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?

Spottylotty - it all sucks doesn't it! I'm currently propped up in bed with appauling heartburn and have already guzzled loads of gaviscon. I've got a terrible cough now too which doesn't help the old stomach muscles!

Dreading trying to keep DS entertained tomorrow as I am hating going out of the house at the moment - at least it sucks on my own and I have already roped in help from H for the bank holiday and he is being very good about helping out generally!

I am a big whinger!

COME OUT BABY!!!!

I think it's an age thing, i was 24 with my first and am now 34, if I'd waited this long for the first it would have been an only, am so knackered !
I have one more day of childcare so today would really really be a good day to give birth.
Fingers crossed for everyone x

i would like to join in too: the all over body itching has driven me crazy for months!! was really fine till a couple of weeks ago, now, (40+5) i am just UNCOMFORTABLE!!! and my pelvis hurts and everytime I wince D looks hopefully in my direction like "is anything happening?". Nope. Nothing is happening.

I feel so much better after reading all these posts - I'm 33 weeks and all was going beautifully until a couple of weeks ago - I just KNEW it was all too good to be true. Now I am in agony with shooting pains all down one leg, if it's not that it's shooting pains down my back on the other side. Anyone have any advice how to deal with this kind of sciatic pain?

Oh and I have developed lovely cankles, along with swelling all across my bikini line. So I even have a fat fanny!! How unfair is that!! And yes, I'm like a hippo turning over in bed.

Can't wait for this to all be over ... my images of a perfect pregnancy with perfectly neat and tidy bump are fading fast

I'm 30 weeks exactly and before I got preganant I recall people always talking about pregnant women looking blooming!!!! Well I've not felt that at all, just fat and tired all the time. I live abroad, my DH works away for weeks at a time and when he does come, he expects me to run around after him. He just doesn't get how tired I feel. Plus I've been diagnosed with Low blood pressure, making me more tired than usual, roll on the next ten weeks so that I can meet my DS and I know meeting him will outshine everything

33+1 and I've been hating it for weeks. I've had pelvic girdle pain for a few months now, so sleeping is a nightmare. I have a giant pillow mountain, but while sleeping more or less upright stops my hips and legs being in agony (I can't lie on my side for more than about 30 seconds without causing myself a long period of aches), it means I get a sore, numb arse because our mattress is old and hard, despite there being an old duvet under the (supposedly quilted) mattress protector and undersheet.

I also have frequent heartburn, and a demanding, energetic 2y/o. Oh, and epilepsy. I'm doing a course which finishes two weeks before my D/D, and while my DP is my carer and therefore at home with me all the time, he has depression, so we end up having to look after each other quite a bit. Especially since every time I have a fit (fortunately mostl in the evenings after DS has gone to bed) DP gets down because he worries about me. (And he's not sleeping well but won't even consider sleeping aids because he wants to be able to wake up if something happens, which means we both extremely tired.)

Also, to whoever it was eating donuts and eclairs, I now have a massive craving for them, and the shops are shut. Nooooooo!

Summerhols.... I hope you put some expletives in the response to the' look under the sofa' request. I sure would have!!

Im really struggling with a pain under my ribs, so bad that it hurts when I breathe in, and sleeping is a nightmare.

All my pals who are pregnant ( that is 3) have now all had their babies - early- and Im the last of the nct group. Am i heartless to say that I am frigging fed up with holding otherpeople's babies against my bump? Can't be bothered to say how cute they are anymore....

40 weeks tomorrow.... i guess I could be on here for another 12 days...

Blooming? Whoever linked that to pregnancy is an arse. Blooming bloody awful.
36 tomo. Breech. Doc appt 37+3 but he already refused to CS before 39 wks. W@nk£r.
Love the pillow castle thread! Is two bottles of Gavison a week too much? I too have SPD & high glucose (hey Snickers bars are Low GI!!!)
I had contractions last Sat and then they went away. Devastated is an understatement.
BH that take my breath away, but not contractions anymore.
DD is an angel, long may it last and DH is being great but I just sit for hours on end playing Freecell on the laptop. Over 500 games in the last fortnight.

Oh fantastic, an opportunity to get it all off my chest to a completely sympathetic audience!

38 weeks and 3, expected to have given birth by now as 1st born at 36+5 and had issues mid term this time. Think probably would have gone that way had we not had a pretty major and very unexpected family bereavement (husband's brother) - then spent weeks trying not to give birth before/at funeral and think I have stalled things.

As a result I now have a baby who has been fully engaged for nearly a week - feels like I have a watermelon lodged in my pelvis!! But No movement on the labour front!!!!!

My lovely husband is understandably not able to be supportive - would so love some pampering and TLC but not shouting at nearly 3 year old while he tries to tire him out is about his limit at the moment. Really feel for him as he knows this isn't enough.

Worried about how DH will cope with arrival of new baby on top of grieving while simultaneously wishing he would show some enthusiasm and of course realising this is impossible.

Keep having twinges and hoping we are systems go - only to be diappointed. All the pain but none of teh gain!! So sick of not knowing what's going on!!!

