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Carolinawx

Just needing some mental support, vent...

I'm only at almost 23 weeks and I'm TIRED!! I to "sit" on myself so I don't do as much, but it's hard. I find that I still only manage to get about 7 hours a day (includes 2 30 min naps in the day) of sleep. I'm only 5' tall and everyone thinks I'm due any minute! Nope I've got about 15 more weeks people! GOD help me!! I'm playing it tough to most people (business women) but I'm really starting to struggle.  I want to be able to work until the end, but just don't know now.  I have my doctors appointment Thursday. I feel like the babies are fine, I'm just being whiny!! All I want to do is eat and sleep for a week straight!

Thanks for letting me vent!

 

txcyclist

I'm right there with ya. I just hit 27 weeks yesterday and I'm the same height as you. This pregnancy is much more draining than my singleton 10 years ago. I'm tired all the time, my back hurts and I've yet to get good sleep. I know it'll be worth it in the end. Hang in there and know you're not alone.

BananaPancake

Hang in there, Mama. I hit a major wall right around 24 weeks and thought I was just going to melt into a puddle of self-pity. And it's HARD because NO ONE but another multiples mama can understand what you're going through! You will hit several walls before you're done, but you'll get through them. Try to go easy on yourself - you can recuperate when it's all over. Your body is working the hardest it'll ever work, and you're really alone in what your body is doing right now, so be proud of that. You're more than halfway there! You're getting SO close to the 3rd tri, and I felt like the 3rd tri was easier than the rest. Yeah, you're huge, but each week is a huge milestone and those babies are gaining weight and getting ready! 

I'd start preparing yourself mentally for the possibility of being pulled out of work or just not being able to do it after a bit. Some women DO work until the end, but I know that by about 32 weeks it was all I could do to take a shower and do some light housework. I can't imagine the energy it must take for you to get a day of work in on top of just growing those kids!

Keep your chin up - every day you keep them in you is a day you keep them out of the NICU. If you don't have the book by Dr. Luke, I'd get it. Those footprint pictures were so encouraging to me, and really pushed me to rest and relax to get their sweet little feet as big as possible! And after much frustration and many tears and a LOT of exhaustion, their feet were bigger than any of the footprints in that book. You can do this, and we're all behind you!  

shaunah816

I hit a wall around 22-23 weeks, too. Around 25 weeks I probably felt the best I'd feel all pregnancy and got some more energy, then the 28 week wall hit me Like pp said, you'll hit many walls, then recover, then hit another, and so on. Once I hit 28 weeks, though, the pregnancy seemed to fly by. Hang in there! Carrying multiples is HARD.

kellibelle0417

You all are so supportive. I love it. I'm 13 weeks and am seeing how much I have to look forward too!  

Reilly626

My doc wanted me out soon after that and I should have listened and been signed out of work. Cross your fingers and maybe they will sign you out.

WeAreSmalls

I will be 24 weeks tomorrow and feel the same way. All of a sudden my back hurts and I feel like I've been kicked between the legs whenever I move. I'm hoping this is just a bump and not a wall.

SpinningJess

I hit a wall at 24 weeks, and every 2-3 weeks after that until I had them.  It's SO darn exhausting!  I have a desk job, but still couldn't handle even that 7 hours a day.  I had my doc take me out of work at 32 weeks and I think it's one of the best decisions I could have made for my pregnant self. I do a lot of talking at work, and since breathing was hard, talking was even harder and more draining.  My boss didn't quite understand what was different about sitting at home vs sitting at work, but I didn't give him any choices (I had a really irritable ute, tons of contractions every day so that's what she used as the reference point for taking me out).  It's hard.  But.  Believe it or not this is easier than having newborn twins.  If you aren't, you need to have others doing as much as possible for you starting now.

Carolinawx

Thank you all!! I ended up going home an hour early due to edema that wouldn't go away after lunch.  My coworkers are so sweet!! One is walking to the local market a couple of blocks away to get me some fresh fruit because I forgot my afternoon snack!!

I have my doctors appointment tomorrow.  I don't want to be taken off of work so long as the babies are fine.  I have been eating crap food all week and realize that my diet is 100% tied into this and needs to be cleaned up again, ESPECIALLY the SALT!! OMG I can't believe how difficult it is to keep sodium out of one's diet these days.