I am too full of baby and it feels vile.

[TheDuchessOfNorksBride]

The bump is rock hard. The baby keeps moving even though there is no bloody room. I can't get to the top of the stairs without impersonating the Little Red Train. I want to wee all the time. I can't sleep. I'm fed up. And I still have 6 weeks left.

I really do think I'm going to stab the next person that says "gosh, you look SO well". Well I don't bloody feel SO WELL. Aaaargh!

(Not looking for advice just moaning and DH has heard enough of it for one day).

Oh sympathies DofNB - I remember that feeling so well. Have you got cushions in bed with you? I had a cushion under the bump, one under my feet, another at my back, and that helped a bit. But I do remember not being able to roll over in bed and being REALLY fed up. I found that Radio4 was great for passing the early hours when I couldn't sleep - the farming programme was SO dull it sent me back to sleep! xxx

I am the same, but luckily I only have 1 week left to go....!!!

Time will go quickly for you don't worry xxx

Poor you! I remember the feeling well - I swear my ds was trying to escape through the front at about 8 months! Now I just feel jealous of you though.....cluck, cluck, cluckxx

No cushions in bed t/shell because I get really twitchy legs when I lie down and the cushions get in the way! I get twitchy legs when I sit down as well - putting my feet up is absolutely horrendous!!

I know exactly how you feel Duchess!
Eat lots of crap.
It's about my only consoler these days.

So are you still running then?

Oh me too. Except I'm also full of crappy sweeties and chocolate. Barf.
Due date is in 3 days, but I keep thinking that dd was so late that at this stage I still had nearly a month to go...

Haha Popsycal! Did my last 5k when I was about 16-18 weeks - in the short window between the morning sickness and the sciatica. What about you?

I am 16 weeks and not running though wish I was. If I didn't have a silly back thing going on, I reckon I could manage a little bit of a jog....

I can't wait to get back to it but I imagine that running with b/f norks will be extremely uncomfortable. I'm hoping to start again in the Autumn assuming the sciatica disappears after the birth. I'm having physio but it doesn't appear to be helping.

What's up with your back?

Sorry, you don't know me but you made me laugh, I could have written your post today. Have 6 weeks to go too, and all that you describe.. the twitchy legs and all. I am smiling but today I have been close to tears all day.

Much sympathy

All my running was done with breastfeeding norks but I was feeding a child not a baby so a little different.

Not sure what is going on with my back tbh.

Since I had ds2 3 years ago I occasionally got a shooting pain in my lower pelvis on the left side - sort of level with where by bottom begins - which sometimes radiates down my leg too. Enough to make me stop in my tracks. Went away when I started running and has returned with avengence since I got pregnant again. Am having to sit on one bottom cheek right now as it is killing.

crace - glad I cheered you up, even if only temporarily!

VS - how overdue are you now? Is there an MN sweepstake on it?

pops - that sounds a bit like sciatica which I've had in all pregnancies but with the first three I was always able to walk it off. This time round the more I do, the worse it gets. There's another complaint - not SPD - that affects similar areas to sciatica (ie. seat bones & coccyx) but I can't remember it's name. Pelvic something or other I think. Might be worth checking out? There was a thread a couple of weeks ago.

4 days duchess
I'm having a CS tuesday if it ain't out by then.
As much as I hate the thought of another section I am desperate to get it out!

Ooo me too and I have 7 weeks to go! There have been many times this pregnancy when I have kind of forgotten there is a baby in there and just felt a bit fat, but I have reached the point where I can't bend down and have to get dd to hand me things, because there is someone in the way! Dd was 2 weeks late and I just can't bear the thought of going overdue this time. My bump is definately bigger this time and I am deluding myself thinking that he will run out of room and make an appearance a bit early . The last few days I have felt like my boobs are going to explode too, and my belly is so big I give myself a dead arm whenever I go to sleep with it under me. Roll on the birth I say!

not-so-littlelamb then?!

VS - going overdue is miserable. Have you tried everything? DS1 was 10 days late. My girls, by contrast, were both early. This one is another boy. I feel a sense of doom.

Duchess, I have had sex about a million times, drank 50 gallons of castor oil, eaten three packs of RLT, 20 pineapples, 15 curries, bounced on my birthing ball for 276 consecutive hours, walked 384 miles, climbing farmers fences on the way, expressed four litres of colustrum, shared two tubs of evening primrose oil between my fanjo and my stomach and visualised my birth since I was ten.
It ain't coming

PMSL

But did you swallow VS? Apparently it makes all the difference.

i said this to DH and now he says some very romantic things to me about going down there!

I can't be doing with sex this late in pregnancy. It's the not being able to breathe. How do some find that erotic? Michael Hutchence and I would have had nothing in common.

Actually, yes, I did.
I nearly threw up, and that didn't work either.
I warned DP this morning that he'd better enjoy helping me try to get this baby out because it could be his last time for a loooooooong time

SCORIO1!!!!!!! I SEE YOU!!!! now what did I tell you

go and tell him HE started this so he should help finish you off

oh god how awful, poor you, poor everyone who is suffering
I am 28 weeks or something and it is starting to pall a bit some days

am only 25wks tomorrow and everyone keeps gasping when I tell them not due until july