The "I'm so grateful to be pregnant and love my baby so much... but can't wait for this horrid pregnancy to be over" thread :D

[milk]

So I thought we needed a thread where we can have a good moan, but still feel extremely grateful to be pregnant and love our babies!

I'll start. I am 13+6 weeks with DC2. Every day I feel like I am dying. With sickness, exhaustion, stinky farts, acne everywhere, headaches, horrible metal taste in my mouth, ouchy breasts, a belly that makes me look fat rather than pregnant... I won't go on but safe to say I can't wait for these 6 months to fly by!

lmao ive had a similar time, although it eased off from weeks 18 - 35, 37 weeks now and could just crawl under a rock and hide until its all over :)

Hotpotpie, hooray, only 3 weeks to go I am so envious but very happy for you :) it shows there is light at the end of the tunnel :P

I'll join. DC3, 11+4 weeks and already over it.

At least I have the scan next week to get me excited again. I have never done pregnancy well but third time around is even worse than I remember. Heartburn/indigestion already started, occassional bout of consitpation, the metal taste - feel like I have horid morning breath all day, aches and pains, exhaustion, hair falling out, and two active children to run around after.

But really over the moon for this much wanted last baby :)

I either feel like an idiot, am angry, or crying all the time.

Thanks Milk its been a long old pregnancy but it will get easier for you - and applecrumple I know that feeling too, makes you wonder why women bother!!!

Im trying to persuade baby pie that it would really like to be born on wednesday, while its daddy has two weeks off, although given that ive had an awkward pregnancy from start to finish Im assuming that this baby is here until the bitter end :o

sorry that should say in here....

ticklebug74... I thought I was dying with 1 child, but you have 2... you are a saint!!! Fortunately I have not had heart burn yet, but I do have that horrid morning breath all day (and brushing my teeth doesn't help :( )

applecrumple, the amounts of time I have cried/yelled at DH it is a miracle he has not left me yet!

Hotpotpie, while daddy has time off, get him to take you out for loads of Indian restaurants for hot curries!

Now I am off to bed as I am totally knackered :( I haven't seen DH all day, he has just come home, but I do not have the energy to be social :(

Morning all. I feel like I have the biggest head-exploding hang-over :( I wish I could crawl back to bed but DS is up :( To make it worse, I woke up thinking it was Friday and DH was home, but then as I saw DH was not lying next to me in bed I realised it was only Tuesday :(

How is everyone else today?

Morning milk!!

I'm in love with my baby but fed up aswell! I'm 38+5 with my first and desperate for it all to kick off now!

I'm all fat and waddly and I think I've pulled a muscle in my arm yesterday boo hoo hurry up baby

MillyStar, only a week to go

I would recommend completely pampering yourself this week, and plenty of rest and sleep! Enjoy doing what you want when you want :)

I would also recommend getting a pregnancy massage. The week before DS was born I was so stressed, and the massage was just wonderful

Don't get a manicure/pedicure without asking your hospital if you'll have to take it off during labour (each hospital is different).

Barnet Hospital says you can't have a mani/pedi if you want a water birth, and can't have a pedi if you have an epidural.

I had a French manicure so did not have the water birth

I'll join. First tri was very sick and had bleeds at 6 and 10 weeks so ended up signed off work. Very anxious due to previous losses
Second tri a lot better but started with SPD and terrible heartburn
Then had a bleed at 24 weeks and in Antenatal ward now with another -26+4
just want our blob here safe and well

I'm not pregnant bit wanted to say great thread title! Made me laugh
...As you were... :o

milk - hangover symptoms when you're not even allowed to drink is just cruel isn't it?! I hope you feel better soon. At least we'll have our babies out before the summer arrives, I really don't know how heavily pregnant ladies in the heat cope.

I'm 36+3 and have been struggling with sleep. I tend to wake up at 3 and then can't sleep until after 6 which is a fat lot of good when you've got work in the morning. . I've also got 'cankles' and dodgy hips - lovely! Roll on motherhood!!

I'm 28+5 and I'm utterly fed up. I've got horrendous heartburn, feeling knackered due to not sleeping well and I honestly think I spend most of my day going for wee!!

I can't wait for the little lady to arrive. Her brothers are feeling very impatient.

Haha I usually have acrylics but not allowed at my hosp, makes me wonder what you'd do though if you went in becuase it takes days to get them bad boys off!

Think I'm gonna get my hair cut, gonna start washing bambinos clothes today aswell, she's got more than me! Just playing the waiting game I hope she's here soon x

I'm butting in... I actually gave birth to dd2 3 weeks ago (she was 5 weeks early so technically I should still be pg now).

