Argh at the "not long now"!! I'm due mid March. Before Christmas everyone was 'helpfully' telling me "oh, that's ages away, poor you" (am using a crutch for SPD and have 3 young DC and no family support nearby hence the sympathy!)
Now we are in January. I'm, ooh, three weeks further along. Now I get "Oh not long now, it'll fly by in no time!"
No it bloody well won't! It's almost ten weeks, and approximately (I counted) 92 trips to school and back and never mind the rest of it. Ten weeks is eternity when you're in pain 24/7, can't walk more than a hundred yards, and getting no sleep and have a whole bunch of bickering children to look after and a permanently messy house as DH is too tired from work to do much!
I can never tell if my rage is down to running out of cope or hormones. Probably both! I do know that it tends to be cyclical though - I'll have a week or so of wanting to start a fight with everything from a dustbin to the pope (I should really stay off FB during that week!) and a week of feeling chilled and anyone could do anything and I wouldn't care. Then a few weeks in the middle either side of those extremes.
I could probably do the "cope" thing if I didn't get the pregnancy rage from time to time though. It's awful because most of the time I know I'm being unreasonable or, most likely, unusually confrontational, but despite that self-awareness I seem to be unable to stop myself at least half the time. Argh.