I've Ground to a Halt and Not Wanting to go out

[Lavenderdays]

I'm 35+2 weeks (will be induced at 39 weeks if nothing happens before - so less than 4 weeks to go).

This past week, all I've wanted to do is hide in the house. I am a sahm to a pre-schooler and a pre-teen so have done the pre-school runs but so glad to get these over and done with...then have a bath in the afternoons and get ready for bed...though don't actually go to bed until much later...it's almost as if by 2.30 pm, I've had enough and really pleased to be able to close the door on the outside world as if the day is over.

Prior to this, I used to drop dd off then potter around shops etc. but I am literally feeling and looking huge and I am also breathless (nothing thought to be wrong, this has been going on for weeks...I take iron tablets etc and have had my iron levels checked).

Prior to pregnancy I used to enjoy walking and have been trying to get a short walk in every day...now I'm happy to walk around my back garden and call it quits.

I think part of the problem is that I don't find driving particularly comfortable anymore...everything seems like an effort now too and I suppose I do feel mildly self conscious (often greeted with looks of surprise when I say I have x amount of time left to go and the other obvious comments...have you got twins in there etc.). I just don't think I enjoy going out anymore.

I don't think I crave company either...I'm just happy to potter/do as least as possible. I was working with dd1 right up to 38 weeks or thereabouts/possibly longer and don't remember being like this with dc2 either. I had a late loss with my third pregnancy and this might have something to do with it also.

Just wishing time away now...I want my body back, I want to put childbirth and all the anxiety associated with it behind me...I feel stuck in limbo and although time is passing...it just seems to be taking forever (when even doing the smallest task seems like a colossal effort). Sorry for the epic moan - it just feels good to express how I feel sometimes; nobody I know in real life is currently pregnant.

I feel exactly the same, nearly 39 weeks and since I finished work at 36 weeks my energy and motivation has just tailed off. I dont wanna get out of bed in the morning (not in a low mood type way) but just because I'm sick of having nothing to do. Im too exhausted to go far, and my body hurts if i sit still for too long. Everyone tells me to rest but it's giving me cabin fever!
Just keep telling myself it's not forever and it will soon be over... I want my body back too!

Ah Twitchett, Sorry to hear you are experiencing a bit of this too x. It really isn't long to go for you know is it x I'm sorry to hear that you have been experiencing this too but relieved that I am not the only one feeling like this.

Like you, I don't feel in a low mood exactly though I will admit to feeling anxious about the pending labour. I think I am fed up of feeling frustrated that I can do very little - that I have problems standing for any length of time, that I can only walk short distances, that I cant bend to sufficiently clear up after pre-schooler...there are loads of things I could do I just can't or don't feel like doing them. The cabin fever hasn't yet sunk in but I'm sure it will after another week or so of this, I just don't have the energy/inclination to do anything and I am feeling pretty unsociable as well which doesn't help.

I'm 35 weeks and I'm exactly the same 😩. Had nothing but problems and got another growth scan 15th March to see if will be getting induced. I've well and truly had enough not left the house other than to nip to Tesco where after 10 mins I was ready to get back home. I'm completely exhausted and well and truly had enough