Anyone else nearing the end of their pregnancy and feeling totally fed up, tired and sore? I could cry!

[Alisonjayjay]

I'm 36 weeks pregnant with my 2nd baby. I was over the moon when finding out I was pregnant and this baby is wanted so much but I'm really getting the stage of wanting this pregnancy to be over. I just want my baby to be here now. I'm so tired and can't sleep due to sciatica, pain in my hips, acid reflux, restless legs, breathlessness and general aches. During the day I'm taking paracetamol for shooting pains in my legs from the sciatica and severe pain and tenderness in my ribs from rib flare. If I sit I get shooting pains down the front of my legs and if I walk I get them down the back. My bump feels heavy and dragging. My bladder is seriously being beaten up. I try to do housework or go for a walk and I feel dizzy and breathless and my ribs feel like they are on fire. I'm hungry all the time but can hardly eat because I feel so full and uncomfortable really quickly. Then I get the reflux and heartburn again. I know it'll be over soon but when you feel this way 4 weeks seems a long way off. If one more person tells me that its not long now I might scream. It's easy to say when you're not going through it. My last baby was 2 weeks overdue and I just hope this one isn't the same. I feel like all I do is moan but I know I should be grateful to have a healthy pregnancy. I'm just so fed up. Any other mummys out there feeling the same?

You sound just like me at 36 weeks..I'm now 39+4 and still fed up. I am pregnant with my second, I too feel like smacking anyone who says 'not long now' errrm are they carrying the baby??? Being beaten up from the inside...urgh.
I count down the days, minutes and seconds! I've been wanting this baby to be born from an early stage, which is bad I know but its just so painful. Doctor diagnosed me with SPD, due to my first pregnancy weakening my pelvis, he was a good weight and I have a petit frame. Was offered to start physiotherapy but how on earth could I find time to do that when I'm a full time mum to a 3 year old and a full time student plus full time house 'wife'. Complain away seriously, it helps!!

Me too! 40+ 4 with DC2. My first was born on her due date and I can't quite believe this one isn't here by now. I'm so uncomfortable - baby feels like he/she is corkscrewing down into my pelvis, heart burn, my pelvic floor has finally given up etc etc.

Add to that DH helpfully commenting yesterday that he was "sick of playing this waiting game", and near constant tears I'm just arrghhhhh!

I feel a bit guilty adding to this thread when my elcs is scheduled for this Wednesday (when I'll be 39+4) so at least I have an end date in sight. I'm grateful for that, but I've felt exactly the same as you lovely ladies since 36 weeks and before!

I've had horrendous SPD since 21 weeks, which has got sooooooo much worse in the last couple of weeks as the baby moves further into my pelvis. It's got to the point where I can't sit down at all, and even sitting on the toilet is torture. I also have sciatica, although that's a pre-existing condition so I can't really blame it on the pregnancy. However this baby appears to be very big according to the scans, and the added weight has really aggravated the problem.

Plus all the usual end of pregnancy stuff - the piles are killing me (and the itching!!) plus the CONSTANT heartburn, the painful trapped wind, etc etc. The worst bit by far is the baby's movements. At any random moment of day or night the baby can just suddenly decide to stretch out. My baby tends to fully straighten out for no apparent reason, which pushes the head really painfully against my cervix and shoves the feet right up under by rib cage and into my liver/diaphragm/lungs. So painful!

I am in awe of anyone who has lots of kids (or twins!). Personally I cannot imagine ever going through this much torture again! Of course in my case that's mainly because I've been housebound with the SPD since the New Year (FOUR MONTHS!), fortunately that isn't a normal side-effect of pregnancy for most women!

Oh yes piles! I suddenly developed horrendous ones a few days ago, so painful I couldn't sleep at all. Frozen peas and lavender baths have helped a bit.

I'm only 31 weeks and I feel the same! And people don't really understand. I think that what it makes it worse, is that we all know that this is supposed to be such a magical time, and all we want is for it to be over :)

33 weeks here and so ready for the end. I just want my baby here. I have a horrible pain at the top of my bump that know one knows what it is. I have SPD and I'm just basically exhausted all the time. I've got another 4 weeks at work (teacher) and I cannot wait to finish!

Aaaggh!

I am 34 weeks with number 4 and struggling. Piles, back ache all the usual. I keep wetting myself and have to wee every hour in the night. Picking up after my 3 boys makes me breathless and just loading the washing machine feels like climbing mount everest. The thought that I could have another 2 months of this makes me want to weep.

Regarding the reflux I would suggest going to your GP and asking if they would consider prescribing omeprazole. I was literally gluggling gaviscon out of the bottle and making myself vomit at night when I laid flat. Within 3 days of taking omeprazole I was not needing gavsIcon at all which felt/feels like a miracle!

I 2nd the omeprazole, at least that's helped with the heartburn & horrendous acid reflux. 38+3, my 1st was 2 weeks over, can't bear the thought of feeling this rough for another 3-4 weeks.

My back & ribs are soooo painful, but the painkillers make me so woozy, yesterday the restless legs came back, I'm constantly feeling dizzy & sick, everything is such an awful effort.

& finally I'm sick to death of my own bloody voice moaning all the time.

It's good to know it's not just me. I know everyone probably feels this way near the end of their pregnancy. My oh doesn't get it and I'm so sick of him moaning that he doesn't have enough room in the bed cos of my pregnancy pillow plus I keep waking him up with all my tossing and turning! Grrr I wish he could go through it to see what it's like. I am drinking Gaviscon by the Gallon but didn't realise we could take Omeprazole while pregnant! I'll have to ask my doctor. I have also had a horrible sharp pain at the top of my bump below my left breast and ribs. It's like someone is poking me with something sharp! I just assumed it was to do with the rib flare or muscle pain due to stretching. It's agony though! My midwife didn't bat an eyelid when I mentioned it!

