I don't know how much more of this i can take!

[BanditaMamacita]

I'm only 34 weeks, but this is the most uncomfortable pregnancy! I'm guessing this baby is already around 6 pounds, if not more, and is super super low... I can feel a head in my vagina. It hurts to walk. Just pushing a shopping cart around the grocery store today gave me so much pain and pressure. I could barely hobble around by the time I got home. Now I'm vomiting and have horrible diarrhea. I'm simultaneously afraid of preterm labor and of all of this being prelabor that lasts another 6 weeks! I feel AWFUL right now. Uggh.

Anyway, sorry to vent, but it's a lil too TMI to share with anyone who isn't pregnant. lol

[Marlet]

I feel your pain. Literally. I'm 33 weeks tomorrow and counting down the days to my safe window. I had an appointment a few days ago and the dr. said that not only is he not worried about me going early (I went in for some pain in my cervix) but that he doesn't think I'll go any form of early. As in not anywhere before my due date. That is one depressing thought.

[BanditaMamacita]

Marlet, if it makes you feel any better, my mws told me pretty much the exact same thing with my previous two pregnancies. I remember saying i felt so awful that i must be close to the end at my 36 and 37 weeks appts, and they pretty much laughed and said everyone says that, and everyone is back the next week. And that there was no reason to expect to go into labor anytime soon. And I had dd at 38 weeks and ds at 37.5. I always felt pretty pleased with being able to say, "Told ya so!" lol.

But now i'm having symptoms that i had from 36-38 weeks with those pregnancies, so i'm getting a lil worried. About have a preemie, of course, but also afraid that i'm expecting to go early from going early twice and that i'm expecting it to happen the same way it did then, and that it won't and i'll be miserable and disappointed. lol. I'm just getting so anxious about the when/how its gonna happen question. Which i could live with and enjoy if i weren't feeling like i did the morning before my kids were BORN both times before... ya know, miserable.

[Marlet]

That would be somewhat satisfying to say that. I have had this feeling I'd go early this whole time. Which for me is a big deal. DD1 was a week over and DD2 was a couple days over. Not a big deal but they were tiny (6lb 10 oz and 6lb 13 oz respectively) and this one is due in Dec. In a state that gets way too frickin' cold for my liking. I was happy to hear the dr. say that but at the same time I was very much bah hum buggish.

I get you on the expecting part. I thought DD2 would be born early too and once that timeframe hit I spent way too much energy analyzing every single thing going on in my body. By the time I was exhausted mentally I really did go into labour. Do you have a person who seems to be your universal negator? My sister is that way for me. All I need to do is tell her something and not only does it not happen but the opposite does. Here's hoping your body starts cooperating and feels better!

I am feeling like I did at 40 weeks. Tight in my skin etc. I'm bigger now (in weight and measurements around) that I ever got with my other two. My skin gets so tight and thin it's basically see through. I cannot go 7 more weeks if my body doesn't stop growing. Oddly enough, it's just me being big. The baby is actually about dead on for my kids average on weight gain. Maybe I need to lay off the baking.

[Happiestever]

Originally Posted by Marlet

I feel your pain. Literally. I'm 33 weeks tomorrow and counting down the days to my safe window. I had an appointment a few days ago and the dr. said that not only is he not worried about me going early (I went in for some pain in my cervix) but that he doesn't think I'll go any form of early. As in not anywhere before my due date. That is one depressing thought.

LOL. I have always heard from my midwives "Oh we'll be seeing you any day now" starting at 38 weeks. Now I know my body is more prone to 42 weeks, so I don't even consider going early or even close to on time. The end of pregnancy is always so much harder because we are so close.

My left hip aches off and on where it is hurts to walk. I so love the thrid trimester. I do. Really. Just hate the pains.

[Serenyd]

Originally Posted by Marlet

That would be somewhat satisfying to say that. I have had this feeling I'd go early this whole time. Which for me is a big deal. DD1 was a week over and DD2 was a couple days over. Not a big deal but they were tiny (6lb 10 oz and 6lb 13 oz respectively) and this one is due in Dec. In a state that gets way too frickin' cold for my liking. I was happy to hear the dr. say that but at the same time I was very much bah hum buggish.

I get you on the expecting part. I thought DD2 would be born early too and once that timeframe hit I spent way too much energy analyzing every single thing going on in my body. By the time I was exhausted mentally I really did go into labour. Do you have a person who seems to be your universal negator? My sister is that way for me. All I need to do is tell her something and not only does it not happen but the opposite does. Here's hoping your body starts cooperating and feels better!

