Pregnancy sucks - join me in moaning so I don't feel so alone.

[Teabagtits]

It took 8 years to get to where I am now and I'm having my much wanted baby in 3 weeks... but I'm hating every minute of this experience.

I had/have HG and have lost loads of weight, when I do hold food down the heartburn kicks in. I haven't slept a full night since last September/October. I have horrific restless legs that nothing is working for... (I'm so far from being in the mood for an orgasm and that always provides temp relief!!) I have piles popping all over the place and leaking through my clothes. I have thrush that just keeps on coming back and tickling places that should never be tickled and now my body has kindly grown me a bartholin's cyst (which makes my failsafe rls cure even less likely). FML

I don't think I can take another 3 weeks of this. I need some sleep.

Surely I'm not the only one who's feeling that pregnancy sucks.

I'm ttc #1 and that is terrifying but I'm sure you're not alone.

You're not alone

It's scary how much you don't hear about before pregnancy! People bang on about the pregnancy glow which, frankly, is a hideous lie designed to lull you into a false sense of security

My list of annoyances includes, but is not limited to:
Piles in places I never knew you could have them
Carpal tunnel
Being hot and miserable
Feeling faint, dizzy and breathless
Dry skin on my eyelids
Heartburn
Paranoia about movement
Sleeplessness
Pelvic aches
Turning into a cranky/crankier version if myself

I know I want a CS, but if a midwife turned up right now saying she could guarantee a perfect VB birth, and all I'd have to do was lie in a bath full of ice, I'd do it

Good luck for the next three weeks - holding your baby will make this bit seem like nothing so much as a fading bad dream

You are not alone!!
I'm 24 weeks pregnant with my 2nd. I seemed to have an OK pregnancy first time around (or I have forgotten most of the bad bits). This time I'm miserable. There has been no glow!! I enjoy the rare moments that I'm laying down and baby is kicking. Other than that, I've thoroughly had enough.
My annoyances include (but not limited to):

• exhaustion. So bad some days I just want to cry. Especially in the first trimester
• headaches / migraines
• heartburn
• really bad SPD / pgp / pelvic pain. Some days I can barely walk
• very sensitive skin. My skin stings even if I use sensitive products. I normally tan well but this year I burn after 5 mins in the sun
• dizziness
• dry skin, especially hands

I'm sure there are little things I have forgotten. At the moment I am feeling very sorry for myself and quite pi**ed off with DH as he doesn't seem to get how rough I feel everybody day and how much pain I'm in at least half the time. It only seems to register with him if he finds me crying my eyes out attempting to walk!!
This is so my last pregnancy!! I'm not going through this again!!!

refilona good luck ttc!

Dugee and coldfeet you have my sympathy! I didn't get any glow and my gp today even pointed out today how tired I look. NO SHIT SHERLOCK!

Yeah, it sucks! I'm only 22 weeks, God I wish I was 36 weeks! I literally can't wait for this to be over

My main issue has been HG, which I had from 5 weeks and totally spoiled any pretence that pregnancy might be a beautiful, magically time!

Luckily, I've had some relief now I've hit 20 weeks. I'm still unwell but vastly better than I was. Still struggling with horrendous heartburn, constipation and general digestive malfunction. I'm so weak from the HG that I struggle to walk any great distance.

Finally get some relief and now I'm dreading being the size of a house and commuting to work in London during the height of summer. Counting down already to maternity leave and birth. Before getting pregnant, I thought labour would be my biggest worry but now I see it as a means to an end - I'll welcome it if it means the end of pregnancy and meeting my baby!

Definetly not alone. I'm 37+5 and want this child out. I'm sick of being uncomfortable and hot. I actually cried last night as I'm so pissed off. I'm convinced it will come late and I'll have to be induced. My hospital only let us go 10 days over before starting induction so I'm working on that date, 26 sleeps to go!

Pregnancy is shit.
I'm 23 weeks and still throwing up. Have had to go to hospital twice because of dehydration.
I keep feeling dizzy and fainting.
Doing anything is a massive effort. I'm so tired.
People keep telling me to take it easy. Right so are you going to do my job or look after my toddler?

Still at least I know it's shit this time. Last time pretending to be happy while feeling awful made me depressed and I was too ashamed to tell anyone. And it ends.

for you all. I remember it well. I had hg with both mine. I could have told you almost the day I conceived as the sickness started within a few days and continued throughout each pregnancy. 24/7. I spent around 4 months in hospital (spread throughout, not all in one go) each time, having drips for dehydration and also later, being given anti sickness meds. Surprisingly, given the amount of weight I lost, both babies were quite big, so I was extremely uncomfortable, especially towards the end. The upside was that both my babies were very healthy and both labours were very straightforward.
I used to get upset with the smug friends and SIL who kept going on about how pregnancy was so wonderful and the 'your pregnant, not ill' comments they'd make. They had no idea.
Ladies, I can't promise it will get better ç nobody can. But I can promise that it's more than worth it when you hold your baby in your arms for the first time. Even now, almost 30 years later, I'd do it all again to have my children.

teabagtits

Pregnancy truly sucks. I had most of those symptoms with DS1.

