The Pregnant Womans Moan Thread.

comongethappy · 29-08-2014 12:02pm

I know all about the swollen ankles and feet as well Penny, it's no fun. I either have to wear flip flops or the hubby's runners now.

Treat yourself to a pedicure and leg rub, I had pedi yesterday and it was lovely to have feet looked after

Kash · 29-08-2014 12:13pm

So sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Just over 14 weeks and the daily vomiting and constant dehydration is really taking a toll - I've no reserves left.
If my first pregnancy was like this, my LO would be an only child.

Ms2011 · 29-08-2014 5:18pm

Kash wrote: »

So sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Just over 14 weeks and the daily vomiting and constant dehydration is really taking a toll - I've no reserves left.
If my first pregnancy was like this, my LO would be an only child.

Was just thinking that myself today, I feel tricked by my first pregnancy:p

SmokeyEyes · 31-08-2014 9:09am

Baby4 wrote: »

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Try Fybogel sachets!! They're actually grand, take one in the morning and one in the evening and they keep everything ticking over nicely and girls get these for after pregnancy too, I've already had two bouts of internal haemorrhoids or a fissure (baba is 2 months) and it'll be the last straw at that stage, so keep these on standby for after baba comes!

Also Dulcolax Stool Softener is brilliant, I'm taking all at once and it's absolutely grand!

pastry2010 · 31-08-2014 10:03pm

Anyone else feel like killing their OH!?!!
37 weeks today and highly irritated, can't get comfortable sitting or lying down and my back hurts like it's snapping and my OH is being extra annoying, he's been really supportive the whole way and it seems at the end when I need it most he's acting really selfish! I'm the one walking away and counting to 10 shouldn't it be the other way around??!

Penny Dreadful · 03-09-2014 8:30am

36 weeks today! Had the most horrible night though.
Went to bed at 11pm and woke up in quite a but of pain thinking I was in labour.
When the OMG passed I realised I wasn't but it was my ol' pal SPD back to visit. The pain in my left side of my pubic bone down to my left inner thigh was really bad.
Eventually it passed and I got back to bed at 3am. Slept until 5am when my hips and back decided it was their turn to make themselves felt.
Argh.
I got up at 07:30 to go to work thinking I'll take a half day due to the exhaustion. Had my breakfast which I then promptly threw up. Back in bed now with heat cushions and some paracetamol inside me and have decided to go into work at lunchtime instead.
Baby bump is quite low now so the baby seems to have turned (as showing all the signs of that at my scan last week) so we 're certainly on the home stretch now. Convinced the baby will come out to play in September rather than October for some reason. MUST pack my bag this evening so if I do go early then I can just grab and go.

Kash · 03-09-2014 9:42am

Have fainted, again. And bashed my face and bump, again. And hubby is out of the country, again. Totally freaking miserable

Penny Dreadful · 03-09-2014 10:22am

Kash wrote: »

Have fainted, again. And bashed my face and bump, again. And hubby is out of the country, again. Totally freaking miserable

How far along are you? I fell quite a bit in the first 20 weeks of my pregnancy and thankfully neither myself nor the bump came to any harm other than a few bruises and injured pride for me.

Have your iron levels been checked and your BP? It wouldn't hurt to go to your GP and have these things looked at as they might be contributing to your fainting spells.

pastry2010 · 03-09-2014 10:12pm

Kash wrote: »

Have fainted, again. And bashed my face and bump, again. And hubby is out of the country, again. Totally freaking miserable

Oh god hope you are ok Kash, that's terrible, have the doctors been informed of this? You need to take it easy - really easy! How far are you?

mirrorwall14 · 03-09-2014 10:28pm

Have a headcold, sore throat and my nose is running like a faucet-so worried it's gonna flare my asthma (cough variant). On top of that my plantar fasciitis is back but joy of joys it's now in both feet!!

angeldelight · 03-09-2014 11:18pm

Worried sick tonight - really bad abdominal pain earlier with

terrible diarrhoea

(potential TMI alert) and pain has now moved around to my lower back

Neyite · 03-09-2014 11:46pm

Angel, if it helps any, on my first pregnancy I had cramps so bad at 5 weeks that I lay on the bathroom floor, convinced I was miscarrying. But nothing happened. I've no idea what it could have been, my nurse reckoned it might be the uterus stretching. I literally could not stand up and found the cool floor soothing. But the results of that pregnancy has me run ragged these days the little monkey!

