32 weeks with twins and completely miserable!

[EvaGraceMummy2015]

I suppose the point of this thread is to just have a moan really but I'm just so fed up! 😢 up until around 26/28 weeks I've practically sailed through this twin pregnancy, even though I have a 3 year old to look after she has probably been the one to keep me going and positive! I've had no where near as much time to dwell on things as when I was pregnant with DD. I've hit 32 weeks now and it's all just seemed to hit me like a ton of bricks! I've got spd and also suffering with sciatica, I can't get comfortable at all in bed and constantly waking up with heartburn! When I try to turn over its excruciating as my hips and groin crack and wake up stiff and barely able to walk first thing! I get physically tired sooo easily and have to have a sit down between every 20 mins or so of being on my feet because of the weight of my belly 😩 DP is brilliant in the fact of doing housework when he finishes work and helping with DD so I can't complain about that.. it's just I'm finding myself snapping when he try's to tell me 'it will be over soon' 'just try and relax' etc because I know he doesn't truly understand just how miserable I feel every day now!! (Which isn't his fault I know!) I just feel like saying 'it's easy for you to say!!'
I think I'm just feeling sorry for myself to be honest and need a rant! 🙈 I want my babies to cook as long as possible so they're healthy but at the same time I feel myself hoping and praying I go into labour soon! 😕 anyone else feeling the strain of being heavily pregnant?

Hi OP, i am 34 weeks with my first and am feeling the strain!! Cant imagine what its like with twins and a toddler too. I can hardly sleep and constantly feel uncomfortable and tired! Its bloody hard work. Also feel the guilt of not doing much at home, even the simplest of tasks like showering and putting on clothes is taking its toll! I keep reminding myself that its not forever and it will be worth it. We are on the home stretch

Hi thank you for replying.. yeah I feel the same as in it just takes it out of me getting myself showered and ready! It's hard with your first because you really don't know what's coming so everything is new and seems really hard! Where as this time I've tried to think positive (because I know it all does come to an end🙈) but I'm beginning to really struggle now.. honestly though when you've given birth and you have your body back you really do feel amazing (obvs sore and tired!) but not carrying that weight around with you anymore is just such a relief😊 x

32 weeks was when it started getting really hard for me too with my twin pregnancy. It will be over soon, but given each day felt like a decade to me, I wanted to murder every single person who said it, but I was far too tired. I was booked in for a planned c section (I didn’t make it that far) and had a countdown on my phone where I crossed off every single day that passed to keep my spirits up, whilst praying I’d have them earlier but wanting them cooked for as long as possible at the same time 😂

Good luck 💐

Hello, I am currently 30 weeks with twins (my first) and have been fed up for weeks! In the last week or so I haven’t been able to sleep on my side as it is so uncomfortable and my twins are both head down and I think neither likes to be underneath as I get a lot of movement on either side! Heartburn has been awful - I’ve started eating dinner either a lot earlier (about 6pm - we used to eat a lot later) or having a smaller meal of porridge as my dinner, it has massively helped. I’m trying to think of it in stages - I have a baby brunch on Saturday that I am counting down to, then it’s OH’s birthday and it seems to make the weeks go slightly quicker. I’ve just started taking spatone for the iron and it seems to have made a difference in making me feel better too. Fingers crossed they will be here soon for both of us (although when they are ready of course), people keep telling me how they know of twins that came 10/8/6 weeks early so I’m sure it won’t be long to wait. Are you still working?

3mo twins here and I am happy to tell you that having two newborns and a toddler is much easier than being pregnant with a toddler. Top tip: do not get anaemic and if you are, push for iv iron as it is almost impossible to raise iron in a twin pregnancy when already low by dietary supplements alone (you are unlikely to be told this though).

Hi ladies, thank you for your replies! 😊 well I was told I was anemic at 27 weeks so been on iron tablets since then, they have helped a lot with the tiredness but I find myself skipping one every other day because they've really upset my stomach (sorry tmi🙈) I've been taking paracetamol regularly as well to try and get on with things a little easier.. I've got a little chalk board in my kitchen where I count down the weeks until my DD becomes a big sister so that helps me a little.. no I'm not working as I am a SAHP to my 3 year old and she goes back to nursery on Wednesday for 3 hours a day, so I suppose that will help having a routine again and making the days goes quicker! (Plus tire her out with the extra stimulation again, this 6 weeks have been hard trying to entertain her all day everyday!🙈)

Villain-thank god you've said that, I was worrying it was going to be really hard but I suppose when you've got your body back and not carrying around all this weight/in pain constantly it will be easier again 😊 just looking forward to that relief you feel when you've given birth!

So glad you aren’t working, I am but having a lot of time off (I’m lucky that work are very good). Definitely try spatone - it doesn’t have any of the symptoms of the iron tablets. The pharmacist told us that the tablets are quick releasing so that’s why they can cause such reactions; spatone is in a liquid that you can take in orange juice which is meant to help too with absorption. I got given calcium and vitamin d tablets from the consultant which also seem to have helped, I said I wasn’t sleeping and she said they would help and they seem to have made things better. I feel your pain, and the weeks seem to stretch on forever!

Promise you, the sheer joyous relief of no longer being pregnant is unmatched. Plus two little cuties.

Second the promise, it’s quite glorious to no longer be pregnant with twins! I got stacks more sleep when they were born vs being pregnant, and I could move again. Plus I had my babies, best day of my life.

I know this a few months old, just wondering how it all went for everyone after they gave birth? I’m also 32 weeks with twins and im so wiped I feel horrendous. I’m just so exhausted, I’ve got iron tablets and multi vitamins but still feeling awful. Terrible heartburn which wakes me up at night, hip and groin pain, it hurts to roll over on whatever side I need to at night so I hardly sleep anyway. I can barely walk and go out and get fresh air but feel so tired I feel I need to but can’t face it. I’m constantly crying! I can’t wait to meet them and get them out of me so I can feel normal in my body again but then I know it’s better to keep them in there for as long as possible.

Also, I’m terrified of how I am going to cope! I am 25 and held a newborn baby for the first time a few weeks ago, it wasn’t as scary as I thought but still quite daunting. I don’t even know how to change a nappy! Or even feed a baby! Basically I just wanted some reassurance to see how everyone is feeling and hoping that it’s all positive because I’m really not feeling positive at all at the moment!