Anyone else nearing the end and losing the plot??

[billybigballs]

I'm 39 + 4 and am really over this (much wanted!) pregnancy. I'm not sleeping and today have cried at just about everything. Husband is being incredibly patient but feel guilty that I'm prob not best company for him or DS (3) right now.

Why why does the last month of pregnancy feel about 1000 days long?

Anyone else out there?

I’m at same point as you. Had a sweep yesterday which worked really well in first pregnancy, but doesn’t seem to have done anything this time round. I could cry! Just really want the birth to be over with as the longer it goes on, the more anxious I feel.

40+1 today. Have been steadily descending into madness since maternity leave started! Have been feeling really low these past couple of weeks and it seems to be largely due to all the waiting and expectation. I’ve not enjoyed pregnancy at all and I just want to move onto the next phase now. I know motherhood it going to be tough, I really do, and of course I’m terrified that this horrible emotional state I’m in is going to spill into the postnatal period and become postnatal depression but at the moment, I just need something to change! I’m so grumpy and horrible, so must be a nightmare to live with!

38+4 today with my first and we moved house last week. Today was the first day I haven't been aimlessly wandering around the unpacked house in tears.

I had a tantrum in the car park at the wknd when we went to buy the car seat - a wasp flew in the car window and then when I jumped out the car it followed me, which I took personally, and started to scream and shout and cry at my DH.

Today an engineer came round to install our broadband etc and when he asked me simple questions about ports/lines etc I looked at him blankly and felt myself welling up because I couldn't think of the answers! I eventually got him to speak to DH on the phone. I felt like a complete imbecile. It was only a few weeks ago I was still working in a serious and complex job. Now I cry all the time and my brain doesn't work.

And the baby ain't here yet!!

41+1 and was fine up until 2 days ago. I'm now starting to get sick of everyone asking me if the baby is here/close.

I've had 4 sweeps and nothing has happened. I guess I just need to be patient.

Christ I’m only 30+3 and already feeling this way . DP is in for a lot of fun over the next couple of months! I had a full blown tantrum in Ikea on Monday and I’ve completely forgotten what it was even about now, I cried all the way home too!

I do remember the desperation for it all to end from about 36 weeks onwards. I tried all of the labour inducers imaginable when I went overdue to the extent I made my mouth bleed by eating a whole pineapple! Horrible, stupid decision and it didn’t work.

38+1 here and have cried twice today just now when my toddler was crying at bedtime for no reason (she's not fully verbal yet so I still don't know what was wrong) and this morning when I took her to a playgroup and it was too busy
My poor DH just looks at me sadly. Only seven days to go (maximum!) as booked in for a section.

You are not alone op. Every day from 39 weeks to 41 feels like an eternity made worse by everyone asking any news yet.
I'm only 36 weeks tomorrow and I really hope this one just for once shows up a few days early while my other kids are at school and I don't need to tell a soul that I'm in labour apart from dh.

Cried over the mess again today. My house needs a serious top to bottom cleaning. Dh is trying his best but its not the same. Have just booked a deep clean once off. It won't be happening until next week but I feel calmer already. I cry over everything at the moment. I'm going to blame the hormones.

I've started on the raspberry leaf tablets. Will start adding curry and pineapples very soon.

I haven't had a sweep and mw doesn't want to see me again until I'm 41 weeks - so feel a bit abandoned!

Finding the 'any twinges?' texts very annoying! Yes loads of twinges thanks, just not the real thing!!

I've been saving this one for anyone who starts asking....

Yes! 37+3 here and I'm uncomfortable, grumpy and shattered from running about after my other 2 kids!!

I'm a weird combo of wanting to just lie on the sofa but having weird obsessions over cleaning, tidying - nesting I guess!

41 weeks and feeling the same! Had an unsuccessful sweep due to a posterior cervix and a big baby head sat in between my hips! All of my friends were pregnant after me and have all had their babies early! I could scream!!! Fed up of everyone asking if babies here yet as well as being crippled! I've done all the text book thinks I.e walking, raspberry leaf, birthing ball. It just seems babies ready but my body isn't. I'm so excited to be a mum I just can't take anymore waiting!

Crikey pooch you must be fed up. I personally think none of the methods to bring on labour work apart from getting your leg over. And I'm not sure I can bring myself to do that...

