your worst pregnancy discomfort/niggle

[tiggz]

I'll be the first to admit that my worst one by far is piles!

dd1- heartburn
dd2- xh closely followed by thrush
dc3- am only 9 weeks and I have had a horrible taste in my mouth unless I only eat grapefruit and kiwis and drink water.

Exhausted, long for bed.... then can't sleep cos back hurts so much.

Starving, long for food... can't eat, heartburn.

Argh! Torture!

Pregnancy niggle for me was the pregnancy itself. I dont care what people say but to me its not natural and I hated it. It was a means to an end. I was the same with bfeeding as well. I like my body to be mine and never came to terms that I really needed to just surrender it for a little while.

Needless to say I have managed to make it through 2 pregnancies and dont ever have to do it again

luckyc i know the feeling of exhausting especially as im 6days overdue! Im so tired.
BLUEMARY3000 i agree that pregnancy is just one huge niggle itself, but i think it'll be worth it in the end!

tiggz, overdue is the worst. Was 10 days early with first and stupidly thought the same would happen with the next. Needless to say 11 days over and the day I was due to be induced, I went into labour naturally.
Hope all goes well and soon for you

Thankyou, i hope i go in very soon naturally and i beat my induction date, but i got a feeling i wont!

Wind...very difficult to hide at work (I'm only 7 weeks). Any advice??

sweat rash in groin, piles, heartburn, hairy-ness, swollen ankles, feeling like a moose

nausea, heartburn, aches in parts of my body i didn't know existed, more aches, especially the pubic bone! but i think the worst is the worry! worry that your not showing enough and the babys too small, worry that the babys too big, worry that you'll go into labour too soon, worry yo'll have to be induced, worry about giving birth naturally, worry about c-section...
i'm exhausted! and with google at my fingertips it's a nightmare!

feel better after that moan!

Heartburn and acid reflux right from wk 4 of pregnancy. Also got prescribed Omeprazole, but only after I did lots of research about it (there are several threads in the archives) and went to my doctor and asked for it - she didnt know you culd take it during pregnancy. Having said that, I've weaned myself off them now as your stomach can acclimatise itself to them apparently and you can end up with more acid. But they were brilliant for the first trimester.

Other than that, just feeling like there;s no room for my vital organs. And getting terrible pulled stomach muscles if I sneeze or cough when lying down.

I will never forget trundling round Ikea at 20 weeks pg absolutely sobbing in agony from piles. I am so glad I never have to go through that again.

Yes, SPD and sore hips at night! According to the physio it's called Bursitis - swelling of pockets of fluid in your thighs. Had it very bad and so I splashed out on a memory foam mattress pad and it's made such a difference...from burning agony to a 'mere' uncomfortable ache.

There are two I could defo do without!

1. Baby punching me in the top of what feels like the inside of my fanny!!! sorry for the crudeness but that is what it feels like!

1. Carpal tunnel syndrome. Both hands and arms from the elbow down have the worst pins and needles ever, a bit like being electrocuted constantly. Sometime I cant feel them at all when I wake up and I have to do a silly shaky arms and hands dance!

Am 33 weeks and I dont want to play anymore.

Cant wait to meet baby though. Yay!!!xx

At 22 weeks have started getting prickly heat rash all over tum, back, knees and wrists every time I have a wash and put on olive oil or other non-scented etc creams. This is nuts! Didn't happen with last pregnancy....

ravaavis oh god dont get me started on google, its a nightmare, makes ya sooo paranoid!
mouseplus1 i know the feeling of not wanting to play im 40 weeks plus 6days and i am sooooo past playing lol

Bless you Tiggz, hang on in there my love your little baby will be with you super soon I can feel it..xxx Mouse.xxx

Oh yeah Shaz10 I'd forgotten all about that but that was how I spent the last fair few weeks with dd2. Never slept for more than an hour before the agony woke me up and I had to call in the hydraulic winch to turn over. She was breech, fidgety and the most uncomfortable baby ever!!!
With dd1 there was a foot that was forever hooked under my ribcage... and a bottle-a-day of gaviscon habit too.
Remind me again why I'm doing this again?!

Leg cramps - magnesium really helped me after a midwife recommended it (she says they prescribe it in France for cramps). Made them nearly go away.
Gaviscon advance has worked well for my heartburn.
Am 38 weeks and fed up of being pregnant and having no energy for my toddler...and baby is very low and seems to randomly land on a nerve in my groin/leg and suddenly I can't put any weight on it...kind of embarrassing when you're out and about and then have to drag dead leg home...

gotta be piles... but now, at 41+ weeks, it's the WAITING!!

itchy bump - use bio-oil, it's a life saver.
Dodgy hips - slightly aided by an osteopath
That feeling of your bladder being kicked from the inside - never sorted that.
Pulmonary embolism at 33 weeks and 6 months of heparin injections? Don't go there :-)

mouseplus1 thankyou for the words of encouragement!
elka i totally agree!

Relentless guilt that the planet can't sustain us all....

barrypinches i've got a bad case of that too! did you see newswipe with 'and thats why i drink' where he did the bit about overpopulation? god i felt so guilty!

I am suffering with horrible piles this week Horrible and not really something you can whinge about to everyone who asks how you are (however tempted I am).

Restless legs, very bad

Feeling sick after I eat anything, that's a new one this week too....

32 weeks with 4th and final pregnancy.... I see a theme developing, do you think mother nature is telling us that 4 is more than enough????

Itchy stretch marks on my tummy with my first and, with my daughter, sinusitis. Never had sinusitis since but now understand what regular sufferers endure - I wanted to pull my aching teeth out!