If you could wave a magic wand and get rid of ONE current unpleasant side effect of pregnancy...

[ButIForgetMysElf]

... what would it be?

Mine would be the lethargy. I'm 37+3 and I really am too tired to move. I have so much to do Christmas-wise, house-wise and organisation-wise, yet I struggle to even get out of the bath. Truth be told, I struggle to get INTO the bath.

Heartburn, I can take Gaviscon. Backache, I can take paracetamol. Insomnia, I can have a sleep the next day. Loo visits, hormones, lack of appetite, all horrible but bearable. But the awful lack of energy is a nightmare.

I was very lucky during my pregnancies but would happily have got rid of getting up in the night to go for a wee, especially as it was winter and the house was freezing.

The feeling of being hungry and then getting something to eat but suddenly feeling too sick to eat it although I want to eat it.

Or the feeling of being hungry but never quite knowing what you fancy to eat.

The bloody great varicose vein in my fanjo.

Mine would be high blood pressure.

Giving birth...

thequietone

Oooh constipation, (and piles...) Nobody wans you about that one!!

Nausea. With absolutely no doubt whatsoever - it made my two pregnancies utterly miserable for at least half of them.

If someone invents a magic anti nausea thing that works, I'll have three more babies.

sickness without a doubt

am feeling really sick again now, at 28/29 weeks (think it's because I have the flu)

Sickness, I cant stand it, cant do anything without being sick, although i can normally hold it till i get home (thank god), i have had random episodes of being in a car park, or my car and being sick.. Ill be so embarassed if im in a majorly public place and im sick..

The bump after about 6 months.

bloody thrush.

erm, I was swearing there. it's not actually bloody. that would obviously be worse.

pmsl

sickness
and kitteh - re being sick in public - i've done this a few times, and you'll be surprised how sympathetic people are
if you're really worried and you have to be somewhere public, carry your blue notes with you and wave them about!
i was chucking in waitrose car park in front of a massive 4x4 (nightmare scenario!). it stopped and the guy got out, i thought he was gonna have a real go, as i was in the parking space he wanted to be in, but he offered to help me walk to the wall and was really sweet
when i told him i was pregnant, he said his missus (passenger) spotted i was straight away, as i was holding my hair back with 1 hand and clutching a pear with the other!

Feeling sick and a new one on me is sinus issues related to hormones so I have not breathed through my nose in 2 months!!!
Regarding the exhaustion, i hate to be the barer of bad news but you wait till the baby is born!!!

sciatica--there's nothing like random ass twitching and pain in the middle of the grocery store.

i am gong to have to have 2 i am afraid.

Worrying myself sick
and
Not being able to sleep.

feeling like a giant heavy blob.
a mobile flotaion tank would do the trick. or a large bubble.

labour!

Nausea for me and then bloating which in a way are related.

gagging at all the horrid smells you have never noticed before but suddenly seem SO strong and disgusting!