Anyone Else Been Pregnant Since the Dawn of Time?

[14hourstillbedtime]

God, I'm fed up... and I'm only 38 weeks!! But, as that means I've been pregnant since July 15th last year, I think that officially qualifies as an age and a day... And, yes, I know it's going to be much, much harder once the baby gets here (already have DS1, nearly 3) but I just want to have one day of pregnancy reprieve to be able to:

Sleep on my stomach
Sleep the whole night through without peeing one million times/waking up in a mad panic about what I'm about to do and how our lives will change, etc
Drink SEVERAL glasses of chilled white wine
Have sex that doesn't involve me saying 'wait a minute, I'm just turning over'

Seriously, I don't want the baby to get here before EDD as my mum isn't arriving (flying in to the States) until April 20th, two days before I'm officially due. Currently, however, family are all having a whale of a time iin the British Virgin Islands, leaving me (drunk?) messages saying things like: 'We're all on the beach having a cocktail now, just thinking of where we're going for supper'. I'm so happy for them (not)....

Anyone else officially done being pregnant?!

lol!
Both times I found life easier when the baby was here than in the last couple of months of pregnancy - and I had straightforward easy pregnancies.

I'm done. I'm only 35 weeks and I've had enough. My joints are falling apart so I'm stuck in the house most of the time and I've just developed carpal tunnel syndrome, which means my window to the outside (the internet) may be taken away from me as it's becoming increasingly painful to use the computer. Bah!

I have been pregnant now for about five years, or so it feels like it. Now 35 weeks and absolutely fed up. Baby is engaged (already have a DD 3 years old) and it is so uncomfortable. I can't bend, pick anything up, put my trousers on, and I look like a hugely fat lump. Indigestion and nausea are constant and I'm sooooooooo tired. I can't wait to get my body back!!! Anyone else feel like they are sort of sitting on their baby's head? And I do teaspoon wees every hour throughout the night. Boobs hurt too. Can't wait to just get on with it! Glad someone else feels like me....

I'm 37wks and want to lie on my stomach and be able to walk around without stabbing pains in my bump and grinding pain in my hips. My arthritis is playing silly beggers but consultant can't do anything but according to him 'its so exciting isn't it' and to just 'go for a walk which will help'. I can't even put my own sodding socks on.

ME!!! This is my fourth baby in 6 years so I feel as though I've been pregnant FOREVER!! I am 37 weeks tomorrow - and cannot wait for this bub to arrive....and then, we are DONE. This has been the hardest pg by a long chalk - having three others to run around after is exhausting enough, without having to deal with late pg too. Luckily next week I am decamping to my parents house in Somerset and they will take them off my hands so I get to charge my batteries, ready for the newborn onslaught!

Yup, I've been miserable and I am only 16 weeks! I look about 20 though. Am fed up of waking up 5 times a night (not even to pee or anything), not being able to drink wine (I'm not completely against a glass on wine in pregnancy but I had one glass on my birthday and was punished with a cracking headache for the rest of the day), oh yeah, the headaches I seem to have every day, and fed up of looking like crap because none of my clothes fit and I am too tired to wash my hair let alone style it.

Only 24 weeks to go!

Glad to know I'm not the only one! Not long to go for most of us (sorry, IReadCookeryBooksInBed!)

PanicMode - serious respect - this is only my second pregnancy and already I get what people mean about it being a totally different experience (not sure I cleaned too much poo off people's hands after random experimentation with 'where poo comes from' first time round )

I tell you who I seriously want to deck, though - people who point out the bloomin' obvious! As in, yesterday, in Ikea, woman tells me 'oh look, you're waddling!' Apart from the 'um, don't think I know you, but thanks for the random comment'-ness of the situation, I would really like to reply as follows:

'Yes, I am waddling because I have a full term baby with an engaged head stuck in my pelvis.' One day, one day....

Has anyone actually ever said the things they'd like to say to people's inane comments?!

Glad to know I'm not the only one! Not long to go for most of us (sorry, IReadCookeryBooksInBed!)

PanicMode - serious respect - this is only my second pregnancy and already I get what people mean about it being a totally different experience (not sure I cleaned too much poo off people's hands after random experimentation with 'where poo comes from' first time round )

I tell you who I seriously want to deck, though - people who point out the bloomin' obvious! As in, yesterday, in Ikea, woman tells me 'oh look, you're waddling!' Apart from the 'um, don't think I know you, but thanks for the random comment'-ness of the situation, I would really like to reply as follows:

'Yes, I am waddling because I have a full term baby with an engaged head stuck in my pelvis.' One day, one day....

Has anyone actually ever said the things they'd like to say to people's inane comments?!

Am 37 weeks tmrw and suffering from insomnia, which coincides with the baby wriggling and jerking and putting pressure 'down there', combined with painful Braxton Hicks that have me getting my hopes up that 'this is it' and the baby's coming early...... am driving myself mad. Just want this baby OUT!!

Hell hath no fury like a woman heavenly pregnant.

35 weeks with my 4th and don't think I've ever felt so ill.

I have officially been pregnant forever and I'm desperate to evict this little miss when she's cooked... a couple of weeks time would be lovely!

Respect to all those on 3rd or more- I am on the 2nd and have definitely got the "no more, this is IT" feeling! What with 2 mcs I have been pg in some form since November 2008

The absolutely fantastic news is elcs Monday morning so only 4 sleeps to go WAHAY!!!! (sorry!)

FatSeal I am very that you are so close!!

Good luck on Monday - how exciting

FatSeal - Good luck!!!

