Pregnancy Vent Thread #2

I'm sick of being a beetch! The last week I have been so grumpy and miserable, I cry multiple times each day over NOTHING and I'm just over it. Doesn't help that I had only 3hours sleep on Thursday night and then had to work a killer day on Friday in 35 degrees! So by last night I was just beside myself, couldn't eat, couldn't talk, couldn't get comfy. Managed to get four hours sleep until I woke up with a horrible pain down my arm, which i ended up taking panadol for. I think it's just all the extra fluid, my feet and ankles swelled up for the first time yesterday :( Feeling a tad better today, but I still can't snap out of this hormonal state I'm in.

I am so grateful for this thread. DH tries but he just doesn't get it, every time he tries to be helpful I just cry. I feel like such a whinger, I don't want to complain to my IRL friends, and I'm sure my PAML and BB girls are all sick of me saying the same thing this week, I'm just not a happy person to be around ATM! So even if no one reads this, I just feel better for venting!

Ok i have less than 2 weeks to go till the 26th, pre labour sucks! i have had backache since yesterday arvo and it is killing me. I cant really sleep thru it, I hope today is the day or sometime this week i need to have a decent sleep!

Ok girls, I'm sorry, I need to have a tanty....

:protest: GET THIS BABY OUT!!!!!!!!!!!! :protest:

Sorry. At 40wks + 3 I am OVER it! Isn't 9 months (ok, technically 10 but who wants to be technical?) enough? Haven't I been patient enough? Isn't my baby cooked yet? How much more time does it need? I mean really, come on!!! Or at least make things more comfortable for me! My feet no longer look like feet, if I keep my legs straight for too long I struggle to bend them again but I have to keep them up because of the edema. I have constant grinding in my groin but no action. Not even BH's!!!! My edema is NOT restricted to my lower limbs and as such I have lost at least 60-70% of the strength in my hands and a lot of dexterity (so I've taken up knitting again to try and maintain my dexterity), my nether regions are swollen from the extra blood flow but feel bruised as well. I'm constantly peeing but I'm constantly thirsty so the peeing has NO chance of letting up! I have a killer headache from my sore shoulders but can't work out why they are sore. I am struggling to sleep - 3 hours is the most I can get and then I'm awake for HOURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't get comfortable when I'm sitting, standing is just silly, laying down just isn't going to happen! And then there is my legs. They constantly feel like I have just done a three hour workout in the gym and, let's face it, I haven't been to the gym since I got PG!
I am sick of people calling me to ask if I've had the baby yet. HELLLLLOOOOOO, I WILL CALL YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (SS - you know you're my exception sweetie!). I'm sick of complete strangers asking me how long I have to go and "ooohhh, you poor thing - MY babies all came on time". Who friggin cares - does that help me? And then there's the "Oh, you must be struggling with this heat. You know pregnant women have an extra 15 degrees to deal with don't you?". Gee, thanks for pointing out the bleeding obvious - I hadn't noticed!!!!!!
I am sick of people saying "Oh, you know that doing (insert old wives tale here) will bring labour on don't you? Have you tried that?". I really peeved one lady off when she mentioned the pineapple myth and I told her I wasn't in the mood to eat 7 pineapples to bring on labour and that's how many you need for it to even have a chance of being effective but if she wanted to gorge herself on pineapples to go right ahead!

I'm sorry, I just needed to vent. I am so over being pregnant now and want to meet my baby!!!!!!!!!! I want my body back!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE :pray: PLEASE PLEASE little Bubbles, come and meet your Mummy and Daddy before Mummy has to be induced! The outside world really isn't that bad! It's beautiful and there are so many people waiting to meet you and to smother you in hugs and kisses! PLEASE :pray: come and meet us soon!

