Come and have a Monday morning moan about pregnancy

[Mariacbw]

I'm 33+5 with DC2. DP is being useless at the moment and seems to have no insight into how I'm feeling. I'm obviously excited about the baby however im still working full time as a nurse, coming to the end of a uni course so have exams / assignment deadlines coming up, do 99% of the running around after DC1 because of DP's work hours and just want a (tiny) bit of sympathy.

I want to show him all the negative parts of being pregnant rather than just him having the enjoyment of the arrival, so thought you ladies might help me (have a moan) and write a post of the down sides to being pregnant. Here's a start. . . .
*Being tired - All the time
*Feeling exhausted after doing small amounts of housework
*Having to get up 2+ times In the night to go to the loo
*not being able to sleep in a comfortable position

• weight gain (more than I planned)
• being emotional +++
• back ache

Feel free to comment your own - the more the better!

I'm 33+3 with ds2!

I'm getting uncomfortable. I'm much bigger this time than last time and getting up in the night to wee is driving me mad already.

Can I moan about working when pregnant, its sunny and I have a busy week ahead.

31 weeks here. My most recent joy is that needing the loo gives my really tight braxton hicks. And I've suddenly got too big to sit on the loo comfortably without being totally squashed by my bump

My personal bugbear is "Can you pass me xyz?" I'm all "Third trimester baby - if it's not in reach I'm not moving for it!" I have no stomach muscles in use after back to back pregnancies. Reaching is not easy!

I miss feeling normal. There has barely been a second since I became pregnant when I haven't felt ill. I cry about it every day. I have a monster appetite but can't eat anything without feeling sick and can't walk more than 100 metres without searing back pain. Still vomiting at 21 weeks, revolting taste In my mouth all the time, ptyalism which means constant spitting, exhaustion... The list goes on and on! I never thought I would look forward to childbirth but damn I hate being pregnant. Happy Monday :)

DH ran a marathon yesterday so now it's all "poor me" from him - his knees hurt, his backs sore, he can't walk quickly, can't get comfortable in bed....blah bla blah .

I'm like WELCOME TO MY WORLD!!!

(26 weeks with dc2, working 4 days per week, commuting into London, doing all nursery drop offs and pick ups....a marathon?!? BAH!)

Here's my list of misery:

*Hyperemesis
*Spd
*Leg Cramps the that are excruciatingly painful and wake me up during the night
*Constipation

*Piles
*Acid Reflux
*Exhaustion
*Emotional
*Only being able to have half a wee at a time

Ffs no wonder I hate being pregnant

There are so many negatives to being pregnant . . . Yes yes we know we get a beautiful baby at the end of it but it's a hard slog getting there!

Definetly - the sun is beaming through the windows at work :( hopefully it will last till we're all on Mat leave

Two months of vomiting until I felt I'd rather die (thankfully now eased up and a massive thank you to the ladies on the hyperemesis thread...you're all wonderful.)
Nipples so sore that even a shower hurts them
Insomnia
Sore hips
Bewildering mood swings (why am I sobbing at this apple?)
A pot belly,but no bump.
Absolute lack of second trimester glow (I firmly believe this idea is a con)
Acid reflux
Itchy skin
A hideous American witch of a boss who wasn't terribly happy when I told her I was knocked up (wait till she gets wind of the Swedish parental leave.)
A sixty hour workweek.

Despite this, I am blissfully happy. Happier than I've been in years :)

38+4 3rd child

Unable to sit/stand/lay for anymore than about 20 mins
Unable to sleep for more than 20 mins (see above)
I can only shuffle now
No bending
I can't pick up anything or get near the floor
Housework - ha!!
Swollen legs and hobbit feet
Hideous hay fever that I can't treat at the moment
Constant backache
Sore bits
The pressure feeling that a head could pop out of my vagina at any moment (if only!!!)
Not being able to bear any clothing i.e. pants dig in, bra digs in, fabric irritates belly etc etc
Weeing has ramped to a whole new level

Can you tell I'm really fed up!!!

34+5
Getting over a urine infection
Sleep is uncomfortable
Sitting is uncomfortable
Walking for more than five minutes is uncomfortable
Kicks catching nerves to the point that I gasp
Thighs are rubbing together... Not something I am familiar with
Haven't done the deed in six months :( but only nine days left until I am allowed to :D
Never did get the glow or the pregnancy hair
Hate the progesterone pessaries, again only nine days left
I Also have braxton hicks whenever I need to get up in the night to go loo
Bump seems to have gone to ginourmous proportions in 48 hours
So relieved I am not at work!

I was awake most of night with leg cramps. And feel like a bag of shite this morning.

Oh is getting stressed about the decorating work that needs done. Which in turn is stressing me out (it's being fuelled by his mother as well. Grrrrr!!)

I can't make any decisions about food. Just wanna eat carbs

And when I do, it all tastes funny.

There's more but it's just making me feel like crying, so I'm going to stop now

12+6 and feeling very down in the dumps and still so long to go :(

Hoping I get some more energy back soon as 40+ hours a week at work and running round after a 6 year old is killing me. Not to mention my lazy husband who does nothing to help, in fact he makes more mess.

