Anyone else in the last few weeks and utterly fed up?

[ChairmumMiaowGoingItAlone]

I'm 38wks tomorrow and already convinced the baby is going to come at any minute (my 2nd), frequent braxton hicks that are getting more frequent and more uncomfortable.

I know I could have weeks still to go but I'm so fed up and need to whinge with people who know they shouldn't really be whinging but need to get it out anyway!

Anyone want to join me?

aaaaah, a place to whine, just what i'm in need of!

36/37 weeks and totaly fed up. exhausted, can't breathe, can't sleep, have terrible heartburn, my hips are agony and it feels like baby is trying to scratch its way out through my cervix and kick its way out through my belly button at the same time!

add to that a toddler bored out of his brain because mummy is in too much pain and too exhausted to get off the sofa.
not an enjoyable pregnancy at all.

roll on the 11th when i go and have my cs, yippeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!

So so so so bored with being pregnant and am only 24 weeks! Can't sleep, feel enormous, everyone tells me I'm huge, can't pick things up off the floor, burst into tears at the slightest thing, have just eaten two donuts and two chocolate eclairs and now feel sick. My 5 year old is being more reasonable than me!

Obviously really pleased and blessed to be having another little one but would really like it to be over now!

Having a good whinge makes you feel so much better - I love this thread!

Simbaline- that made me laff...

2 eclairs and 2 donuts? you are soft core... I am so down I ate eclair, donut and a 3 scooper of thorntons icecream for my dinner yesterday....

yes yes and yes, more solidarity over here! am 36 weeks and sooooo fed up of being pregnant, which you feel so guilty for feeling because you're so lucky to have the baby obviously... grrr only you ladies understand the discomfort laced with guilt im feeling! can't believe i might still have a whole MONTH of this to go.

bamboobutton - nail on the head with your comment about toddler climbing the walls with boredom! my ds is only 17 months bless him, so has no whats coming shortly and doesnt get why we can't go out for long walks like we used to. i had awful BH yesterday after getting back from a (what i consider) short to moderate walk - was actually thinking this might be it and got a bit excited, but no, false alarm.

chairmanmeoew - sorry to hear about you and DH - you sound like things are working amicably enough, but it must suck to have all that going on when you're so pregnant and uncomfortable.

Chairmum - I am totally with you.

35 weeks now and cannot wait to have the baby.

I am sick of being sick, sick of feeling sick, sick of telling DD mummy can't play because I feel sick, sick of not being able to do almost anything because I feel sick.

Sick of my fanny hurting too. And my back. And my c-section scar. Sick of being kicked by the baby. Sick of feeling guilty because I'm sick of being kicked.

Sick of people saying, 'It's not as bad as last time though, is it?' - which it's not as I was seriously sick all the way through. Comparatively it is enjoyable, but still....

Come back and join us on the June thread.

oh yeah, the fanjo pain! why do my bits feel like i have been booted by someone in steel toe-caps?? i've been rootling around trying to find a varicose vein down there but there's no sign of one.

alanna- poor toddlers! ds goes crazy when dh comes home at weekends and bedtime is impossible as he is trying to make up for a week of being stuck and bored in the house and is clinging to daddys leg like a limpet.

ha! sounds just like mine! daddy is definitely the fun parent at the moment - i thank my lucky stars he's a teacher and can come home at a reasonable hour to take the reigns.

hi there, I am 38 weeks and so fed up too. have SPD that is making me soooo emotional, cry at anything, house looks like crap but can't get about much to clean it. Sleeping properly at night is a complete joke, have to turn over like every 20minutes which resembles a hippo rolling over making grunting noises!!! Constant weeing, heartburn,swollen hands and feet, crappy skin, the list goes on. Then my darling 5 year old tells me I'm so lazy and then asks why does my bum wobble when I walk?
I feel your pain ladies, good luck, the end is in sight!!

