I'VE HAD ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!

[newmomma]

and I've still got weeks to go...

Due date is either 8th or the 17th May.
DS1 came 2 weeks early so could be anywhere between, say, 1 week from now until the END OF MAY!

I physically can't do this any longer.

Can someone tell me I won't get that much bigger/more tired/more uncomfortable in the next few weeks - even if its LIES!

I didn't have anything like this with DS1 - it was a breeze. This time it feels like its such a slog and the thought of another 6 weeks... I could actually cry.

Sorry - someone slap my face and tell me to pull myself together.

My due date is also the 8th of may, all I do is wish for it to come every day and being driven mad by bachache period pain and braxton hicks that comes to nothing, feel your pain, I have a planned homebirth planned form 38 weeks but I would rather go to hopspital and it be born early, I just want to scream aswell, dh and my ds wen t to the cinema today and mcdonalds and I cried as I would love to go out but have really bad spd and a toddler I can't do anything with, may our babies come soon, every time I go t the toliet I want to see a show or my waters breaking every night I hope i will go into labour as also had 37 weeker and 38 weeker previously so keep telling myself it might be next week, is awful isn't it

I'm due 17th May too, and I am not a fan of this pregnancy thing at all! Crippled with heartburn and my asthma has got sooo much worse. Actually seeing consultant about it tomorrow and think I'm going to BEG to be induced early. Can't cope with it anymore!!

I'm not due until 3rd June and it feels so far away. I am not prepared for the baby at all but am so knackered and uncomfortable I can't even think about it. Come 36 weeks I'm on "get this baby out mode" - lots of walking, sex, curry, RLT - anything!

It'll be fine - you'll have it next Thursday, it'll be an amazing birth - fast and pain-free. You will describe it in years to come as 'spiritual'.

Your child will be beautiful and will sleep through the night immediately. The weight you gained will melt away in the following 2 weeks, leaving you with a figure that Elle McPherson would kill for.

What else..?

Oh yes... DS1 will bond beautifully with DC2 and will be a huge help - people will comment on how cute it is.

Do you feel better now? I will be having a similar experience at the start of July!

Ha! Can I join. I'm due in December....yes December and my boobs have taken on a life of their own and I want to puke constantly.
Swear I have a bump - but its probably Easter chocolate.

In all seriousness, whilst this is my first pregnancy so have no idea how you ladies are feeling at your stages, you do have my sympathy as a friend of mine is due May 7th and poor lamb is sooo fed up.

But I was a May baby (May 7th) and its a wonderful month to be born in!!

fingers crossed the next few weeks pass quickly for you all.

Lol I know just how you feel ..... still have 9 weeks to go, 8 if i'm lucky.
It is so much harder when you have other children, I know a lady having her 7th and she looks like death warmed up.

[waves] to NewMomma

Fellow May mummy here... 5 weeks left.

I too feel fed up being pregnant now. DD's pregnancy was a complete breeze in comparison. So many more aches and pains this time, plus having a 20mth old to contend with.

DD was 2 weeks late too so really not hoping for a repeat of that!

However saying that I cant imagine having a newborn either. Kinda feel like im not ready for number 2 yet.-- bit late now!!

Can I join? I'm due May 3rd, so just over 2 weeks away. I'm like a beached whale.

If I don't beat you ladies to it I'm going to be very cross!!!!

And I've not packed the hospital bag. Trying to invoke sod's law.

May 6th here and utterly utterly miserable

This is number 4 so so over this pregnancy malarky.

My gripes - SPD, everything feels at my ankles, huge, cannot do anything, oh just had enough.

Yay! I knew I couldn't be alone...

As soon as I've finished folding this washing I'm coming back for a MEGA moan un-load session!!

17th May for me too (C/S booked) - feels like forever away and it's twins so you can imagine the bloody size of me. Can't bend over, intense pelvic pain in the mornings, can manage to walk for about 2 mins at slowest pace imaginable before I start bawling... Ankles most unsightly, fat face, now only have 2 outfits that fit and am NOT buying anything else.

Oh joy.

29th April for me and I've reached the end of my tether. SPD with flare of fibro and RA, constant BH, period pain, no sleep. Actually tried to go for a walk yesterday to encourage the baby but definitely not going to break any land speed records! Plus every time I stop I get asked if I'm ok. Plus friends and relative keep asking if the baby has arrived yet!!!! Grrr!

Hi ladies, I know exactly how you all feel, I'm due May 2nd but 16 days feels like it might as well be 16 years! Keep telling baby it's much more fun out here than it is in there but no signs of an early appearance!

hi, am due may 1st with 5th and have been fed up since 30 weeks. two weeks seems tto long so know how pissed of those of you are waiting longer. previous registrar said i clld have sweep at 38 (tommorow). today my consultant said no too early and refused to doo it. bloody consultants what do they know. !!!!!!. so have been promised one next week. really fed up now and i just want to havve a large bottle of wine to myself. why does pregnancy take so long. i'm sure if men had to do it they would moan a lot more.

