Jesus I am tired

[Enid]

how on earth am I going to make it through another 12 weeks of work?

I'm 40+5 weeks pregnant, have 18 mo DD, we both have stinking colds, I have bad SPD and am up about 6 times in the night anyway. I'm a walking bloody zombie today. DD is down for a nap I can't sleep as MW is coming in a bit.

Feeling sorry for myself? Absolutely!!!

saw the midwife yesterday who says everything is fine but I look exhausted. Went to bed at 6pm! Still feel like death today so I think I am fighting something off - my friend who I visited at the weekend has developed a stinking cold so maybe it is that.

am going to crawl through work (why does my chairman insist on coming in to chat on a Friday ), then I have a kids party to ferry to (why would a mum organise a treasure hunt and tea that lasts an hour and fifteen minutes - barely long enough to sit down after drop off and pick up ) then I have arranged with dh that he makes dinner and I will read to kids from comfort of my bed

Take a PG vitamin supplement containing iron, just in case you are a wee bit low on iron. I know when I was at about your stage of PG I was really tired/lethargic, unable to get out of bed till 11 a.m., i.e. really symptomatic of anaemia, even though I was only very mildly/borderline anaemic.

I'm reluctant to take iron as my iron levels were so high at the beginning of pg (15). Will wait over the weekend and if its not a virus will take something next week.

You shouldnt take iron unless you are under 10. If you havent had a test and dont know what your levels are, you really shouldnt take them. They can cause problems if you do. Cut down on tea, coffee etc.

have cut out caffeine

feel cheerful but utterly shattered today

convinced I have virus or cold coming

thank god for weekend

every bone in body aches

Blugh, me too, enid (29 weeks). 9 more weeks of work. Can't sleep, have got "restless legs", also keep seeing strange things out of corner of eye (mice, aliens?) whcih i think is just an exhaustion symptom. so big sympathy...

I really need to go home

but my dratted chairman has said he is coming in today (and not told me when) so I have to lay my head on desk and wait for him. No point in telling him I feel crap as he finds the whole idea of me being pg a)a big joke and b) repugnant.

ooh I rmember restless legs

horrid you poor thing

seeing things is deffo exhaustion (unless you are taking mushrooms)

when at the kids party could you not stay there instead of rushing home and rushing back again

maybe the nice woman would let you have a lie down on her spare bed or something

did think of that naily but tbh the idea of being in their house for an hour with loads of shrieking 6 year olds (shudder). Also have dd2 to look after.

maybe I shoul;d be taking mushrooms, might cheer me up? Funny thing is we have got mice - yuck - at moment, just had mouse exterminator man come. so i I lie on sofa at night with my restless legs watching TV not sure whether am seeing actual or exhaustion mice...

You can despise me. I'm at home but am so tired I can hardly move. Sitting in front of pc in shorts & t-shirt because I should be on my exercise machine. How pathetic is that?

lol

'The Mice Of Exhaustion'

excercie machine

pah!

erm... cough.

I have taken to running the chidren from bed in the evenings - let them make forts out of bedclothes etc etc, tis only way...

ME tooooooooo.
Hace jsut been complaining to colleagues.
Am planning on leaving in March though. Taking 3 weeks A/L then Maternity leave starts at 35 weeks.

how old is dd2?

3

so why cant she take part in the party of 6 yr olds?

tell the woman at the party how you feel and she will show you to a nice quiet room

if you race home you will just do some tidying up, hang the washing or whatever, then race back again

if i was having a party and there was an exhausted pg woman i would let her lie on my bed with the remote and a cuppae

Friday is my day off. the rest of the week I'm a full time slave to my family.

hopefully she will offer that naily now I come to think of it

her ds and my dd2 are good mates anyway

she is a health visitor though so who knows

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