complaints

[texaspeach]

let's hear 'em!

I'm crampy. I'm tired of not being able to do things myself. Having to pee every 5 minutes is getting really, really old. Being constantly thirsty isn't helping. My vagina is numb - having a pins and needles feeling in my vag is weird! Combine that with the electric shock feeling and it moves up the chart to totally strange. I wish I could get a good night sleep.

Get those complaints out in the open!

[KristinaMarie]

I am tired..Tired of waking up every hour to go pee, tired of going through a roll of toliet paper every day, tired of moving or rolling over in bed and having BH every.single.time. My boobs are killing me. Last night I got the whole pins and needles feeling in them. I don't seem to have any issues with my vagina..I am sure if I could see it there might be a different story. Oh and I am tired of all the skin tags. Hopefully they will go away, or I will just cut them off when this is over with.

I feel better now.

[Talula Fairie]

Between what I think is near constant BH contractions, and SPD, and sciatica, walking is quite difficult and uncomfortable. I'm pretty nauseous a lot. I'm sick of wearing pads becuase I always am discharge-y and I'm sick of being slightly incontinent. The heartburn sucks. I'm hungry a lot but can't fit much in my stomach/tolerate many foods. I can't sleep very well. My back hurts. My belly hurts, the baby pushes on me hard and the contractions suck too. I have to pee all the time.

Uh, I think that's all I got for now

[babykaoss]

CONSTANT BH's and hours of contrax every night that go nowhere. The complete inability to BEND over. Trying to sleep on a bowling ball with tentacles. And of course, when I finally do fall asleep, the waking every hour desperate to pee. Which is not easy, because it's getting really hard to roll over and/or sit up out of bed.

[sunshynbaby]

My left hand is numb and the fingers don't work. My right wrist is hurting. My lower back hurts. The BH are constant. My ankles and feet are swollen. He keeps dipping down, bring sharp pains in my cervix. He seems to be doing some sort of push ups in there, testing the limits of my overstretched skin. My stretch marks are deep and dark. My foot feels like it is broken. I can't stand being at work anymore, but I have to be until I give birth. My sinuses won't let up and I have to take a decongestant every day. I keep having fits of uncontrollable crying for one valid reason or another.

Ahhh...

[Talula Fairie]

A bowling ball with tentacles!!

[puddleduck]

piles
stretch marks all the way up my inner thighs!!!
needing to pee every 90 minutes during the night (i've timed it)
constantly knackered
heartburn that makes me want to vomit
cough that makes me pee myself
by back hurts, i really want to bend
grumpy arguing children
an annoying mother who pops round whenever i'm trying to rest
dogs that trapse mud through the kitchen
living in the rainy UK where summer has vanished already

i feel better already

[sunshynbaby]

Oh, I forgot the biggest one: I'm tired of the comments from strangers, friends, and acquaintances at work. I'm thinking of making a sign to wear: Yes, I'm still here. Yes, I am SO ready! My due date is Friday. It's a boy. Yes, I'm miserable. Thanks for the sympathy. Thanks for the congrats. Go away now.

[babykaoss]

Originally Posted by Talula Fairie

A bowling ball with tentacles!!

That's my reality, baby. I almost feel like when baby comes out it's gonna actually be a black bowling ball with eight purple octopus legs attached wiggling everywhere, cuz that's sure as HECK what he feels like now!!!

Yes, I'm officially in crazy-land. Blame it on the sleep deprivation. Did I mention that part?

[Talula Fairie]

Originally Posted by sunshynbaby

Oh, I forgot the biggest one: I'm tired of the comments from strangers, friends, and acquaintances at work. I'm thinking of making a sign to wear: Yes, I'm still here. Yes, I am SO ready! My due date is Friday. It's a boy. Yes, I'm miserable. Thanks for the sympathy. Thanks for the congrats. Go away now.

SERIOUSLY!

If one more freaking person at church asks when I am due, what the baby's name is, or what the gender is I am going to poke someone. I know they are just curious and it's natural to ask questions but really I am so sick of answering the same ones ad nauseum. Can't people just say "congratulations, you look beautiful?" cause that's what I always say to hugely pregnant women.

[Talula Fairie]

Originally Posted by babykaoss

That's my reality, baby. I almost feel like when baby comes out it's gonna actually be a black bowling ball with eight purple octopus legs attached wiggling everywhere, cuz that's sure as HECK what he feels like now!!!

Yes, I'm officially in crazy-land. Blame it on the sleep deprivation. Did I mention that part?

Best laugh I've had all day. I am very very sleep deprived too. And also pregnant with an octopus.

[RTT]

I've got all the usuals: sick of the constant night waking, the exhaustion, non-stop peeing, BHs, feeling enormous, stranger comments, etc. And I'll add that I'm tired of feeling guilty because for the last few weeks I just haven't had the energy to run around doing tons of stuff with DD. It's hot and humid and I really don't want to go anywhere but it's summer and I feel like she should be outside getting exercise and I should be playing with her. Blah, sick of feeling guilty. I am soooooo ready for this baby boy to arrive.