I am feeling like I did at 40 weeks. Tight in my skin etc. I'm bigger now (in weight and measurements around) that I ever got with my other two. My skin gets so tight and thin it's basically see through. I cannot go 7 more weeks if my body doesn't stop growing. Oddly enough, it's just me being big. The baby is actually about dead on for my kids average on weight gain. Maybe I need to lay off the baking.

This happened to me w/ my third, and I'm so not happy with the extra weight and extra stretched skin I now have to deal with.

I wish I'd paid more attention to my weight gain! The pounds just piled on this time, and now I'm huge! I was 191 the day I went into labor and my scale says I am 161 today (2 weeks postpartum) so I still have at least 30 lbs to lose to get back to my normal weight. (I was 128 lbs @ 4 week pg.)

[Marlet]

Originally Posted by Serenyd

This happened to me w/ my third, and I'm so not happy with the extra weight and extra stretched skin I now have to deal with.

I wish I'd paid more attention to my weight gain! The pounds just piled on this time, and now I'm huge! I was 191 the day I went into labor and my scale says I am 161 today (2 weeks postpartum) so I still have at least 30 lbs to lose to get back to my normal weight. (I was 128 lbs @ 4 week pg.)

I have no idea where mine is going/coming from! Yes I'm heavier than I have been for awhile but it's still very within the relam of normal (in fact the total gain is consistent....I normally lose a lot of weight in the first tri and somehow skipped it this time). The irritating thing is it really is just ME and not a big baby in there. In fact, at my appointment when they did the fetal weight guessing (even the dr. said it was oh so accurate and then rolled his eyes I love this guys bedside manner!) this one is going to be about the same size as my other two. I've gained an inch in circumference since that appointment! My skin is so tight that I can see the color of my belly button ring THROUGH my skin. Seriously. At the rate I'm going, my skin will break open within the next 7 weeks.

[gabeyho]

Originally Posted by Marlet

That would be somewhat satisfying to say that. I have had this feeling I'd go early this whole time. Which for me is a big deal. DD1 was a week over and DD2 was a couple days over. Not a big deal but they were tiny (6lb 10 oz and 6lb 13 oz respectively) and this one is due in Dec.
...... Oddly enough, it's just me being big. The baby is actually about dead on for my kids average on weight gain. Maybe I need to lay off the baking.

It doesn't get quite that cold here, but as soon as the weather gets below 80 I turn on my oven and bake my days away....that and my two month absence at they gym have contributed to my obvious loss of muscle tone and consequent gain of softness.

I have always been within a few days of my EDD, until the last one, #4: She was a week late AND it was no wonder since she was SO tiny at 5.10. Not that I have big babies, with all of them under 7 lbs, but I had to laugh when a week before my EDD last time the NP estimated her birth weight at no less than 8 lbs and two weeks later, a week over due, comes my smallest one yet!

Just hang in there. I tell ya, you feel like this that very last month EVERY time, always thinking "this time I will definitley go a little earlier" and you somehow manage to make it all the way through that whole month.

[Marlet]

Originally Posted by gabeyho

Just hang in there. I tell ya, you feel like this that very last month EVERY time, always thinking "this time I will definitley go a little earlier" and you somehow manage to make it all the way through that whole month.

You're not helping.

I was telling a friend today it's not even that I'm horribly uncomfortable (I am uncomfy but it has more to do with body image this time around)...I'm just..meh, I'm done.

My SIL and I have been talking all day. She's due 2 weeks before me (so 35 weeks now) and had her first at a bit more than 36 weeks. She's getting super anxious now. Her first had some health issues so this is almost as bad as being a first time mom for her. It's only gotten me more eager to get the show on the road.

Bandita how are you doing today?

[BanditaMamacita]

Thanks for asking! I'm ok. Ya know, aching back, heartburn, peeing every 2.5 minutes, feeling like i'm walking around with a bowling ball between my legs... but no vomiting today, so let's look on the bright side. lol. I hear ya baout being bigger this time around. Everyone keeps telling me how much bigger I am, in case I hadn't noticed all on my own. LoL. No one has ever ventured a fetal weight estimate for me with any of my pregnancies, but when dd was born (8.11 at 38 weeks... definitely accurate dating), my midwife commented that she was shocked cuz she was expecting to see a 6.5 pound baby or so, since I measured 1-2 cm behind my whole pregnancy. With ds, I measured 3-4 cm behind my whole pregnancy, and had a 7.9 lb lil boy at 37.5 weeks. This time around, I'm measured dead-on, if not ahead by a cm, which scares me. LoL. If I had a nearly 9 pound kid measuring small at 38 weeks, i shudder to think how large this one will be if i go past that. lol. I feel like i did around 36-37 weeks with my others... She just feels HEAVY. So i guess we're in the same boat. lol. I haven't even gained any weight in the last 3-4 weeks, but boy is she getting bigger by the day! I had this zip-up that i could comfortably wear last week... Now there's a 2 inch gap between the zippers. No way I could squeeze myself into it. lol. Gabeyho, haha, you totally burst my bubble about it happening earlier this time. LoL. Somehow, from the very beginning, i've had something about 36-37 weeks stuck in my head this time, but i was ignoring it. But since my prelabor symptoms started around 32 weeks, i was starting to think maybe i wasn't so wrong. Guess no such luck, huh? lol. I try to remind myself that i want her to come when she's good and ready and of course, fully cooked. But boy, do i start to feel impatient around this time! lol. I think it's just all the anxiety about how and when it will happen and what it will be like.. I love the surprise, but the anticipation is too much! heh. I guess i'm feeling a lil more positive today tho... Hope you guys are feeling well!

