Oh i am effing fed up now..

[TheFantasticFixit]

.. and the ridiculous thing is that i still technically have 2 weeks until my EDD. Currently 37+6 weeks.

I'm whingng i know. I'm bored. I'm fed up. I'm cross with just about everything. I have periody pain off and on and stabbing pains in my fanjo, and if I'm lucky, my arsehole as well. Both come and go but don't get worse and I've had this for 3 days now. I feel nauseous all the bloody time. I keep bursting into tears. I'm fucking knackered because of the blessed insomnia and the fact that either my partner snores or the baby wriggles/hiccups all night which keeps me awake (and I've already moved the partner to the spare room). I feel like my whole life is on hold waiting for this little girl to come into it. I'm anaemic and keep feeling dizzy whenever I leave the house (appointment for supplements is tomorrow) so I'm restricted to about a 10 min walk radius from my house just in case i faint. I'm basically doing my own head in now as well. Everything is ready for her - from her cot and pram to our bloody budget.

And you can bet your fucking bottom dollar that I'm going to be here like this over my due date as it is my first as well, can't you?

Come on, moan with me..

Disclaimer: I know i sound like a twat and that there are women that would desperately do anything to be in my position now.. I'm sorry.

You have my total, total sympathy. I was just like you at your stage- afraid I'm 41+2 now, but hope you'll deliver sooner. Today and specifically now I have pain in the order of stand up walk breathe ow ow keep breathing ow but knowing my luck they'll stop at half midnight and poor DH will be back in work tomorrow.
It's shit waiting and genuinely I'm sorry for you.

And me. I'm sorry for me. Because I need proper contractions to get this whole thing on the road. It hurts like a bastard bastardbastardbastard but Only fucking occasionally and therein lies the cunt of the matter.

Ha ha you sound like me I just come back from my friends house and I had to say sorry to her for moaning so much she said "its fine I just ignor you lol" I went christmas shopping this morning for a hour and my friend kept walking fast ahead of me even thou I told her slow down cause my bits hurt so much, hips and belly then told me I obviously not that bad as she couldnt walk at my stage whatever!
Cant sleep at night cause of heartburn and if do sleep up every hour needing a pee. A woman I work with doesnt understand how hard it is for me and has thoughout the pregnancy pushed me into doing early morning meeting, fayres, booking me treatments in a week before Im due even after told her Im stopping in end november then auging with me that I might like the money and feel well enough to come in! Im self employed so she not even my boss.
Have achy boobs never get comfy cause get nerve pains up legs. That and the whole pregnancy been a total drama all the way thou too much to meantion.
Im 34 weeks but ready for him " make the most of the sleep you have you wont have any once here" what sleep I never sleep cause feel so bloody ill lol rant over!!!!

I'm 39+1 and agree with every single word... :)

Ooo, I hate that "make the most of the rest. Trust me, you'll be glad of it once the baby's arrived" rubbish that people chant at you. I swear that I will not become one of those smug people after I've had the baby. I'm 41+1 today, and even midwife has given up pretending it might happen before induction on Thurs. Nothing is ready, no signs. So ready to meet our baby. At hosp today, and unreasonably jealous of every person I saw with their baby already. It's my turn now!

I am soo with you on this. 37+2 here. Midwife has been saying for 2 weeks that I look 'ready' and 'will prob be early'. Everyone has a comment from 'gosh your nice and neat, are you sure your nearly there?' to 'oh well I'm sure I'll not see you again without baby'. All equally annoying. Baby went quiet yesterday so went in for monitoring, she is fine, but showed that yes I am having extraordinary amounts of braxton hicks. 7 in 40 mins!

Grrrr

Oh bloody fucking shitting hell. Sorry - its practically all i can muster at the moment.. I don't think i've ever been in such a bad mood..

Laurasmurf - so pleased for you that everything was okay. 7 bloody BH in 40 mins? I swear, mother nature is out to tease.. i had a lot of BH last night and just as I started to think this is it, they stopped. Bastards.

Beachlover - I really want to call my mum to have a proper moan but i KNOW that that is exactly what she is going to say to me and I cannot listen to it at the moment. I don't give a flying figgy fart that I may crave sleep and time to rest forever more at this point - I want this baby OUT!

Pregnantmimi - SO with you on the heartburn... I spend the entire night up to about 4am MNing and chomping on Rennies... If anyone ever dares utter to me that pregnancy is not an illness I will personally knock their noggin off - this is AGONY. The fucking fanjo pains, the heartburn, the leg cramps and that is the tip of the iceberg. Really sending you a lot of luck though, sounds like you have had a right old rough time throughout.

Localcrackpot - I am SO desperately hoping for you that this is it; you have done admirably well to get to 41 weeks without cracking up! I'm so sorry for me, you and everyone else on here too.. But hopefully you will have your gorgeous baby very very soon. And the fact that you are so much closer than me makes me .

