Currently 36 weeks pregnant with my first baby. I've gone down to part time at work doing 4 hour shifts 5 days a week instead of 8 hour shifts. I start maternity leave at 38 weeks. I'm exhausted all the time, I finish work at 12 and just want to go home and rest on the sofa and have a nap.
I dread every time a friend pops up messaging me in fear they are going to ask to meet soon or do somthing soon. I'd rather just be at home doing nothing. All my friends and family keep asking to go out for 'the final time' before baby comes, to lunch, for a coffee etc. I just dont have the energy to go for all these lunches/coffees. I also cant afford to be going out for lunch twice/three times a week! I've always found it hard to say no and feel guilty when I say no or have a reason to. None of my close friends live 'local' and live 20-40 minutes away and so I feel bad asking them to come to me for a coffee at home instead of meeting half way for lunch or a coffee.
My bestfriend wants to go out for afternoon tea (managed to persuade my way out of a spa day) for her birthday a week before my due date. I said yes but I really don't want to leave the house and be half an hour away from home a week before my due date. I'm the first of my friends to have a baby so feel like she wouldn't understand. How do I cancel or do I just carry on hoping I will go into labour or we go into lockdown before this afternoon tea! I dont want to let her down as when I told her I was due just after her birthday one of the first things I remember her saying is we wount be able to go out for her birthday this year!
Did anyone else feel anxious about leaving the house and going out close to their due date? And have friends/family that don't think about it or take into consideration that I don't feel comfortable going out.