I hope its just stretching pains for you too.

josealdo · 03-09-2014 11:51pm

my girlfriend is 33 weeks pregnant today . i am so proud of her .

sound just tired . i have noticed her mood has improved as it gets nearer the time .

fro9etb8j5qsl2 · 04-09-2014 10:46am

Things I hate about waiting in maternity clinics:

People who roar all of their business into their phones for the whole waiting room to hear (specially when its not even juicy gossip :pac: )

People who pick the stinkiest icky crisps from the machine and take half an hour to eat them so that the whole area is reeking after them.

People who bring the whole family with them, as if getting your wee checked is an event to be celebrated by aunts, grannies and sisters alike.

Men who will happily glue their arses to the only available seats and sprawl themselves out for the long haul while heavily pregnant women have to use the wall to support themselves.

People who have an attitude problem, constantly sighing loudly and throwing their eyes at everyone, giving out loudly about the nurses and how everyone else is getting seen before them.

/rant

spottybananas · 04-09-2014 11:15am

Am I the only one who will be working away, minding my own business in my head, not even thinking about being pregnant, and then next thing thoughts start firing at me, how the hell will we afford this?, how will we pay for health insurance, school, college?, will we ever have enough money for a holiday again??, I'm still 19 in my head I'm not ready for this, my house isn't clean enough!

Any advice on how to argue back with this hysterical voice?

orchidsrpretty · 04-09-2014 11:27am

Ok I have tried to stay away from this thread for as long as possible as I am so grateful to be in this position.... But I've had enough!
I'm sick of not being able to sleep more than two hours without having to pee.
I'm so tired if being wide awake at 5am every morning no matter what time I go to bed at and having to get up as I am so uncomfortable.
I wish the pain that I've had in my side since week 14 would just piss off for a few hours so I can be comfortable lying/sitting down.
I want my ankles and feet back, I don't want to wear flip flops anymore.
Oh and my hands, I would like to be able to unscrew bottle tops without having to ask someone like a 5 year old.
I'd take a nice deep breath now but a baby is wedged under my lungs so I sound like a 80year old that's just done a hour on a treadmill.

Ahhhhh that's feels better

Dolbert · 04-09-2014 11:54am

spottybananas wrote: »

Am I the only one who will be working away, minding my own business in my head, not even thinking about being pregnant, and then next thing thoughts start firing at me, how the hell will we afford this?, how will we pay for health insurance, school, college?, will we ever have enough money for a holiday again??, I'm still 19 in my head I'm not ready for this, my house isn't clean enough!

Any advice on how to argue back with this hysterical voice?

I usually just silence her with chocolate.

spottybananas · 04-09-2014 11:57am

Dolbert wrote: »

I usually just silence her with chocolate.

I'm actually completely gone off chocolate, which was basically my staple food beforehand. I've gone off all sweet things, thank God I knew I was pregnant or I'd have thought my system had finally reached maximum capacity. So I can't even do that!

Merkin · 04-09-2014 12:43pm

Kashton Important Spacewalk wrote: »

People who bring the whole family with them, as if getting your wee checked is an event to be celebrated by aunts, grannies and sisters alike.