As an aside, really liked the '4 sleeps to go' phrase - used to use that a lot as a child, in the run-up to Christmas... Birth-Day is just as exciting, of course, though possibly slightly more onerous for you

14hourstillbedtime - I am 38 weeks today, due 23rd April and yes would love to sleep on my stomach and not get up 3 times in night to go to toilet, etc etc. I think some wine would be ok though at this stage? Also I would prefer if I didn't have runs of strong BH whenever I walk anywhere, including up the stairs, such that I think that this must be it! And I still have another week left at work (yes I'm mad I know).

But like you don't want to be early, parents flying in from abroad on 21st April, 2 days before due date and I need them to look after DD and DS!

However I am trying to look on the bright side:

• at least I am still managing to sleep albiet with toilet breaks (was total insomniac in first pregnancy) and that sucks,
• am managing to go swimming 3x a week,
• have no medical complaints, aches or stretch marks
• DS and DS went back to school yesterday and are there 8.30-3.30 each day, yippee!

Hello wizbitwaffle and MumNWLondon - seems we are all due to within a day of each other - my due date is April 22nd!

Agree with you, MNWL - baby must hang on in there until the cavalry arrives! How on earth you are managing to be at work, and also having two other DC, I have no idea - but well done you! I find it bonkers enough with just the one other DC!!

(As to wine, w..e...l....l I already have two glasses a week - one on Tuesdays and one on Fridays - anal retentive, moi? no.... which is why I spelled out that what I really, really need at this stage is several glasses of wine.... )

I am also 38 weeks, due on 23rd April. I am officially over it, but I want to hang on if I can as my OB is sunning himself in Hawaii at the moment. He is officially back on call on 26th April and the less people that have an acquaintance with my lady bits the better.
I also have a really active 23-month old who delights in making mummy bend down to pick things up off the floor.
Today, my bum cheeks are so sore - I feel like I have been mountain biking.
I am sleeping really well though - too well, I wake up just as I am desperate to go to the loo and have to do the waddle/shuffle because if I go too fast I end up wetting myself . Then when I get back to bed, I can't get back to sleep properly and doze until it's time to get up.
Thankfully I can sleep when DS1 does.
I want wine or beer too...

I am due 23rd of April too, at the moment am booked in for c section on 20th as baby is breech...as much as I don't want c sect, actually now beginning to think at least it would be over...very painful head in the ribs, plus its feet are up by its ears, so those are digging in the other side...just want to stop dropping things and then having to make the choice to either pick them up now, or leave it until I can be bothered...or someone else that can bend comes along. seriously fed up with walking at the pace of my friends 3 year old, and of watching my blood pressure and worrying about having pre-eclampsia....

oh just let it end! Actually think there isn't a baby there at all, going to get to the hospital and there going to go 'ha! fooled you! its all cake!'th

I am sick of it too. only 28 and a bit weeks for me and so fed up. fed up with a seriously major commute, fed up with not being able to drink and fed up with stupid comments. (Today, my neighbour asked how I was and I said i felt quite tired and she replied 'you are tired all the time. You are not handling pregnancy well, are you?' I have a 6 fucking hour daily commute, of course I am fucking tired.) Thnks heavens that finishes in May. God Bless maternity leave I say.

And I wish wish wish so much that DH had not accepted a dinner invitation for tonight AND tomorrow when I have to go back to work on Monday. Feeling quite sorry for myself really.

Major respect to those who have done this more than once!

We had IVF so I've been injecting myself with drugs that make me feel pregnant for over a year and now am pregnant with another 9 weeks to go.
DD came at 39 weeks so am praying this one will be out by then maybe even a bit sooner [grin[

I'm only 27 weeks, but it feels like an eternity. I'm sure it went much quicker first time around.

I've had rubbish morning sickness, I've become lactose intolerant, my ribs are killing already and I have to buy and move into a house 5 days before the baby is due.

House hunting with a toddler is bad enough, but whilst pregnant it's been nightmare. I keep having to ask estate agents if I can puke in the bathrooms.

I officially want this pregnancy over and I have ages left

14 hrs and everyone else @ 38 weeks - me too, I'm due April 21st. I think I've been pregnant since August 2004, when ds was conceived! He was born at 39+6 and dd at 40+6, I hope there isn't a pattern here, and I actually make it to 41+6.

Ohhh yes incredibly fed up! I am due 20th April and this is my first pregnancy, so i feel for everyone on their 2nd + pregnancies and I feel like a big moaning drama queen

I may not have gone past my due date yet ( which i think is a few days late but that's another looong story ) but i have still been trying some of these natural methods which are posted absolutely everywhere! I have walked and walked and cleaned the floor almost in the kitchen and bathroom almost every day - the fact I have become a cleaning obsesssed freak these last few weeks has helped that cause! I have had alot more curry than i normally would and tried to crank up the spice a notch. Also sex sex sex, all of this has been an epic fail for me so it's safe to say my baby isn't ready!

also beeen on the raspberry leaf tea in the hope it may "tone my uterus!" I'm convinced it gives some pretty intense BH contractions but I don't know if this is what it is meant to do?

Shall we start a competition to see who goes into labour first (I do 'competitions' with DH all the time - like, who is going to win on so-and-so telly show - we normally bet a tenner or a blow job... maybe won't apply in our cases )

Hi other 38 weekers - I am still at work as I only work 3 days a week and its an office job so not physically demanding (although do have to get tube) and I decided that I'd rather sit it out waiting for the baby at work rather than at home, as if I was at home I'd start doing silly things like cleaning out cupboards!

re: wine at this stage would have thought a bit more than 2 glasses a week was ok but read that it could slow down labour if you drank too much - maybe several glasses at a time too much!

GJ91 - calm down you are not at due date yet and first babies generally late... too early for curries, save them for 2 weeks time. I had acupuncture on friday (free at my hospital) (and sex) and taking raspberry leaf tablets but TBH not really ready for the baby to come yet want to finish work and have my parents arrive! Baby has not to come before its due date!