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Pregnancy

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How many weeks did it take you to start feeling totally fed up with being pregnant?

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Snowboarder · 20/04/2012 20:39

I am only 25 weeks but already feel fat, knackered (1yo DS is v.active), spotty, puffy and anxious. My back hurts, I have a horribly swollen leg, groin and Fanjo and have to wear hideous support socks at all times . In truth, whilst I would do anything to cook this baby as long as possible, I am totally 100% fed up of being pregnant.

I do know how lucky I am to BE pregnant (DS1 was conceived via IVF, this one was a natural surprise), but this pregnancy is 'very high risk' as DS was 3 months early and I am supposed to be taking it easy which is frankly so impossible as to actually be ludicrous. Added on top of the physical stuff, I am also very, very, very anxious about another pre-term birth, especially as I am approaching the gestation at which DS was born. In short, I have had enough. I would happily sleep for 15 weeks if I could and wake up on delivery day.

Please cheer me up by telling me your tales of woe if you sailed through pregnancy, I don't want to hear it!

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Badgerina · 20/04/2012 20:48

Ok. Just for you : Since becoming pregnant (DS1 is 7 yrs old), I have had a week of flu, a week of Norovirus, and several migraines. I have developed an extreme hatred for our two cats, have eaten an undisclosed number of packets of crisps, and have excruciatingly painful hips at night. I'm 18 weeks tomorrow

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Snowboarder · 20/04/2012 20:54

Thanks Badgerina ! funnily enough I have developed an irrational hatred for my mum's dog as well, and she is a lovely friendly golden lab, but she licks constantly. Ugh!

Glad to hear I'm not the only one who's had enough.

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LKbabyH · 20/04/2012 21:14

I went back to work after mat leave at the beginning of Jan, I've had 2 lots of flu in the month of Feb, really bad wind and pain which turned out to be a v bad combo of constipation AND the runs so bad this time round I really thought I had an ectopic or something had burst in there.

melliebobs · 20/04/2012 21:17

For me it was when I went beyond 42 weeks. When my middle of feb baby was ending up a march baby. When my friend who was due AFTER me had hers first and I was stil sans baby and every bugger I knew kept asking either if I'd had it or how I was feeling. I wasn't uncomfortable or anything but it was psychological torture that pissed me off.

ballroomblitz · 20/04/2012 21:34

I'm only 18 weeks and have been fed up since the morning after that second line appeared . I had whiplash at the time and quickly realised I had to stop the decent painkillers. My face has broken out in acne, my wisdom tooth has been coming down and giving me toothache and I can't take my tablets for my hiatus hernia and the ranitidine the gp prescribed is useless for my heartburn.

Oh and my bump and back have already started to ache and I swear I'm already about the same size when I had ds at 34wks. He was less than 3lb so good possibility but making me worry about what size I might end up this time.

Babyno3tobe · 21/04/2012 01:47

1st pregnancy 20+ 2nd pregnancy instantly I hated pregnancy so much apart from the obvious things like kicks labour an scans was in pain from the word go instant bump and measuring 8wks ahead up until 34wk and I pretty much grew into my bump if I didn't have such an amazing baby at the end of it I would never do it but so worth that 9 months for that tiny lil bundle of joy at the end that's all yours and you made

Babyno3tobe · 21/04/2012 01:54

Ow and forgot to add had SPD an infection in my jaw then 2 wisdom teeth out at 6/7 months preg with in 2wk of each other I was badly hit with the torture stick in my last pregnancy even left me with a panic disorder prolapse and a trip to surgery you would think my body would be grateful to carry such a precious thing lol

undertheboredwalk · 21/04/2012 03:14

I'm 27 weeks now with 2nd pregnancy and have been thoroughly fed up for at least the last 6. I have heartburn so bad at the moment I can't move, eat or even yawn ffs without burning pain, never mind sleep which is totally out of the question Have got backache, hip pain and sciatica adding to the joys of it all [sob] I can't wait to get this one out!

fridakahlo · 21/04/2012 03:41

First pregnancy at about twenty one weeks when the SPD (which I had never heard of before it started) kicked in. By the time I got to forty weeks and was having to sleep propped up at night due to the indigestion, was itching so badly that I had to rub lanacane in every hour or so and was just genrally huge, I was beyond fed up.
If I had of known then what I know now, I would have been begging for sweeps from the 35th week mark.
Second pregnancy was a lot better, I did not get so large, did not get indigestion or itching and managed to control the SPD with a mixture of acupuncture and support belt. I was still fed up by week thirty though,

Msfickle · 21/04/2012 05:47

I'm 26 weeks and have probably had a very easy pregnancy do far. No pain to talk of, smallish bump etc

But I still HATE being pregnant. Reasons?

