31 weeks and had enough!!!

[RFCMummy]

Hi all

Just wanted to have a moan really as am so fed up now and can't wait for pregnancy to be over!! I know that sounds really bad and I do know how lucky I am to be having a 3rd baby.

I guess as it's the third (and last!) one in 4 years I just feel fat, frumpy and really want my body back!

Anyone else feeling the same?

[mosschops30]

devils - enjoy your holiday you lucky thing, just think how lovely and relaxing it will be for you and your baby to lie around in the sun plus no added stress of having to look good/slim/interested, you can just sit back with a book and enjoy it

[beautifulgirls]

ME ME ME! Can I join the self pity here too. 29 weeks and feeling like I need to explode any time too. Heartburn, SPD, running to the loo every 10 minutes, kicks in the ribs - another 3rd time mum here too and this will be our last and I cant wait to have the baby here now. Now to work out how I can walk 15 mins each direction twice a day to take DD#1 to school when she starts in September, without becoming a total mess with the SPD eek.
I have every sympathy for all you ladies here in the same predicament - thankfully it is not going to be forever, even if it feels like it.

[lazylion]

I'm never getting pregnant again either. I can't wait to meet my baby but that will be enough for me.
Have a lovely holiday Devils.

[YanknCock]

Cheers for this, I was thinking of starting a 'fuck this pregnancy thing' bitchfest thread!

Am 38+5 today, here's my list of complaints:

-Tendonitis and carpal tunnel means my hands don't work
-SPD and head engagement means I only go at a slow waddle for a few feet and then need to sit down
-Feet/hands are swollen to buggery and turning colours
-Have to be monitored 2-3 times weekly for preeclampsia
-Have to pee all the time, even if I'm just getting up from a pee
-Braxton Hicks/baby's arse leaving me breathless
-Can't sleep, but too tired to do anything useful
-Crotch has turned an interesting brown colour (only found out because DH told me)
-Skin tags appearing on my neck, hyperpigmentation giving me a nice moustache too
-Itching bloody everywhere, but especially my toes, which I can't reach
-Horrible twinges with every step, but NOTHING IS HAPPENING!
-Fecking heartburn
-Extreme grumpiness

Oh please please please let him come early.....

[MamaMimi]

Hello ladies, I've been reading your posts with total sympathy - this is exactly how I was feeling 3/4 months ago, dd2 is now 9wks.

All the way through from when MS kicked in and then I went from one uncomfortable symptom to the next I said that this was it, I was 'never getting pregnant again' and 'never having more children'.

Only now I seem to have forgotten about how awful it all was as I'm beginning to think about maybe having a dc3 in a couple of years time and I would never have believed I could even contemplate it.

How is it possible to forget how really terrible you feel when pg sooooo soon?

But just to say that if you can only get through these last weeks it won't be long before you too are feeling better and can look back on it all and, hopefully, quickly forget how bad things got.

I know it's not easy at the time you're going through it but it's because your body is doing an incredible job growing your baby and it will all come to an end before long.

[audreyraines]

Oh poor you Yankncock, you are having a truly awful time. May you labour fast tonight! fwiw, i don't think sweeps are that effective if you're not ready to go anyway. sigh. [pours cup of raspberry leaf tea for Yankncock]

[YanknCock]

Cheers Audrey!

I've been taking the raspberry leaf capsules for about 10 days now. Have had a few curries and some soul-destroying sex (worse than TTC sex IMHO), but no result.

Am seeing the consultant again on Wednesday (will be 39+1) so will ask about a sweep. Haven't seen the community midwife for weeks now because I seem to have been taken over by the consultant and the antenatal day unit.

I can understand the forgetting thing--when I was barfing for Britain up to 30 weeks, I swore I'd never forget how awful it was. But now that I've had 8 weeks with no nausea/vomiting, and I can tell the memory is fading!

Will just keep repeating my mantra: 'This cannot possibly go on any longer than 23 days' (allowing for 14 days overdue).

[audreyraines]

lol yankncock, i'm gearing myself up for the sex!

if you want someone to keep you company in your crap pregnancy zone, i just got over a 12 week intense cough which made me wet myself every time i coughed (hello tena lady!) and now i've injured my foot so can only hobble around and i'm driving ds crazy as i can't really take him very far! gotta love it.

[RFCMummy]

Morning ladies

Now I feel really guilty as I am not suffering nearly as much as many of you and therefore shouldn't really be complaining!!!!

I just want to send my symapthies and support to all those suffering with the dreaded SPD and all other pregnancy related ailments and wish that the last few days / weeks go quickly for you all.

Yancock, go ask for that sweep my goodness you deserve an early arrival!!!

Devils - I feel so much for you as being told something like that by your dh is probably worse than physical pregnancy pain. My dh is currently on a fitness drive and getting his body in really good shape which just makes me feel worse. I have promised myself that once this one is out I am going to really get my body back asap and then DH has promised to give me some £££'s for a big spend up on new clothes!! That thought is keeping me going!!

Love to you all ladies xxxxx

[arolf]

ah, I was thinking of starting an 'I hate being pg' thread last night, after my 6th night in a row with NO sleep, up and down to the toilet every hour, baby kicking me no matter what position I'm in, bad cramps (which I assume are braxton hicks, but who knows?!), then to top it all off I had a nose bleed this morning which meant I had to wake up my DP to get some tissues. SO I'm now sitting at work falling asleep at my desk, with a crappy headache, feeling nauseous again, and just want to take a pill and wake up when baby gets here. I'm 35 weeks btw...

