Anybody want to join me in a ' I'm really not enjoying this' rant??!!

[miaboo]

Hi
I really am happy to be pregnant but............
I'm sick of feeling like poo! I'm only 11 weeks and this is dc3 but this time is so different!
I feel so sick all of the time, I'm shattered and things arent getting done at home, the heartburn is awful and I just feel ill!!
My back clicks every time I stand up and I feel that I am always shouting at my 1 and 5 year old (they seem to be doing a tag team of tantrums receantly!)
I dont really know what I hope to gain from this but typing this makes me feel better for a second! :)

mia I am really happy to be pregnant too but ... wish the blasted heartburn would ease up so that I can stop waking twice an hour to scoff gaviscon and get some sleep.
I'm 26 wks so supposedly blooming in the second trimester but feeling very jaded by it all today.
My 2 yr old is starting to tantrum for nothing, I ended up joining her at the weekend and learnt the joys of slamming a plastic cup on granite. It helped me no end. My DD rivals Ruprecht from 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' (if you haven't seen it watch just for Steve Martin's 'Ruprecht' tantrums has them to a tee.)
Hope you feel better soon, most of the second trimester has been ok btw, so no doubt you blossom soon.

hi mia

I'm not even 6 weeks and am fed up with the backache, sore boobs, sore belly and now the emotional roller coaster has started!

My poor DH (we've only been married and living together since December!) is now going to wonder what he's let himself in for!!!

Somebody please tell me it's all worth it in the end and I will be the same person after that I was before!!! Now, where did I put that box of tissues! (goes away blubbing)

Also, is it acceptable to maim people who, after you have catalogued your pregnancy woes (SPD, heartburn, lack of sleep, weepiness), say 'Really? I really enjoyed being pregnant!'?

Yes miko most definitely. Last week I idly contemplated starting a fund to club together to maim Katie Hopkins.

In fact I quite love the love the word maim strangely.
At our 'marriage course' (do not ask) DH and I had to answer various cosmo-like questionnaires. One question was 'Would you ever consider divorce?'. DH, like a good Catholic boy, answered no never. I'd put possibly, depending on the circumstances. DH was shocked, not half as much as the helpful folk running it when they came round to see how our group were doing and we were discussing whether he should stay with me if I'd maimed him. The others had also put possibly and we were discussing various other situations we would find unacceptable to continue living together. Not quite the happy fluffy marriage group they were counting on.
In fact if PMT is an accepted excuse for murder then surely pregnancy must also count.

I feel I must stress I wish no real harm to KH or my DH for that matter.

The people that get me are the ones that look at you like your really laying it on thick! or the ones that seem to think because babies only about 4cm that it couldnt possibly have any effect!

oltob - I will join your "Maim Katie Hopkins" club.

miaboo - I think that's the worst time in many ways because you still look the same and yet everything in your body is working overtime and making you feel rubbish - and you can't get people to stand up for you on the bus.

miaboo - I feel your pain, I am only 8 weeks gone, my 3rd pg too. DDs are aged 4 and 2.5, and I have been feeling so rough, I really have been taking a back seat and pretty much ignoring them whenever I can.

I am SICK of the nausea and morning sickness, it's been horrendous (again), although hopefully easing now. I can't stand the tiredness and the lack of appetite and not being able to tell anyone yet. I really can't bear the thought of the next 8 months being like this.

Hopefully we'll breeze through our second and thrid trimesters.

On the plus side, this is definitely going to be my last pregancy, so I'll never put myself go though this again! Yay!

Me too! This is my 3rd pregnancy and it never ceases to amaze me how your brain wipes all traces of the difficult or negative aspects of pregnancy as soon as the baby is born.

Whenever I'm not pregnant, I get pregnancy envy when I see other women who are - but then when I am pregnant I find myself counting down the weeks.

I'm in my second trimester, which I know is as good as it gets, but I'm feeling uncomfortable, tired, emotional and about 100 years old with the added joy this time of varicose veins (and not just in my legs, I'm horrified to admit).

Moaning aside, I'm very excited about the new baby. Just wishing I was a bit closer to the goal.

Whenever I'm not pregnant, I get pregnancy envy when I see other women who are - but then when I am pregnant I find myself counting down the weeks.

This is SO true, I had pregnancy envy despite my previous two pregnancies being horrendous!

miko the first rule of MKH club is we don't talk about KH. I don't want that flagrant self-publicist poor-excuse-for-a-human (let alone woman) to get any more promotion from me.

definitely, IMO, the worst part is the first trimester. the permanent nausea was horrendous and having to keep schtum about the whole thing. Haribo is your friend, that, potato salad & avocados made up my diet around then. I hope it eases for you soon.

Oh thank heavens for this thread, I thought it was just me.

First pregnancy and I'm obviously incredibly happy to be pregnant due to the end result BUT....being pregnant is awful. So sick of the constant exhaustion and the apathy - I'm like a different person, I can't be bothered to do anything. And eating every day is a struggle, let alone eating all the right things.

I am counting down the hours mins and secs till this pregnancy is over. I am only 11+4 so thats quite a long time!

I am so nauseous all the time morning through to night. I've approximated 60spews in Janurary alone :( The least offensive spew being chocolate cake).

When else would you spew that much and not be on the verge of death??

I'm sooooo tired but sleeping at night is almost impossible due to my morning sickness being worse at night.

I can't stand the smell of anything (including my poor husband- who I usually think smells sexy). Last night I had to sleep with the window open for fresh air- twas freezing!

For DC1 I was sick up until week 20... i'm not sure I can last that long this time!

I'm very happy to be pregnant but... this constant nausea and tiredness is just about doing my head in. That and when i do want some sympathy from DH, all i get is 'well you wanted this!'. Actually WE wanted to be parents, not this shitty bit.