Hope you don't mind me joining in, I'm 34 weeks now, so due toward the end of May. I am so fed up of this, keep getting days where I feel as though I can't/don't want to do anything, just want to sleep. But have an extremely active 3yo to entertain...I am starting to remember why the last month feels like an eternity. Anybody got any tips on how to make this all more bearable?? I remember with my first I just rested a lot, but not possible this time due to afore-mentioned toddler.

I'm due a week after you and I'll be quite happy to just have the baby now to cuddle and play with. (apparently this baby won't be pooing...)

Achy back at, then at home achy, restless legs that aren't happy ANYwhere.

pinkstuff I will join you with my own large bottle of wine. can't wait to eat brie again!

You are all fully entitled to want to see your babies, but honestly, i would give my world to be where you are after 5 miscarriages,
wish i had everything you are all talking about.
Good luck and all the best my lovely preggers pals, hope you get relief soon
tatty x

I'm back...
Have washed and packed away all of the babies clothes and put come of the smallest bits into my hospital bag.

Todays gripes...

1. Really light headed - struggling to even stand up.

1. Heartburn so bad that even when I don't have heartburn it hurts to eat or drink - cup of tea literally burns on the way down.

1. Fat ankles, sore knees (weight strain I suppose).

1. Pain in my hips/pelvis/lower back so bad I could almost cry at the thought of having to even stand up. I WAKE UP in the morning with my calves throbbing before I've even got out of bed.

1. Raced to the doctors this morning with my 15 mo son who has been diagnosed with 'hand, foot and mouth', so he's got horrid blisters on his hand and feet and in his mouth so he's not sleeping or eating (not pregnancy related but in for a penny in for a pound!)

1. Baby is breech so uncomfortable and causing me c/s stress, rather than my MLU water birth I'd been hoping for.

1. My face is getting fat.

1. I swear I can see the start of some feint purple stretch marks appearing on my bump - I escaped these first time round.

1. Bump hurts all the time and is stopping me sleeping, even when DS1 manages to go through the night. I'm so ridiculously propped up with various pillows and cushions its like a military exercise just getting out of bed in the mornings.

10. Oh, and did I mention the head-spinning...?

11. I'm 'swollen' in places you can't mention in polite conversation.

12. I'm constipated. So much so its more painful than bloody childbirth.

13. NONE of my last-times maternity clothes fit me any more, confirming that I not only feel massive, but am actually two sizes bigger than in my last pregnancy.

Raggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Wow - this is very therapeutic - I wonder what tomorrows gripes will be!?!?

Oh God yes, I neglected to mention points 6 and 11 !!
On closer inspection my ankles today appear to be wider than my calves. This is most attractive.

meatandtattypie - sorry to hear about your MCs, have been there twice myself and know what it feels like.

I think it makes you more guilty about whinging when you are utterly grateful to be pregnant, it's just this last month is really awful.

As this is my fourth I knew exactly what I was getting into, just as well I know how much they are worth it to go through all of this. I love babies just hate the pregnancy bit and you cannot have one without the other.

I'm 38 weeks. My bump is rock hard and as itchy as hell, I can't get comfy, my back is starting to ache, my feet hurt, I can't get comfortable, can't sleep, am eating nonsense like a maniac after being so good for rest of pregnancy ... it took me so long to get pregnant after being told I couldn't, and I think you're right, it makes me feel so guilty to be moaning. To the point where this is the first time I've moaned, I've just told everyone else I'm fine and aren't I lucky!!
I do worry I'll be so exhausted by the time the baby does come all my hard work and planning for the birth will go out of the window and I'll just cry my way through it ... x

yes sorry to, no one means to offend those who want to be pregnant but it doesnt mean we can stop moaning about various ailments of which there are so many.
i think for me it is sharing my body for so long and i also worry so much that she is ok and obv only having her will tell me that.
i also want to know what she looks like, its amazing that you share your body all this time and have no idea what this little one is like. oh and i still want my body back!!!!!

meat Your post wasn't there last time I looked...

I've suffered from a mc in the past so can fully understand how you feel - I didn't mean to sound ungrateful.

I am desperate to meet my lo, but am thoroughly NOT enjoying the last few months of this journey and a little 'vent' really helps.

Aww, 3 years ago I was waiting for May 17th to come round. It didn't, May 10th did instead.

Oh I loved the end bit, absolutely loved it. I didn't moan a bit, not at all, nope, nuh-uh, not a gripe .

Apart from turning over in bed. I actually considered investing in a winch.

Good luck all. May babies are super.

This bit will seem to have been easy after the birth when the no sleep kicks in.