I feel like i got run over by a truck this morning. 3rd trimester exhaustion is REAL. I slept terrible and had such awful nightmares last night too. Ugh...common coffee...kick in already!
this is a mixed bf/blessing, but i slept better last night than i have in so long (other than getting up to pee a couple times)...but of course i had to get up earlier than usual today. so most days i am up well before 6:00 wishing i could sleep, and today i swear i could have slept until 10:00 and i had to be up early.
@nasalot188 Same. I woke up so exhausted and sore. When DH asked what was wrong I cried. I'm getting so frustrated with the lack of sleep and sore joints. I just can't get comfortable anymore.
Construction round two is starting on my office floor, and once again I am right on the divider line between old and new. The banging on the old cubes is going to make me mental!!!
Walked a lot at the football game Saturday, so all day yesterday my pelvis was so sore. I didn't get anything done like I wanted to. It feels better today, but now I'm so tired.
I can't believe August is almost over already, this is getting crazy.
Similarly, @KFrob, I feel like I can't explain this shit to my husband ONE MORE TIME. Just know that I'm miserable everywhere and no, there's nothing you can do to help. I'm sorry. I wish there were.
@sliztee exactly! And no it's not something bothering me, and yes I am happy I'm pregnant. Then I end up feeling bad for him that he feels helpless....
@chyvie, yes! This is my most active child yet and while I appreciate the reassurance that he's doing good in there....man, sometimes I just need him to settle down so I don't feel queasy all day. The kicks straight to the bladder and cervix are a bit much lately too.
Dogs are driving me crazy today. Mostly just one of them who feels the need to go outside every 20 mins and if you don't listen to her emergency age does all the annoying things. Been trying to break her if it but I have no patience today. Throwing a Frisbee for the other dog and because he must try to get it regardless how bad I throw it he almost fell flat on his back and I now I am crying as I am freaking out that I almost killed or injured dog. I can't adult today.
+1 to what I feel like is an extremely active baby. My midwife said this morning that he does seem extra wild but as annoying as it can be it’s a great thing! Good oxygen levels and brain function...I’m really thankful he’s healthy but my dear child, why can’t you kick my fat instead of my bones?
I'm annoyed because I need to refill the test strips for my glucose monitor and insurance is saying it's too soon. I've only got enough to get me through tomorrow, maybe half of Wednesday. Yo, let's do some math: Qty of 100/4x per day is only 25 days. It's been 21. And I've screwed up a few times. Just let me refill! They're letting me refill the lancets no problem.
@hannaht8516 thats so annoying. I ran into that problem with DS a few times and they just tried to do that with my insulin the other day. I called my nurse and she called the pharmacy and they filled it for me.
I feel like i got run over by a truck this morning. 3rd trimester exhaustion is REAL. I slept terrible and had such awful nightmares last night too. Ugh...common coffee...kick in already!
I could have written this myself. What is up with the nightmares? Last night I dreamt that I was at a "horror film experience" camp, but it was all real, and terrifying. Each time I'd wake up and fall back asleep, I'd end up in a different scenario. Not cool at all.
Now I'm halfway through the work day and I'm not sure how I'm going to make it the rest of the day, let alone the week. I'm so tired, everything hurts. I can't get comfortable.
AFM, my boss has been nothing but a b.... to me. I honestly have no idea why. We usually get along but lately anytime we have to talk or I have to deal with anyone above her I'm met with nothing but nastiness and resistance. I'm so over this.
+1 for active babies. I say "ow" all the time now, and make some weird faces at work because it kinda hurts! Especially when she's doing like 20 kicks in 10 seconds.
not having nightmares, but still having some weird semi-realistic dreams.
Also, my hands are feet are starting to swell more. yippee.
+1 Terrible dreams. So vivid and odd as can be. +1 for active babies. I honestly hate all this bouncing around that baby's doing. I'm super uncomfortable all the time. I don't recall any of my other kids moving this much this far along.
+1 to weird nightmares. Not my favorite pregnancy symptom
Ladybug - April 2013 Dandelion - October 2018 Angel "Aurora" - July 2020 Angel "Sawyer" - May 2021 Angel "Maxine" - January 2022 Angel "Violet" - March 2022 Baby Dove due March 2023
@hannaht8516 if insurance is still fighting you, try calling dietary that is connected to your OB or hospital your delivering at. They pulled the same crap with me and I called and talked with dietary. She had me come in and gave me an extra set of strips (vials) and lancets for free. It may be worth at least a call to see if they can help at all.