:mad: This! What on earth is wrong with these people? I was in the induction suite recently and this woman came in with SEVEN people. All hairy-palmed, inbred, cross-eyed yokels that were coming in with their heavily pregnant wife/sister/cousin (it looked like they hadn't actually botherd to differentiate relations anyway :rolleyes:) They were there all of five minutes when a senior midwife came in and ran them before their arses hit the seat and told them they were forbidden from coming in and only one person was allowed in. She was incandescent and rightly so. I must admit I felt like clapping but thought it would have been obnoxious......

fro9etb8j5qsl2 · 04-09-2014 1:24pm

Merkin wrote: »

:mad: This! What on earth is wrong with these people? I was in the induction suite recently and this woman came in with SEVEN people. All hairy-palmed, inbred, cross-eyed yokels that were coming in with their heavily pregnant wife/sister/cousin (it looked like they hadn't actually botherd to differentiate relations anyway :rolleyes:) They were there all of five minutes when a senior midwife came in and ran them before their arses hit the seat and told them they were forbidden from coming in and only one person was allowed in. She was incandescent and rightly so. I must admit I felt like clapping but thought it would have been obnoxious......

I'm sure I posted about this somewhere before but I saw an episode of the american program Baby Er where the woman in labour was disappointed that her 'wonderful' aunt and uncle couldn't make the birth so she got her mother to bring a laptop into the birthing suite and skyped for the whole duration of the labour. At one stage, grandma was standing at the foot of the bed with the webcam tilted down so that the smiling simpering aunt AND uncle could see the baby crowning :eek: Wtf is wrong with people????

Neyite · 04-09-2014 1:58pm

Kashton Important Spacewalk wrote: »

I'm sure I posted about this somewhere before but I saw an episode of the american program Baby Er where the woman in labour was disappointed that her 'wonderful' aunt and uncle couldn't make the birth so she got her mother to bring a laptop into the birthing suite and skyped for the whole duration of the labour. At one stage, grandma was standing at the foot of the bed with the webcam tilted down so that the smiling simpering aunt AND uncle could see the baby crowning :eek: Wtf is wrong with people????

And yet a breastfeeding woman 'exposes' herself. :rolleyes: You couldnt make it up!

Not that any of my family would be remotely interested in attending thank god, but I love the Irish midwives for baldly stating the one-birthing-partner rule so often during antenatal visits. I dont think my fanny would cooperate if I had the inlaws peering between my legs, and I dont think I could ever make eye contact again. :pac:

Penny Dreadful · 04-09-2014 2:26pm

Kashton Important Spacewalk wrote: »

Things I hate about waiting in maternity clinics:

People who roar all of their business into their phones for the whole waiting room to hear (specially when its not even juicy gossip :pac: )

People who pick the stinkiest icky crisps from the machine and take half an hour to eat them so that the whole area is reeking after them.

People who bring the whole family with them, as if getting your wee checked is an event to be celebrated by aunts, grannies and sisters alike.

Men who will happily glue their arses to the only available seats and sprawl themselves out for the long haul while heavily pregnant women have to use the wall to support themselves.

People who have an attitude problem, constantly sighing loudly and throwing their eyes at everyone, giving out loudly about the nurses and how everyone else is getting seen before them.

/rant

One day I got to the hospital and the waitig room was full of such men with their kids and there was standing room only for myself and the three other women who were already standing.
The kids were running riot, the men ignoring them and the heavily pregnant women in the women's hospital and I just snapped. I was tired, sore, fed up and did not want to have to stand so I turned to one of them and asked him to stand up and give me his seat.
He was shocked and pointed out that he was there with his wife, I retorted that was fine but I was pregnant as were the other women standing and we were the patients of the hospital not him so actually all of the men should give their seats over to the pregnant women.
Reluctantly the 4 of us were given seats by these men.

It drives me demented- people bringing all and sundry to the hospital. Men stay at home with the kids and mind them yourselves for a little while. If you do come along for whatever reason have enough cop on to give your seat to a heavily pregnant woman or at least offer it.

spottybananas · 04-09-2014 3:44pm

Why did that guy thinking pointing out that he was there with his wife entitled him to stay sitting lol!