Love MG

Ok i have been a sook with this last trimester, wouldnt you if your baby starts the labour and it stops? I am so annoyed/scared/frustrated and angry that it starts and stops its not funny! Ok Caro i need your help. Can you please yell at my baby too as MGs bubba broke the waters this morn and you seem to have a 'gift'.
Please Jett come out for mummy, mummy is in alot of pain and today would be good coz your big brother goes to preschool tomorrow and thursday! Please please please. :pray:

i am very much like mother goose right now, my DS was due SUNDAY and still nothing. I am SO over being pregnant, im over not sleeping rite thru the night (dam bladder), i am over peeing every 5 secs (not really but it seems like it), i am over the back ache ive only just gotten, im over DS pushing his head RIGHT down then coming back up little monster tormenting me, lol, im over the feeling of no space left in my body, specially when DS decides to STREEEEEEEEETCH rite out, please stop hun it hurts mummy. im over the pains in my legs when i get BH, im over the BH not kick startin into REAL contractions, im sick of people treating me like im an invalid, u no, like i cant do anything for myself, god im ONLY pregnant its not like im missin my f-ing arms and legs! ARGH!! Im over not being able to play with my DD, she's being gettin really bad the last few months bcos i cant pay good attention to her, all i can manage is a kiss and hug and read sum books, then ive been losin my cool and taking it out on her by shouting and i REALLY REALLY hate it and it makes me depressed bcos i cant do anything (i cant stand up for longer than 5 mins cos i start to black out, and i am all stiff and sore and its a struggle for me to get up off my bum and chase her when she wants to play) and now shes "shouting" back at me and i feel even worse because its all my fault she's like this, god i am so over being pregnant, i no its harsh and selfish but F-K i just want 2 hold my DS and play with my DD again... :(

hi gals
I am sick of

• carpal tunnel and sore fecking hands
  no sleep from carpal tunnel
  heartburn
  preggo brain
  grumpiness from all of the above

I am only half way!
GIVE ME STRENGTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:wall:
On upside thank god for DH who has put up with me suffering from all of the above - give the boy a medal :clap:
B!!

Yes!!! My dh deserves a medal too-- not only was I "over it" on the weekend, I now have the worst head cold and couldnt be more of a complainer if I tried! God bless him :D

I spent so much of the weekend crying...what's wrong with me?

How is anyone supposed to live with the heat and humidity like over the weekend and survive pregnancy? Is it some conspiracy so we don't get pregnant again?

I'm also over the Bh contractions which make me puff and pant as they compress my lungs, but they always seem to hit when I get out of the car or if I bend over so I can't go grocery shopping without waddling and panting half the time, i have been asked twice now if I'm in labour by shop owners, it's embarrassing.

And I'm over people saying 'are you having twins? Are you sure?? Sometimes they can hide in scans! My sister/aunt/best friend/cousins BIL's SIL was smaller than you at full term, how can you have 12 weeks still to go? How are you going to fit the baby in as it grows?" What makes it worse is that they are people I don't even know, they just think they can talk about my size like that. Yes, I know I'm big already, I've grown out of all my maternity clothes and I'm well aware I look like I've swallowed a small child, but really, DO SO MANY PEOPLE NEED TO POINT IT OUT! I do notice, you know, I am the one that's walking around with a mountain protruding out from me!

I think I just need to stay home for a while.

Tara...I've had many of those same comments for the past 2 months..."when are you due"..oh about another 2 months..."oh but you're so big, you're not gonna last that long!"...well you know what...I'M STILL BEING INHABITED and less than 2 weeks so I think that I've lasted that long...MORONS!! I also have about 2 shirts I can wear without revealing half of my belly to the world and I have to undo whatever pants I am wearing when I sit down cos they hurt otherwise - even my maternity ones!! The heat and humidity...OMG it's disgusting!! It feels some days like I'm living in the oven...oh and over the past week or so I've got that lovely "seedy" feeling on and off which some lucky ladies get...WOOHOO!!! NOT!! *sighs*

I hear ya hun...I hear ya!!

I'm over it.

My heartburn is constant - and so bad it actually hurts my upper back.

My lower back is out - I have a bulging disc - and I can't bend over to put on my trousers let alone actually do anything.

Bub is sitting high and pushing against my lungs, I'm breathless walking the 5m from the kitchen to the lounge.

Because of the heartburn I'm not hungry, and DF likes eating at 6pm which is something I've never done in my memory. I can't drink water, juice or anything other than milk without getting the heartburn.

My pelvis feels like its being pushed apart and is grating on itself ... that's when I lie down or stand or sit or try to walk.