It's good to know it's not just me. I know everyone probably feels this way near the end of their pregnancy. My oh doesn't get it and I'm so sick of him moaning that he doesn't have enough room in the bed cos of my pregnancy pillow plus I keep waking him up with all my tossing and turning! Grrr I wish he could go through it to see what it's like. I am drinking Gaviscon by the Gallon but didn't realise we could take Omeprazole while pregnant! I'll have to ask my doctor. I have also had a horrible sharp pain at the top of my bump below my left breast and ribs. It's like someone is poking me with something sharp! I just assumed it was to do with the rib flare or muscle pain due to stretching. It's agony though! My midwife didn't bat an eyelid when I mentioned it!

Oh and I am also sick of my own voice moaning! I feel like a grumpy old woman snapping at everyone and groaning everytime I move! :)

Alisonjayjay that's what I have! I've been monitored in hospital twice this week with the pain - it's horrific but know one knows what it is. It's at the top of my bump to the left and only goes away when I sit down and properly rest. This is going to pose a problem with another month at work.

It's genuinely a relief to hear someone describe the same pain!

Yes, me -- 35 and a bit weeks and actually have been crying this morning. Am so tired, SPD is getting me down and I feel like a big red-faced lump. And for some foolish reason am staying at work for another 2/3 weeks.

I'm 33 weeks and the size of a small island.

But for me personally the reality of looking after a newborn in terms of sleepless nights, sick and poop (as I keep reminding myself) is less appealing than remaining pregnant so I'm happy to "cook" a bit longer.... even if I am struggling in the process!

I would rather have a tiny baby than be like this. I can't bend or breathe. At least I will feel human with a baby. Plus my house is chaos as it is so one more will not make a difference!

Oh the things we put ourselves through to have babies! I've just walked my 7 year old to school and I am genuinely struggling. When I walk all the weight of baby and everything else is pressing on my bladder. I think the baby is using my bladder like a trampoline. I waddled back feeling like a menopausal penguin. My hips are agony, my boobs hurt, I'm breathless and sweating! Just collapsed on the couch groaning about my back and my ribs are burning! I think I'm going to have to start getting someone else to take ds to school as hubby at work and I'm rapidly developing into a whale!
Mousebacon I'm still getting that stabbing pain but it's not there all the time. It's usually okay when I lie back and relax. Did your midwife or anyone else mention what it could be?

Heavens - I'm not feeling as rubbish as any of you ladies but I do completely sympathise!

I'm at 27 weeks with DC2 and was musing yesterday that I'm a bit bored of being pregnant now - shame I've got 3 months to go!! It probably doesn't help that my DS is 10mo and seems to be crawling around on speed...

Another good heartburn remedy is ranitidine (sold as Zantac). I take 150mg twice a day and it staves off most the heartburn, 'tis lovely!! That and 2xTums tablets at night are getting me through at the moment.

I refuse to acknowledge that I will soon swell to the size of a house.... and don't even get me started on labour!

Can I join?
I have another 6 weeks to go but everyday is getting harder.
My main agonies are the SPD and iron infusions which are not going too well plus sleepness nights.
Sympathies to all. 6 weeks and counting

I am nearly 26 weeks with DC4 and whilst nowhere near as uncomfy as you ladies yet, can really feel it coming down the track at me. Have just developed itchy sore fanjo varicose veins that I'm now stuck with til Aug, and the baldder kicking has commenced. Goodness knows how I will cope by the time I'm huge, hot, tired and heavy . I think I'd forgotten what a slog it is, and it hasn't helped that the sickness only stopped a few weeks back. Now I'm just so sleepy all the time! I think I forgot to bloom

34 weeks with DC2 and feel like I've been pg forever and a day (as was pointed out by DH last night, I did have a mc immediately before this pg, so have technically been pg for 40 weeks already, grr!)

am so so sick of it, and I know I still have 6-8 weeks to go.

sick of the insomnia, the heartburn, the aches and pains, the tiny bladder capacity, the lack of control over said bladder, the exhaustion, the itching, the morning sickness (which has never really gone away for some reason), and did I mention the exhaustion?

waaah.

40+2 here, currently sat in pregnancy assessment unit waiting to hear if they're gonna get things moving for me today! Fingers crossed!!

Take all above symptoms, that is me right now! I walked in here at 11am and promptly burst into tears I am so fed up and uncomfortable - luckily there seem to be some lovely sympathetic midwives on today!!

Hello - I'm fat and fed up to. 36w and cannot wait to be rid of the massive, heaving bump. I sound ungrateful, and I'm not - last year lost at 17 weeks (seriously I am not trying one upmanship or feeling sorry for myself) and I calculate i have been p for 53 weeks with nout to show. I am serioulsy grumpy with feeling like i weigh 20st. My OH does not get it either, and thinks i am just a self absorbed moaning old cow - his mum doesn't' help - she says things like "OOO, I just got on wiv it" - so he wonders why i can't get on with it. She would never, ever complain in front of a man!! Not like her fat whinging daughter in law. I'm being induced at 38 weeks due to a poss medical prob with baby, but even just over 2 weeks seems like ages - i was 42 with my first and there is NOOOOOO way i would want to go that far again, so i feel really REALLY sorry for all the 40+ women out there. Bloody men, all their damn fault. Good luck, and remember, not long now (arrrgggghhhhhh)

The next person to remark, 'Oooh, hasn't it gone quick?!' WILL be brained.

babylon1 - hope things get moving for you soon - is this your first DC? I went for a really long walk before I went into labour with DC1; meant I was exhausted by the end of it but at least he came out on time!!

runlolarun10 -someone who's just had a baby said that to me today!! How quickly they forget

Good luck Babylon!!!