Anyone else think pregnancy is shit?

[BlueIsYou]

The experience, not the actual pregnant thing.

I know loads of people due near me, and they're all constantly putting updates of how they can't wait to meet their new little person soon, and how amazing pregnancy is and baby kicks etc etc.

They seem to get such joy from it all.

I can't fucking stand it. I'm 30 weeks now and baby is bloody kicking me in my ribs. My stomach hurts to touch, it's a struggle to bend as much and I'm always bloody knackered.

This is a much longed for baby but I honestly can't wait for this shite to be over soon.

What a load of old bollocks.

Sorry, as you all were

Prepares for lots of fab looking ladies to look judgingly upon me with their perfect pregnancies and evil glares of "be grateful"

I hear you. Everyone else was fine but I had bleeding, SPD, and a back to back baby with likely early labour. I just felt murderous.

I'm now trying for another, so clearly I'm a masochist.

I'm with you. A friend asked what I thought the good bits were- having a baby and having bigger boobs.

I'm grateful for my son as i know some people can't have kids. But having Hyperemisis that hospitalised me and didn't stop until 26 weeks, chronic heartburn that woke me up in the night and not being able to lie down on my back without fainting wasn't my favourite period ever

And anyone who says "be grateful" is a sanctimonious arse. I had a miscarriage, which was deeply upsetting, but I can still acknowledge that physically pregnancy is uncomfortable and often makes you feel rough. Ignore them OP.

hoop I don't recognise you from the HG thread, are you on there?

I still have the sickness each night but nausea has almost gone.

Even still, everything else is crap too

My knees and joints in general hurt! No idea why. My body doesn't take well to pregnancy

I hate all those twee updates too, but tbh I'd be ok with being pregnant for a while longer yet. I'm 28 weeks but only just got a proper bump (which I'm loving, don't have to suck my stomach in for the first time in 15 years and can wear bodycon dresses) and still feel really well, no aches and pains yet. The only thing I'll be glad to be shot of is gestational diabetes and injecting myself with insulin every sodding night. If I could stay as I am a bit longer (and have a few more months to save more money) I'd be well up for that.

Yep. 39 weeks pregnant and I so want to be done.

I'm very excited for baby but the experience of pregnancy is just so... ugh.

I'm 7 weeks, my last pregnancy was horrible and this one will be very much a means to an end. It's absolutely shite and any films that make it out to be a 'glowing and special time' should be boycotted

Bizarrely I do miss it though. Even though I felt rubbish.

Nah, I hadn't discovered mumsnet when I was pregnant. My son is now 2 and any siblings are a distant plan!

I swear Mother Nature makes the end of pregnancy so grim that you practically beg for labour just so it'll all be over!

It's a deeply miserable experience for me every time. Hate it. But you do what you have to.

Hated it, did it once.

Deeply miserable here too.

And if DH says 'not long now' one more time I'll kill him. It feels LONG when you'd had HG for 8.7 months!

29 weeks here. Am currently sitting in a hot car while DH pops into B&Q. Normally I'd be in there helping to choose things but I ache all over, I've not eaten for a while so will feel faint if I stand up too long, my bump hurts, I feel completely exhausted despite only waking up once to turn over last night & I've already had a nap today... The nausea faded a couple of weeks ago but I still can't stomach lots of foods. I'm completely fed up & fantasising about prem labour. Or being put in a coma for 2 months... Obviously I don't really want either of those things to happen, but I don't want to feel like this either!

Roll on November!

8.7?! I don't know!!! I'm 36 weeks and booked for c section at 39 weeks. It's shit!
And the sanctimonious 'at least you can have kids' crew doesn't help. I can be grateful and still feel rubbish believe it or not!

8 weeks, on the sofa with (thankfully relatively mild) nausea and a cold I can't medicate. Feeling pretty sorry for myself.

SO HAPPY to hear others think the same as me!
Hated every second of it so far , been bed bound for weeks and in/out of hospital due to HG and been signed off work for 6 weeks! My whole life has came to a halt!

Baby is very much loved but feel like I have to justify that every time I complain Especially when everyone goes on about what a magical experience it is ... Being bent over a toilet throwing up every 2 seconds doesn't feel very magical

Can't wait for it to be over!

With you as well. HG is shit, to be topped with PGP and generally feeling like crap all the flipping time isn't much fun either. And I love this baby already, very much wanted, but it'll take a lot for me to get the courage to do this again.

Doesn't help that every other pregnant person I know seems to be the stereotypical glowing pregnant woman.

29 weeks here and haven't had a decent night sleep since week 14. I am lucky if I get 4 hours broken sleep. I may seriously harm the next person who looks at me smugly and says "if you think you aren't sleeping now, wait until the baby is here."

I'm fat, I have swollen legs and I'm obsessed with cleaning! This was not how I envisaged pregnancy. I will be delighted if baby comes at 34 weeks.

I hated being pregnant despite being pregnant after a pervious loss.

Oh god, I wish the sanctimonious "just enjoy it, it's wonderful" crew would just f*#k off. I'm 21 weeks and have had a terrible pregnancy so far: hyperemesis, anaemia & crippling anxiety. I recently asked a friend/acquaintance who has a 6 month old baby which breast pump she thought was best. She replied "even if you're having difficulties breastfeeding, you must preserve as you'll have a very strong bond with your baby if you breastfeed". Thanks love, didn't really ask you for that. I'm not planning on speaking to her again.

I totally understand! I really did not enjoy being pregnant with DC1 and am not enjoying this pregnancy either (10+3).

I just don't get it when people say they love being pregnant as at times it really sucks! I was heavily pregnant in a heatwave last time and had dreadful nausea and sickness for nearly 8 weeks. 4 weeks nausea and sickness so far in this pregnancy and extreme tiredness. I know I am incredibly lucky to be pregnant again and already mother to one wonderful DC but at times it really is shit.

Yup - it's shit. 16 weeks with nausea, SPD already started, spots like a teenager, awful round ligament pain and general grottiness.

I don't know how I'm going to get through 24 more weeks of this.

I know how you feel and i've had relatively easy pregnancies, but i still hate it! 31 weeks with number 2 and literally counting down the days til i have my body back! Looking forward to meeting the baby, but i do wish there was way to have a break from pregnancy, pop them in an incubator for the last few months? just so you can actually get a proper sleep before they are born! Havent slept properly since 12 weeks!

25+5 here and hating life. Hated it with my first too. I haven't been comfortable for months! Felt sick, and vommed everyday for 15 weeks. Had intense hip pains from about 8-18 weeks. And now, I can hardly breath just walking about the house. I'm up at least 3 times a night for a blinking wee. And I get tired after I do something as simple as load the dishwasher! And it's only going to get worse 😭 oh well, newborn cuddles will be nice ....

I hated it also when people said 'think you're tired now...' with my first. And I'd like to say, I loved the newborn stage. I was no where near as tired as I was when I was pregnant! Being tired from not enough sleep isn't the same as being tired because a tiny human is stealing all your sustenance! Making a person is hard, regardless of the ease, or difficulty of conceiving!