18 weeks and quite honestly a bit bored!

[Firsttimemum36]

I'm 18 weeks' pregnant and to be honest I've found the last couple of weeks a bit dull. After the excitement of finding out, having our own little secret, first scan and telling everyone I now feel in a bit of a lull. I have been browsing for baby things but don't want to tempt fate before the 20 week scan so I am resisting - for now. I've bought a few maternity clothes but again trying not to go crazy.

As a result I feel a bit flat. Is this normal?

Well it is normal for me!
I'm on DC3,and nearly 15 weeks,and ashamed to say I'm already getting a little bored.
Why is pregnancy so long?!
I am just so excited to have the little one here. And I am definitely ready for a night out, and a night with no insomnia, and to just hurry things up!
But then I remind myself that I'm lucky to be in this position,and to be thankful that all appears to be going to well.

I hear you guys. 27 weeks here and I'm bored stupid. When I first found out, my OH said "wouldn't it be great if we could just sleep till the 12 week scan?" Yeah, change that to 37 weeks, and I'd agree. All I've got to do now is waddle about breathlessly for another 2 and a bit months...

Everyone says, oh, do the stuff you love that you won't be able to do when you have kids. For me that would be cycling, and going to the pub to drink red wine and talk crap. Oh well.

Totally normal, I really don't like this whole pregnancy malarky, I'm very impatient and it just seems to last forever!

I was really hoping this time I would be one of those women who only discovers they are pregnant at 25 weeks, but of course I'm so impatient I just had to test and found out at 5

I was going to start a new thread today actually called something like 'how do you keep it exciting through the whole 9 months' !!
Im only 10 weeks so have a very long way to go but am already feeling dull and bored!
I cant do half of the things I used to do like enjoying a few beers, playing tennis, going out for meals (feel sick), sex (bit paranoid about that!!) and generally dont have the energy to do anything!!
Keep apologising to my DH for being 'dul' but its just I feel sick and tired all the time but surely cant keep this up for another 30 weeks!!

Imagine this is normal but what do people do to keep it vaguely exciting and to not go stir crazy??!!

I agree with you guys completely. Am week 39 now and thank god the end is in sight. I felt really guilty at work telling people that I was pregnant as everyone was so excited for me and I just can't be that excited at all. I am very happy about being pregnant, but this state of permanent joy that some people expected is just not possible for me.

I have found pregnancy to be very dull. A summer of lovely weather when I couldn't enjoy a glass of wine (or 6!) outside in the sunshine, moving to a new city and all I could do was work and sleep and then christmas seeing my family when everyone had a great boozy time and I had to go to bed early. The first trimester was knackering and a bit sickly, second trimester was just dull and now the third trimester has been belighted by extreme tiredness, SPD pain, sleeping problems and just being very very uncomfortable.

Actually I feel bad whinging as I know that some women have had really bad health problems. So may be I shoud feel grateful that boredom was the worst thing, but 9 months is a long time. ...

If there is a way of keeping things exciting, I didn't find it. Other than having a good old laugh at the way I am walking now

wait until you"re 38/39 weeks- it'll really draaaaaaaaaag in then

i'm 15 weeks today with dc2- i'm already bored & know it's going to get much worse :)

oh good, I've been bored most of the way through! :D

This thread is reassuring! I am 38 weeks with DC2 and felt bored through both pregnancies. It makes me feel guilty too, other women get so excited by it, but I just think it is soooo boring and inconvenient. Absolutely love everything about babies (well.. nearly everything!) but when they are cooking, it is dull. And long. And uncomfortable.

I don;t think it's supposed to be exciting for 9 months. You just get on with normal life, with a bit of baby-prep on the side - and have the occasional daydream on the bus about your little baby and how you are going to rewrite the rules and be the world's most perfect parent EVER.

I think thats the hard bit though - getting on with 'normal life'.

My 'normal life' doesnt involve falling asleep at 3 in the afternoon and again at 9pm or eating like a pig throughout the whole day as I'm continuously ravenous but then feel sick most of the time!

My 'normal life' would involve much more exercise,much more drinking, much more socialising, and much more feeling myself with lots of energy!! I dont expect to be excited all day every day, its just what things can you do to ensure your days arent just spent feeling 'pregnant' ?? The only things we have thought of are watching all those dvds we've had on the shelf for months and never got round to watching, and using the 'have no energy to cook but am starving' situation as a great excuse to eat out all the time!!

Dont get me wrong, its not all bad at all and Im not complaining too much really (honest!), its just I feel I am turning into a boring wife and I dont want to be that!!

Good to hear someone else feels the same!!
I'm also 18 weeks today and feeling exactly the same thing...holding on to buy baby stuff, need to check the baby sex on the 20 weeks scan, told everyone and the excitement is gone now, don't really fit in my normal jeans but can't fit into pregnancy one yet, not even having sex because had a bleeding and husband is now super scared to even touch me!!! Boreeeedddd

So glad there is other people out there who feel the same, I am on no3 and 17 weeks, i am super paranoid that i am not pregnant even though i know I am cos I have seen the baby in there can't stop thinking there is something wrong and all this waiting driving me up the walls, i am bored waiting for my tummy to get bigger and then bored waiting to meet this little bundle of joy.my hubby sick of listening to me go on and on about it :) I would be quite happy to find out i was pregnant four months into the pregnancy then at least it isn't as long as a wait :) :)

I'm 30 weeks and totally over being pregnant now! I get moments of excitement like when I had a 4d scan recently, & when we put the cot up, but all in all bored, uncomfortable, itchy, tiered and ready to have a baby now! I used to get excited every time I felt a movement, & although I'm pleased they are all the time & the baby is really active the novelty has worn off a bit I'm hoping I only go to 37/38 weeks - don't fancy going to 42 - if I do get ready for some serious moaning lol.

I was even underwhelmed by the scan yesterday (28w growth scan as it's twins). The sonographer was a bit gushy. "Oh, they're very active!" Yeah I know, sometimes I feel like John Hurt in Alien. But you know, at 20 weeks they looked like babies, they still look like babies, let's move on to 37 weeks and the meeting of some actual people...

So so so so so glad it's not just me I've been feeling a bit of a selfish cow for thinking the stuff you guy's think. I'm also 18 weeks and I just want it to be over I just want my baby - Nothing fit's, can't do much (too tired) and the waiting is driving me nut's. How the hell I am going to cope until the due date I have no idea....... I totally second the bored bored bored notion .........

Although I must say the end part looks super scary so I might just might try and be happy about the waiting :)