The thrush made a resurgance and I'm over that too, its keeping me awake at night. When the baby isn't moving in a weird way that keeps me awake. So to get sleep at night I need to cream myself, have a panadiene for my back pain, zantec for the heartburn, play the lullaby soother thing, and hug the pillow.

When I'm out I'm tired within a half hour, and the BH's get really strong and noticable. That's when bubs isn't doing cartwheels.

I want this baby to be healthy, but I can't wait until the natural amnesia kicks in after birth.

I need to vent!

I've got a terrible cold, and I can't take anything except panadol which really doesn't even touch this headache. I've never been so ill with a cold in my life, and the alien is booting my insides like there's no tomorrow. I feel fat, weak, pitiful and useless and there's nothing I can do about it. Oh, and when I had my glucose test she went right through my vein so I've got a huge purple bruise and a sore left arm (had it last Fri). My nose is running constantly and I'm just worn out. BLAAAAGGGHHHH!!!

feathertop: do you have a health food shop near you? Or a chemist that has a "health" section?

I bought some homeopathic spray which i had to spray under my tongue 3 times a day and it worked!! It was only $15 too!
You can also take pandeine as well

eta: and guzzle down the vitamin c!

Thanks Danni, am getting into the vit c too. Will check out the chemists later today (after another snooze....)

Well today is my first day of tpotally 100% severe back paib... I ahve 11 wks of work to go!! BLURGH!

I love being preg & love feeling my baby inside me wiggling etc, but hate, hate hate the pains that accompany it!

Tracey! DITTO
i get to finish one of my jobs in 6 weeks but the other is 11 weeks

OMG Shannon... I wish I was nearby I'd call in sick & come over to help somehow!
My backpain hurts/aches & throbs all day, but I can cope (JUST).

have you seen a chiro? When my back & scaitic nerve were really bad in my preg with Indah I went to see a Chiro every few days & it made a HUGE difference to my back & hips which in turn helped my brain manage!

I dont know what else to say.....

OK I need a whinge so I assume this is the place to do it.

MY BELLY HURTS!!!!!! And it ain't BH either :(

I feel better now ;)

Hahaha I wish it didn't hurt anymore but it felt good to whinge. Juz is sick of hearing me whinge about my aches and pains and I don't want to scare him out of "knocking me up" again ;)

I am counting on the fact that we forget all the aches and pains and oddities after we give birth.

The morning sickness, the back pain, the sciatica pain, the immense hell of heartburn and reflux, going off of food, craving things like licking hot water bottles (don't ask), all the stiches and cramps and anything else I can't think of...
I just wish the men had the hormone to forget too.

You are doing well to have 4 though, that is what I have planned, I would have liked 4 girls but it wasn't meant to be for me.

Hang in there gorgeous. Your little man is going to come and you will be able to forget all about these aches and pains.

My whinge. I want a b!oody manual for our bodies!!!!!!!!!

That would be great!! Mine got lost in the post ;)

I sooo need to join in on this one too girls!!!

I'm sooo sick of EVERYTHING hurting and now I feel like I've seriously got something wedged up my hoohaa - no wonder pg women waddle!!!! How am I going to get through another week of this and the bloody emotional rollercoaster that I'm on isn't helping - why can't I turn the tears off today???

I really didn't expect it to get this bad (I guess I was convinced that I'd have my bub by now and wouldn't be one of those unlucky people that goes over their due date - why I thought that I don't know, coz it's now made everything all the worse)!! I'm just dying to meet our little bub and EVERYONE around me is having their babies, it's driving me mad.

Oh wow, that does feel a little better - maybe I should visit this thread a little more often!!!!

Kelly xxx

Hahaha Way to go Kelly, get it all out!

Am 16 weeks and already very tired of MS which everyone says is supposed to end at 12 weeks - such lies!!!

My main gripe though is that every woman I meet feel the need to tell me "you're gonna pop real soon!" Well duh! If I haven't yet it's obviously coming shortly...

My last lil bicker is that I miss my nice skin, I have spots on my neck and chin and certainly lack this "glow" that is spoken of...

I feel like I'm at Primary school again... Thankyou for listening to my news!

I have put on 4 kilos in two weeks!

Please someone tell me it is just retained fluid, not my bum expanding at the speed of light....

