Anyone sick of being pregnant?

[shrutefarm]

I know this sounds ungrateful but I am just so sick of being pregnant. I spent years trying to get pregnant and having treatment and I thought I'd just suck it up and be ok with the discomfort etc. (Second child)

However I'm 30 weeks and just so fucking over it. I've had hyperemesis all the way through. My anxiety has become worse. I'm tired all the time. I have no energy to make food. I can't breathe. I wake constantly with hip pain and have to shuffle around all the time. I have so many anxieties about the birth (c section).

I miss food so so much. Living on boring food whilst also feeling guilt over the babies nutrition has really taken its toll. I never want to see bread or peanut butter or cereal or milo again. I want to eat chicken and a big salad and for it to actually taste good.

I feel quite down and I can't figure out how I'm going to keep this up another 8 weeks.

Rant over.

I'm totally with you on this one !!
27 weeks here and had a breakdown last week if I would of been alot further on I would of been begging the midwives to get him out haha. I had just got to the point I was totally exhausted. This is number 3 for me and i I definitely wont be doing it again these next 13 weeks cannot go quick enough!! X

Being pregnant is honestly so boring. And I’ve become boring doing it. I miss sushi, rare steak, big glasses of red wine on a Sunday. I miss being drunk and fun.

I know it’s all worth it and I’m very grateful to be pregnant but it certainly isn’t the magical, glowing experience it’s made out to be

One thing that is amazing though is feeling the baby kicking. That’s really really wonderful.

You can have sushi when you're pregnant. The fish just has to have been frozen first.

www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/pregnancy/is-it-safe-to-eat-sushi-during-pregnancy/

Yeah, now 32 weeks and fed up.

Had an awful pregnancy and been signed off for most of it due to hyperemesis and PGP.

Doubt I will be able to return before maternity leave kicks in now which makes me feel bad for my team. Fed up of being sick and in constant pain.

Still, got to remember baby is happy and healthy and it's all worth it in the end

Glad I'm not alone! I also miss wine. I didn't realise how much happiness food brought me til I couldn't eat freely. I'm in Australia, going into summer, and all I see are people starting to go out and drink and eat in the sun. Then there's me on the couch with my hot water bottle on my buggered hips eating cereal again.

Also can't see my hoo ha anymore. Think it's a complete forest at this point!

I was like this too op.

It's ok not to enjoy pregnancy.

@PinkSpring has the hyperemesis improved at all? Are you on any meds?

I'm the same also 30 weeks now and I am done being pregnant I am bored now and just fed up of feeling sick again on the plus side I've lost 2 stone and the baby is thriving but it's still a horrible feeling constantly, wondering whether I'll be sick or I'm going to be sick

@ShirleyPhallus you think you're boring now? Wait until you're actually a mum

@anitagreen it really is shit feeling sick. I can't tell you how many times I've attempted to cook food and then not been able to eat it

@shrutefarm Thank you and I send my sympathy to you also, I can't remember how many meals I made for me and my partner for him to eat his alone and mine just sit on the side because I just couldn't face it. I'm a bit better now eating but it's mainly fruit or something boring. I really miss just thinking of a dinner cooking and then eating it even puddings is just no for me. Least we're nearly at the end now x

I feel like this! Also have hyperemisis - been prescribed a bunch of meds but unable to take them ironically as the puking was more manageable for work than the lethargy!! and finally since third trimester able to eat something more than white plain carbs (which previous to pregnancy I never touched!) And now only get sick a few times a week - which is bliss! Walked to work this morning past a bin truck on bin day without heaving, feels like a milestone!!

Love having baby move and having tried for years for this pregnancy and had multiple losses, know I’m bloody lucky, but still never expected pregnancy to be this physically hard. I haven’t felt like myself.

I’m ready to meet little one now. To have a few drinks over Christmas (baileys hot chocolate, mulled wine), to get my appetite back and enjoy food 🤞

Just keep reminding myself I’m on the last stretch now and hoping that she arrives healthy and safe. Always thought I’d have a few close together in age, but right now, there’s no way I’m doing another pregnancy any time soon!! 😂🙈

The hardest thing I find is everyone expecting me to be all “amazing” about pregnancy and cheerful!

@shrutefarm - yes on medication, but it makes no difference. Just have to deal with it. It did ease off between 18-24 weeks but then it came back again

PGP is being treated with physio and painkillers but again, not that effective.

Just need to last another eight weeks!

@PinkSpring yes I found the same. Ondanestron worked sometimes but other times did nothing.

I've been told to take Panadol for ligament pain and irritable uterus but it doesn't do a lot. I need to get a belly band.

I know @00100001 but I’d feel like such an arse asking the question of every single bit of fish when I already feel like a bit of an arse having to ask for fully cooked meat / “do you do any non alcoholic beers” etc.