+1 to active baby, also hating baby hiccups, which she seems to get all the time. I hate twitching muscles and it feels too similar to that.
AFM - F acid reflux. I am so sick of waking up choking on it and smelling it and running to the bathroom because the gagging makes me think I might actually vomit one of these times. On top of that last night, I finally get comfortable and fall asleep to be woken up 5 seconds later (actually hours but it didn’t feel like it) to MH telling me a kid threw up. As I’m going back to sleep, I hear the kid throw up again, only MH is in the shower so I have to get up and deal with it. Fast forward to almost noon and the kid is feeling fine, so I decide to take him to grandpa’s house where he gets to the front porch, folds up his umbrella, hands it to me and then proceeds to bend over and vomit on the porch, his feet and my feet. FIL helps me get everything cleaned up and agrees to keep both boys, but I got to walk around today smelling the vomit... I am so sick of stomach acid smell. (Sick kid was fine the rest of the day and I am super thankful that FIL doesn’t think anything of taking the kids or coming over to babysit when they are sick. It was no big deal to him to have to clean it up and he volunteered that sick kid could stay if he wanted to.)
DH is crabby. I haven't done a whole lot in the house in the 2 days since I got back from working crazy hours for a week and I think he is upset about it. I told him I was beat as didn't get much done. He washed the pile of dishes that pilled up in two days but I sucked it up and dried and was very uncomfortable. We finally made it to the couch and I almost feel asleep at like 6pm. I am always up until about 10:30-11:30pm each night with him. Um dude you are very lucky this pregnancy has been pretty easy! I could easily not be able to do what I have so far or I could be falling asleep super early. Don't get crabby with me. (disclaimer - I have no clue if he is crabby with me because I really don't want to ask if everything is ok with him. very petty of me I know!)
@purplegoldfish2 my OB told me I can take Prilosec in the third tri and it has been a GODSEND! I have acid reflux as well and the symptoms sound very similar to what you have - it was literally incredibly painful, disgusting and foul tasting for 30 weeks. Tums, Pepcid, and Zantac didn’t do it for me but I haven’t had any symptoms in a week since taking Prilosec! Check with your OB - maybe it will help you, too! I feel for everyone dealing with it!
Me: 33 DH: 31 Location: Castle Rock, CO DD: 10.13.18 baby #2 due: 7.14.20
My BF is when my mom unintentionally says sexist things to me. Like “oh Dan can do the budget - he’s good at those things.” and “Dan can put together the rock and play - he’s an engineer.” Ummm you raised me to be a capable, smart woman. I have my MBA - I am fully capable of doing the budget spreadsheet (not that you need an MBA to do it haha). And I can click in the legs and put 2 screws in a rock and play. It doesn’t take an engineer. I know she didn’t mean to be offensive but jeeze... I’m not useless lol.
Me: 33 DH: 31 Location: Castle Rock, CO DD: 10.13.18 baby #2 due: 7.14.20
@sarahzett engineer here (also married to an engineer)...guarantee you could put it together faster because sometimes we make things more complicated than necessary. I have to leave the room when DH puts things together because I know I could do it faster, if I wasn't so damn rotund.
@SweetSweetTooth This is how things were with DH until we really sat down and talked about how I was feeling. He's been very helpful around the house the last week or so. Last night he even volunteered to go grocery shopping on his own because every time we talked about going I ended up being exhausted or in pain. You had a crazy busy week last week, and he needs to understand you need rest.
+1 for Prilosec! Zantac wasn’t touching it anymore..I’m so happy I switched! It says to only take it for 14 days. Not sure what I’m going to do after that!
I took prilosec for GERD (crazy acid reflux basically) as prescribed by my ENT. I was advised that long term use was not recommended because they dont know the long perm effects on women. However, I was prescribed it for 60 days and it's the only thing that helped!
