Come and moan with me in grumpy corner..................

[bluebell82]

i am so happy about becoming a mommy and it is something i have wanted for 2 long years of trying, but my god don't the pregnancy books miss out a few major things!!!!!!!!

firstly- old people- are they blind to the fact that I am about to drop and generally need to get out of lift/use the toilet more than they do.. I have forever been courteous opening doors, letting them go before me in sainsburys etc.. I have run out of patience!

Secondly- night active baby syndrome, I spent 45 minutes at 4am trying to remove my LO leg from my right lung.. only for her to start practising her refluxs for a further 45 mins...

Thirdly- how can my dh possibly sleep like a baby when I am in agony withering on the other side of the bed, the most I got last night was him turning over to realise I was awake to roll back over to cuddle the cat! I am still working a 40 hour week as well!!!!!!

Forthly- people telling me I am massive, and they actually use the word massive! It's not like I have a severe case of IBS i am pregnant hulking around 5lb of baby and whatever else I am going to be bigger than the size 6 office junior!

And finally the touching, I was touched 4 times last week by the new admin girl at work, she started last Monday! I find it as personal as someone stroking my bum and expressing how big and hard it is.....

Rant over, please share!!!!!!

Hi bluebell, old people drive me nuts sometimes too! (I live in Christchurch - largest population of elderly in the country, they are EVERYWHERE!) I know we will all be old one day and all that but manners cost nothing and they are the ones always on at the younger generation for not having any! Really fed up with taking about size of bump/due date/sex of baby/names/how I feel/how ds feels/how dh feels AGGHHHHH!!!
OK, thats my rant over - for now, anyone care to join me?!

happy to join in here, my biggest groan is people (especially my bl**dy mother) who comment on how HUGE my bump is - change the record!!!! What do they expect you to say... "oh really, I hadn't noticed", "thanks, that's such a lovely thing for you to say", "yes, you're right. there's probably something really wrong with me/my baby isn't there..."..... luckily my spd means my contact with the outside world is becoming increasingly limited as I hobble around at home, sharpening my knives in anticipation of my mother's next visit...

Mostly i just hate everyone and everything gets on my nerves my parents in law are the worst and just driving me insane even though they real do meen well !! so just feel like a total bitch all the time !!!!!!!!!

im really hoping it will stop soon as am only 14+2

Aw, I had a seat given to me in the shopping centre on Saturday by a wrinkly so they're not all bad. Mind you, I think they get there for 9am, bring a flask and sit chatting to their friends all day so it was my turn!

My DH winds me up. He's good in some ways, e.g. making lots of tea and things but why is it still me schlepping round the supermarket, loading the dishwasher, putting the washing on etc?

I'm also working full time in London (until Friday yeay!) so my day is 7am - 7pm at best. Last week I was coming in and going straight to bed and when I ventured into the kitchen after 3 days, yikes! It looked like a couple of V2's had fallen on it. Not a single piece of crockery or cutlery left.

And the eejits at work who think a good idea for my leaving do is to drag me across London to a karaoke bar so that I have to travel all the way back again at 34 weeks. Er, nope!

I am right royally pissed off with my PILs at the moment as they have not offered to come and help with DD when I go into labour (they did help SIL with her DS when she delivered her DTs). All my family live thousands of miles away. Luckily I have great neighbours, even next door's 20-something son and his girlfriend have offered to look after DD if necessary.
Fine. If the in-laws are going to be like that, then they needn't rush down to see the new baby when he's born.

Other than that, I'm at the glowing stage of pregnancy and I feel mostly wonderful (except for the SPD-like pains, sleepless nights, itchy tummy, etc. )

Adding to the old people rant, I nearly got run over by an old bloke in a mobility scooter. He was bombing it up the pavement and as those bl**dy things are almost silent I didn't know he was behind me when I stepped aside to let some schoolgirls past me. I'm so massive at the moment (due on Sunday) I feel really vulnerable and I can't move very fast. He could have really hurt me.

Wizzska - I would have stole his keys for the damn thing and thrown them away!

I have a huge problem with the touching thing. A girl at work (who I hate) has taken to touching my tummy without asking and I don't want to sound like a bitch telling her to back off. Other people in work do it too and it is driving me so mad that I was thinking about sending out an email telling people to stop. Is that bad?

Not at all daisy, it's your body after all. I think it's incredible that the minute you become pregnant other people seem to think you are public property!

Try doing it back. Pat their tummy and say "ooh, yours is getting bigger too - what's your excuse?".

labour stories is another favourite of any female who happens to cross my path.. I actually had a client the other day telling me the joys of ripping during labour, not the best conversation and also put the fear of god in me to the point of when I attended anetantal classes last week I was practically rocking and repeating 'tearing' over and over again like a mad woman, all because of that wicth and some how the teacher explaining that rubbing olive oil inot that region can avoid it, really didn't ring that true!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh and also MIL and Mother suggesting that we shouldn't bother buying newborn sized clothes because I am such a heffer the baby will obviously only fit into 0-3 month sized baby grows, my poor child will have a complex by the time she arrives!!!!!!

fruitful - I think I may try that!

grrrr to the touching.

there's a guy i bump into about once a month cause of work. long before i started showing/ told anyone, he once touched my stomach as a greeting. i flipped and have never spoken to him since. he never really got the message that he had crossed a really big line. saw him a fortnight ago, and now i'm out and showing and he did it the same as always!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh

another male colleague of mine touched bump last week too. no warning, nothing

Hiya,
Went to the butchers to pick up dh's meat and the butcher looked me up and down and said could you please come in next time with your dh so you can introduce him to me looked at my tummy again, told dh and he said i should have told him i was up the duff. I mean i have been shopping there for the past year whats the interest now!

How very odd!?