So yes, technically I know I can have it but I miss the freedom of ordering whatever I want and not being concerned if it might give me listeria or whatever it is

@Loaf90 yeah but by then, I’ll be able to have a drink so at least I will think I’m a hoot even if no one else does

✋ so so so sick and tired of being pregnant !!!!

27 weeks here and I'm so jealous of others that are further along and closer to the end.

I have also been suffering with HG my entire pregnancy and since around week 20 with PGP.

None of the medications worked for the sickness. I really can't wait to not feel sick anymore.

I'm still in the same cycle I've been in since week 6, wake up- feel really sick, eat something boring- feel really sick because I ate. Have maybe 20 minutes of respite ( Maybe ) then start to feel sick again. Then eventually eat again, then feel sick again because I ate. And so on and so forth.

The mornings are still the worst for nausea. I just don't feel right. I just haven't for so long. I don't look forward to eating, as I know I'll just feel sick after again. It's a constant struggle.

I said to my husband this morning, I can take all the body aches and not being able to walk far because of PGP. I can take being absolutely exhausted going up the stairs or food shopping being such hard work. But I just can't take the nausea. It's a constant misery.

From reading everyone's posts, it sounds like that's also why most people are fed up. There's not much sympathy for it either and you just can't get away from it. I've tried all the meds, I've tried working, I've tried not working, I've tried being at home, I've tried going out. I've even tried going on a nice holiday, keeping constantly busy- but my friend nausea is always right there - doesn't shift one bit. 😭

32.5 weeks here and also fed up. Gained over a stone and feel massive. Miss everything I can't eat, and wine! @PinkSpring how did you manage to lose 2 stone while being pregnant?! I've gone the other way!
Also been sick throughout the entire pregnancy and really hope it hasn't affected the baby, though he does seem fine.
Genuinely considering asking for an induction at 38 weeks, which would be just over 5 weeks time. I am that fed up.

You will get through it OP, you've gotten through it this far. About 8 weeks to go... Think about what you were doing 8 weeks ago, doesn't seem so long ago. You've got this 👍

Sorry, I meant ten weeks. Still, hardly any time at all. It will sail

@shrutefarm I'm 26+4 and actually quite enjoying pregnancy right now but if you had asked me between weeks 8-16 my answer would have been completely different! I hated it to begin with: horrible nausea, fatigue and puking 6 times a day! I really feel for you that the hyperemesis is still ongoing, that must really suck. No wise words of wisdom but just stick with it and it'll all be worth it. Not long now and your little bundle of joy will be here :)

Yep. I'm 35 weeks into my third pregnancy and it's safe to say the magic of creating life has well and truly worn off, although to be fair it had after the first one!

I'd have this baby tomorrow if I could and the idea of possibly another 7 weeks of this sounds horrendous. I know how lucky I am, believe me, but pregnancy with two children under five already is hard hard work.

Seriously, this pregnancy has been so horrible. It s number 3, and the other two were just as bad, so maybe I'm a glutton for punishment. The first one I thought, ok, it's my first pregnancy, it's bound to be hard. I went into my second one because I hated my birth control so much that even pregnancy was better... and this time, after 3 years I thought I could deal with pregnancy... well, I can't.
I'm 21 weeks so over half way but it's really hard. There is no time or energy to deal with my own stuff - I have 2 very active boys to look after...
I'm not sure what I was thinking, getting pregnant again. I guess I will be happy I did this when I have a baby in my arms but I kind of wanted a girl after 2 boys... and the ultrasound last week showed another boy.
Oh well.

30 weeks today, hyperemesis gravidarum for the 1st 20 weeks. This has improved but now the small niggling nausea is creeping in. Braxton hicks are painful at times, they thought a urine infection was causing them but now no growth in urine specimen. Anemic and spd is starting to kicking. I could own shares in gaviscon the amount I drink.

I signed up for a week long university course with a 3000 word essay that I'm due to attend on the 11th November. Why I thought driving 90 mins every morning and evening to sit in a lecture hall at 32 weeks pregnant was a good idea I will never know.

On the plus side my nesting instinct has kicked in and my house has never looked so nice.

Keep us all updated on progress though ladies.

I turned 30 weeks today and I am just so ready to meet my little guy.

I've had a rough pregnancy (first timer here!) with sickness until 18 weeks, then I had a few "good" weeks until 24 weeks when I got PGP and have been signed off work since as I'm in agony. I doubt I'll be back at work as shuffling round the house is painful and the only time I don't seem to hurt is when I'm lying on my left side!

I miss wine and beer, I miss being able to walk properly, I miss everything about who I was before I was pregnant. But of course feel so grateful to be able to carry and grow my baby and can't wait to meet him
In jan ! X