Can't drink. Love wine, love cocktails and being teetotal is doing my head in
I can't fit in any of my clothes and have to wear rubbish maternity clothes which with the best will in the world, will never be stylish
I can't eat unpasteurised or blue cheese or rare meat
I wake up every night
I can't exercise to my previous nutty levels and I can't go road cycling at the weekend
I don't have my previous high energy levels

Enough reasons? Can't wait for baby to come but pregnant is a drag!

anonymosity · 21/04/2012 06:19

Both times, it was near the end of it - when I had trouble getting up out of the bath, or couldn't roll over to turn out the bedside light without having to negotiate an 8 point turn in the bed. The carpal tunnel syndrome in the 1st one and the pneumonia in the 2nd one weren't fun - but they weren't something I got "fed up" with, if that makes sense.

RichManPoorManBeggarmanThief · 21/04/2012 06:19

25 weeks with DC2. DS is 19mo. Just bored of it really. Feel flabby, tired and sober. Went out last night and was clock watching from 8.50 FFS. Moving house on Friday and havent done anything in terms of the massive sort out which I promised would happen so I dont end up paying the movers to pack and transport a load of crap. The cats are pissing me off too.

How can people like being pregnant? It's sooooo boring

TeaandHobnobs · 21/04/2012 07:00

My whole pregnancy has felt like an endurance task to reach the end result - I have not enjoyed it at all!

I was tolerating it until 25 weeks when I developed SPD, which was the first thing which had a radical impact on my everyday routine.

Then got COMPLETELY fed up at 29 weeks when admitted to hospital due to recurrent bleeding, where I have pretty much been stuck ever since. And am quite likely to stay here until baby comes. Very very very fed up

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Snowboarder · 21/04/2012 10:08

I knew I could rely on you lovely lot.

Nice to know there are others in the same boat, although some of the problems people are having to deal with during pregnancy (SDP, constant indigestion, itching, hernia, norovirus etc) sound blardy awful... My sympathies.

I don't want to "man bash" as my DH is wonderful but I do think that if he had to go through all of this we'd definitely have stuck at 1!

Teaandhobnobs , sorry to hear you're stuck in hospital. How many weeks are you now?

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ripsishere · 21/04/2012 10:14

From about 7 weeks TBH. I was knackered, my tits were so painful and we were in the ME where it was hellishly hot.
The consultant didn't believe incompetent cervix's existed and I was fortunate enough to be discharged from her care to go to a govt. hospital where I was scanned and sutured in the space of 8 hours.
Once she was stitched in, I wasn't allowed to go into the pool or sea. Bear in mind the average temp was around 45. DH got me a paddling pool.
On top of that, there was the bi monthly query about GD and the resulting glucose challenge in a country where lucozade doesn't exist. Twelve spoons of sugar in an egg cup full of water.
Couldn't wait to get her out.

MickeyTheShortOne · 23/04/2012 09:41

I was fed up from the day I got BFP. don't get me wrong I'm excited, very excited, but for much the same reasons msfickle. Include in that giving up smoking (which I'm sure when I look back I will be so glad!), the horrendous emotional rollercoaster I'm on and increasingly bigger boobs (which sounds like a silly thing to whine about but they were big enough!!) I will quite happily say, I am absolutely fed up, with being pregnant. And I've got another 29 weeks to go. Hooray.

Sarahmarie2505 · 23/04/2012 11:10

26 weeks here and have seriously had enuff! 3rd baby can't believe I'm doing this again! Fed up of being totally nackered ! I also have whiplash from 12 weeks so can't take anything for my neck or tension headaches! Can't sleep! Fed up of work fed up feeling so depressed and jus want to cry :'(

Loonybun · 23/04/2012 12:09

Well for me it's about now in a physical sense (mentally I struggled from the beginning, antenatal depression etc)... I'm coming up to 33 weeks now and I'm just starting to get that "head between my legs can't walk waddle" and everything is chore, even walking upstairs or bending to get anything...

I'd like a crane to turn over in bed. That would be nice. :)

But saying that I've managed to carry on working in a very active job right up until now 3 days a week (never managed that with dd aged 8 - I quit for leave as soon as I could!) and I'm still doing stuff round the house - cleaned the bathroom today etc.. Sooo not tooooo bad!!

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