Being pregnant is just not what I'm good at

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I'm hoping there are more of you who feel like me out there - comfort in numbers I guess!

I'll start by saying this is our first baby, very much planned, wanted and excited about. Without being ungrateful.....I'm just not very good at being pregnant.

I despair at the growing size of my arse - it's going to need it's own postcode, my thighs now have celulite, my boobs resemble a pair of bouncing balloons and everything else just wobbles....

I'm still throwing up at 18 weeks despite the tablets, I'm knackered and I'm grumpy. In fact grumpy doesn't cover it - i'm being downright intollerant, impatient and rather unloving to my DH.

I loooonnnggg for my lovely trim size 10 figure. I long for my sessions on the cross trainer. I long for nicely fitted dresses that displayed a trim backside. I long for a lovely cold glass of wine on the sidewalks of our local with the sun on the pavement and the feeling of not knowing where the day will take you...(i.e. not on the sofa grunting and no desire to move except to fight over the remote). I long for random social outings that don't require planning and execution over my nausea, eating, or tiredness. I long for control over my body, emotions, hormones, and life again!

Who are you women who sail through pregnancy with a smile, hop, skip and barely there bump? My Nemisis....You and the laughing skinny bitch models with fake bumps in maternity magazines.

Rant over.

OMG I am truly the worst pregnant person ever!!!

As soon as I get knocked up my face fills with acne and I am sicker than a teenager with a hangover! My body becomes fat and I become as pale as a ghost! My hormones turn me into a psycho that wants to kill everyone!

I am now 11 weeks and I am counting down the days till it is over!!!

I do love my son and to be new baby by the way :P

im truly rubbish and being pregnant!!!!
I get unbelivably fat my legs resemble the elephant man!!
acne
sickness
stupidly stupidly hormonal
endless uti's
sciatica
swelling
headaches
heartburn
piles
constipation or dioreah
and the list goes on!!!!
its a means to a end for me I love being a mummy but I think if this is a boy I may well stop at 2 as ill then have one of each!

I am such a crap pregnant person. I go from spotty and nauseas to fat and sweaty. I totally skip the blooming stage.

Hormones turn me into a blubbering wreck. Can't even take the pill. Which I'm glad about in a way because my son would never have come into existence if I could. But, however grateful I.am to be pregnant, I just can't stop whinging my way through the entire 9 months.

On the plus side, labour is positively enjoyable because I know I won't be pregnant anymore at the end of it

PickleSarnie, I agree with you about labour. Please think I am crazy when I say I am looking forward to it

I HATED being pregnant from day 1. I was exhausted, sick (for 9 months) and felt so unattractive. I had the most intense back acne and my skin hadn't looked that oily and pimply since I was 12!

I knew I wouldn't be one of those women with skinny arms/legs and a cure pert bump BUT the amount of weight gain really shocked me (at 7 months my thighs were rubbing together so much I was sure I'd start a fire between my legs when walking and then spontaneously combust! )

It's okay to feel the way you feel. You're incubating another human being and it's very draining.

As hard as it may seem try to enjoy the ride. And have a sense of humour, one of the best ways to make it through is to laugh.

Good luck!

I don't understand why they don't use pregnant models. Surely there are models who are pregnant??

OMG I am so glad I am not the only one!!!! I am 16+1 and frankly appalled by the size of me! Always been a size 8-10 never above a 10 and am now a definite 12 and on the increase. Am grumpy, tired and moany and feel like hiding for 9 months until this is over!!

And here was me who felt like everyone was loving being pregnant...I'm 34+2 weeks pregnant with second DS, I hate being pregnant, I to have a big bum now, and thunder thighs that cud cause an earth quake if I stamped hard enough! I was a size 6-8 pre pregnancy weighing 7st 9. I'm now 10 st 5!!I really dislike being pregnant...and now I've well and truely had enough..I'm struggling to smile and my DP is getting it seriously in the neck!!

Loving this thread! So glad it's not just me! I'm 30 weeks.The worst amongst my list of irritations is being totally inactive. 12 months ago I could run a marathon. I would now struggle to stay upright long enough to run a bath. I knew pregnancy was going to be hard, but who knew it could ruin me so completely?!

Commuting - I struggled with that too but the instant DS was born my energy went through the roof. I must preface the next bit by saying I had an easy quick birth (no induction, vaginal, epidural, 5 hours start to finish, no tears), however I was able to walk 5 hours/day within 2 weeks and lost all the baby weight +1 stone within 9 months. It was like my body and mind were making up for 9 months of laying around eating pizza (I craved that and vanilla ice cream to no end when pregnant) . DS is now 17 months and I have never looked or felt better physically.

Oh and I use to take 2 hour naps I the bath tub (full) on Saturday afternoons as or was the only way I could get a decent stretch of sleep! I know I'm in the minority on this, but I had more sleep once DS was born than I had being pregnant.

I meant 5 miles not hours! Although probably equaled that as DS would only sleep in pram while moving for first 4 months!

I'm about five and a half months. I'm huge, and the bump is giving me growing pains.,I have tendinitis in my left arm, which becomes agony at night so I can't sleep properly. I have acne. I have piles which are so painful I can't walk properly after going to the loo. I have thrush. I have a streaming cold. I have back fat and my boobs have gone from a 32 B to a 34DD. I have already put on two stone. My highlights need doing and I don't have the energy to even make an appointment. I have indigestion. This is DC2. I don't think there'll be another....