And reading this thread, it looks like I'm one of the lucky ones - no SPD, not being monitored for anything, baby seems healthy and active so far. The only thing I'm having a problem with now is that his bum appears to have engaged (baby is breech), so I'm constantly peeing of feeling like I need to pee, plus I'm waddling rather than walking everywhere. Oh, and baby likes to bob his head around in my ribcage (or t least it feels like that). I just want to punch the next person who says 'ooh, must be due any day now!', because 5 weeks is NOT any day now. It's 5 weeks away. That's 35 whole days to get through, plus another 14 potentially.

Actually, I just want to punch anyone who comes near me just now. My DP was laughing at me at the weekend after I'd sat bitching about every single advert on TV during a commercial break, as he says he has never seen me so grumpy before. Ha, poor bastard - like I said, 5 more weeks of this...

[YanknCock]

Well, I asked this morning about a sweep, and apparently they don't do them until you're a week overdue! Now that has to be rubbish, I'm sure one of the ladies from my NCT class got hers the day before her due date (same hospital). Must text her and ask.

And I was prematurely smug about not being sick anymore. Had a little incident early this morning due to the heartburn, then following my BP monitoring appointment this morning, I lost my breakfast in the hospital car park, projectile fashion.

Am going to retire to my bed with a new stack of library books and feel sorry for myself.

And add these to my list of complaints:

-drooling
-snoring/snorting and waking myself up

[JRocks]

Oh thank god I'm not alone! I'm 34+3 although having a growth scan this week as the baby maybe slightly large for dates. So feeling like an elephant, tired from not being able to get comfy at night, unless I do and then need to pee. Yet in the daytime I could fall asleep standing up - it's so unfair. I have SPD but not severely - it's probably more uncomfortable than debilitating tbh, but still farking annoying when trying to do straightforward things.

YanknCock, I too am drooling, snorting and snoring. As if I hadn't lost all sense of appeal already. My poor DP must be wondering what on earth he's sharing a bed with.

I'm being monitored for pre eclampsia too, and have had a couple of trips to the hospital already. I've been so focussed on not wanting to develop this again that it's only just dawned on me that I could go overdue with a massive baby that I won't be able to deliver naturally... cue insomnia from worry.

I HATE to be this whingey, but can't seem to help it.

[spice37]

Hi everyone, this is my first time on the site and I feel so relieved to find I am not the only one who has had enough.

I'm 32 wks and have been ill nearly the whole pregnancy with sickness, chest infection, viruses, asthma and I've just had gestational diabetes diagnosed as well as having a disease in my spine and now I can't walk! Everyone keeps saying "you must be so excited" etc but I just want it to be over...now! My 1st baby arrived at 36 weeks (although that was 18 years ago!) so I am hoping this one will be the same as I don't think I can wait til 40 weeks.

Thanks for letting me moan on my first visit!! x

[MrsPuddleduck]

Hi - I am 31 weeks expecting DS3 by third c-section on 6th October and have turned into a serial moaner. Poor DH asks me every morning how I feel and how I slept and I can tell that he dreads the reply!

To top if off it feels as if the school holidays are never going to end. I feel hot regardless of the temperature outside and am glad the 'barbecue summer' never happened.

I swing between not being bothered to do anything and feeling stressed because I have done nothing. I have never been so disorganised in my life.

[KatyS36]

This thread is amazing! I don't feel like the only person any longer. Nearly threw pregnancy magazine across the room yesterday. Something I've been worried about is my natenatal classes, both NHS and NCT.

Prior to this pregnancy I considered myself a nice person, with social skills. Not perfect, but the type of person who could make friends. I was hoping that at these classes I would make some really good 'mummy friends'.

Now I feel like I'm just not the sort of person anyone would want to be friends with. I'm exhausted, and I just don't feel I can relate to most other pregnant women.

On the surface I can cope. I hopped around work on crutches today and everyone was either totally sympathetic or took the piss but in a nice fluffy supportive way. But the moment I discuss how I really feel (midwife etc) I'm a snivelling wreck, terrified I won't get better and won't be able to bond with the baby.

I'm not sure that I can cope with a 'being positive' approach for these classes, but I don't want to be a snivelling wreck and bring everyone else down too.

Anyone else scared of this?

[RFCMummy]

hi everyone, well we have made it though another day so can cross this off our calanders!!!

Yancock, that is rubbish, I was given a sweep at 39 weeks with DD 1 whom they suspected was large so you should definitely get one. Keep moaning at them until they give in.

I have spent today washing everything for the baby so hoping DH will screw the nicely washed cot together this evening!!

I am going to take the DD's to the beach tomorrow after swwing MW (we live by the sea) and then to an animal park on Wednesday after which it will be Thursday and another week will be nearly done!! (can you tell I am trying to get through this by making myself stupidly busy!!)

Hope everyone is feeling a little better today and now has their feet up

xxxxx

[Rascal1979]

Please enjoy your bumps some of us didn't get that far. I had DD at 30 +6 and would much rather have been pregnant and uncomfortable etc than sat by her incubator for 9 long weeks.

[KatyS36]

Rascal1979

I'm sorry that you must have had a terrible time.

Terrible times are terrible times, and I believe it is wrong to compare them.

However, whilst I am grateful that my baby is healthy (and have always always this when speaking to people) being in so much pain, with a good chance of it getting worse, makes 'enjoying my bump' not possible.

I am enjoying the fact that I will have a baby. I am not enjoying the process. I would very happily feel uncomfortable and am grateful that I don't have as many problems as some of the posters.