I have to be careful with inhibitors like Zantac and Prilosec because I have a history of bad heartburn/reflux from low stomach acid. Taking those can actually make it worse because it reduces stomach acid even more. It took me a year to fix the issue, so I’m trying to avoid having that happen again. Fortunately Tums does work as long as I remember to take it when I go to bed - my problem is if I’m fine at bedtime, I don’t take it and then wake up gagging.
@sarahzett MH and I are both engineers and I am by far much better at putting stuff together. Every time he tries to help, he breaks part of it, striping screws, trying to force things together... I just have more patience for it than he does. I don’t think any of it has to do with being an engineer though - if it did, he’d be better at it than me because he is definitely the better engineer of the two of us.
I talked to my manager and director about working from home 3x a week on Monday afternoon. Before we left that meeting they had scheduled a meeting with the VP of HR for 1pm yesterday. When I left at 4 I checked with my boss about it, and she said it was moved to 5pm. No biggie. I have still not heard anything from them today, and the VP is now out until after Labor Day (1.5 weeks). I probably wouldn't be so cranky about it if I wasn't 100% miserable today. I've been forcing myself to stay at the office, and my bosses have been in meetings pretty much all day so I haven't even had a chance to ask. I'm working from home tomorrow and out Friday. I just want to know...
@sammierose464 Ugh! I was wondering how that went. Hopefully your bosses talked to them and got you approval and you just have to wait to hear the good news.
Re: Monday BF 8/20
Walked a lot at the football game Saturday, so all day yesterday my pelvis was so sore. I didn't get anything done like I wanted to. It feels better today, but now I'm so tired.
I can't believe August is almost over already, this is getting crazy.
TTC since 2016
Due: October 12, 2018
Location: Ontario, Canada
Throwing a Frisbee for the other dog and because he must try to get it regardless how bad I throw it he almost fell flat on his back and I now I am crying as I am freaking out that I almost killed or injured dog. I can't adult today.
Now I'm halfway through the work day and I'm not sure how I'm going to make it the rest of the day, let alone the week. I'm so tired, everything hurts. I can't get comfortable.
AFM, my boss has been nothing but a b.... to me. I honestly have no idea why. We usually get along but lately anytime we have to talk or I have to deal with anyone above her I'm met with nothing but nastiness and resistance. I'm so over this.
not having nightmares, but still having some weird semi-realistic dreams.
Also, my hands are feet are starting to swell more. yippee.
+1 for active babies. I honestly hate all this bouncing around that baby's doing. I'm super uncomfortable all the time. I don't recall any of my other kids moving this much this far along.
Dandelion - October 2018
Angel "Aurora" - July 2020
Angel "Sawyer" - May 2021
Angel "Maxine" - January 2022
Angel "Violet" - March 2022
Baby Dove due March 2023
AFM - F acid reflux. I am so sick of waking up choking on it and smelling it and running to the bathroom because the gagging makes me think I might actually vomit one of these times. On top of that last night, I finally get comfortable and fall asleep to be woken up 5 seconds later (actually hours but it didn’t feel like it) to MH telling me a kid threw up. As I’m going back to sleep, I hear the kid throw up again, only MH is in the shower so I have to get up and deal with it. Fast forward to almost noon and the kid is feeling fine, so I decide to take him to grandpa’s house where he gets to the front porch, folds up his umbrella, hands it to me and then proceeds to bend over and vomit on the porch, his feet and my feet. FIL helps me get everything cleaned up and agrees to keep both boys, but I got to walk around today smelling the vomit... I am so sick of stomach acid smell. (Sick kid was fine the rest of the day and I am super thankful that FIL doesn’t think anything of taking the kids or coming over to babysit when they are sick. It was no big deal to him to have to clean it up and he volunteered that sick kid could stay if he wanted to.)
Me: 33 DH: 31
Location: Castle Rock, CO
DD: 10.13.18
baby #2 due: 7.14.20
Me: 33 DH: 31
Location: Castle Rock, CO
DD: 10.13.18
baby #2 due: 7.14.20
@sarahzett MH and I are both engineers and I am by far much better at putting stuff together. Every time he tries to help, he breaks part of it, striping screws, trying to force things together... I just have more patience for it than he does. I don’t think any of it has to do with being an engineer though - if it did, he’d be better at it than me because he is definitely the better engineer of the two of us.