[LilWin]

Ah, complaining. Well, I just feel sooooo sleepy all the time. All I want to do is lay down on my bed and either sleep or stare in the distance ignoring everybody.
I can seriously cry every time I see my legs in the mirror. Those vericose veins are so ugly, I actually did cry over them once a few weeks ago and told DH I was going to kill myself if they aren't going away (ok, drama moment, I'll admit that). Taking a handheld mirror (TMI) and looking "down there" wasn't a very good idea either.
Even though everybody means well, I'm kind of sick of everybody asking how much longer.
The weather here is so hot right now, I hate it and do not look forward to having to give birth in this heat!
The pains, the false alarms, the pins & needles feeling, the peeing, blabla, y'all know what I mean.
Oh, and that plastic bedsheet, my goodness. Normally I never sweat much, but because of the heat and it being plastic I wake up covered in sweat every night. Hate it!!
Baby, please come out?? Pretty please?

[Hezzie]

Here's my Rant:
Nothing happening labor wise...no bloody show, no nesting instinct, baby thinking it's an elevator and refuses to stay dropped. Stubborn constipation no matter how many meds or food I take/eat/drink/. Hemorrhoids that (sorry if this is TMI) feel like I've grown a mountain range down there. Heartburn from baby refusing to stay on the bottom floor. Insomnia, getting maybe 4 hours of sleep a night. Swollen feet that play games with me. Too tired to keep the house as clean as I'd like (and I am not a neat freak at all) or get projects done. Want to DTD because I actually feel like it for the first time in months and I want to try and get labor going, but can't because I have ANOTHER damn yeast infection. Frustration from multiple sources: DH's income won't cover our monthly expenses despite severely cutting back on everything thanks to damn medical insurance going up $200 a month BEFORE the baby even gets here (and no, we don't qualify for WIC or CHIP or any government program...we make about $400 a month too much, how's that for a kicker?), I need a job to make ends meet and no one wants to talk to/hire a pregnant woman, MW wanting me to take more supplements/do activities that I can't afford to do because we're broke so I'm not doing them and feel guilty. I'm stuck in this house all by myself all day as all of my friends work and no one to talk to. I have things to do, but I'm too tired to do them! I am seriously trying not to take all this out on DH because it's not his fault but he's just as frustrated as I am and snips at me sometimes. Then I cry because I'm hormonal and he either gets angrier from frustration that I'm crying or feels guilty because he lost his temper.

Wow...I had no clue that all of this is sitting on my shoulders. I know some of it will get better once the baby comes (at least the physical ailments will go away, but not the insomnia). At least when the baby's out, maybe more people will want to consider me for a job. The biggest frustration is that I'm done done done done and labor is nowhere near starting. If I could give this baby an Eviction Notice, I totally would! I think I have a better understanding of why mama birdies shove their kiddos out of the nest when it's time to fly.

[babykaoss]

Originally Posted by sunshynbaby

Oh, I forgot the biggest one: I'm tired of the comments from strangers, friends, and acquaintances at work. I'm thinking of making a sign to wear: Yes, I'm still here. Yes, I am SO ready! My due date is Friday. It's a boy. Yes, I'm miserable. Thanks for the sympathy. Thanks for the congrats. Go away now.

This. exactly.

[tankgirl136]

I am sick of the fact I groan or make other equally awful noises from just moving. Why such lovely noises? Because I feel every movement in a very painful and achey way. Rolling over in bed is way too much work, but staying in place suck more!!

I want this stupid rib pain to go away!

I want to be able to sleep, and stay asleep, not get up pee and then lay there for ever trying to sleep. Then when I do sleep I sleep and sleep, but wake up tired. I miss sleep more, because soon I know it will be worse!

[texaspeach]

Hezzie I have so been there. this pregnancy even. If I didn't think the drive would do me in, I'd come up to Austin for lunch. Being stuck alone inside all day just makes everything seem worse.

[babynatasha]

I'm sick of the heartburn. I eat and get it and then try to eat something else to make it go away, but it doesn't and I don't learn my lesson. The near constant BH contractions every time I move. Getting out of breath putting my shoes on. My extra clingy child, when I'm hot and don't want to be touched. Getting up to pee in the middle of the night. A cough that just won't quit and wetting myself once because I was caught off gaurd by a coughing fit (I have never done that before, it was so embarrassing and I am the only one who knew about it!). Thinking that I may have to wait another week to have this baby, because my last one was born at 41wks. The stranger questions. The questions from my moms friends about when the baby will arrive, like I know the answer to that?!?! (To be honest I told them all I was due a week later than I really am, because I got sick of the "the baby wants to make a grand entrance" statements when I was past my due date the last time.)

I'm also sick of going into work everyday and trying to finish up everything that comes in that day, just in case I don't come in the next day because I have the baby. I am so envious of people with maternity leave, as I am self employed and I have to tell my customers that any day now I might be out for two weeks because I am having a baby. Then knowing in 2 weeks from the time I have the baby, I will have to get my butt back into work, with the baby, to do any work that came in. I hate that people who work in the same building comment EVERY DAY that I must not have had the baby yet. Like no sh*t, if I had the baby I wouldn't be here!


Thanks, I needed that!

[Bellabaz]

I'm tired, I want to have a good night's sleep, my pelvic area, vagine, inner thighs and hips hurt ALL THE TIME. It hurts to walk, it hurts to roll over, it hurts to stand. I can't find a comfortable position to sit in because this kid is so low. I have to pee every 20 minutes. Heat makes me almost pass out. Hemmoroids are HUGE.

[texaspeach]

I only got about 4 hrs of sleep last night. I moved to the couch to try and get comfy, which meant I had to walk up stairs every time I had to pee. Then I had to find a fan because it was so hot (and it was 72 in here!@ not hot). I made a pillow nest but could not get comfy. I feel like hell.