pg when I went back to work from mat leave!

Ooh, interesting, thanks ninipops.

Sorry to hear this time round hasn't been so easy.

This happened to me too... I seem to have a good week and then a bad week, then a good week again. I'm 35 weeks now and am gritting my teeth to get through to maternity leave in 3 weeks. I'm counting down the days now!

Hi,
I'll be 33 weeks on Friday and definitely have good and (very) bad days.
I'm on semi-bed rest, so it makes it worse, but...I feel physically uncomfortable 24 hours a day, have trouble sleeping, my back kills me all the time. Me and my husband argue all the time because he has to do everything around the house now.
It's not the fabulous, dreamy experience I read about in magazines and heard about from friends!
Hang in there, we'll have our cute, little babies soon!

Oh no, Paris! That is definitely NOT what you see in pregnancy magazines. Mind you, if they all looked like I do (bloated, pale, greasy hair, sour expression) the world's population problem might be solved.

So sorry to hear about your bed rest. I guess hiring a cleaner isn't an option if you are off work?

I'm also counting down, Joanne. First to maternity leave, then to D-day! Then till the kid leaves home I suppose.

Check your iron levels - could be that your iron count is low due to the increased blood volumes in the third trimester.

Very good thinking. I am still taking pregnacare, just checked and that is 17mg. But maybe I should check with midwife.

Hi Spatchcock that was almost exactly my experience - I packed up work at 34 wks (3 wks hol followed by mat leave) and immediately felt better. I just found the physical tiredness really hit as I tripped intro trimester 3 after a "trouble free" time up till then. Plus all the office politics is particularly tiresome when:
a) you're going to be out of there for up to a year
b) nothing is as important as the new life inside you.
I hope you get the chance to get some rest - it does make things better.

I'm 27 weeks and I definitely feel like this today! I ache all over, everything seems like a pain in the arse, can't be bothered and just wish I was on maternity leave already and it's 10 more weeks! I could cry!

Thanks dizzy. Yes it's very hard to care that person X said this about person Y and that person Z is upset because they had to work ten minutes of overtime.

I never cared before but now I want to rap their knuckles with a ruler.

Eek, I'm only 1 weeks and already feel like this! It only relates to work for me though - I just keep thinking "not long now, why keep trying so hard" which is ridiculous as I am trying for promotion and have 6 months left yet.

Hope you get your mojo back in general though.

10 weeks, not 1!

Spatchcock I feel the same, am 30 weeks and from last week have gone from feeling fine to just wanting to shut myself in at home. I just can't be arsed to be at work and want to just tell people to piss off with their moaning. This is probably not a good thing as I work in HR and I encounter alot of moaning.

I am working until 37 weeks so have got a while to go yet. I also feel a bit bored of being pregnant now particularly as since the bump became visible all people want to do is make stupid bloody comments about my size, what sex they think it is and try to touch me. Told FIL's girlfriend "don't F***g touch me" when she came towards me hands outstretched and nearly caused world war three.

13 weeks here and already feeling like that! Hoping second trimester brings back energy levels. Managed to throw load of washing into the machine ansd put dinner on but couls easily go to bed at it isn't even 7 yet!

I am 30 weeks and after feeling great for 28-29 weeks suddenly feel exhausted, overwhelmed, sore... Sympathy coming your way. Roll on mat leave!

Sympathy right back at you, falling and every other person on this thread who has lost their mojo. It's weird how knowing others feel the same way makes me feel better.

Vix - My MIL went to touch me the other day and I did EXACTLY the same as you, but without the cussing. I felt awful about it and apologised the following day. She said she understood and that she hated people doing it to her while she was pregnant!

I'm 31 weeks and have been feeling like this for the past couple of weeks. I can't be bothered with work, and am irritated far too easily! And I don't even have that much in the way of office politics or stupidness to deal with.

I normally come home and rant to DH about the stupid things annoying me, and he nods sympathetically :) Strangely, I feel a lot better today, so maybe I'll have a good few days now.

I am 32 weeks today and feel exactly the same, glad I read this thread as thought I was going mad. Have two other children (3years and 21 months) and thought that they had turned into devil children although it is clearly just me. Hey ho, hopefully not long to go and least this is "normal" and we are not going around the twist.

PS I have never liked being pregnant, it has never been the glossy magazine type pregnancy!

Good luck ladies

I'm 25+3 and I feel like this, the last few days I've been crying loads to my DH on an evening. I thought this was because I have felt like crap for the last 21 weeks and I'm just so tired of it now. Glad that other people get tired n fed up too.

I felt sooo much better when I started mat leave.. Bougt it forward 4weeks as I couldn't stand work a moment longer :)

I feel exactly the same as you. Brought my maternity leave forward as I just couldn't cope any longer and that in itself has helped me relax more.

I'm 24 + 2 and I felt shattered from day one. And as for getting my energy back during the second trimester, I'm still waiting for it to appear (looks around for somewhere to go to sleep )

Only eight weeks tomorrow until my last day at work. I dont think I could cope working to the wire

I'm 26+1 and completely the same, I just SO want to be at home. Although if I pack it all in now, I won't have any money to buy all the things to make the nursery nice :)
10 weeks left and counting...

I'm nearly 35 weeks and in the same boat. Tired, uncomfortable, sore (SPD) and feeling totally overwhelmed with everything I still have to do (just moved into a new house so there's loads to be done).

Oh, and SO grumpy. My colleagues are driving me up the wall. I'm sick of having the same conversations over and over with different people, and if I get one more piece of unsolicited advice I may commit murder.

I just want to be left alone!

13 working days to go...

I thought I was going into a depression last week (posted about it here), but maybe it's just third trimester blues. I am 29 weeks and last week was crying about nothing, couldn't concentrate on anything, didn't care about work etc. I feel better this week, but interestingly got the results of a blood test on Tuesday which showed low iron levels. I am taking supplements now which might be helping my mood.

Good to know I'm not the only one, but why do we have to go through this?