I can't begin to tell you what a relief it is to no longer be pregnant. I loved being pregnant with dd1, but this time it was bloody awful. The morning sickness was much worse this time. I also had crippling SPD from 13 weeks, could hardly walk or turn over in bed from about 24 weeks. The hospital found an anomaly at my 20 week scan and I had to keep going for scans every 2 weeks. At 28 weeks they said my baby had stopped growing and I was told my baby could die in the womb as things were so bad. I had to shelve my plans for a homebirth and accept the inevitability of being induced or c/sectioned early.

Eventually I went into spontaneous labour at 34 weeks and dd was born at a little over 3lb, but she is otherwise perfect and healthy. She is now home, breastfeeding well and gaining weight slowly. And all the horrendous worrying is over and she is fine. And I have my body back - SPD almost completely disappeared.

Tortuous pregnancy, happy outcome

YAY! I love this thread!

Along with the heartburn, sickies, headaches etc can I add reaction of other people?
I can't stand:

• screaming hysteria of other people and the googly eye thing they make.
• the comments about my lack of a bump (it's only 16 weeks for heavens sake)
• The not so covert looks at my stomach which are even more irritating than the comments
• friends scaring me with their birthing horror stories. I don't want to know thank you and I hope I don't find out for myself.

I'm 36+2 weeks, and I'm bored already! I want to meet our baby NOW.

I'm normally such a patient person, but this is really testing me. I can't imagine how annoying I'll be if I go overdue.

OH GOD YES THIS POST!

Currently most days I wonder how the hell women have more than one child after all this!

Since December it's like being in someone else's body. Someone else who is either severely ill or takes very little care of themselves. It's seriously non-stop isn't it? Dizzy-making cramps, debilitating sickness, permanent exhaustion, 4 day headaches, back pain so have to lean forward/rib pain so have to lean back. heartburn after every.single.meal. ARGGH!

I'm beginning to think that when people go on about how natural and wonderful being pregnant is it is all propaganda to promote the continued respawning of human life. And those women who are like "oh I've felt AMAZING the whole way through, no sickness or anything, I love being pregnant" must be getting paid handsomely from big brother to spout out such lies!

Purplecatti Yes about horror stories! I was in the MW at my 12 week appointment and this woman with a baby was talking to MW and MW goes "oh not too long you will have one like this", yep indeed, but then the woman looks at me and goes "LABOUR: IT HURTS LIKE HELL". Wow, I really needed that inspiring piece of information which may or may not be applicable to me seeing as we are all totally different but thanks! Nothing like fear and pain to make your constant nausea a lot worse.

only 19 more weeks to go...

Oh can I join?! I've had a fairly pleasant 2nd trimester but now almost 33 weeks and...

• cannot get over how much my mood is affected by cravings. All of which are things which I'm not really supposed to consume too much of, but which I always crave in obscene quantities. I inhaled 6 marshmallow teacakes last night and still felt irritable because I could have eaten at least the same again, but I'd run out.

• I think I'm doing too much with DS and I'm worried that SPD may be setting in. Lots of pain at the bottom of bump, pelvis and hips, which makes turning around in and getting out of bed almost unbearable. Can't see a way around it at this stage as he has more energy than a puppy and keeping him inside is worse than going out.

• I generally find that every emotion is magnified now, so that I get irrationally angry/frustrated/excited at the smallest things. Yesterday I got myself worked up into a right state because I couldn't quite remember the guidelines on blue cheese and I was just SICK TO DEATH of the RIDICULOUS restrictions we have to REMEMBER and ADHERE to every single BLOODY day and all I want is a piece of f*cking CHEESE which isn't CHEDDAR and IS THAT REALLY TOO MUCH TO ASK. It's all my bloody husbands fault anyway for mentioning that we could put some in the soup, has he got NO IDEA. And so on.

sarryB that was me!! I went 8 days overdue and got all crazy eyed by the end, I was a nightmare.

This time I'm working until 38 weeks, which has had the intended effect of making me hope for a late baby. Which probably means she'll be early.

I am now 35+5 and last week discovered I have pre-eclampsia again so now I am waiting to find out when I will be induced it will be a clinical decision I know but I am now looking forward to a light at the end of the tunnel as I HATE being pregnant and would be happy to have an early baby.

I was overnighted in hospital for 2 nights and persuaded them to let me go home but have to go back every couple of days for monitoring so lets see what happens today!