I know pregnancy is a blessing, but does anyone want to join me for a cathartic moan

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I am 27 weeks with DC2. Finding it soooo much harder this time. Have a huge bump and am so uncomfortable. My skin feels so tight all the time. I am clawing at my maternity jeans and rip them off as soon as I get home, only to realise the restriction is my skin and not the jeans 🙁 also have really restless legs which is hindering any sleep.
Ravenous all the time, but even the smallest morsel makes me feel even tighter and more uncomfortable.
Can’t do anything as low level as can’t breath crouching down. And stomach muscles have split wide apart so unbalanced and feeling sore and vulnerable and disparing as ever getting my waist back.

I do realise how lucky i am to be having a baby, and also that it could be much worse. But just so tired and fed up. Anyone want to join me for a moan?

Me. I can’t take night time sickness anymore and i am dying to meet my baby.

Oh no, night sickness? What fresh torture is this? You poor thing.

P. S. I love my horse too, I have neglected him of late (not actually but he is getting bare minimum of my time and energy and not what he deserves)

Yup, 34 weeks with dc2. Ds very kindly shared a vomiting bug with me last weekend and I ended up in hospital in fluids for two days, I have hypotension and have had to finish early for mat leave. I'm hungry and am so full of baby that after about three bites of a meal i can't fit anymore in. But after two losses i don't think I'd change anything!

Oh dugee, I am sorry for your losses. I do keep trying to remind myself how lucky I am etc.

But a hospital visit for a vom bug and hypertension sound horrible. And yes I am too, so full of baby 3 bites of a Jaffa cake and I am so full. Hope the next 6 weeks go smoothly for you x

I'm almost 27 weeks and feel the same. It's hard, I'm exhausted and finding it hard to sleep. I've had awful heart burn at night and just been prescribed omperzole which has given me some relief.

Wondering how im going to get through the next 3 months

39+4 and sooooo close to the end! Belly is massive, face is massive, boobs are massive, feet are massive.....you get the idea.
Can’t wear ANY of my shoes except huge sliders 2 sizes bigger than usual, hands are in agony from carpel tunnel and I don’t recognise my face from the weight gain and swelling.
Heartburn from 2nd trimester has come back so I’m on daily tablets for that and my bump is so heavy at night it’s agony to turn over so I can’t get comfy.

Also the really positive, calm, happy and serene hypnobirthing mindset I’ve spent months working on is being slowly eroded by Doctors talking induction and friends finding it amusing to remind me how IM GOING TO BE IN AGONY throughout and after the birth.

Pretty much want to hibernate / scream / cry 24/7 now.

23 weeks and getting fed up 😂

Can’t bend down because it either makes me dizzy or sets off my reflux, belly is huge but not particularly round so feel like a fraud some days.

My skin is itchy and I have awful stretch marks. Have already told bump that he better be cute when he comes out ;)

Only week 7 and am terrified this nausea is going to last for at least 8 more weeks. Starting back to uni in a week and barely coping when I have nothing to do all day. Hopefully I can get a letter from my GP to give to the uni so they can be a bit kinder in case things get worse.

I think Magnesium supplements are supposed to be good for restless legs though! Safe in pregnancy so maybe worth a try if you haven't already :)

Yes yes yes. Am 33 weeks and so fucking done. First pregnancy I sailed through, worked til 38 weeks, la la la. This one has been a very different experience. Fat, hot, heavy. Just want my body back!

Children are a blessing. Pregnancy is a pain in the fucking arse. Literally, given the size of my piles. 35.1 weeks and I am sooo done with this.

35 weeks here with DC3. Totally struggling. Can't walk due to SPD and sciatica. Ive been on mat leave for one week and really struggling to keep the kids entertain during the school hols.
Can't sleep as it hurts when I lie down/sit up/ move.
I didn't get any stretch makes with my previous pg's but 3 have just appeared this week.
Wahhh

@Grumpos I’m 39+4 today too!!

-I have heartburn like a bitch. Ranitidine isn’t touching it and gaviscon isn’t helping at all.
-I’m waddling everywhere because the baby’s head is jammed in, nice and low, between my coccyx and symphysis pubis. Despite this, my cervix is somewhere behind his head, basically up by my throat so I’m probably never going into labour. 🙄
-I’m so sick of hypnobirthing tracks that I haven’t practised for days so I’ll probably be shit at it in labour and mess up all my nice homebirth plans.
-Seeing as how I’m going to be pregnant forever, I’ll probably need an induction anyway and will inevitably end up with an emergency section.
-I am the grumpiest person alive and just want to punch everybody for basically no reason.
-I just want to go for a sodding run but I am huge and would definitely piss myself. Plus I get out of breath if I try to do the stairs too quickly so it’s never going to happen.
-I wake up between 4 and 5am every morning for no apparent reason but struggle to get to sleep at night, even if I don’t nap.
-I have to pee like 4 times per night and getting out of bed is HARD.

I just want to have a baby 😩

35 weeks with dc4. My bump is huge and i have alot of ligament pain and spd so just tuning over in bed can be agony. I cant get comfortable at night so waking up every morning feeling like i havent slept. Ive loads to do around the house and no energy to do any of it which is stressing me out as i want everything done before baby comes. I have gestational diabetes so i cant eat anything nice. Dont even start me on the heartburn.

On the plus side i start maternity leave next Friday and hopefully ive only 5 weeks or less left 🤞

Thanks for all the reply’s everyone. Gosh hugs and flowers for you all. It’s so tough. I don’t think anyone can really understand what it’s like unless they have been through it. Poor DH is getting the brunt of my grumpy attitude. It’s wrong of me to think like it, but I can’t help but be jealous that he gets to have a new baby too, without all the negative stuff. He keeps saying me wishes he could enjoy the ‘magic’ of carrying a child and that he is envious of me. I know he is trying to make me feel better, but I just want to punch him when he says stuff like that !!! Obviously I don’t 😁