Thankfully off on mat leave now I don’t know how I would continue working like this. First baby, bump is all in the front so from the side I look and feel enormous. Struggling with shortness of breath due to predicted 90th centile baby sitting with bum just under my diaphragm and a blocked nose that I’ve had through the whole of the 3rd trimester. Struggling to sleep due to peeing constantly and severe hip pain after a few hours of lying on my left. Of course, our bathroom has developed a leak and I’m now having to go to one at the end of the house each time I need to go!
My feet and ankles are so swollen and painful and I’ve got fluid going all the way up my legs. If I kneel down to do anything I feel like my skin is going to explode. lovely DP has been massaging me to try to shift some of the fluid but it doesn’t go anywhere. Midwife says all normal as no protein in urine and BP fine.
On top of all of this as soon as I try to do anything I get kicked under the ribs! Baby is so much more active in the last few weeks.
Please tell me other people have felt this way? I’m trying to do things but standing for too long makes my feet swell like balloons (and no shoes fit!), but equally sitting with my feet up is getting very frustrating and not conducive to running a household.