I was told earlier in the week that the babys head is firmly in place now and that they couldn't move it at all and was between 2/5 and 3/5 engaged so "any day now". Only that is a lie, isn't it? Because it hasn't been 'any day now'. Its been nearly another fucking week of the same old same old!

And my friend had her gorgeous girl on the 11th which sent me into a jealous rage for half an hour..

Curry ordered, I'm going to go and bounce on the birthing ball for another 20 mins and scowl for even longer. Hopefully tomorrow will bring about a sunnier disposition for my poor DP who is currently looking really quite bewildered.

Thank god for you all and MN!

And to top it all I have killed my own thread..

No you haven't
Still here just trying to anticipate the next big one!

Come on, baby, you can't pull back now...

i'm here too. 37+1, abdomen like a rock, git of a kid has backed out of my pelvis again though. can't sleep, feel deranged, keep needing to pee but not really worth the trip when i get there, fucking heartburn and so heavy i can barely move.

but good luck, crackpot, hoping it's not just more teasing

PMSL. - I'm 37+2 and feel similar. I also have DS to run after (he's 2) which is tough. But at least he sleeps through - I'm going to be goin back to the days when I would kill for 4 hours sleep in a row yet I've had enough.

AND DS was 8 days late and I've got work to do so it's not as if I want to go into labour just yet - also have a few days to myself as DS is still being looked after three days a week still.

However I really want a whole glass of wine. Not a sip. And to eat food without getting fecking heartburn!!!!!!

Come on baby crackpot! I found having a nice of tea, sitting in a dim room and relaxing helped get the contractions going last time...

I was there a month ago - fed up, achey and knackered. DS had arrived at 38+4, so what with DD not coming onthe full moon at 38+2, then passing the stage I got to with Ds, I was fed up and "overdue#" in my head, even though I coudl technicaly have 3 weeks to go. Then my DS (3) dropped a bottle of milk on the floor at 39+0 and my waters went as I was scrubbing the floor. DD arrived 9 hours later.

Oh good grief. I'm only 15 weeks and I have all this to come. Worse is I know exactly how shite it gets from here on in because it's number 3. The last week of my pregnancy with DD1, I could only wear pj bottoms and refused to buy anything bigger so late in the day. With DD2, I ended up in one of my mum's hippy patchwork skirts and didn't leave the house. I can't imagine what will come this time other than refusing to wear anything on my bottom half and staring down anyone who questions me. My hormonal rage knows know bounds, I'm shattered beyond belief and my back is hurting ALREADY.

39+2 and have had horrific diarrhea since 4am this morning. Even my 2 yr old, who is usually fascinated by my bowel movements, ran off in disgust. Knackered, but can't sleep, grumpy as hell, can't get comfy and even the way DH is breathing is annoying me. What pleasant company I must be at the moment.

edwin maybe your body is gearing up...!!

Oh I remember this so well. I went to 41+6 with both kids. It is seriously one of the main reasons why I will not have any more kids because those last 5 weeks are HELL. The physical side of it is shit and painful and tiring but the psychological side of it is torture ime.

You'll get through it, I know you feel like time has stopped but you will be through it soon(ish) and you'll have a lovely scrummy scrunched up little baby who looks at you with its big eyes and it will all be worth it a million times over. Promise.

edwin, I reckon it's happening soon!!!!

I totally know what you mean. The fanjo pains I had last time were grim, as was the nausea, heartburn etc etc.

I am 17 weeks now, with twins, and suffering already, and still, and dreading how bad it will get.

That's total rubbish about enjoy the rest til the baby comes- anyone who says that either breezed through so has no idea what you're suffering, or just blocked it out, it was so horrible. I will never, ever say it to anyone!!!!

is baby crackpot here yet?!

TheFantasticFixit
I hate to laugh at your misery, but your posts have me in stitches!!!

I'm 33 weeks and feeling the strain too. Heartburn, loo visits, baby hiccups, backache, fanjo and arse jabs, general 'pregnancy insomnia' - driving me insane! On top of that, I'm weepy - ALL OF THE TIME!! Someone has just got to tut at me, and I sob. Not cry. Plain old sobbing fits!!!

I've got 3 more weeks of work - leaving the house at 7am for an hour's drive and not getting back until 5pm (leaving early - I'm insisting!), oh and not to mention the 26 x 5 year-olds I teach!!!

I'm clumsy and 'loosing it'.I tried to empty the dishwasher with my oven gloves on, chop my finger off and fall over whilst wearing flip-flops when walking past the greenhouse on top of wet leaves!!!

