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The Pregnant Womans Moan Thread.
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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!0 -
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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 0 -
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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.0 -
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spottybananas wrote: »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. Now that I am 37 weeks and labour and delivery is something I can't deny any longer I will admit to being apprehensive about it but thats partly because its the great unknown for me, it being my first time and all that.
However, I am so exicted to meet the little baby that I've been carrying around for all this time and had silly chats with in the morning on the way to work while being kicked and tickled from the inside out.
Also I am ready to not be pregnant any more or for much longer at least. I really want to see the end of my SPD and be able to turn over in bed without it hurting my pubic bone and to be able to lie whatever damn way I want.
I will also be happy to be able to put on my socks with ease once again.
Its the little things eh?;):)
I have a high pain threshold, tried and tested - what I am apprehensive about is the duration of labour but it is pain with a purpose, will have a begining, middle and wonderful end with my little baby and if I need help along the way then I know it will be there.
The early part of your pregnancy is hard as you have outlined - even if you're not dreadfully sick as in throwing up repeatedly every day you just feel somewhat odd and not quite yourself. Your body is doing so much work at this early stage too, more than later I think, as your placenta is being formed now too along with the baby and so your body is doing the work of the placenta. Once it is fully formed (and it is a whole new organ your body is growing in addition to growing a tiny human!) then it takes over some of the work and so your energy levels return to more normal levels.
Add to the fact that, especially if it is your first, the whole experience is so very very new and it takes up so much of your thought process that it adds to the exhaustion too.0 -
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Not a moan today, a celebration, IT WAS A VIRUS! I have never been so happy to have had a virus! Now I'm back to just having a parasite
I'm no longer nauseous, no more dodgy tummy, no headaches, eating normally again. Being pregnant masked the fact that I was actually suffering from "Winter" Vomiting Bug, had it a few years ago and it took me ages to cop it because I thought I just had been hit with the most hideous symptoms this week, it was shivering with a fever that made me realise that maybe I was actually ill. Apparently quite a few people have it at the moment. I am back to my normal self this morning, so happy Did my last strip test this morning then just "to be sure", because what I clearly thought were symptoms for the last week was actually illness. The test line was "practically maroon" as my hubby said, so it's still there anyway Have been having lots of stretching pains, which now seem to be my only symptom so far.
You have no idea how relieved I am that it wasn't morning sickness kicking in, there is no way I could've gotten through the next few weeks of work and the first trimester if I was that ill, I have a lot of deadlines and stuff coming up and I can't be sick for it. I am so relieved, in case you hadn't guessed
Early scan at 8 weeks on Tuesday, dearly hoping there is a lovely little heartbeat.0 -
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Aoifemckay2013 wrote: »My moan today is back pain!! Im 26 weeks pregnant and I am in bits with my back its literally unbearable , I cant even wear a bra at times cause its that sore anyone any helpful tips or solutions please
Have you tried kinesiology tape on it?0 -
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