38 and 27w pg with #3 and I feel like an arthritic octogenarian. Anyone else?

[PollyParanoia]

I'm only just out of the supposed blooming second trimester, but I feel like I'm nine month pg with triplets. I heave myself out of bed in the morning, groaning and whinging about my aches and stiffness. My body feels like someone's been tying it up with elastic bands to starve the circulation. I'd really like one of those electric buggies that old people use, as well as a stannah stairlift.
I don't suffer from ms, back problems, pelvis problems etc. I have "good" pregnancies. I know I've got nothing to complain about, but I just want to go to bed attended by a eunuch masseur for the next three months. My blood pressure's fine, I'm not swelling up or anything and I've put on a reasonable amount of weight. Please tell me that I'm not a freak to be feeling quite so rubbish quite so early on.
Pol

of course you're not a freak!!!

you are a lady of a certain age (I know this because I am one too) and you have two children already. Twould be a bloody miracle if you weren't knackered!

Ds is 2, so I was pg at 36 and that was hard. All I can tell you is that you WILL get through it and you will look back and remember being so "old" with humour (well... ish )

I know exactly what you mean about the old people's buggy - I would have mugged an old person for one of them if I'd had the energy!

Sorry I can't actually come up with any ideas to make you feel better, but please, please don't worry about being odd. You're not.

polly, you could be me!! I am 37 yrs old, 29 weeks preg with number 3 and vowing never again. I feel like an old woman I get stiff when I move after sitting down for a while, and lack motivation to get up once down!

you are not alone! cass

37. 14 weeks with no. 3 and feeling ancient.

I too am vowing never again and only ever wanted three anyway. But I have this fear that I'll be infected with some terrible broodiness virus and find myself pg with number 4 in my mid forties! (which will obviously be a blessing and a gift blah di blah). I am going to write myself a big long list of all my whinges and sign it in front of a lawyer to make sure I am never ever pregnant again.

Me too, cass and Polly - I'm 29 weeks pg with no 3 and am 37. When I get up out of my chair in the office, I have to waddle as the ache in my pelvis is incredible. It does wear off, but I hate it! It looks so inelegant.
Have told dh this is definitely the last time, and I really, really mean it! (Though did say that when pg with dd2 )

Well, I guess this thread will stay in the archives, so maybe we just need to make a vow to send it to each other at any signs of incipient broodiness??

I am 32 and 22 weeks with #2, and this feels harder than my first pregnancy when I was 29yo.

I know I'm not old, but I defo notice the difference.

I'm only 32 30 weeks pregnant with number 3 and feel about 95 today.

I'm so fed up and down right now, my SPD is killing me today, walking across the living room hurts, driving hurts, bugger it everything hurts, I have still got a cold thats lasted over a week so far, have a sore head so every time I bend over my head hurts, oh I have a bad cough and when I have a coughing fit I either throw up or pee myself (sometimes both)

I just want to lie down and not move for the next 10 weeks.

So reassuring and yes Polesdra, I think I'll print out this thread and stick it to the headboard of our bed so I might never be tempted to have unprotected sex post birth (not that much of a temptation anyway, tbh).
I climbed mountains and biked miles at this point in previous pregnancies. Getting to the top of the house makes me feeling like Sir Edmund Hillary this time round...

I only go up the stairs when I really really have to.

oh yes, also my brain is of an octogenarian in the advanced stages of dementia. All my sentences start "have you seen my..." or "where did I put...". I can't focus on my work but instead spend my time on mn and looking at double buggies.

39 and 29 1/2 weeks with no 3. I feel like everything is too much effort. Have just moved into semi renovated house, and there are boxes everywhere and a million things to organise, and it is is more than I can face just putting the rubbish out. I just want to lie on the sofa and be waited on but there is no chance. I'm pleased to be pregnant, but all I do is moan and groan and huff and puff. The poor dog is only getting 15 min walk a day, and that is really too much for me. Maybe I really am mad to be doing this again - especially after a 10 year gap. It is sooooo much harder this time.

Moan as much as you like everyone. It will make us all feel a bit better (all in the same boat and all that!).

My worry is that I'll still fel like this after the baby is born, and I will feel like an acching old woman with no energy for the rest of my life! Please tell me that this is unlikely!

by the way - do any of you know where I put my glasses, and what I actually came up here to do?

I am 36 and 30 weeks pg with no 2
oh dear oh dear oh dear

I especially like the fetching combination of wrinkles and huge bump

It could be a third pregnancy thing - I was rubbish at walking anywhere, ached etc etc and I was only 30. Thankfully I could still cycle and found that a comfortable way to get around. I suspect it's not actually your age as such - it's just that you're older than you were the first time - big difference between being 20 for dd1 and 30 for dd3.

This is my fourth pregnancy in as many years and I think my body is creaking under the strain, no more babies for me after this one!

My face is literally falling apart, flaky skin everywhere.

Ah yes, skin. I have some sort of gestational eczema, arms have gone all scaly. It's like one of those reality shows where a "celebrity" gets made up to resemble an oap to see what it's like for a day. Except I don't get to put away the wrinkles and stoop so quickly.

ps EEC, you will feel less achy after birth. Even after a cs, I felt positively olympian once I'd got the baby out last time.

polly - I did as well once I got the baby out, the SPD stopped immediately the heartburn stopped I felt fantatic everyone was telling me to take it easy but it was the first time I could walk pain free in months.

I'm 39 and 36 weeks pregnant with #3, I too feel very, very old. Stairs are such a bind and we have an upside down house so kitchen etc is upstairs, a Stannah chair lift would definitely be on my wish list and one of those baths with the door in that you can walk into then just sit down. Showering can be a pain because of bending down to wash those low down bits and getting out of the bath is tricky!!

I am joining the ranks. I turn 36 in a week and I am almost 28 weeks pregnant with number 3. I am shatered all the time, and have loads of aches and pains. I too have vowed never again!

debinaustria - I cannot believe you are about to drop, only seems like 5 mins since we were on the TTC threads

IlanaK - get yourself over to the Due in July 08 board we like a good old whinge in there (mostly me it has to be said)

Can I join too? And I'm only 9 weeks (!!!) and only 33!! But just knackered knackered knackered all the time.

Have to deal with a whole mountain of stuff all day, every day, involving two pre-school DDs, working part-time from home, sorting out the washing/cleaning etc, trying to provide some sort of edible items for hungry family three times a day.

thinks wistfully of first pg spent in a haze of pregnancy massage, pregnancy yoga, choosing baby gros and afternoon naps...

sweetkitty, I am on the August 08 thread! My original due date was very early August and then they changed it to 28th July. But the kind August people let me stay

good stuff Ilana I know what you mean about not wanting to move threads.

I know first pregnancy was great, you could just do things for you, now it's like you do everything else and then you realise that you are actually pregnant too.