38 weeks - do I give in to the hormones and become a human hosepipe?? Or try and find something so funny that I wet myself laughing??

[ColdFeetWarmHeart]

38 weeks today. Feeling really shit, I may have possibly done too much yesterday.

SPD/PGP = attempting to move in bed causes horrendous pain. I play a little game all night long called "let's see how long I can put off going to the loo"

After weeks / months of not being able to eat much, and basically eating same portion size as my 5yr old, I am suddenly really hungry all the time. Like 30 mins after eating I'm famished!

Horrible heartburn. I basically only drink milk now and carry antacids everywhere I go.

I feel nauseous again. Quite possibly due to heartburn.

But today I just feel really moody. Like I want to scream at everyone or burst into uncontrollable sobs!! If I give in to my urge to cry my eyes out to sad songs / a weepy film am I going to feel any better?? Would I be better off trying to make myself happy and hope for a surge of Oxytocin to kick these pains into proper contractions ( have been having period type pains / lightening on and off for 3 weeks already)??

Anyone else at the end stage that needs a moan / rant?? Please plop yourself onto my 'woe is me sofa'

I'm 37+3 today, and I am well and truly over this pregnancy thing.

I'm similar to you with the heartburn, I'm personally keeping gaviscon in business with the amount I'm going through. I also get random sickness out of nowhere.
I also have terrible sciatic nerve pain, to the point where I can't touch my outer thigh.

I also miss being able to eat a decent amount, I literally have a mouthful of food and I'm full.

I try not to complain in real life too much..

I was like that until Saturday - 2 bites of food and it was like my throat closed up!! I was forcing myself to eat!!

I'm trying not to moan IRL to anyone but DH. though to be fair I am now trying to ignore people. Too many idiots telling me "not long now!!" - lying sods, you've been saying that for months!!!

It alarms me that I could still be pregnant throughout the whole of September, as my MW said the latest they'll let me go over is the start of Oct.

Don't know how I'll cope if that happens.

Is this your first baby chip? I had my first at 39+3. I woke up that morning feeling like shit, and started crying at the thought I might feel like that for another 2.5-3 weeks.

I think half the problem is not knowing the actual end date. If you knew you were going to definitely have baby on due date you could count down and find ways to cope.

Yes it is. I'm praying he doesn't go over but I've heard so many horror stories about first babies being late/having to be induced.

I'm at the same point as you @ColdFeetWarmHeart 38+1 today, and feeling exactly the same as you described, I can barely move around without agonising lower back pain, the heartburn sucks so just trying to eat small amounts as it gets even worse if I don't eat at all. My emotions are all over the place lately. I agree that I think it's because we don't know the exact end date, it's like is today the day? Or could we potentially have another 4 weeks of this?!
So today I have dropped my 6yo DD off at school and I'm doing nothing at all except sit on the sofa watching box sets and I don't feel guilty about it either as I've not stopped for weeks!!

Sorry I've nothing constructive to add just wanted to offer a handhold and for you to know I feel your pain!

Thank you dippy
I think it's also worse as I already have a DD. 1) because you have to get on with things like the school run and 2) you have the logistics of what to do with them when you go into labour. I feel like I'm constantly checking up on other people's schedules to see who will be taking me to hospital and who will be babysitting lol. So even if I want to ignore it for a bit, I can't really.

Although I have back pain today and some cramps on and off, I am feeling better than I did yesterday. Spent all morning tidying etc, and checking my hospital bag again. I have midwife this afternoon. I might limit what I do after that though. Will see ....

Oh, and all handholds are very much appreciated!!!! Thank you