well ladies i'm 34 weeks (although i keep forgetting!!!) i only know because the midwife told me so! i have forgotten how old i am, what day it is, how to cook, apparently how to shave my legs - as today i managed to take a big chunk of skin off my hand.... dont ask!!

i hit rock bottom when i sneezed the other day and a bit of pee came out!! i may as well get the adult nappies ready!

i'm fed up of being pregnant. i'm pretty sure i drive like a drunk person, and everything DH is doing just seems to get on my nerves... like biting his nails in front of the tv; scratching his nuts and leaving cupboard doors open for no apparent reason!!!

on top of that i am an emotional wreck... i can cry at pretty much anything. my lovely once perky boobs are now resting on my belly! i can't bend over without having to hold on to something to pull me up again. and today i sat on my butt eating a box of Krave out of the box.. no milk, no spoon, just hands!!!

i finished with work a month ago and looking after DS who is only 17months, but he does keep me entertained with his antics.. have taught him to have nice long naps with mummy in bed so that way i have an even better excuse to stay in bed

i was just thinking today of how ready i am to just go into labour... i won't mind the pain, honest! just get foetus out of me!!!!!

rant over

I am 13 days overdue today. Being induced this morning hopefully. Went 14 days over with DD, so completely disappointed in my body's lack of ability to get em out!

Feel like the baby is going to either pop out or fall out the south entrance and haven't slept for longer than 2 hours in one go for weeks. Been awake half the night and feel sick with nerves now

I'm so happy to have found this thread! I'm 35+2 today and soo fed up! But got so much to do I really hope the baby doesn't decide to come early as need a caesarian this time... Just have to try put up with the hip pain, ligament pain, back pain, heartburn, breathlessness for 3 more weeks...

Membrane sweep seemed to have worked for me with DS, was in labour 24hrs later.

Good luck to all!

alanna - thanks! Its actually not so bad because I can always remind myself how bad is was when we were together. Things were at their worst in my first trimester when I was really exhausted and H was working away a lot and we fought all the time. The situation at the moment, while physically taxing at times, is much more relaxed and everyone is happier.

I'm jealous of all those who are close to induction, or at least know when they're having a CS (even though I don't want to be induced or have a CS!) because there isn't the same "is this it" question that I have all the time!

Stumbleline your post made me laugh out loud at my desk!!(whilst tucking in to a doughnut for breakfast!) I am soooo with you on alll those things!!

I am suffering with some ante natal depression, so reading this thread has really cheered me up Thank you.

chairmum went through a V similar experience with DD1 (splitting with ex during pregnancy etc) hope it all works out for you.

What a lovely message, thank you notnowbernard

40 + 10, still no sign, although I laughed so hard at Have I Got News For You last night I thought I was going to pop him out there and then on the sofa, but sadly he's immune even to that.

Good luck with the induction Emmanicola, I'm really hoping to avoid one but it is starting to become more tempting.

Right, on with the list of jobs I have to keep me occupied, unfortunately I did all the interesting ones in the first week of being overdue.

39+3, my blood pressure is rocketed and I feel shakey all the time. Grrh! My tolerance level is now zero - poor DD (4) and DS (21 months), I am not a lovely Mummy.

I so want the baby to arrive over the bankholiday whilst my folks are in town to look after the kids and DH is off work. Does anyone know whether, if I ask, the midwife will give me a sweep tomorrow at my hospital appointment?

My midwife said she would offer one at 40 weeks but it couldnt hurt to ask her maybe? just go in and start crying and she may just do one, good luck!

Oh what a joy to read, makes me feel not so alone! I am 37+1 and I am sooooo uncomfortable. My lovely baby has a foot permantly lodged in a rib (appart from when it moves it away to then jamb it back in again) and there are about 2 possitions that I feel comfortable in.

Loving my maternity leave but starting to think this baby will never arrive, am I going to be a big, fat, beached whale for the rest of my life?

