38+2 weeks and suddenly feel disconnected with my bump :(

[BellaLEL]

For the last few weeks I have been feeling so fed up and uncomfortable with my bump. This will be my 3rd DC and first DS, of which I am over the moon about, but all of a sudden feel really disconnected. This is quite a difficult feeling to express as I didn't feel like this with previous 2, or at least I don't remember! I am quite anaemic so have been on iron tablets, stopped taking them and feel fine (as if I weren't pregnant). It's like all I'm doing now is carrying this useless weight in my belly and sometimes forget I'm even pregnant :( I don't know whether this is because I have so much to do during the day (don't work) as I have 2 young DD's? Or whether this is just a sign to say that the baby is fed up of being in my belly and is more than ready to stop living off me and be born already?

Has anyone got any reassuring words for me? Or is/had experienced a similar emotion?

Going through a very similar thing at 40+5. I don't have 2 DDs to distract me from it and it's driving me mental.
It's kind of like I don't really believe I'm pregnant when she's still and I'm just rattling about driving myself insane. Disconnected is a good word?! Felt similarly 'stuck' and frustrated when I was unemployed.
When she's kicking the shit out of me at 3am and I feel very pregnant I'm mostly upset becaue I feel like pregnancy's never going to end and that I'm bing very ungrateful and I should just be able to hold it together, after all, it's only temporary.
I'm now beginning to question whether I'm resentful of her. I'm not, I know I'm not, but bloody hell, this isn't easy. I'm just utterly fed up with being pregnant at points, yet at others I'm perfectly ok with it.

i am so glad someone has said this! I've been really worried i've been feeling the same. I had a false start a week and a half ago got all excited and ready to go then nothing since then i just feel not well most of the time but not even pregnancy illness just not feeling well. I think it's due to reduced (but normal) movements and that my grandad was told days after my false start he had a month or 2 to live i've just had so much on my mind and so little movements that i've forgotten the baby is going to turn up any min!

I've also found after the false start i'm in no great rush for baby to come but until then i was desperate to go into labour

Pretty similar to me, although I've not yet had a false alarm I have been getting loads of different signs you'd usually get in the early stages of labour IE - swollen ankles (not any more though), going to the loo a lot, baby engaging, less movement, abdominal pains, back pains etc etc etc. This has been going on for a while now so I suppose I've pretty much given up on the excitement and am just allowing it to drag on until it happens.

Sorry about your grandad, hearing that kind of news isn't easy let alone when you're pregnant.

Thank you for your replies though, also glad I'm not alone on this. All the best to both of you and your babies.x