40 week frustration

[hedgewitch]

I am seriously at the end of my tether today My ankles are swollen, my legs hurt, my tummy hurts if my ds so much as grazes it (which he does a lot) I am tired, I can't sleep and I feel like I want to hit myself over the head.

Going out is too much work and staying in is driving me crazy. Everyone I know is sick so no visiting, I feel like I'm going out of my mind. And all the websites talk as if you have no kids so its all "Go to the movies and take an afternoon nap". Try that with a 3.5 year old! And I am a sucky mum right now as I have no energy and am just trying to get to the end of each day when my dp gets home.

Plus every time I speak to family and friends I feel like a failure as I have no happy baby news, just frustration and complaining from me. I've even stopped returning a lot of calls as I have nothing to say as I am not doing anything! It is still cold and icy here so going out sucks. I've tried everything I can think of to 'induce' but nothing. I'm going for vbac so the stress of worrying about a c-sec is killing me. Feel like I'm going to pop! There is more but even I'm sick of hearing my complaints.

Ok, rant over. Sorry ladies! If anyone else feels the same please feel free to join me in my festival of complaining!

[Lizzie9984]

I'm 40 w 6 d, and believe me, I feel your pain! I just want to be DONE, I'm so worn out and achey, ugh. And having a 15 m/o doesn't help, she's highly active.....I live in a condo complex, and walking over to the mailbox every day is about all the walking I can handle So it's not like I do actually go anywhere anymore, it's just not worth the effort.

[fuzzypeach]

I am nearly 40 weeks, and have a 3.5 year old too... oy. I've been having awful swelling and my CNM says to lay down and put my feet up a lot... ha! If it weren't for the swelling I'd be okay though... I can hardly get shoes on to leave the house though Have to try to schedule in 15 minutes of lying down before I leave in order to squeeze into anything...

[She2dancer]

I feel you mama! I am 42w2d...any my constantly nursing 26mo DS is driving me up a wall...and to top it all off, my DH's car hasn't been starting on the cold mornings, so more often than not I am left without a vehicle, stuck at home with a toddler who wants more than anything to go outside and run around (in the snow/rain it doesn't matter to him, but I don't have a coat that buttons all the way up).

anyway...I can only commiserate!

[sjdemo]

at least we're not alone

i'm 40 + 2. i've taken to answering the phone with "i'm not in labor." for that matter if i call someone i use the same greeting. then tack on a very sweet but very mommy-needing toddler (who had pneumonia last week) and a seriously nasty sinus infection that has turned me into the mucus queen.

yeah, if one more person tells me to have sex to induce i'm gonna strangle them. i feel so gross i turn myself off.

sympathy hugs all around....

[joyfulgrrrl]

I say next person that calls get to come babysit while you get a pedicure!

[sjdemo]

Originally Posted by joyfulgrrrl

I say next person that calls get to come babysit while you get a pedicure!

i like this. think i'll add, "and they have to pay for the pedicure."

[filiadeluna]

I hear ya. I am just one day ahead of you. Thank goodness I will finally get to go out of work though, thanks to my awesome Midwife. I thought I'd have to work until labor. 1 more day of work, and then at least I can focus on stuff at home for awhile. I have *plenty* to occupy my time, and plenty of sleep to catch up on.

[sjdemo]

Originally Posted by filiadeluna

I hear ya. I am just one day ahead of you. Thank goodness I will finally get to go out of work though, thanks to my awesome Midwife. I thought I'd have to work until labor. 1 more day of work, and then at least I can focus on stuff at home for awhile. I have *plenty* to occupy my time, and plenty of sleep to catch up on.

i stopped working at 39 weeks. i work 12 hr days 3 x wk and it was just getting way too hard. plus i work at a hospital and am having baby at a birth center and was afraid of going into labor at the hospital. well, guess i can be glad that didn't happen.

enjoy the sleep while you can get it!

[filiadeluna]

Originally Posted by sjdemo

i stopped working at 39 weeks. i work 12 hr days 3 x wk and it was just getting way too hard. plus i work at a hospital and am having baby at a birth center and was afraid of going into labor at the hospital. well, guess i can be glad that didn't happen.

enjoy the sleep while you can get it!

Thanks! Yeah I work 9 hours x 5 days a week, late evenings (and in Customer Service in a call center). Ugh.

[Kmelion]

39 weeks here... Just saw the OB and I am not dilated AT ALL. I wanted to cry because of all the contractions and pressure I've been having for the past few days, I thought for sure SOMETHING was finally happening.

So basically what I've been doing is staying off the various 'due in March '09' boards and groups I belong to because it's nuts to get so jealous of the women who have had their babies already...

[JUXTAMAMA]

Sorry...I can relate. I went over by a week and this time last week I was freaking out!!! No real sign that anything was going to happen and I have two other kids so everytime I would go to drop my ds off at school I would have the full on "OMG are still pg?" I was feeling like a huge failure it was weird.
I did have a successful hospital vbac, just hung in there it will happen.