Also my DH thinks it is really funny to wind me up to test out how hormonal I am. Oh AND the other night he could not find his squash ball as the cat had hit it under the sofa, he got really annoyed so asked me to get down and have a look. I made it clear that his 9 month pregnant wife was not getting on the sodding floor to find his sodding squash ball . Why can men never find anything for themselves?

Thank you ladies for making me laugh whilst feeling ill and miserable at home!
Only 31 weeks but permanently knackered and just so frustrated with not feeling like myself (normally high energy) at all. Now have a cold on top of piles, heartburn not being able to sleep (pillow castles are so my thing at the moment!) back pain and did I mention being knackered? So have the pleasure of coughing until I'm sick and feeling even more breathless, headachey and wheezy than usual. Rubbish!
Can't wait to stop work and feel very guilty at having more time off but really cannot function today. Mat leave starts at 35 weeks and I can't wait!
I do love a pregnancy whinge.......

Oh it is so nice to know that you are not the only person finding the last few weeks so unbearable. Am 36 weeks and surviving today on 2 hrs sleep. DD, nearly 3, was up all night screaming with fever and pain, then had lovely 3 hrs in hospital with her. Now back home where the tv has been on since 11am and I have no intention of turning it off before bedtime!! Poor mite has ear infection, could be worse, but she hates medicine and now have 8 days of attempting to get the antibiotics down her throat. Too tired to cook so baked beans for supper again!!

I am sooo glad you are all feeling the same.
My first was a breeze, 18 months ago- loved every minute of being pregnant/ birth.
This time is so different!
When people ask 'how are you', I grimace, and tell them I'm fine thanks.
But really I want to tell then exactly how I feel!
I'm 36 weeks, and just wish I could sit down all day.
I am so moody, I've fallen out with my boss. Shouted none stop at DS and the dog.
I havn't spoken to DH for a week, and can't even remember why?
Don't need this agro, as it is making me feel sick, and struggle to breath when I am on a rant. But an't help it!!
Hope when I finish work in two weeks, I will chill out?
I feel really bad for thinking like this, as it was my choice.
I'm even getting fed up of pigging out on chocolate!! lol

arrrrgh sunshiney i sgree, im in constant guilt also about how much the telly is on for my 2yr plus 4month yr old....she is sooo good but this afternoon i had to force my eyes to stay open, shut them for 10 mins during cbeebies and bless her she was saying wake up mummy nowwww, come and play, come and play.....the guilt!!! she was in daycare when i used to work 2days a week but since mat leave at 29wks shes been with me!! waiting for a nursery place at a good one nearer our house than where she was before, just a couple sessions a week would do her good i think! and me/baby!! we still doing all usual toddler groups.music sessions etc, while i still fit behind the wheel! am 34 weeks. i have one question....how do mummies do this in the winter?!?!?!?! im struggling with coping with bump and toddler and we have a garden/sunshine/slide/sandpit etc!!

ahh bless you all, winge as much as you can and everyone around you should rush to your aid, I did, and I have had 6 pregnancies! I forgot about all those aches and pains untill reading your posts, you will to and soon go back for more! good luck and stay calm and breath, lol

Great thread. These last few weeks are horrible and go SO slowly. I am 35+ and getting thoroughly fed up. Actually I was already fed up about 24 weeks.

Especially hard running round after a toddler too.

I'm 37+4 and my list of complaints is as follows:

*Trying to look after 15mo with Chicken Pox
*Have a chest infection and rotten cough
*DH coming down with aforementioned chest infection
HeartburnHyperemisis (tablets not working as well anymore)
*Stress incontinence (nice.... I blame DD1)
*Baby trying to tunnel own way out, actually bringing tears to my eyes!

TBH I could go on! Am feeling v sorry for myself, trying to remember what a privilege it is to be pg but struggling.

Pg with DD1 was tough at times, this is awful - I AM NOT HAVING ANYMORE!!!!

Sorry, didn't mean to put 'heartburn' in bold - though it is pretty horrid!