ok. Pregnancy, in this heat?? is ANYONE else coping with it?

[TheNatty]

...or am i just pathetic?

38 weeks pregnant and feel like i am boiling all the time! cant sleep at night due to the heat, sweating, cant bring myself to leave the house, generally fed up with it!

anyone else? or is it just me

i would love to go swimming to cool down, however i have no costume and im not buying one for 20 quid when i have 2 and a bit weeks left!

air conditioning units sound fantastic, i wish one of you ladies lived nearby i would just hide in the house with you and drink ice cold drinks.

i live in spain and im pregnant.if you want unbearable you want to come here! i´ll swap!!!

I'm 22 +3 and already suffering with this heat - got to go through this whole summer preggers!! - & also am diabetic and the heat is apparently extra dangeroud for me, joy oh well, off to lay in the garden with a book for half an hour before it gets too mad, so I can get a bit of colour, then will hide behind curtains with a fan for the afternoon

Yeah, it's shit. Am 33 weeks.

I'm full of mucous so can hardly breathe, getting stress from work though I am signed off and have a very lively 3 year old for every single minute of the next week.

Cool shower.

I'm 32 weeks tomorrow, and I've developed 'cankles'. I've never seen my feet/legs look like this, it's quite disturbing! The loose sandals I thought would see me through this pregnancy are on the last notch, and they look terribly with swollen flesh poking out everywhere. Am very resentful at having to buy something else for only two more months!

madremia09 its been hotter here then in spain lately, thats why we are all complaining!

i am hiding indoors with windows open and a fan on. laying on the floor in my underware PMSL!

I'm 34 weeks and boiling too. I have just carried about 40 boxes from the shed at the end of the garden to my drive.

I nearly collapsed.

Have finished work now, so no more lifting for me.

I have given in and made DP fetch the air conditioner out of the shed and its heaven

I had been resisting because DS is 3 and loves buttons and I knew I would spend most of my day telling him to leave it alone lol I have decided that my need to be cool is much stronger though lol

He is currently sat in front of it with a paper windmill laughing at how fast it is spinning lol

yank buy men's flip flops or large ladies and cut sole to your soze foot. you need tohe plastic strips to not cut down too much. very cheap and double as what you need in hospital to happily use their shower rooms, loos etc xx

also (whispers so style and beauty section don't hear us) crocs or croc-a-likes

if still not convinced, tis also good to have wholly washable shoes with a newborn >bitter experience

30 wks and not coping here either

I am also having to househunt. Off on school run now, I only hope the ice cream man is there

Im only 16 weeks...
The aircon at work is playing up and I cant phone maintenance until my boss is on his day off. (He's adamant theres nothing wrong with it and doesnt want to risk his profit/budget!)
Im sat here in my underwear (at home of course) and im still uncomfortably hot and sticky and bleh.
Ive still got all summer to go yet.
Help.

34 weeks here to & its just not funny,but at least im now on maternity leave.Great ideas about the magicool & pepermint lotion,will waddle to the shops tomorrow,not sure i can stretch to the air conditionig,i wish !

does magicool work? I bought the boots own version and it's crap, just plain water in a can. I was stuck in the ante-natal clinic for 2 hours today as they were running late. My head got so sweaty that it looked like I'd had a shower. And if it wasn't bad enough to be late the clinic was packed with pregnant women (fair enough) and their smelly sweaty partners, I reckon there should be a seperate cool room just for pregnant women. I'm 29 weeks and feel really quite sick of the thought of having to make it all of the way through the summer.

sympathy sympathy sympathy.

suffered through the hell which was summer 2006 pregnant with ds, and now suffering again (30 weeks). i let ds sleep for 3 hours today, just because i didn't want to go out in the heat with him more than necessary, even if it means he stays up really late.
i think we might just fill up buckets of water and throw it around in our postage stamp sized garden in the afternoon.

i've heard 31 31 31 all this week. am quite scared. my feet somehow feel like they are burning.

I had ds2 in august and it was awful coping with the heat. The things that I found helped were sitting in the shade in the garden with my feet in a washing up bowl full of water and ice cubes (bliss), going to bed with my hair wet, and eating lots of ice cream .

pippa, i'm with you on the weeing thing, it's driving me insane. i really can't stray far from a toilet, it's quite limiting!

I am 40+3 today and the heat is really getting to me, it is not helped by the fact that I have back pain when up on feet for longer and a 2-year-old already that needs entertaining. Think I would cope much better just looking after myself.... ah, please baby do come out asap!

poor you upsy, may you go into a speedy and painless labour tonight. stock up the ice.

AC at work is broken. It's a pub so the windows can't be opened. It's full of sweaty men. Tomorrow is my last day and then Maternity leave happens. YAY!
I've found that if you move about slowly you feel ever so slightly cooler than if you say in one place.

i feel for you TheNatty I am 33 weeks and based abroad so we've been getting a great deal of warm weather. today 34+ am currently stuck to the leather sofa LOL. all i can say is cold showers, plenty of iced water and if you are indoors fill a washing up bowel with cool water for your feet it does work!

glad to hear its not just me

may the many of you at term (and over due) go into labour real soon.
feel for those with kids already, i have a 3 year old AND a 2 year old to keep entertained...
also doing the long daytime naps and late bedtimes, its the only way to get thru it, im using the late bedtimes as playground trips after tea.

how is everyone doing with eating? im right off my food atm

29 weeks - office like a sauna, and just keeps getting hotter and hotter. Actually vomited today, which worked pretty well for being sent home . Planning on working until 40 weeks, but if the rest of the summer is like this not sure I'll cope.
Luckily live in a basement flat - seriously we are never moving. We may only have 1 bedroom, but if I'm going to be pregnant again in summer I want to be here. It's like a cave. Perfect.

29 weeks - office like a sauna, and just keeps getting hotter and hotter. Actually vomited today, which worked pretty well for being sent home . Planning on working until 40 weeks, but if the rest of the summer is like this not sure I'll cope.
Luckily live in a basement flat - seriously we are never moving. We may only have 1 bedroom, but if I'm going to be pregnant again in summer I want to be here. It's like a cave. Perfect.