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JenniferF11
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33 Wks & Hitting a Wall
JenniferF11
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Anyone else out there hitting the wall in your 3rd tri? I'm a little over 33 weeks and am pretty much on self-imposed bed rest. I'm so grateful the babies are healthy and we've made it this far - my girls weighed 4lbs5oz & 4lbs15oz at my appt yesterday. But it's hard to think about 4-5 more weeks of getting bigger! How do/did you get through the day-to-day at the end? Any advice/tips? It's also killing me that it's summer and I'm stuck inside!
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Re: 33 Wks & Hitting a Wall
Expecting twins! Put on strict bedrest at home after preterm labor at 22 weeks. Hospitalized at 22 weeks and again at 29 weeks. No more please!
FTM here so I don't have other kids (so this might not work) but I honestly do very little! I tried to do one big thing before lunch like a load of laundry or dishes, eat, and then one or two things in the afternoon. Now, my idea of "big things" got smaller and smaller as I have progressed. Some days my "chore" of the day is just getting groceries or making all of my appointments! HA. I also have given my self permission to sit. If I am in the middle of a project no matter how easy or simple it would have seemed pre-pregnancy if it becomes to much I sit and relax of 5 or 10 minutes.
I also quit work at 35 weeks, even though I was only subbing. I honestly think if I had kept up my schedule these babies would have been here a long time ago.
I have a 3yo DS and work FT at a desk job and weekends are BY FAR the hardest. I feel incredibly lucky that my H has picked up all of my slack around the house and w the kid.
I'm still trying to stay active, but I've been listening to my body and if it tells me I need a nap or a moment to sit, I do it. I have good days and bad days, but overall I really can't complain. This twin thing is hard!
Sadly, I have no advice because I am right there with you. 35wks tomorrow. I came down with PUPPS this week and I am an itcy, irritable mess. I have cried more in the last week than during the last 8 months.
The only thing I am planning on doing is pampering myself with something to look forward to each week. Last week was a brow wax, this week is a pedicure, next week I'm getting a massage.
This is my life to a tee. I am 33w2d, uncomfortable, and feeling huge. I feel like all I do is sit on the couch like a lump drifting in and out of naps and watching stupid tv until my H gets home...and then with him until bedtime. I just keep telling myself that it will all be worth it in just a few short weeks. I hit a huge wall a week and a half ago and was crying with my mom on FaceTime. She came down last weekend and that really helped. Sometimes, no matter how old you are, you just need some quality mom time! I honestly don't know how I would've made it emotionally without that visit.
Keep your head up, Jennifer! There are a bunch of us right there with you. We are so close!
YES! I am 33w 3d and I have definitely hit a wall. I need these babes to grow a little more, but I am really about ready to be done. (It's been a week and a half since our last growth scan. 1 was 3lbs7oz and 2 was 3lbs8oz. I assume they are about 4lbs each by now.)
Since I don't sleep, I am tired all the time. Everything is just exhausting to me.
I hit that wall too, and understand how uncomfortable you are. But, it's truly for the best that they stick around as long as possible. When my boys were born at 36 weeks they still looked so small and vulnerable, and were even in the NICU for a weeks. Hang in there!
When I was on bedrest I learned how to knit. It was helpful to feel like I could still do something (semi) productive and learn a new skill. There are a ton of helpful videos on youtube
My whole family got scarves for Christmas that year!
Its just baby steps and one ay at a time.
I hit walls at about 28, 30.... 35 weeks... they come on and off, ill have an 'OK' week and then one that tears me to shreds physically and mentally.
When you have no other option, you just keep on keepin on!
My Dr's wont do anything until 39 weeks for di/di twins here. Since I turn 39 weeks on a Saturday, they didnt want to be inconvenienced on a weekend and scheduled my c-section for the following Monday which puts me at 39w2d. I am 38w6d today!! So I only have a few more days to go..... And I am Still struggling! when youre in constant pain and exhausted and your body is not your own anymore, the only relief is getting yourself back! I know I still have to get past the c section/healing process, but that is a means to an end, it is inevitable.
Try to make everything easier in any way you can.
Use a shower chair so you can relax and not have it hurt your back to stand in there, use a chair while cooking, use a step stool if you need to to get in and out of bed... ask a friend to grab some groceries for you, I personally try not to think about my babies too much bc it seems to make the wait harder. I try to think of other things, like swimming later this summer and going to the park..... feeling better! etc
Monday!! Monday is my day... and it will be here soon!
Honestly, im afraid im going to be bumped for an 'emergency' and be told to wait a few more days. Ill cry, I will seriously just fukkin bawl.
But for this moment, my end is in sight. We will all have our babies soon!
Hang in there mommas
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Dx: balanced translocation and LPD
TTC since Oct 2011
BPF 02/19/12, EDD 10/31/12, natural m/c 02/28/12 (4w6d)
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Bed rest from 21w-35w due to short cervix, hospital bed rest from 23w-32w due to PTL
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Unfortunately I have no advice, I just wanted to commiserate with all of you. Wall has officially been hit and my goal is to make 8 more weeks! Ugh.
Katie, you made me just spit out my drink at your turtle on its back comment. Sooo funny!! And even more so because this is exactly how I feel like I look when Ive fallen back into my couch to far...bwaaahaha. Thanks for the laugh. I certainly needed it!
Katie, you made me just spit out my drink at your turtle on its back comment. Sooo funny!! And even more so because this is exactly how I feel like I look when Ive fallen back into my couch to far...bwaaahaha. Thanks for the laugh. I certainly needed it!
Hahaha! So true but hey... Oh the joys of being a woman! Glad I made you laugh it is hard to do these days for myself as well I feel like a cranky old bat who yells at everyone constantly all day.. I don't know why I'm so moody and I feel as though everything is driving me batshit crazy lately! Going to ask the doc at next visit what I can take to help?!
OMG this is me too, only I'm almost 36 weeks. I keep thinking things can't get worse - first it was the swelling in my legs, then more swelling in my belly, then I was diagnosed with GD, then put on meds for it, and now this week PUPPPs. I went to my regular appointment with my OB this morning and he almost fell out of his chair when he saw how bad the rash is on my belly and legs
. He told me he's had to deliver babies early for much less severe cases than this, which was not exactly an awesome thing to hear.
OP, hang in there. We can get through this, all of it. It is awful, but it's not forever, and every day from this point forward is a gift to your twins, one that you can guilt trip them for later in life when they're sassy teenagers
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I didnt know that milk keeps the night leg cramps away but Im already ahead on that step. I love milk and had an aversion to it during my first trimester but now I just cant get enough. That is probably why I didnt know about it, because I have never had to ask. I have two children right now. A girl and a boy, both singletons. This pregnancy is 100 unplanned but we are definitely feeling blessed. We are also having 2 boys, fraternal. There will be an overload of testostrone in this house. Haha. Oh and as for getting things done around the house, yep, understand that as well. I folded laundry, was a referee for the kids and cleaned the dishes yesterday. The work of an overachiever if you ask me...haha. Today consists of making sure the house doesnt get burned down and no children end up in the emergency room. If it works out as I plan...SUCCESS! Haha.