I want to work right till the end as I won't be having too much maternity leave as we won't be able to afford it. So looking forward I see me working hard and slaving away getting less and less sleep. Xx

8 week vomiting and fatigue. Constant worry of miscarriage after a blood clot was found on early scan :(

33+1 - still five weeks to go at work and really busy. I am a teacher and have mostly GCSE/A-level classes so it is massively hectic in the lead up to the exams and will get worse each week. On top of that I've been made to run a "Mock General Election" which is a massive hassle.
Luckily DH is fantastic though and I have done no cleaning or cooking for weeks. I just do washing and ironing (he can't be trusted!)
Also have the no sleep issue. Need a wee 4+ times and get horrendous backache.
Also - it is still all going painfully slowly. Feel I have been pregnant for ever and ever!

16+3 here..can't sleep for love nor money. Feeling so unmotivated and snappy most of the time as I'm absolutely shattered!

Also possess nose like a bloodhound. Dh farted yesterday and I cried! Was literally retching and cried because I wouldn't be able get off the sofa to a sink or loo fast enough without flopping about like a stranded salmon!

what cockbollocks said. Plus an unexpected bout of extreme tiredness meaning I nap for upto 6 or 7 hours a day and feel no better for it. Plus we are moving house in 2 days so have immense amounts of packing to do.

38+6

Im 29+4 and still working as a fulltime nurse. Its hard going with hip ache back ache acid reflux and painful kicks!

33 + 6 same boat

Apparently being tired is nothing what so ever to do with being pregnant and toddler wrangling housework walking the dog etc etc

All this from the man flat out having walked to the shop and watched said toddler for all of 5 hours

Can't even wear normal knickers anymore huge sore bits

I'm 28 weeks and I'm fucking knackered so, yes op, I think I will have a moan. Thank you. DSis 16 months and declared today "Tantrum Day". We've had three whoppers already and it's only 1 o clock. I ache everywhere but mainly my under carriage. It's going to fall out. I'm sure of it. I'm sick of tripping over the bloody hoover that I left out on *Wednesday" last week so dp could vac the stairs for me-("leave the vacuuming- stop being a martyr to the housework" is what the too-busy-and-important-to-clean- one said) .
Mainly I'm nearly in tears constantly because I'm having a growth scan and consultant appointment on Wednesday because ds was born little (6lb 5oz) and I just keep hearing to word "still birth" over and over in my head

Ooh yes, you have read my mind OP! So here are my Monday woes at 31 weeks + 6:

Knackered, after countless nights of interrupted sleep. I am sleeping, but it's fractured by crazy nightmares (last night dreamt I was on death row, a suitable metaphor for pregnancy??). Constantly being woken by an insane urge to pee..get to loo and only a dribble comes out.

SPD just ALWAYS being there. Sitting is painful, standing is painful. Cannot lie down as funnily enough my work doesn't have a handy bed nearby and may get strange looks if I curl up under my desk. I was desperate for some fresh air this lunchtime but could only get halfway down the block before having to admit defeat and turn back (passing the same group of workmen twice, who only a few months ago I'd be jogging proudly past).

Awful acid reflux!!! Rennies are literally a drop in the ocean. Feel way too sick to eat my lunch but also low on blood sugar. Tried to force a banana down and almost vommed.

A DH who means well and is supportive, but has the stress of an important exam coming up, and a new high level job, so is consumed by these things. He keeps saying he will do more to support me, but then he doesn't do anything and right now even the thought of an unclean house is driving me crazy and bringing out my OCD, so I end up doing the cleaning and probably making my SPD worse.

Keep on keeping ladies...you are all amazing. Seriously, I am in awe of anyone who endures pregnancy. We are all absolutely fucking wonderful!!

Oh and a minor one here but still annoying...maternity tights that are made out of a slippy material which keep sliding down as I walk. Ditto maternity jeans. I have had enough of elasticated waistlines and the same old maternity clothes on offer which are either decorated with butterflies, or carry cutesy captions 'does my bump look big in this' etc. And a scarcity of high street shops sticking mat clothes so having to go online shopping which I hate.

And a final one (sorry, this thread has really set off the flood!) it finally becoming summer, but not being able to enjoy a cold pint of beer in a sunny beer garden (yes, I know I could have a cold lemonade but a. it's not the same and b. sitting on a wooden bench right now for longer than 15 minutes would be agony). Qalking to the train station on Friday after work, i'm amazed that the people I passed sitting outside supping their post work beverages didn't wince from the resentment filled glares I was giving them...

37 weeks today

Major acid reflux
No sleep due to not being able to get comfy
Can't put my legs together when sitting so looking very unladylike
Walking with a ridiculous waddle
Aching legs and leg cramps at night
Period type pains
Disgusting increased discharge
Gained 12 chins so I have a fat face
Feeling like I'm gunna pee myself everytime baby moves

3 weeks to go!! Hurry up baby!

25+2 and I have awful lower back pain that seems to be radiating out into my sizeable bum muscles so now I have a painful achey sore bum.

Oh god and the weird pressure / soreness in my vagina that popped up last week, feels like it's about to burst open at any moment.

I feel like I should be super excited but I actually feel really low and hormonal and exhausted. I went in a strop with DP on Saturday when he asked me to go to the shop which is directly underneath our flat as he'd been doing housework all day while I saw a friend. I thought he was being very unreasonable!

I think I have gone mad.