Am I having a monster baby!?!

Gawd I hate this stage of pregnancy - more so - I hate the fact that my husband is a friggin giant and my kids have super long legs that they like to poke in my ribs!!!! And with the fact that I have a super short midsection (thanks to my super short parents!) its freakin painful!!!

Aghhhh!!!

My belly for the last couple of days has been sooooo tight - and you'd think it being my 3rd pregnancy I would be used to it, but I don't remember it getting this tight - seriously it feels like its going to burst or something!!!

Plus - I have trouble uh.. moving my bowels.. because there is soo much pressure down there!! I have to sorta arch my back and sit far back to release some of the pressure so it gets through!!! PMSL

I don't think its engaged or anything - certainly neither of my other two ever did so I wouldn't even recognise it - but gawd the pressure when pooping is incredible!!!!!

Arghhhhhhh.. sorry, just had to vent. Thank gawd its my third and final.... :rolleyes:

:hug: oh mel you poor thing, I soooo remember that awful tight feeling, and the pressure... :shakehead:

Hopefully you don't have that long left to go, and that it goes quick for you! :)
thinking of you :hug:

I feel your pain Mel this part of pregnancy is the worst (for me anyway Im selfish and dont like sharing my body :lol:)
Hope the discomfort eases darl

I remember that feeling well... ok.. not the bowel thing... but definitely the belly that just couldn't possibly get any bigger or tighter! and this was before 34 weeks! I was sick & tired of everyone asking if it was twins.. and saying that there's no way I would go full term... And it annoyed me that they were right.. she came at 34 weeks.. and yes, was on her way to being a monster baby LOL. 3.5kg she was... 6 more weeks in utero doesn't bear thinking about LOL... I think my body knew to evict her already! hahah.

It's funny how I 'think' that I loooooove being pregnant, but if I think about the details of the pg's.. gosh... not so sure! Determined to enjoy my 3rd & final pg when it happens tho haha. Try to enjoy the remainder of yours :)

Liz - I'd probably enjoy it more if I was sleeping more and my pelvis wasn't killing me ;) Just getting too old for this stuff I think.

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but gawd the pressure when pooping is incredible!!!!!

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hehe. yeah i couldn't have much DTD in late third trimester because of the pressure down there. if it wasn't pooping it was DTD. :rolleyes: the things we do for our kids ey?

I carried all 4 of mine in a slightly different position each time so it always got really really tight by this stage - and I have all the stretchies to prove it *sigh*. So I know the feeling only too well

Funny you should say that Trill, cos this one seems to always be at the front of me!! very uncomfortable!!! Can't remember really what the other two's favourite position was, but my god - I have stretchies on my stretchies!!! LOL

CM - DTD?? what's that?!!? LOL... never do that in this house!

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DTD?? what's that?!!? LOL... never do that in this house!

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Well we know it's happened at least 3 times now :p

I can recall with Emily that feeling of tightness. For me it started at 34 weeks, and I thought for sure she would be premmie as my belly was as hard as a rock. But unfortunately she wasn't early. Won't be too much longer.

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CM - DTD?? what's that?!!? LOL... never do that in this house!

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:rofl: you must have many months back Mel or your wouldn't be in this predicament ;)

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Well we know it's happened at least 3 times now :p

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haha you mean at the MOST 3 times now...

bwhahahahaha

:think: I remember feeling exactly the same way with VY and I had her a week later....

this could be a sign people

:rofl: Well let's hope it's not too long then. Good luck let's of positive VBA2C labour vibes your way.

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:think: I remember feeling exactly the same way with VY and I had her a week later....

this could be a sign people

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PMSL.. don't say that!!! you'll have people stalking me for a birth announcement!!!

Not yet mate, bit too early!! And everyone knows I overcook my bubs :D

:ROFL: nothing to see here people..nothing to see :ROFL:

*hugs*

awww Mel I feel your pain!!!
I hate it even more when its 2 am you can hardly keep your eyes open and yet you feel like you need to do the biggest turd ever so you sit and wait, and wait, shift positions, wait some more, rub your belly, start shaking coz your so damn cold then finally give up!!!

I reckon bubs loves her bum being tapped coz when she moves into a position and it feels like she is way up under the ribs and kinda out to one side. So I rub my tum an dlightly pat it she leans out further into my tapping hand :shakeshead:

You know - nobody ever tells you about this stuff do they - well except for the girls in here but IRL noone ever mentions the last few months and all the "little" joys associated with it.

:hug: ohhhh try some boiled water (hot) with a squeeze of lemon. I find it helps to soften the stools and rocking a little bit forwards and back and sometimes side to side, on the loo, can help to shift bub and hopefully allow the passage to empty out.

Nae x x x x

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I hate it even more when its 2 am you can hardly keep your eyes open and yet you feel like you need to do the biggest turd ever so you sit and wait, and wait, shift positions, wait some more, rub your belly, start shaking coz your so damn cold then finally give up!!!

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lol then you go back to bed and need to go again.....I know what you mean with the leaning back thing it feels very primitive, leaning back to do a poo like a cavewoman :lol: Hopefully its not too long for you to wait.

Im hoping for a small baby, as i havent been that overly big for 30 odd weeks, but now im 38 weeks my mum commented on how i have ballooned in the belly region. Now im worrying lol

My fiance is bred to be a jockey, he weighs no more than 60 kilo. I on the other hand am quiet tall, weigh 86 kilo, and was almost a ten pounder baby.

Im wondering now whether I will have an small, average or large baby? Its really hard to tell. I have only gained about 6 kilo in my pregnancy, so what do you ladies think??

I've always heard its usually a pound or something heavier than the mother at birth (which that could freak you out - so for your sake I hope its not true!!)

But for me - I was 7 pounds, 7 oz at birth, DH was 7 pounds 14 oz, DS was 8 pound 2.5 oz, and DD was 8 pound 11.5 oz. So its pretty accurate in my case.

hmm.. .dunno about that theory.. if that were the case.. each generation would be a pound heavier than the previous one and we'd be having gargantuan babies by now LOL.

bwahaha maybe its a thing from the 1940's cos my mum was around 6 pound, I was 7 and my kids were 8... LOL

Maybe its a weird tasmanian thing.. LOL

lol, holy moly, i hope that isnt true lol. Id be having a 11 pounder.... yiiiikes :(