Feel i have tried everuything to get things going but to no avail - reflexology, raspberry leaf, walking (ouch), nipple tweaking, bouncing on birth ball

Good stuff - while sleeps pretty disturbed I'm not actually that tired. Enjoying teh time off work (a first for me as am bit of workaholic) coffee and lunches with mates is lovely. My Mum is being fantastic and trying her best to provide support to both Dh and I.
Challenges we are facing at the mo make me realise how strong our marrigae is and how much I really love my husband (have a habit of overlooking this is the niggles of evryday life). Feel really positive that we will come out teh otherside even stronger - even if next few months are very tough!

Right rant over!! Thanks for letting me vent, feel much more able to get on with things now. Also realise that venting has made me see positives!

Come on girls cheer me up a bit more by sharing your positives (obviously alongside the moaning as that's everybit as important!!!!!)

thank heavens. Am 38 weeks plus (keep forgetting)and am bored, bored, bored. DH is knackered from doing huge house projects and working full time, I'm tired from sitting. Will try to do something today. Am daydreaming all the time about babs...

I'm 40+1 now, and just had a feeling I'd be early! I've had a good pregnancy and enjoyed it till about week 36 when the pelvic pain started - but now I am so ready to meet bump.

I've been on maternity leave for 3 weeks and now all bar one NCT friend has had their baby - I'm getting so bored. I'm walking miles each day, swimming twice a week, cleaning, tidying and generally pottering around the house, just waiting! Guess I could have another 2 weeks of this!!!

Im 37 + 1 today with dc no. 4. Others are 17, 14 qnd 7. Finished work yesterday. Mynmain problem is my swelling right the way up to my knees-its uncomfortable and very ugly. I swim every day which helps a lot and go for a sleep in the afternoon now even tho its frustrating because im a really active person normally-just accepting im almost 40 i suppose !. Also find 2 paracetamol at bedtime helps now im at the end.
Not fun anymore x

Hi y'all. Watching Toy Story 2 with ds (2) for umpteenth time. 40+4 and really ready - wishing I could just press a button and labour would start!

Dizzy - so sorry for loss of your BIL.

Cejay - it is yawnsome sometimes! I have had enough pottering now too - though goodness knows, I will be longing for me-time when the baby does finally arrive.

Fakeblondie - I have had majorly puffy ankles too. Can only really wear flip flops and crocs - total fashion bypass.

Good things - ds is adorable at the moment and we had a lovely long walk to Royal Festival Hall this morning. The house is pristine, and my friends and family are being very loving.

36 weeks today! Really tired though. I have heard a theory that the last few weeks are so horrid as it is nature's way of making you perversely look forward to the birth. Certainly working for me.

MPuppykin - I think you might be right. I didn't have a nice first labour but now I'm sort of looking forward to the chance to try to do it 'better' this time. wierd eh!?

I cannot recall where i heard that- but more than likely on mumsnet! But I have gone into a 'cannot wait, please hurry up' state which has made a nice change from cold fear.

Hope you have a lovely labour.

HAHAHA that is so right MPuppykin! I was bloody terrified about a month ago, 1st time am doing this and reading threads about tears and thinking OMG is there no other way!?
But now (41 weeks) I'm like: bring it on!
Ceejay- i've been swimming lots too it is very nice and keeping me sane as I wait, (while trying not to wait), for anything, something, to happen...
Positives: flat clean and full of food, DP being lovely, have made it to 2 weddings at 39 and 40 weeks that i did not know if i would make!

The problem is kentishtown is that I keep saying bye to my friends, see you when I have a baby - and then turn up 3 days later looking a bit sheepish, still with a bump. I remember one of them last time saying, what are you still pregnant - can't you get on with it . 40+5 today - just had some Caullophyllum 200c - meant to bring labour on, but nothing doing!

Yes me too! and they're all like "good luck, will be thinking of you, etc etc...." each time. one of my friends goes: "just concentrate woman!"
I've just been on bumpy/rattly bus. also no effect!

I wish i could think about something else sometimes. Its like my whole life is centred around being 38 weeks pregnant and nothing else is going on !

I'm 39+5 today. Been feeling ok till the warm weather started and my fingers have turned to sausages and feet resemble pasties!

I think it is amazing being able to make and grow your own baby but it is SO uncomfortable!

Just want to be able to wear normal clothes again, be able to put my shoes on, be able to wipe my butt (tmi!) again properly, be able to roll over in bed without loads of pain and be able to hold my baby!!!

Going to go for a long walk tonight and try to molest husband to see if that will do anything

32 weeks.

Its nice to see that I'm not the only one.

I'm generally a very active person and have been very lucky in that I'm feeling well. However, I find that having a bump means my usual activities are limited somewhat. Not to mention I am tired of the baby talk (people used to talk to me about career, holidays, politics, etc).

Any suggestions as to what to do with your time (now and when I'm sleep deprived but still bored)? Preferences would be low cost (as trying to save for the essentials) and non car based (don't have a car).

Hi there

I'm 36 weeks ( 3rd pregnancy) and I am really fed up and emotional. I actually started crying today because my two pre school kids were arguing whilst I was having a run of regular BH's. I only got to 35 weeks with my last pregnancy so it's all feeling too long already.

I am really hating being this pregnant but at the same time I'm really anxious about how I'm going to cope with 3 small children. I've started feeling how i did in the beginning when I wasn't sure I wanted to go through with it and feel really shameful about admitting it.

41 weeks today and still no sign! Can't sleep (hence the timing of this message), fed up and desperate to meet babs... We'll see what the midwife says this afternoon...