Penny Dreadful · 04-09-2014 3:53pm

spottybananas wrote: »

Why did that guy thinking pointing out that he was there with his wife entitled him to stay sitting lol!

I think because he was there with a pregnant woman and (ahem) supporting her.
Supporting her my foot- more like he was in fear of having to mind his own kids at home on his own for an hour or two.
It always seemed odd to me that so many women have their menfolk with them at every single appointment. My husband came for the first one and it was also our first scan too - that makes sense to me and I can see why everyone would want someone there with them for that.
The next time after that he came along was for the 20/22 week anomoly scan and we had a location scan about a week ago at 35 weeks and he came to that too. The anomoly scan I think is important to have someone with you for that in case you get some bad news and need support.
For us the placental localisation scan was a thing for the two of us as options for a scheduled Section would have been discussed if the placenta hadn't moved. As it turned out it had and all was good there so we got to have another look at our little baby that is all plumped up now and looking like a proper baby instead of the little alien we had seen up to that point.

Each of those scans was late enough in the evening though and there was hardly anyone around.
When I attend for my OPD appointments there are lots of women there with their significant others and I am always surprised. It involves so much time off for the women anyway but at least we are entitled to that from our various work places, the men aren't and there is a fair bit of hanging around and I'd have thought the time would be much better spent after the baby is born.
For women who are having problematic pregnancies I can understand it but with 8000 births having taken place in the Coombe last year the chances of every one of the women there with their husband/ partner having problems are pretty low.

fro9etb8j5qsl2 · 04-09-2014 4:56pm

I ended up having 14-15 antenatal appointments during my last pregnancy and OH was only there for two, only because I was getting scanned. This time he hasn't come to any yet because I would rather have him at home minding the small fella than have the stress of a crying baby in the waiting room on top of everything else. I also cannot understand why a woman would need her husband with her for a routine appointment just to get her wee dipped and blood pressure checked

I, for one, always have lower bp when my OH isn't with me :pac:

pastry2010 · 04-09-2014 7:02pm

Kashton Important Spacewalk wrote: »

Things I hate about waiting in maternity clinics:

People who roar all of their business into their phones for the whole waiting room to hear (specially when its not even juicy gossip :pac: )

People who pick the stinkiest icky crisps from the machine and take half an hour to eat them so that the whole area is reeking after them.

People who bring the whole family with them, as if getting your wee checked is an event to be celebrated by aunts, grannies and sisters alike.

Men who will happily glue their arses to the only available seats and sprawl themselves out for the long haul while heavily pregnant women have to use the wall to support themselves.

People who have an attitude problem, constantly sighing loudly and throwing their eyes at everyone, giving out loudly about the nurses and how everyone else is getting seen before them.

/rant

This did make me laugh! It's so true!

fro9etb8j5qsl2 · 05-09-2014 6:49pm

Neyite wrote: »

And yet a breastfeeding woman 'exposes' herself. :rolleyes: You couldnt make it up!

Not that any of my family would be remotely interested in attending thank god, but I love the Irish midwives for baldly stating the one-birthing-partner rule so often during antenatal visits. I dont think my fanny would cooperate if I had the inlaws peering between my legs, and I dont think I could ever make eye contact again. :pac:

Have a read of this then :pac:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/09/04/why-i-gave-birth-in-front-of-a-room-full-of-people/

I especially enjoyed the bit where they all helped her poop and her friend pushing her hemorrhoids back in for her :eek: Everyone to their own and all but this whole article creeped me out.

angeldelight · 05-09-2014 7:30pm

Kashton Important Spacewalk wrote: »

Have a read of this then :pac:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/09/04/why-i-gave-birth-in-front-of-a-room-full-of-people/

I especially enjoyed the bit where they all helped her poop and her friend pushing her hemorrhoids back in for her :eek: Everyone to their own and all but this whole article creeped me out.

