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wow, you are so lucky you know exactly the day! I am due the 25th, but am hoping for more like the 14th... :) My mom had big babies and I am really hoping I don't... they are not considered pre-term as long as you are past 37 weeks so I say, why not go for two weeks early, baby is totally ready and developed, just not huge! :) I'll be happy whatever as long as she is healthy, just hoping for a "not-too-bad" deliver! :)

Has anybody else been really irritated the past few days? My hormones are going crazy right now, I've been so upset, irritated, moody for about 3 days now. I just get so frustrated with everything and I either want to yell at somebody or I want to cry...sometimes both. It's been mostly directed toward my boyfriend, or at least about things that's been going on...but I've not said anything to him...just biting my tongue and holding it in. But I think that's making it worse. Today he was supposed to go and clean the car (inside and out) and then go and get his other paycheck and cash both of them and then bring food home...he left here almost 4 hours ago. The last time that I talked to him on the phone, he was at his moms playing basketball with a few of his friends that live near there. Ok, I don't care if he is playing basketball, but he could have freakin called and told me that he was going to play, that way I wouldn't have sat here waiting on him to bring food home.

andesue - I am hoping my baby will not be late!! My second was 8 days late and that was absolute torture!! I hate watching my due date come and go. My first was a day late, and my third was born on her due date... so I pretty much think I am out of luck thinking that this one will be early! LOL... The funny thing is, the one who made me wait the longest was actually the smallest at birth! As long as he is not pre-term, I will be happy. Isabellasmommy - hormones can really go nuts at this time! I know what you mean about getting really annoyed fast. My DH has had to endure the mood swings, the tears, the outbursts... you name it! I try to keep it to myself, but I am just not built that way! The only thing I can do is try to minimize the damage! LOL... Working out at the gym is a great stress-buster for me! Now that the weather is warmer, I have been walking much more often too... that helps. Sometimes you just need some quiet time to think. Is your BF willing to look after your DD while you have some time alone? My DH's dad is i the hospital right now, so I end up alone with the kids for long stretches of time. I try and make sure that he takes them, even for an hour, to give me some time to clear my head and rest. It helps.

He does try to help me with her, but I feel horrible asking him through the week because he works really late shifts and doesn't get home until anywhere from 3am and 5am, so he sleeps in the mornings and then when he does wake up for work, he's awake for about an hour or so and then has to get something to eat and then get ready to go back out to work. I have noticed that the mood swings are extremely random, but mostly on the weekends when he's off of work....somehow connected to him maybe? I really don't want to say something to him about it because I'm hoping that it kind of quiets down after I have the baby, but I'm not sure if I can handle this until July. It's not every day that he's off, but it's normally one of the two days. He will tell me that we're doing this, this, that, this and maybe that (really a list of different things) and I make plans to do those things, but when the day comes for us to do them....we don't even do half of them!!! Somebody needs something from him and then because he has to go and help them instead of telling them that he can't do it that day....we end up not getting done what we need. We were supposed to go and get most of the stuff that we need for the baby on Saturday...we ended up not even going to the store at all because by the time he got here it was too late for us to go to dinner with his family for his sisters birthday AND go shopping, so we just went to dinner. We still need to get the house cleaned BEFORE Wednesday...we have people coming to look at the house to see if they want to buy it and honestly, I don't think there's anyway that the house will be clean by then. Not that it's absolutely horribly messy, but there's things that I can't do by myself. He did try to clean up downstairs yesterday and now my cell phone charger is gone. My battery died and I have no other way to charge it. I've looked everywhere and I have no idea where it's at. I don't know if he put it up somewhere or if my daughter had it and was playing with it. I just need my charger...grrrr!!!!! Ok, I'm sorry for my long rant, but I feel a little bit better after all of that. Thank you for listening! It's been cold here, at night it's in the low 30s, through the day it's only in the 50s or really low 60s. My daughter and I are both sick again...my sinuses and cough are worse than hers, but she's the one that has the slight fever. Poor baby girl. I was supposed to go to the physical therapist today for my hip, but I didn't get much sleep last night because of this cold that I slept in until like 11am and my appointment was at 10...oops!!!! And I didn't have a phone number or anything to call to try to reschedule the appointment, so I missed this one and the only way that I will get another appointment is if I call my doctor and have them set it up for me. Ok, I'm going to go and try to relax a little and try to get some sleep. I hope you ladies had a great weekend and have a great day tomorrow.

Rant away... thats what these threads are for!! Most of us cant do it in real life, so this is the perfect way to let it out :) I kinda know what you are talking about. My FIL is in the hospital, so on the weekends when DH is home, he either spends at least half the day with his dad, or we all end up going to visit. Either way, nothing gets done at home. I am trying to get spring cleaning done before I get too big, but it hasn't quite worked out. I love my FIL, but sometimes feel as if the kids and I are being neglected, since DH spends so little time with us. I sounds really selfish, and I try not to say anything to DH, but I think hormones are really amplifying the problem. Not to mention, that I work full time during the week... then have to pick up the kids from school and cook and feed them and get them ready for bed. Dh comes home at 8pm and just wants to relax. So when he is gone on the weekend, once again, I have 3 kids to look after on my own. I am just very lucky that my older daughter is able to help out a bit. But she is only 11, and I don't want to stick her with all this responsibility either. Sigh... sorry... my turn to rant! I have my OB appointment tomorrow, which I am looking forward to. Hopefully she will measure me and rea__sure me that my little guy is growing like he should be. Next week I have my glucose test to do, so I have some questions about that. You would think that after doing it 3 times already, that I would be a pro! We don't do ours at the docs office though, we have to go to the hospital lab to have it done... so no opportunity to ask any qusetions.