Even though I promised myself that I wouldn't post in here (given what I've had to endure to get pregnant)...I can't help myself! I don't want to be pregnant anymore! I want my baby out!!!!

I'm sick of the fact that none of my clothes fit me anymore (even the maternity things!), sick of the constant phone calls (yes, I have had the baby, but we wanted to wait til she's 1 year old to tell you!), sick of the constant loo trips during the night...and just sick of waiting!!!

Ugh...feel much better now!

Fran,
I hope your little one makes an appearance very shortly! You'll soon be wishing your bub was still inside though when you are thoroughly sleep deprived and can no longer actually even go to the toilet when you need to because you have a little mouth hanging off your bozom! Try to enjoy the anticipation-- how much will they weigh? who will they look like? etc You'll still be in shock when bub arrives even though your over it so just enjoy being a "sort of" single entity while you can-- take that trip to the shops, movies, anywhere because when you next get a chance it could take you two hours to get organised just to leave the house!!
Goodluck-- I hope to see your birth announcement soon.

P.S Notice that the people ringing and annoying you are the ones who haven't had their own bubs!! Whose baby arrives on time anyway??

Hopexo

Thanks Hope *hugs* I know it's just a waiting game at the moment, it's just frustrating b/c once I am finally able to 'distract' myself, I get a call or msg "Have you had the baby yet?" Ugh! *lol*

Well there is an end in sight...I can't be pregnant forever!

Fran, I hated the two phone calls I had from BiL (who has a littley) asking where the baby was (and also people who saw me the size of a whale and asked me... yes, I had the baby then stuffed him back in). Turn your phones off, love, and try to enjoy some baby free time... LMAO, so hard to distract yourself! Play an addictive computer game or something, you won't be able to do that so much when Bub does arrive. Labour vibes to you, love.

Fran, I am thinking of you..... There's not much that can be said to make you feel better, but you rae right, the end is closer than you think!

I look at my ticker and think with dread about how far i still have to go.... I am so sick i feel like i am going to die. I just want to feel human again :(

No one has posted here for a while so i thought that i would join in with you ourlux!!!
The only whinge that i have is that i want to know what flavour my baby is:wall:
I can't stand it anymore its all i think about.
Oh well i find out on the 21st of december not long now.

NIkki

I am so sick of being a moody cow. Well a teary one. I just need to sleep (both DS's woke at the crack of dawn today) aswell as DS1 wetting the bed (not that its his fault but it has just added to my mood) DS2 whinging coz DS1 bashing him and DS1 not listening to mummy, Why am i putting myself through all this again?? Oh i know why, because i love it when they say "i love you mummy" or when your crying from having one of your Moody cow moments and they say "are you ok mummy?"
Ok feel a little better...

I am going to have a groan to, i am very grateful to be pregnant after ttc for three yrs, with baby 3 but OMG my feet are killing me, they get so hot, and sleep i need sleep. I too am not happy about hot weather and our new air con has broke down just to add.
My boobs though have not changed , they never have just get bigger nipples. Ah well bub will be here and ill forget all about it

My Turn...

I hate it when you get on PT in my case its the trains - and people just stare at you but don't offer a seat. I laugh at the fact that mostly they look once then read teh paper, put in an ipod or go to sleep but itsa much worse when like this morning - they just keep staring at the belly you have just shoved in their face because u are so squashed in you have no choice but to put it somewhere (where if your anything like me no one else can rub up against or bump - I hate strangers being in my personal belly space)

I hate this more though.... some people are un-bleeping-believable!!!

Last night there were 3ish seats left on the train both myself and a rude lady (I only refer to her as rude for ease of story telling) walked in opposite directions to each other towards the seat. As we met at the seat she looked at me then sat down. The lady adjacent to her asked if I would like a seat and half giggling at the rudeness that i just witnessed thanked her but declined. The lady sitting directly across from the rude one who had just sat down stood up and told me she only had one more stop anyway (I am laughing in frustration right now just remembering this)...... As she stood up the rude lady placed her bag on the seat and called her friend over before apologising when I sat down, almost on top of her bag.