I'm the same! sex has been so painful through the back end of pregnancy with baby been so low it's just not worth it Haha! Thank god for my understanding husband because there really has been a sex drought! Yep the house wife's tips really are a load of old crap! I'm glad I'm not my own feeling this way though. I should just be grateful babies healthy but the hormones are making me so selfish haha! I hope you don't have much longer to wait I've got my fingers crossed x

I'm 39+4 and have started to get worried and impatient this week. I'm frustrated that I'm having zero signs of labour approaching, everyone else on these groups seem to be getting their mucus plug loss, braxton hicks, back pain, achey pelvis, me?? Nothing!
I don't want to end up being induced and baby is 3/5 engaged and I have a short cervix, I just want things to progress.
Other than that I'm okay - walking lots each day, using my exercise ball, doing my pelvic floor exercises. Tried some natural induction methods, clary sage, sex, spicy food...nothing so far working.
I'm annoyed at myself for being impatient though. 40 weeks is just the average length of a pregnancy, around 50% of people go over this due date because maybe they ovulated late, have irregular or longer cycles or baby implanted late. So why do u feel all this pressure baby to be here ASAP?!
Ugh, sorry.
I hope we have our babies soon and maybe can try and focus on relaxing for these last few weeks (hopefully days!) and enjoying the end of pregnancy. I'll miss the baby kicks and connection I feel.

Yes!! 36+6 and earlier in the week baby decided to turn around and become breech.

Now I have to go and have a section pre-op next week for delivery at 39 weeks, but if on the morning of the op he’s head down, they’ll wait for me to go into labour naturally. If I go into labour naturally before 38 weeks, it’s an emergency situation and they will decide what to do on the day. Feel in a weird labour limbo sort of place.

I’d packed my hospital bag, obviously need to do that again in case of a section and have found this all really frustrating!!!

Can I join the moan as well please? 40+4 today and feel like this baby is never coming out! My partner has had the last two weeks off as we've also got a 5 and 3 year old; we just presumed I would have had the baby by now so he could go straight into his paternity leave next week, but nothing's happening yet. Induction is booked for a week tomorrow but really hoping something happens before then.

@billybigballs sorry to say that getting the leg over hasn't worked for me.

39+5 being induced at 40 wks as high risk. 2 sweeps, 2cm dilated and a very thin cervix. All the midwives and docs are surprised I haven't gone into labour yet.

I’m 40 weeks today, first baby so I know it’s totally normal to go a little over due and that due dates are just a guess, but I’m surprised at how anxious I’m becoming about it! Trying to relax and repeat the mantra ‘my baby will come when my baby is ready’

Also the messages from people checking in are making me so much more anxious- I know they mean well, but we will tell you when baby arrives!

Have been having raspberry leaf tea, pineapple and spicy food, and even sex - didn’t seem to work so we will have to try again!

One good thing is it now looks like a September baby, and I was hoping for oldest in the school year rather than youngest.

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I am glad to have come across this thread.i cried last night, cried today, feel so down and just want the baby now. I'm really struggling and wondered if this was a normal end of pregnancy thing or if I was destined to get post natal depression. I'm 39+5. People "checking in" with me and my husband their carefully worded I'm sure intended nice messages really irritates me...alot. Most things are irritating me actually! Also I love the baby inside me so much and can't wait for them to arrive and hug them so I'm glad that there is somewhere to vent without people thinking if you hate pregnancy you must not be a good mum xx

Hi Olive. The messages are getting to me
too even though I know they mean well. Especially ones worded 'have you had that baby yet, we're all waiting!'

Just an update I had the stretch and sweep and seem to have lost some mucus and had a bit of a show, a few period like cramps. Woke up feeling flu like so done naff all all day haha no contractions or anything though ☹ on the plus side they've booked an induction for Wednesday! The poor midwife could see me falling apart with impatience and raging hormones! I'm just glad the eviction papers have been served for Wednesday I can't carry on any longer! If I get another text or call my phone is going in the bin!! How's everyone else holding up?? X

I’m only 37+5 and feel like this. So fed up of waiting and worrying and the thought of potentially another 4 weeks is killing me. Can’t even clean house due to SPD and our bloody neighbours (who we share a driveway with) are still having their extension done over 4 months later so 50 million cars/vans in drive, dust, dirt and noise!

Now looking like it won’t be fully done until end Dec even though we told them back in March I’d now be on mat leave. Makes me very cross!

Basically I’m a right witch at the moment

Aww I'm sorry to hear you have spd! It's an absolute killer! Hope your getting lots of support lovely. Bloody neighbours eh! We had to have words with ours too as I've been having my patio doors open all day with the heat and general pregnancy sweats and our house has been smelling like Bob Marleys basement luckily they've listened and stopped smoking it in the garden! .. I think we're allowed to be snappy at this point!! Xx

38+6 and no updates here another than feeing increasingly uncomfortable every day. C Section is booked for Thursday so just a few days to go. I'm hoping I don't go into labour before then as I'd like it to go 'as planned' rather than be an emergency IYSWIM.