I was enormous as I had polyhydraminos and was carrying so much water I thought my insides were constantly falling out.

I also had terrible rib pain and swelled up badly. But the worst was the reflux, I couldn't even drink a sip of water and I'd get it. Sometimes I had to stick my fingers down my throat to get up the acid...from 8 weeks on I was constantly miserable... bleugh

But! there is hope, I'm now expecting DD1 and this pregnancy has been so much easier! I was fully prepared for another horrendous pregnancy and terrible incontinence (had serious urinary issues after DS1 was born which led to an extended hospital stay) but this time it's been so much easier!

I'm 34 weeks and my pelvis is definitely sore, but nothing like the SPD I had the last time. I'm doing as little as possible exercise-wise and I think that's helping.

I'm having a girl this time which I also think makes a difference. So the moral of my story is, don't let it put you off having another! And you'll be amazed how quickly you'll forget these yucky symptoms.

Both my DD and this currently pregnancy (23 weeks) were very much planned and wanted and I like feeling the movements BUT I absolutely hate being pregnant. To me it's awful, the HG in the early days, then the heartburn, exhaustion, migraines, uncomfortable fatness, sore boob's etc all throughout just....no...I hate it and always feel guilty if I even hint to anyone that I'm not enjoying every minute when they give me a concerned disapproving look

My feet look like big fat sausages! My back hurts and I have a varicose vein! And I'm hot! And I can't lay down without acid reflux! Gah! 36 weeks on Sunday! And counting!

I honestly cant understand the "I loved being pregnant" brigade. Seriously- what the hell did they love??!

Sympathies to everyone suffering. I'm 25 weeks tomorrow and the tiredness has got worse as I've gone on. I didn't get that 2nd trimester energy which I'm pretty sure is a fucking myth. The dandruff and peeing when I sneeze have not been welcome either.

The worst thing though are those fucking women who want to tell me how they were up a ladder at 9 months painting a wall and how they didn't look pregnant from the back and only had a small neat little bump. FUCK RIGHT OFF.

Oh and the heat. The heat! I've taken Annual Leave so I can wander about naked in my house as wearing clothes has just got too bloody awkward and uncomfortable. Not a pretty sight but I don't care at this point.

@Smurfy23 I know right? Before I got pregnant I thought I'd be one of those people, how wrong I was.
34 weeks here, so tired and uncomfortable. Pregnancy is bloody hard.

Argh, me too. Only 23 weeks & haven't had HG or even bad morning sickness but I'm SO MISERABLE. My boobs are fucking enormous, I'm in a foul mood & I've just rejected the tea DP made for me & eaten 2 bowls of rice crispies instead. Woe is me!

I'd also like to add 'nesting'.

I didn't get this last time so had a cosy picture of couples happily picking out nursery items. How wrong was I?

It's an infernal itch at the back of my brain telling me all the things I need to do, but don't have the time or energy to do but still try to do anyway, and is basically just another source of stress

Oh nesting is bollocks. I've never had it. This is pregnancy two and I'd love the energy & inclination but have neither.

On a positive note my bartholin's cyst (fanny lip cyst) burst itself as I was leaving MAU this evening (reduced movements all fine he's just lazy)

I can confidently say I won't be doing this again. I already have one dd and I'm now well into the geriatric mother criteria so menopause next for me. Thank fuck!

Yeah. Fuck this. Everywhere hurts.

Christ yes, I don't complain in RL as a close family member can't have DC but this pg is crippling me.

I came off a load of MH medication for this pregnancy but thanks to HV and a cervical stitch/trapped bastard nerve in now on raven heavier duty meds including oramorph.

Earlier today I retched that hard I pissed myself then cried and I'm only 24 weeks.

Sorry everyone also having a rough time

Feeling this thread! It was my last day at work today and I was a sweaty, lumbering mess (36 weeks). Got carpal tunnel and just for today, sciatic pain, by the time I got home I could barely get up the stairs.

I spent the entire evening watching telly in bed and I just cracked into my new pack of granny pants my DP is going to be thrilled...

I feel for you all. I am 27 weeks and being driven insane by restless legs and heartburn, which only seem to appear when I lie down to sleep

So glad to have found this thread. When does the blooming phase start!? It's clearly passed me by....
27 weeks and;
Horrific heartburn since 9 weeks
Recurring Constipation (no matter what I eat)
Round ligament pain
Hot and sweaty most of the time
Not had more than 2hrs continual sleep since 18 weeks

Roll on september 😦

I'm on number 5 I had my first as a young thin 17 year old (I'm 28 now) I have never fecking glowed or bloomed.

It's all a lie.