Fuck fuck Bastard FUCK! I'm so with you. Had to be induced with both mine at 42 fucking eye-bleedingly-boring soul-destroying weeks. Now 35wks with no3 and sick of people saying 'ooh not long now' and 'anytime from 37weeks' because no, no it's not any fucking time after 37 weeks for me. It's drag the fucker out at 42 weeks, which is a full 5 WEEKS after 37 weeks! So NO!! I will not be home for Christmas. Or new fucking bastard year!!!

Oh phew!

Baby Crackpot best not be messing around now.. am so thinking of you! Keep breathing through those pains!

Well the curry has done something, but I'm not sure of it's labour success. TMI i know. I'm having tummy cramps now but think it is more from the chilli effects than contractions. Also had a lavender bath which has put me in a slightly less angry frame of mind!

Edwin things are sounding very positive for you too - fingers crossed and green face is descending.. I don't think that there is any other time in your life when horrific diarrohea actually starts to feel like an achievement of sorts, is there?!

BikeRunSki - I am half tempted to sling a bottle of milk on the floor after your hopeful tale, but fear it may be wasted a week out! Congratulations on the birth of your daughter! How are you finding everything now?

Toddlerama/ Dreamfeeder - sending you lots of good thoughts for your second trimesters.. it won't be long until you are climbing the walls again!

I'm trying to organise some things to do (obviously within the aforementioned 10 min radius) this week to keep me going... and perhaps join a bumps and babies group locally. Has anyone been to one?

On another note, are you able to request a sweep? I'm seeing my community midwife (she's shit actually, doesn't even read my notes and half the time its someone standing in for her anyway) this Friday when i will be 38+4 - do you reckon she would do one for me or would they make me wait until the hospital 'overdue' appointment at 41 weeks (because I swear I may have actually gone mad by then).

Ohh I'm so ready for a moan now too!! 39wks today! Baby's been fully engaged for 2 weeks and I feel like his head is practically hanging out of my fanjo! I've been having major BH for 2 weeks too- at one point they were roughly every 3 mins, lasting 40-50 sec. But alas nothing! And edwin I'd love to say the diarrhoea could be things kicking off but I've had this on and off for 2 weeks too!!! So all in all I've been symptom spotting for 2 weeks whilst in the meantime my friend due a day after me, who didn't even know if she was engaged or what a BH was, popped her baby boy out yesterday!!!! Did you hear me she was due AFTER me!!!! since when dd cue jumping become acceptable

So I've been bouncing in my ball, listening to my hypobirthing cd tell me I might actually enjoy the intense pain and partaking in every single old wives pile of crap tale from pineapple to walks, even though I know it's a load of old tosh! Still nothing!!!! Had more BH tonight. Got up to every 7 mins, 40 sec long but they've stopped.

Mw brought my birth pool around 10 days ago as I was having 'twinges' and it's sitting there in the kitchen mocking me!!!

I mean, if I'm going to go overdue the least my body could do is f*ck off with all the practice contractions and teasing signs!!!!

Fantasticfix I think your mw will make you wait till 40wk for a sweep.... They do here anyway!

I'm 38+3 today, which is the day that my waters broke with DD (mind, she wasn't born till 39 weeks, the stubborn little blighter), so in my head I am DUE. And OVER IT. And other things in capital letters.

This is not at all an 'enjoy it while it lasts' comment, because I hated the last couple of weeks of my last pregnancy even though it was easy, but lordy it's so much worse with a toddler as well. Mine will not accept that she can't sit comfortably on my lap, agitates to be carried and she's three, so she's not a lightweight. I have so many more stretchmarks this time around that if I don't go into labour soon I'll have purple stripes on my fucking eyelids.

I would seriously pay somebody a very large sum of money to be able to sleep on my stomach again, and nice as the whole kicking thing is, the novelty has bloody well worn off and I want this baby OUT.

As you were, ladies.

i want to join in this moan to please?
Im only 36weeks but have dd who is 3.6 and iv just had enough, im huge, i make grunting noises every time i get out of bed or off the couch, i get stuck on the floor and in the bath, everyone keeps saying wow your not that big for 8months preg!! im bloody huge, its hard to drive, put shoes on and i can barely wipe my own flange after i pee!
I feel like a bad mum as im tired all the flippen time, trying to still get my exercise in so walk to pick dd up from kindy 3times a week, we do our usual stop at the park on the way home i force myself to pretend like im having a good time but all i wanna do is curl up and go to sleep!!
I had a horrible labour with dd and went 11days overdue! i think i deserve to have a shorter and earlier labour this time!!
My back hurts and there is no comfortable position to sit in other then on my hands and knees but dd thinks its horsey ride time when i do that :(
I have heartburn to the point of vomiting, fanjo pains and BH for a few hours EVERYNIGHT!! I just want to have my wee man in my arms... can i fast forward to that please???
thanks for listening