37 weeks & miserable!

[Zee33]

Just a little rant really.
I'm 37+5 and so done with this pregnancy. I feel blessed to have been able to carry a healthy baby but my god am I over the exhaustion, acid reflux, PGP and anxiety over pushing a human out of my vagina! Not to mention peeing every 2 hours throughout the night.

I know there's light at the end of the tunnel and my boy will be here soon, it just feels like it isn't coming quick enough 😩.

Any help on how to get the ball rolling would be so helpful,along with positive first birth stories!

I’ve no advice but I sympathise 😫 I’m 37 weeks and feeling exhausted, I can hardly move and just feeling like the next few weeks are ages away 😩 my first birth I had to be induced as he was too comfortable hoping this time isn’t the same x

Hate to say it but baby will come when he is good and ready!!
Have you chosen a name for him yet OP?
Are you getting excited? Xx

fully sympathise with you, felt the same towards the end of my pregnancy but now I have friends nearing the end and I just want to tell them again and again how excited I am for them. That feeling when all the little clothes are hanging in the wardrobe and your hospital bag is packed, about to go and meet a whole new person.. I so wish I could have bottled it. That first week where you just can’t stop staring at this little human like ‘how am I this lucky?!’ 🥺 I want to do it again and again for that feeling alone and I was never one of those people before, didn’t have a broody bone in my body! But I know none of that makes the physical discomfort any easier. Take sooo many pictures and videos when the time comes and probably just put your phone on airplane mode from now on as the ‘not long now, how you feeling?’ texts fly in 😑 aka ‘just texting to see if you reply or if you’re in labour’ 🙈 people mean well but they were coming out the woodwork when they hadn’t cared how I was for the 9 months previous! they started to really anger me towards the end, can you tell? 🤣

@CLC22 it's going from being extremely active to just about reaching the toilet without peeing yourself cos the baby's head is so goddamn low! How far along were you last time?

@Soproudoflionesses Have heard boys are a little lazier too, so preparing for a couple more weeks at least! Very excited. After an ectopic last year I didnt think it'd ever happen so feeling grateful. He'll be called Otis, after the soul singer 🥰

@Goodnewsday think it all just stems down to being impatient and wanting to meet your little one doesn't it..you've been so close to them for 9 whole months and still don't know what they even look like! Same, wasn't maternal at all, oh how times have changed. People just like to be nosey, I have one friend who has decided to message me a few times a week to ask 'how I am' can tell its just to see if I've had baby yet 😐. Will admit it's gotten pretty lonely, family don't bother half the time either, sure that'll all change.

Loving these positive replies though 😊 its always nice to talk to happy people about things like this.

@Zee33 it surprised me how annoyed I got at these people wanting to know how I was every 5 minutes. I had one friend as well who doesn’t have kids yet and she did a big post on Facebook when he was born then proceeded to make zero effort and she’s seen him twice in his first year of life. I just hated the falseness of it 🙈 Same with family, you get the initial rush of everyone wanting to come round, some of which I had to just go along with (particularly his family for hours on end). Months would pass as he got past about 4 months and we wouldn’t hear from them. It made me regret having put myself under such stress to let them all swarm round my house when he was a newborn. Oh if there’s another it will be so different 😂

good luck! 🤞🏼 I did colostrum harvesting but was getting a section so stopped as I read a lot about it bringing on labour and ‘ripening’ the cervix. Could be worth a try

My first birth was dreadful and I was in labour almost a week and it was the worst week ever I couldn’t sleep or eat, I got stuck at 3cm and was bleeding, contacting but irregular but they were painful and they were not getting me into the next stage of labour and the hospital wouldn’t help as baby was not in distress. I was 39 weeks. But that’s rare and most peoples first labour goes a lot better then that.
at 37 weeks with a first baby your body is most likely not ready just yet, a lot of first time pregnancies reach 41 weeks.
if your body isn’t ready then nothing will help. If it was ready then walking and sex are good. Sitting on your ball and having a good bounce is good. But honestly they don’t really “work” they just help speed up early labour once you get there. Getting your body into labour isn’t really something that can be done at home if your body isn’t ready. It’s like trying to force a period to start 10 days before it’s due. It’s just not going to happen.

anwyays your almost there now this is the final stretch! I’m 34 weeks and also up all night to pee then csnt get back to sleep and baby starts to dance and my nights are long and uncomfortable.
also don’t worry about pushing the baby out, your body was designed to do this so just trust that all will go well.

@Zee33 i was 41 weeks with my first birth, due to a few episodes of reduced movements they booked me in for an induction. I had a stretch and sweep on the Wednesday morning and 10 at night I started contracting, went into hospital early Thursday morning but had to wait til Friday morning to go on labour ward as there was other women with emergencies, had epidural, forceps & they had to cut me front to back 🥺 first 2 hours of my baby been born I was in theatre having stitches. I healed really well tho 🙂