Great to hear a good story about recovering so well after the birth, thanks noodle

I hated being pregnant. HATED it. I was violently sick from weeks 6-25 even with tablets (though hold out, OP, there is a good chance that at some point in the 20-weeks the sickness will fade, even if its just to nausea - and god knows that's a million times better than actually throwing back 2 out of 3 meals). I was exhausted. I was a weepy, moany, insane bitch to my DP. My boobs hurt all the time. I went off sex. I got carpal tunnel syndrome.

Also, I hated giving up a bottle of wine in front of shite TV on a Saturday night in and - dare I say it - I hated giving up cigarettes (unplanned pg so hadn't even cut down beforehand). I hated all my maternity clothes bar one dress. And this might be a bit blasphemous but I never entirely warmed to having DD squirming and kicking away inside me - well, it was nice at times but it was also so distracting and, sometimes, just downright weird.

I do remember having a screaming fit halfway through my labour because I had convinced myself that a difficult, shitty pregnancy would equal a relatively nice labour, but my looooong latent stage was too much for me to cope with at that stage (thank god I didn't know about the emcs and DD's 5 days in scbu at that point!)

So however much you are hating it, you are certainly not alone

I agree with looking foward to labour as I know I wont be pregnant anymore thank god bring it on!!
I got far far more sleep once dd was born compared to being pregnant especially as dd slept through from 6 weeks!
I actually cant wait to get out walking and to join weight watchers dieting will be a joy!!!!

I loved it last time. The llittle bump, feeling special and it moving and being able to laze around with the pregnancy excuse, even though the end was horrendous with pre-eclampsia, prem baby and him in scbu.

This time I know all that can go wrong. I caught sight of my (now non-existant) waist trying on swimwear the other day, that I couldn't even get over my boobs, and nearly cried at the sight. The thought of possibly waving goodbye forever to my size 8 figure and I can't see me getting away with no stretchmarks the second time round.

I'm only 13 weeks and I have started to get pregnancy acne. My hair dye colour isn't taking because of hormones so it's a sight. I hate not being able to drink on a Saturday night (or smoke) but most of all I miss my caffeine overload. I hate being public property for everyone, even newpapers, telling me what I should or shouldn't do or eat. As for people telling me 'it's flying in'. Emmm, no it isn't in the slightest. It has already been the longest three months of my life.

I can't laze around this time no matter how tired I am as my 4 yo won't allow it. My hormones are driving me craazzzzyyy to the point dp can't even breathe the same air as me without ripping his head off. Sex?? Don't make me laugh. I have even turned off my phone and deactivated my facebook this week as everything anyone says winds me up so I'm better off being a hermit. Funny the only person who really cheers me up and I find a joy to have around is my ds.

Really, really hoping my hormones are going to settle down over the next couple of weeks.

Never again

Pheww. That was actually quite cathartic.

Yeah, it sucks, but what can you do? I have to admit I quite enjoyed my first pregnancy- I was a smug "skipper", still in the gym at 7mo and still in my jeans at 22 weeks. I wasn't working as we'd just moved overseas so I drifted between pre-natal yoga and the organic baby shop looking vaguely serene.

BUT Oh, what a difference this time. I can't even be bothered to pluck my eyebrows. I have excema patches turning up at random, my skin is grey and I am really really bored of sobreity. I can't even look forward to the labour as I know it will not be an empowering beautiful experience. It will suck, and then it will be over.

Just want the baby out now so I can sit on the sofa and bf whilst watching crap TV without heartburn

It also does not help that I have been added to a hippyish pregnancy page on FB where people discuss the dangers of alfalfa sprouts and which type of organic tofu is best for baby's brain development whilst I break into my third multi pack of creme eggs. Damn these first timers and their pregnancy diligence!

Creme eggs. Mmmmmmmn. Damn you reallife. I NEED some now! :)

I'm with you OP - I too dislike my new body shape. I'm only 5"2 and weighed 7st 5 pre pregnancy, now I just look like an over inflated space hopper! When I have a wobble (mentally and physically) hubby responds with the standard 'you're not fat, you're pregnant' but it doesn't seem to make any difference - I feel chubby and about as sexy as gloop :(

Ha ha- I have tonnes. I live abroad and it's hard to get nice chocolate here, so everyone I know who knows I love creme eggs when pregnant keeps bringing me a box when they come back from the UK. I've got about 24 in my fridge.

I hated pretty much every minute of it. Good job I had twins or I seriously think I would have stopped at one.

I did find it amazing how literally as soon as the spinal for EMCS wore off, I got up and felt a million times better than when pregnant. For a start I could walk (hideous back problems), skin had cleared up, heartburn vanished - in short, felt like me again!

I hated pretty much every minute of it. Good job I had twins or I seriously think I would have stopped at one.

I did find it amazing how literally as soon as the spinal for EMCS wore off, I got up and felt a million times better than when pregnant. For a start I could walk (hideous back problems), skin had cleared up, heartburn vanished - in short, felt like me again!

Naively, I thought I might be alright at this.. you know. Fairly healthy, fairly young and all that. Now I'm 8 months and a pregnancy cliché. I walk like my Grandma Ruby, haven't seen my bikini line in several weeks and sob like a drunk whilst eating my Creme Eggs. So sad.