I'm just over 2 weeks from my due date- 37w and 4days to be precise. I have issues with my pelvis and back as well as reflux at night which is making it terribly difficult to sleep. I am averaging maybe 5hrs of broken sleep on a good night. Last night was not one of those and I'm totally over myself.
I have two young children to look after on my own through the day while DH is working and while I know they're being really good and are only little (2 and 3) they are driving me insane with their demands and questions and fights. Even them just talking to me normally about everyday stuff, their voices are grating on my nerves. They're so demanding everything is I want..., mummy get..., where is my...., mummy mummy mummy....I just want to be left alone. I have already asked them both to stop talking or to give me space this morning so many times. But they just follow me where ever I go. I can't escape them and I'm going nuts these last few days. It's going to end in a mummy meltdown of mega proportions.
On top of all of that is the normal anxieties and worries of being heavily pg.
DH is working. He will be until Friday. I have 4more days to try to cope and not permanently scar my children for life. How can I cope? With my last pg, I had the opportunity to go to my mums house or to put DD into childcare for a day here and there. But now we have moved out to the sticks. I have no family, and childcare is closed for the chrissy/new years period. I need to pack and prepare for going away to Sydney to my mums next Monday where I will be giving birth (no maternity hospital where we live) sometime in the next few weeks.