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Ugh, I'm 28 weeks and can commiserate on so much of this. The aches, the pains, the indigestion, just AWFUL! And our A/C is broken, and hubs just called to tell me it's going to cost a cool $3,000 to fix. So I am also extremely cranky today.

I had so many days like that while pregnant. Now I just have exhausted days where my newborn and toddler decide they need to do everything at the same time--have poop explosions, must eat exactly at the same time, must cry exactly at the same time--until night. And then they decide they want to wake up at different times so mommy never sleeps at all.

My own non-pregnancy related bitch: I am having to evict a nightmare tenant and he's cost me 2 months' mortgage payments and NOW I might have to either fly back to Texas and leave my EBF newborn or take her with me at only 6 weeks old...and I mean, literally take her to the courthouse for the eviction hearing.

All because this stupid idiot has no morals and is staying in my house without paying until the sheriff comes to kick him out.

Asshole. He's making my maternity leave and marriage extremely stressfull. There is nothing like being on an unpaid maternity leave and paying double mortgages and never sleeping to make a married couple start picking at each other.

Well I already ranted about my horrid pregnancy so I will just add that now my toddler is having night terrors and keeping me up all night. Which is awesome when you are pregnant and tired and nauseous.

@lovehoneybee: YOU SOUND EXACTLY LIKE I DID! my second pregnancy was ROUGH but all ended up HEALTHY so try to remember that!!

I'm 6.5 weeks pregnant, nauseous as hell, and recently got a new co-worker who likes to eat canned fish at his desk in our open floorplan office. It stinks in here, I feel like vomiting, and of course I can't tell anyone or even act like anything is wrong. I hate the first tri.

@lovehoneybee: Hugs! I had terrible sciatica with my last pregnancy briefly but it actually went away completely at some point without me even doing anything. I hope the same happens for you.

@lovehoneybee: Have you been to the chiropractor! I started going at 28 weeks because of extreme hip pain making it hard to walk.

As for me, this is non-pregnancy related, but I've been in hell at work. Our server failed over the weekend, so we've lost everything (emails, work, etc.) from Thursday to Monday. Tuesday was spent just trying to catch up and I'm still trying to play catch-up now. I don't even know everything that's missing. It's just a major headache that everyone is feeling.

@lovehoneybee: ugh! I'm sorry that's sounds just terrible! Im curious, do you exercise? I know your probably like hell no I can't walk but exercise really improves circulation and improves your mood & you don't want to lose your mobility especially since you have a ways to go still. What about a water Aerobics class that will take away a lot of pressure & get you moving without any weight ?
Anyways, I hope you get to feeling better!!!

I'm sorry! I vividly remember (and I think I even posted about) how uncomfortably I was around 25-26 weeks and I wasn't sure how I'd ever make in another week. Then LO moved up a little again and I was honestly fine through 41 weeks! I hope you feel better soon.

I feel a little badly complaining because I know over all we are really lucky to be financially secure(ish) and healthy(ish)... but since you asked. I'm sort of having a pity party this week. I feel like I/we've had a rough year. I lost my job last year at 41 weeks pregnant and the timing seemed ok so I just didn't really look for another job until the start of this year. And it is not going well and I'm really stressed about my unemployability/lack of money. Add to that a really sad/slow death to cancer for my grandmother who finally passed in June, and that has been really hard on me. Then my dad was diagnosed with bladder cancer last month (thank God they were able to cut it out and he should be fine but it is still a really scary thing). My husband lost out on a promotion he really wanted in May and has been sort of down since. My parents are trying to move to our city to be near us and lost out on a house they really wanted yesterday. My eye randomly started hurting and got really puffy this week and I had to go into the eye doc and turns out I have a blocked oil gland (not serious just annoying and a bit fussy to treat). And I've been stress eating through all of this and have gained 10 lbs this summer. My husband applied for another job he REALLY wants and we are supposed to hear "by today" (ughhh its 2pm wtf tell us already) so I am really on pins and needles about this. I feel like we've had a string of not great things lately and we really need a win for family morale, but that is putting so much pressure on whether or not he gets it! fingers crossed.

@lovehoneybee: Oh and girl...go get a massage. I have an appointment for tomorrow. I need a treat and an hour to not feel like crap!

I'm flying from TX to NY today and the following have gone wrong:
I couldn't carry two car seats, a suitcase, two carry ons, a 21 month old, 3 year old and my 24 week belly to the terminal (luckily someone helped)
I lost my son in security. We're talking screaming his name, couldn't see him, complete panic attack. When I did see him, completely lost it, which made him cry.
Then our carry ons had to be hand searched, while my three year old is crying.
Our second flight has been delayed by two hours and even though we should almost be at our final destination right now, I'm still trying to entertain both boys in the airport...
Oh and I got four hours of sleep last night.

I keep telling myself that it could be worse, at least I'm not stuck some place due to weather!

@cheert16: hugs & hope you're better soon!

Felt the same way at 25 weeks... Things have been up and down and I'm about 36 weeks now. I just keep trying to remember there's a good chance I'll feel much better after delivery. Hang in there!

Being a working mom is really hard and I'm having a hard time adjusting.

My big girl woke up four times in thirty minutes last night, I kicked one of my hand weights while getting back into bed and ripped back my toenail, my little fella woke up for the day at 0530. Thank goodness the sun is out today!

I despise potty training.

I just went back to work and for the past week my baby has decided to be awake for 1-2 hours at a time at night. I'm just so tired

@lovehoneybee: I could have written this. That is all. Eye on the prize!!

This is kind of random, but I had terrible leg cramps in both of my pregnancies and one tip I read that hadn't heard of before was to put your foot on a cool surface, like a bathroom tile. It releases the cramp instantly for me every time.