I have no words...

bobskii · 05-09-2014 8:50pm

Another moan,not necessarily about my pregnancy but people(again).at work today a group of women had a full discussion about me (in front of me) about my size,how Im carrying,what I'll have blah blah blah . While I worked round them . I felt like screeching. its like when you get pregnant you become other people's property,It's doin my head in . other than that I'm loving being pregnant!

Neyite · 05-09-2014 9:07pm

Penny, my partner came to every single appointment but he just wanted to. I certainly never expected him to. Though he stood in the waiting room and only sat down if there were plenty of spare seats, and was the first to vacate one if he thought a woman needed it. I'd have killed him otherwise lol.

Kashton Important Spacewalk wrote: »

Have a read of this then :pac:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/09/04/why-i-gave-birth-in-front-of-a-room-full-of-people/

I especially enjoyed the bit where they all helped her poop and her friend pushing her hemorrhoids back in for her :eek: Everyone to their own and all but this whole article creeped me out.

Oh.Dear.God. I shuddered reading that.

Penny Dreadful · 06-09-2014 2:12am

Neyite wrote: »

Penny, my partner came to every single appointment but he just wanted to. I certainly never expected him to. Though he stood in the waiting room and only sat down if there were plenty of spare seats, and was the first to vacate one if he thought a woman needed it. I'd have killed him otherwise lol.

Oh.Dear.God. I shuddered reading that.

Which is fine- it's nice that he could. I have the problem with the ones that bring the entire family and take over the whole room.

Penny Dreadful · 06-09-2014 2:13am

My moan is that it's 02:13 and I'm awake.

bobskii · 06-09-2014 2:48am

same here

Lashes28 · 06-09-2014 3:00am

Me too
And I have work in the morning how. will I get up??
Also a weird pain in my vagina bone,get out of there child,it's far too soon!!!

Penny Dreadful · 06-09-2014 3:35am

bobskii wrote: »

same here

Sucks doesn't it :-(

Lashes28 wrote: »

Me too
And I have work in the morning how. will I get up??
Also a weird pain in my vagina bone,get out of there child,it's far too soon!!!

Thankfully I don't have work, poor you. This happened to me on Tuesday night too and I was wrecked on Wednesday for work.

I'm 36 weeks and the baby is due Oct 7th but I am (for no particular reason) getting more and more convinced that the baby will arrive before then.
I had a scan at 35 weeks at the baby was weighing in at 5.5lbs then so if she does arrive earlier she will be a fine size anyway.
Tuesday night woke me up because I had a horrible pain in my back and pelvis and I was convinced I was in labour. Turned out I wasn't but I got quite the fright regardless.
The bump is a lot lower now and is putting quite a bit of pressure on my pelvis. I've been super tired today but packed my hospital bag this evening thankfully. Went to bed around 11pm and fell asleep ok but work up boiling hot at 01:30 and have ........ Well had to make many trips to the bathroom lets say.
My body is definitively preparing for the last part of this journey. I'm very tired though but can't sleep which is so very annoying.
Hope the rest of you get some sleep soon.

mirrorwall14 · 06-09-2014 6:41am

And as I thought my asthma is kicking up a riot. Docs visit yesterday morning coz when it acts up I can end up off work for 2-3 weeks which is obviously a problem.

Result?

Nothing to be done really except wait and hope it gets better. Limited codeine bottle and limited ventolin use. I have to wait until I get worse before they'll do steroids etc. I get that they worry about safety but it takes way more drugs/time to get under control once it goes properly out of control.

