Am I weird for not liking being pregnant?

[Zebraa]

My friends and fam say I should be embracing the last few weeks of my pregnancy but if I'm really honest - I hate it! I've hated every month of it and did the first time - I love the scans and the kicks but the whole pregnancy I've generally found a means to an end.

So do I. I don't even like the kicks that much now they are sometimes hard enough to make me yelp!

I loathed being pg, both times. Felt down, cumbersome and wierd to be honest.
You can't help how you feel, not everyone blooms and has a rosy glow through out pregnancy!
Loved having my newborns though.
Good luck

Personally I loved being pregnant but I had one friend who really hated it. She couldn't wait for it to be over. It wasn't even that she suffered physically with any particular ailments either -she just did not like it one bit.

Shes got 2 children and had them really close together just to get the pregnancy side of things over and done with.

So you're not on your own by any means. I'm sure you'll get a lot of MNers come along and say they felt like that too

I dunno, I'm only 32 weeks (I think) and already fed up, so don't see why you can't be too

I found it difficult not "loving" being pregnant. I was excited at the idea of having a baby, and was looking forward to that point, but the whole pregnancy thing did get me down, I felt awful (terrible morning sickness the whole way through, bleeding early in pregnancy, exposure to fifth disease, lack of movement meant regular monitoring in hospital, high blood pressure, then pre-eclampsia, breech baby etc) especailly because I felt like I had to enjoy it iyswim.

I am really not loving it at the moment. I'm 12 weeks, and feeling 100% crap. I am so bogged down with being ill that I'm not even excited about having a baby. But I did love being preg the first time once the grimness had passed. This time is harder, as toddlers are very demanding!!
I wouldn't worry if you don't like it, hopefully having a newborn will be the best bit! Good luck. x

The only bit of pregnancy that I like is the bit where you get the baby. I despise it.

I have morning sickness all the way through, my hips and legs ache constantly, I suffer insomnia and get migranes from tiredness, my fingers and hands swell. I get spotty.

I will never get over the morning I dragged myself into work, and threw up on the corner of the street in the middle of town. I couldn't stop being sick, despite not eating anything. It was awful.

And the constant blody heater I seemed to have - even in Feb/ Mar I was boiling hot, and the summer was unbearable.

By the end of the pregnancy, the only thing I would eat was cobs, chips, fish fingers and double deckers, as everything else made me sick.

I had a shock pregnancy, no sickness no pains and a relatively straight forward birth in the december, the following august I found out I was pregnant, again unplanned (both times I was correctly taking the pill) and this pregnancy (i'm due next month) has been quite simple, few problems with back ache etc but nothing worth moaning about.

Both pregnancies I've really not enjoyed!! I just want my body back!

The first 12 weeks for me were worry worry worry, vomit vomit vomit, nausea nausea nausea, knackered knackered knackered. 2nd trimester was ok - less vomiting, still knackered, definitely no blooming. Since hitting the 3rd trimester I'm exhausted again, awake 4 or 5 times every night, struggling to get to and from work every day (1 hour 20 minute commute each way) and can't wait for it to be over to be honest. I love feeling the baby kicking, hiccuping, watching him/her move but I can't wait to get my body back - I want to lie on my front, go for a run, eat camembert, drink wine.

Definitely a means to an end for me... I can't wait to meet my baby - I know it will all be worth it in the end