how to survive last few weeks of pregnancy?

[madmillie92]

So I'm 35 weeks pregnant with my first, and I am sooo done with being pregnant right now. I feel huge, breathless, sleep deprived and hormonal. The nesting instinct is NOT kicking in so I feel like nothing is clean enough, my boyfriend hardly comes home (he says it is easier for him to stay at his mums close to where he work- yeah right he just doesn't want to deal with him newly discovered wailing big lump of a girlfriend)
Seriously guys, how can I speed this hell up? Maybe I'm just saying this out of inexperience but give me two days of labour and childbirth over 10 months of pregnancy anyday!
Don't get me wrong, I'm so excited to meet me lil boy, I love him so much already and I know ill be even more smitten when I meet him, I just cannot wait to not be pregnant anymore. Is this normal? Any tips for getting through it?

Bump!
Watching! 34 weeks and can't wait for it to be over!

Concentrate on doing things you might not be able do when the baby comes along -

• Go to the cinema (we have been once in 5.5 years since DS1 was born as it seems criminal to pay a babysitter to go and sit in the dark and not talk to each other)

• get your nails/brows/hair done

• Read the newspaper cover to cover

• Sleep in/rest when you can't sleep (will help you feel less grumpy)

• pregnancy is only 9 months - the baby is the rest of your life

good luck with it all

35 weeks yesterday. ..I am so OVER being pregnant. ..I have two more weeks at work... just feel huge , cant sleep properly, Waddeling everywhere. ..cant wait for our baby girl to make her appearance. ..really fed up of being pregnant right now.

I have to admit I took to my bed for the last couple of weeks and just read magazines and ate chocolate. This time I am planning on taking to the couch and crocheting.

Why is your boyfriend just leaving you to it?

I know it's uncomfortable at the end but try and remember how lucky you are and how many woman put there would give anything to be having a baby. It is only a few weeks of discomfort for the most amazing life changing thing in your life. As someone else has said make the most of the things you can do now that are more difficult with kids, cinema, pamper treatments, a quiet coffee, an afternoon nap. Think of the positives not the negatives. Good luck, hope all goes well for you.

P.S. am 34 weeks with my 2nd so do know how you are feeling

Plan something little but lovely to do every day, even if it's just going to your favourite cafe for coffee and cake. Meet friends on their lunch break and have conversations without breaking off mid word to check on/change/wipe the baby (which will turn into breaking off to talk to/chase/discipline the toddler) and go places that you couldn't fit a buggy in easily. It'll be ages before you are it inside one of those again once the baby arrives. Call people for long leisurely chats on the phone and re-read your fav book. Go for a little walk everyday - it was a lifeline for me.

If you've done any antenatal classes, perhaps see if anyone else is on mat leave and wants to meet up. Chances are they will and you can get to know each other a bit better before your babies are here.

Remember as well that you'll never have this time again, where you can suit yourself so completely. This is my second one and it's been so different to the first pregnancy because I'm also running round after a toddler that it's made mr really wish I'd made the most of those few weeks on mat leave before DD arrived.

HTH. Really hope this doesn't come across as patronising or anything. I really do remember how you are feeling (DD isn't quite two yet so it wasn't very long ago that I was in the same boat and feeling exactly the same and I'm 34 weeks now with number two.)

Wishing you lots of child-free fun before all the baby fun begins!

Bake. I'm 39+2 and cooking everything! Then freezing it for after baby is born and I can't be arsed/get dh to cook. I'm going to put on a million stone at this rate.

All this 'count yourself lucky' and 'make the most of it' talk isn't always helpful and a little patronising.

Your first can also be a daunting time as the huge toll on your body is new. I just felt too tired and sore to do all these things. I understand OP. Of course you know you are lucky to be having a beautiful boy but nothing wrong with a moan. Perfectly natural to feel overwhelmed and want that baby out.

Please ignore some of the more patronising posts. If you feel like treating yourself do however if you just want to flop in bed and have a good old moan that's fine too.

Enjoy it! I've just had hair nails and brows done granted as I'm three days over they gave me the 'hot water and towels at the ready' speech but I feel human again..