Been up half the night coughing, peak flow is down, BP is up and I'm stressed out over it. Grr

Penny Dreadful · 09-09-2014 7:41am

35+7 and while I am apprehensive about labour (a normal amount I think given its a big unknown) I am getting more and more ready not to be pregnant for much longer.
Last week/ the last 10 days have been rough and thankfully I had a proper nights sleep on Saturday and Sunday night (as in only had to get it x3 each night to pee) and was off yesterday too. That allowed me to have a lovely lie on yesterday morning which was lovely.
Off to the Coombe with me then for an ante natal check up and the baby has turned in the right direction and while not fully engaged yet is certainly getting into the right position and all is well.
Great.
Then I stupidly did loads when I got home because I was feeling well. Made dinner for last night and tonight (have to work late tonight and tomorrow night) and a spare curry for the freezer. Did two loads of washing and a lot of ironing too. Then when my husband came home we went to the supermarket to stock up on stuff to allow me make more dinners for the freezer for post pregnancy time.
Still felt ok so watched Women on the Inside and off to bed at 11pm.
Up so many times to pee, super sore pubic bone again that kept waking me up and now this morning my back and pelvic area are in bits before I even start the day.
It's really my own fault and I was silly yesterday but I am so ready for my pelvis and pubic bone not to feel like they've been put through a grinder!!

househunter · 09-09-2014 1:54pm

Am sick of being pregnant.
Was 35 weeks on Sat - i don't work Mondays at the moment but to be honest I'm more wrecked being at home by myself with my 18 month old then if I was at work. Went swimming with him yesterday but its the getting to and from the pool and car when he refuses to hold my hand and I have to carry him. Tired from picking him up and carrying him around and then chasing him when i put him down and trying to stop him from heading in the opposite direction to where I'm trying to go. And dealing with the meltdowns. Half of me wants the new baby to be here now and the other half goes agghhhh

mirrorwall14 · 09-09-2014 2:36pm

Asthma flare up so admitted to the coombe last night because of tachycardia suspected cause the steroids which unfortunately I need to for the asthma. Stuck here til tomorrow anyways

Isolt · 10-09-2014 12:26pm

37 + 4 now and fed up! Just want to have this baby now and am crossing everything that I do not go overdue! Please God, no!

pastry2010 · 10-09-2014 5:06pm

Hi all,

I'm 38 +4 just wondering if many people are offered a sweep before due date to get things moving, my sis had one at 38 weeks but I've heard it depends on consultant. Really really ready, aches and pains everywhere! In the Coombe tomorrow and I'm praying they offer me one!!

Isolt · 10-09-2014 5:14pm

I'm not sure pastry, it really does seem to be down to the individual doctor. I am scanned every week because my baby is small. I was told all along that I would probably be brought in for induction around 37 weeks. I just had my 37 weeks appointment and was told that there will be no induction at all. They said I should be left alone to labour naturally, so I presume this means no sweep either.
Baby was 5lbs 2 oz at last scan so am interested to see how the growth is next week. Just weird that the way hospitals manage these things vary so much!

I'd love a sweep to be honest, although I have heard they are not always effective, especially on first timers so maybe I'd be wasting my time!

pastry2010 · 10-09-2014 5:19pm

Isolt wrote: »

I'm not sure pastry, it really does seem to be down to the individual doctor. I am scanned every week because my baby is small. I was told all along that I would probably be brought in for induction around 37 weeks. I just had my 37 weeks appointment and was told that there will be no induction at all. They said I should be left alone to labour naturally, so I presume this means no sweep either.
Baby was 5lbs 2 oz at last scan so am interested to see how the growth is next week. Just weird that the way hospitals manage these things vary so much!

I'd love a sweep to be honest, although I have heard they are not always effective, especially on first timers so maybe I'd be wasting my time!

Awh well you got to go with what they recommend I guess....another dilemma...I've tickets for Ant & Dec matinee show on Saturday, OH doesn't want us to go as I'm having all the aches and pains etc but if I'm not offered a sweep I'd love too...the loo trips every 20 minutes might be a bit much though!

Hmmm what to do?!

Merkin · 10-09-2014 5:39pm

Definitely go! I went to see Alan Carr not long before I was due and it was cathartic although I did think I was going to break my waters from laughing so much!

Re the sweep, it all depends how favourable you are on the Bishop Score. If your cervix is not ready then it's not good clinical practice to give one so it all depends how it looks. My obstetrician had mentioned that she might do one for me but my cervix was having a strop and there really was no point!