The train was late and anyone from Melb experiencing our train system would understand how busy HOT and squashed in you are on peak hour trains. GRRRRRRR:angry:

Oh i'm so with you on the PT in Melb! I normally catch the train, but have had a pretty tricky first trimester, and was told by both GP and obs that I MUST sit on the train. Soooo... there I am, not looking PG (most of the time - sometimes I do, due to massive bloating)... having to ask for a seat.

So last night - trains were PACKED and hot... I dived over to the "priority" seats and asked two guys if I could please have a seat... the one guy got up immediately and said oh yes of course. So I was lucky that went well, but I'm paranoid about having to ask again, or having someone say - you're not PG, you're just fat (ok so maybe they wouldn't but that's what i'm afraid of!). My heart was pounding after just having to ask that one guy! Oh well.

That lady sounds like she was so rude, very annoying! Good luck for next time!

Belfie - Time to blow up a balloon and put it under your shirt :lol:

I feel your pain though - I don't think I could ask for a seat, I still get embarrassed at being offered one :redface: I'm a dork!!!

Arrrgh!!! I'm sooo over being pg. Just sitting here I have been having BH and they are starting to annoy me! They're not painful or anything, but when I have one it makes it so hard to sit here! My back is sore tonight, as is under my bump from walking too much at the shops yesterday. Baby is soo heavy and according to my u/s yesterday is measuring between 37-38wks...2wks bigger than he should!!! He's up in my ribs which are aching and sore from stretching so much. I have heartburn and the milanta is just not working well anymore I have to have 2 doses before bed so I don't wake up with it. I can't sleep I'm peeing at least twice a night. My hips ache from laying on my sides and I always wake up on my back cause thats how I usually sleep, barely able to breathe. I can't roll over in bed without half waking up, sitting up and moving an inch at a time.....ohhhh, I'm sooo over this already!!!! I could go on and on!!!

I'm over it. I'm over having dodgy things happen and putting on a brave face...
So this is my list of crap pregnancy things!

• Spotting
• Subchorionic haemorrhage
• Bleeding (full on!)
• VERY restricted activity (for ~6 weeks of first tri)
• Being told there was an umbilical cyst. Being told there probably never was an umbilical cyst
• M/s till 16 weeks & a bit of vomiting (that's the one thing that wasn't too bad)
• Being rushed to hossie by ambulance at 21.5 weeks and being told that bubs wouldn't make it (suspected prolapsed cord/sac) turned out to be prolapsed vagina. Cannula put in my arm because they thought I would lose so much blood.
• Two more episodes of prolapsed vagina
• Having hip problems to the extent I sometimes can't stand on one leg - unable to do any exercise
• Failing GD screening. Failing GD fasting test by vomiting 1 1/2 hours in... diagnosis=inconclusive.
• Testing BSL's and discovering I DO have GD.
• Having the most selfish, lazy self-obsesssed, self-invited visitor (my bro) staying for NINE days while I go through all the GD crap.
• Realising that while I already can't eat wheat, onion, most fruits, some vegies (pre-existing condition)... I NOW need to eat for GD as well as pregnancy!
• Being told on Friday I need to start insulin on Monday cos my BSL's are too high
• Finding out that hospitals want to induce insulin-dependant mums at 38 weeks.
• HAVING PEOPLE TELL ME THAT EVERYONE'S PREGNANCY IS DIFFERENT AND THIS ISN'T TOO BAD!!!!
• Having everyone say that everyone ELSE they know who's PG "doesn't look PG from the back" (I HATE that phrase).
• Finding I can't sleep with DH cos I now sleep so lightly his snoring disturbs me - so sleeping on sofa-bed (which suits hip better) but I MISS MY CUDDLES!
• Living on Rennies
• Getting an itchy rash between my bbs
• Getting more m/s again now
• Feeling exhausted
• Having to change my work finish date because I cannot cope with all this
• Being told about "someone else that someone knew who managed just fine with GD"
• Not being able to sleep in cos my back/hips are aching so much
• Always putting too much pressure on myself to appear as thought i AM coping

And maybe it's wrong in a vent thread... but the saving grace in all this stress, frustration etc... is HAVING THE BEST LOVING DH IN THE WORLD! He has been there for me every single step of the way. And that has been no mean feat.