Getting Depressed Near the End of Pregnancy.... Posted: 06-09-05 21:54pm
Has anyone else started to get depressed
close to the end of their pregnancy?? I
feel like a cow, I feel like my husband
thinks i'm a cow (not that he's given me
reason), i'm scared I can't do this a 2nd
time..... I don't think i'm chronically
depressed as it just started up, but how
do I get back to a more positive outlook??
I'm excited about meeting my new little
guy; he was planned....... I just don't
know where this is all coming from. I
have @ 5 yrs of parenting under my belt,
and my 1st child is awesome. Help!!
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lil_blaze2004
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Posted: 06-09-05 22:04pm
I started getting real down a few weeks
ago ( I will be 38 weeks on sat). All of
a sudden I felt real lonely(i only have a
couple of friends with kids and they live
far) and my friends without kids have kind
of disappeared. I was put on early
maternity leave from work so I was
extremelly bored, and I couldn't leave the
house too much as I had really bad
swelling in my feet from the humidity. I
constantly yell at hubby cause I feel like
he gets to do whatever he wants and
doesn't understand how I feel (which of
course he doesn't) poor hubby asked my
doc on tuesday if it was normal for me to
treathim like this and the doc said....
Yes!!! Thanks doc! Lol. I've been
feeling a lil better, but I think the
boredom and the fact that my son does not
seem to want to come out (no braxton hicks
and i'm not dilated at all) are getting
to me. Anyway my nurse and doc say it's
all completely normal so I feel a lil
better.
I'm sure you'll be fine, sorry for my
rambling post but your not alone!
How far along are you?
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2Boys4Us
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Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Posts: 19 Location: midwest
Posted: 06-09-05 22:20pm
I'm 36 weeks today, and this baby will be
a scheduled c-section because my last was.
The past few weeks have just dragged,
and dragged, and dragged...... Well, I
don't have to convince you!! My husband
is all about "be patient" and "dr knows
best"....... Good. It's easy to be
supportive when you are perfectly fine,
normal and not pregnant!! But it's so
uncomfortable, and i'm so small to begin
with, everything hurts all the time. I'm
not sleeping, can't eat alot, no focus at
all except "when will this be
over".......
I feel awful, and feel awful for feeling
that way.
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lil_blaze2004
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Posted: 06-09-05 23:11pm
Lol I feel the same way. I keep telling
my son to ".G.E.T. O.U.T. O.F.
M.O.M.M.Y.!!!!!" it's been so hot and
humid up here lately, well I mean it's
midnight and here I am typing away on the
computer cause I know if I go to bed i'll
just toss and turn. And ya hubby's like
it'll be over soon and I feel like
punching him in the face-lol
happy 36 weeks!!!
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2Boys4Us
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Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Posts: 19 Location: midwest
Posted: 06-09-05 23:38pm
Yeah, I know -- i'd love to give him (or
any man) a 35 lb bag of rocks to live w/
day in & day out for a month -- he'd
be in tears in no time flat!! He is
very, very good, though, about most things
-- he lets me sleep in whenever possible,
and he does all the cooking and we've
really toned down our weekend activities
because it's so hard to walk for
long....... And he's an awesome dad to
our 1st son, and really excited to meet
this one........ But he still can't
understand alot of it. I guess it's not
his fault, he's as supportive as he can
be. I'm just getting very grizzly
bear-ish lately, i'm probably lucky he
puts up with me!!!
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lil_blaze2004
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Posted: 06-09-05 23:42pm
Lol I keep telling hubby i'm gonna fill a
bag with books and tie it to his waist for
a day and see how he feels. Mine is good
too, he does the dishes (cause my feet
swell up too much now) he cleans the cat
litter (and hates the cats-lo) helps me
clean the house (does all the vacuuming
and stuff) but I still want to punch him
in the nose sometimes-lol he's so excited
but idon;t think it's clicked in yet that
our son could be arriving anyday now.
God my butt hurts from being at this
computer for the last 2 hours-lol
and man that laurianna girl on the teen
forum needs some major help. I never
understand people who come on to support
forums to berate people. Must not have
much self-respect.
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jessamyn
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Joined: 18 Aug 2004 Posts: 4116 Location: San Diego, CA
Im sorry youre feeling so down.
It's important that if you still feel
depressed like this after the baby that
you let your doctor know, even if it's
before the 6 wk check up.
Good luck and I hope you have a nice, easy
and short delivery... U too blaze!
Blaze~ I just try to ignore her... But
thats hard she doesn't shutup!
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lil_blaze2004
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Posted: 06-10-05 11:23am
seksihily
wrote:
im sorry youre feeling so
down.
It's important that if you still feel
depressed like this after the baby that
you let your doctor know, even if it's
before the 6 wk check up.
Good luck and I hope you have a nice, easy
and short delivery... U too blaze!
Blaze~ I just try to ignore her... But
thats hard she doesn't
shutup!
i know--lmao, she posted some really
horrible things in the "caring for your
newborn" forum. Some lady suffocated her
child while sleeping with him on the sofa
and laurianna goes on and on about what a
stupid, fat cown she is and blah blah.
At least they locked the post in the
t-preg forum. And hopefully banned the
girl.