Best of luck with everything!

pastry2010 · 11-09-2014 2:11pm

Just back from Coombe,successful sweep done, about an hour after I started to get mild to and few quite strong contractions every 25 minutes going home, I'm lying in bed timing them and it definitely seems they are quite frequent. I'll guess I'll know in a little while if I have to head back into the Coombe.

spottybananas · 11-09-2014 2:21pm

Exciting pastry!

I feel like sh!t today

It really feels like the worst hangover. Dodgy tummy, exhausted, banging headache, flushed face, weak, can bring myself to eat very little...work is tough going. I'm dreading the next few days, I'm working straight through until Monday and I'm wrecked, drained, this is so tough

Week 7 is really knocking me for six, I really hope it doesn't last too long

Penny Dreadful · 11-09-2014 2:47pm

pastry2010 wrote: »

Just back from Coombe,successful sweep done, about an hour after I started to get mild to and few quite strong contractions every 25 minutes going home, I'm lying in bed timing them and it definitely seems they are quite frequent. I'll guess I'll know in a little while if I have to head back into the Coombe.

Yikes! Very exciting.

How was the sweep?

FurBabyMomma · 11-09-2014 2:49pm

38 weeks now and baby is still breech. So disheartened as trying everything I can to move it but no joy :-(

Penny Dreadful · 11-09-2014 2:55pm

spottybananas wrote: »

Exciting pastry!

I feel like sh!t today It really feels like the worst hangover. Dodgy tummy, exhausted, banging headache, flushed face, weak, can bring myself to eat very little...work is tough going. I'm dreading the next few days, I'm working straight through until Monday and I'm wrecked, drained, this is so tough Week 7 is really knocking me for six, I really hope it doesn't last too long

Its funny (and not in a ha ha way) how hard the early weeks are. Thinking back (and it seems so long ago now) I was destroyed with tiredness and back pain. The pain in my back then was so bad, it was actually worse than it is now at 37 weeks. Apparently this was where the placenta was embedding itself and the 35 week scan confirmed that it is there on the back wall of my uterus.
I used to lock my office door at lunch time and nap at my desk. It was quite honestly the only way I could get through the day. Could you manage that? Alternatively nip out to your car for a little while for a nap?

The early weeks are very hard and its just when you're keeping it quiet that you need some understanding. I think its only people who've been there will understand that though. Prior to getting pregnant myself I naively thought the only hard part of pregnancy came at the end.

On a good note though, the very first day of week 14 was like the dawning of a new era for me. I had a massive strop at my husband the night before over something silly (I think he recommended I eat nuts and I just went nuts instead:o) and went to bed in a huff and totally wiped out.
Woke up the next day and felt .........well like my old self again. It was the strangest thing. I was almost convinced that I'd imagined even being pregnant.
When that time of feeling great kicks in enjoy it all- I went on holidays, had lots of dinners out with friends, did the big item baby shopping during the second trimester- just generally enjoyed myself and life.
I was flying along until the last few weeks really and it was from week 32/33 that I started to get tired and uncomfortable again but then I knew I was on the home stretch so it was ok.

spottybananas · 11-09-2014 4:06pm

Thanks Penny Dreadful, it's "funny", I read so many other newly pregnant people worrying about and dreading labour, the later stages of pregnancy, etc, I am not bothered about that at all. As my husband says I'm great with pain, awful with illness. I can keep working with a searing pain from an injury or something, but if I'm nauseous for half an hour I want to cry and go home, I can't deal with "internal" kind of sicknesses like that. Weird, often useful, but not useful right now!

I am lucky that I can actually nip home for a nap during my lunchbreak as I live really nearby, the naps are a nice break but the rest of the day I'm just a mess.

In the past I've been very understanding of pregnant women having complaints at any stage, I knew about the exhaustion and morning sickness and other things of the first trimester, but I didn't realise you can just feel...not right, and that is exhausting in itself.

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