[BroodyWoodsgal]

Oh honey bunny...I'm sorry you are feeling so lousy...your baby will come...I hope that you just bake them quicker as a general rule and that you get another "done at 38 weeks" bub, so you don't have to hobble around in pain anymore....but you know you just have to make it til s/he comes...just make, lady, and it all melts away the second you see that little head and those little eyes and sigh that "ahhhh" sigh of relief at finally being face to face with your bub.

I'm at the point now, where it really helps to think in days instead of weeks. When I think to myself that I'm 2.5 weeks from my guess date...somehow it feels sooooo much longer than when I think "I am 16 days from my guess date" - when I think about it that way...I'm like WOW, SO CLOSE!

I hope time starts speeding up for you, I hope you start to feel a little better, by some miracle...hang in there lady!!

[BanditaMamacita]

Averysmomma-- thanks so much. You're absolutely right, none of this discomfort will matter at all in a few weeks when i get to see her lil face. I guess i'm just anxious to get to that point! Heh. How are you feeling? I hadn't seen you around in a while and thought maybe your lil one had decided to arrive, but i guess not, huh? I hope you're feeling well and enjoying your last weeks with Avery, anyway I'm feeling pretty decent today (in spite of raking leaves all morning, running up and down the stairs to do laundry all day, and scrubbing my house to get ready for my lil one's 2nd bday party tomorrow), so I'm in better spirits... The vomiting and diarrhea just totally freaked me out... Those are usually hours-before-labor kinds of symptoms for me.

[BanditaMamacita]

Just wondering how you guys are feeling I was feeling decent for a couple days, but today has been pretty awful. Overdid it a lil this weekend, I think. Trying to take it easy tonight, but that's not so easy when you're nesting. lol. How's everyone else doing??? I haven't seen any updates!

[Happiestever]

Can I say that I am so excited to hear about everyone's birth's that are coming up! I get to live vicariously through all of you bc you're due so much sooner than I am. I hope everyone is well. I have to wait until nearly February for this little one, and I definitely need the time just to clean. I have a LOT of cleaning to do. I just hope I can get it done in time.

[gabeyho]

Originally Posted by Happiestever

Can I say that I am so excited to hear about everyone's birth's that are coming up! I get to live vicariously through all of you bc you're due so much sooner than I am. I hope everyone is well. I have to wait until nearly February for this little one, and I definitely need the time just to clean. I have a LOT of cleaning to do. I just hope I can get it done in time.

I'm right there with you! I am not due to go until the end of Januaryish, and I am starting to get that feeling (maybe cause it's true?) that I have been really lazy lately and need to catch up on my housework! With 4 lo's to take care of, it's not like I sit around on my bum all day, but the housework piles up pretty quick and I really haven't been trying to keep up with it, and suddenly I just can't STAND it!! My dh has been trying to get me some cleaning help for once or twice a week, but the poor girl who was supposed to start last week came down with the flu and I haven't heard from her; of course, in anticipation of someone else mopping my several rooms of tile I really let it go, and then when she couldn't start I am now left with an extra dirty hard floor and I am ready to just do it myself.

You know what makes me feel the most tired? When I am picking up a room or folding clothes and the constant bending causes me to have to consequently pull up my pants every time I bend....it is SO annoying! I feel like all day I bend, pull up, bend, pull up... I swear, I have tried them all over 5 pregnancies, and there is no such thing as functional and comfortable pair of maternity pants! Just thinking about how many times i will have to adjust my pants if I pick up a room makes me tired.

[Kidzaplenty]

I know how you feel. I hope you feel better before the end comes.

[Happiestever]

Bend... Pull... so Funny. Add to that heartburn at the end of the day and it is quite a amazing thing to simply change the sheets.

[BanditaMamacita]

Honestly!!! The day to day tasks ARE quite an accomplishment at this point. I mean, I'm walking like a PENGUIN, how easy can it be to do anything? lol