I don't work, but I am still exhausted and have no energy. It's hard for me to force myself to do any sort of cleaning that really takes effort. I know that sounds horrible, but it's true. I barely have the energy in the morning to get breakfast for my daughter. Since she's kind of a picky eater, she eats cereal and a gla__s of orange juice...and it takes all of the energy I have to get that for her. I hate asking people for help cleaning, especially my mom...she likes to snoop, even after I've told her that something doesn't need to be moved or cleaned or anything. Then I end up snapping at her and she gets all upset and then I feel bad because I yelled at her. I think the next time I need help cleaning, I'm going to ask my boyfriends mom to help me. I know that she wouldn't snoop, she would clean what needed to be cleaned or at least ask me what I think needs to be done. I really can't wait to get some kind of energy. I do have some good news though...my hip hasn't hurt for a few days! YAY!!!!! I was supposed to go to a physical therapist on Monday morning, but since I've been sick (again) I overslept and didn't make it. But I think that the only reason it was hurting was because of how the baby was laying and I did notice on Saturday night/early Sunday morning that I was hurting so bad that I couldn't move, then I noticed my stomach was kind of crampy and it just felt weird. I know that it wasn't braxton hicks or anything so I'm thinking that the baby turned and that's why I was hurting. My daughter never turned at all after a certain point in the pregnancy, she stayed breech the entire time. So I wasn't sure what it felt like when the baby got to a certain size. I know that the baby is doing ok, because I've listened to her heartbeat and she's been kicking me like crazy since then. Good luck with your glucose test. I have to get mine the end of the month as well as my rhogam shot. I'm not looking forward to that though. My doctor did move my appointment back a day because she's not going to be in the office on the 29th, so I'm going to see if I can do my glucose testing on the 30th instead of the 29th. I can't wait to get the other U/S done though, I want to see my little girl so bad. It's been so cold here that I really wish it was July...I will gladly take all of the heat and sun that come with July as long as it's warm.

Its been pretty cold here too considering we are mid April. I hate it! I feel much better in the milder weather. The end of this week looks promising though, so hopefully we will have at least one nice day this weekend. Just got back from my OB appointment.I just missed getting switched to every 2 weeks, so my next appointment is in a month... I will be 29.5 weeks by then! Wow! Everything checked out with my little guy. My fundal height was dead on to where it should be, and my urine was good. His HB was about 159, my BP was good, and I only gained 2lbs (my scale at home said 3!), so I am happy. I do my glucose test next Thursday and my Rhogam the week after. My doc gave me the go-ahead for the prenatal ma__sage, so I am gonna start looking into that. Hopefully it will help my back, although it hasn't been too bad the last week or so.

hey ladies! its been a long time since i posted lol ive been stalking you because i get the emails saying someone replied to my post but i really havent had the energy to log in & comment LOL im so exhausted these days. i hope everyone else is doing ok even though i know the ins & outs of your lives because i read all about them lol. im 28 weeks 3 days now. has anyone had REALLY bad pelvic pain? i had what my doctor said was round ligament pain since about 8-10 weeks & then it slowly went away. it was the feeling that i had a week before DS was born when he dropped into position & i was 1 cm dilated it like my va jay jay (lol) was really bruised & like the pelvic bones were opening up ready for the baby to come out. well for the past few weeks its come back just like that stronger than ever & now its to the point where getting in & out of the shower or standing up from sitting or getting out of bed & trying to get my pants on while im standing up hurts really bad. if i put all my weight on my right leg it doesnt hurt but on my left leg i get shooting pains in my pelvic area on the left side. a friend of mine just had her baby at 36 or 37 weeks & she said she had that really bad & eventually she went into preterm labor (with a very healthy baby thank God) so now that scares me! on top of that my discharge (TMI SORRY!) is insane right now. it started getting heavy a few weeks ago, then turned almost watery to where it actually dripped down my leg one morning & i thought it was fluid & now its just creamy & lots of it. im just terrified im going to go into labor early! p.s. for some it may be a little early but who wants to go to the THIRD trimester boards with me?!

Babyblue, glad things went good at your appointment. I laugh when I step on scales other than my doctors because I went to my doctors last Wednesday and it said one weight and when I weighed myself at my moms on Sunday, it said I had gained 10 pounds in 4 days!!!!! My mom argued with me and told me that her scale was right...ummm...I don't think so. Mommylovesyou, it's great to hear from you. The pain that you're describing in your hip is exactly how mine hurt. It hurt no matter what I was doing. I couldn't sit down, stand up, lay down for too long or it would really start to hurt. I had to keep moving, but even that hurt. It really hurt when I would try to put my pants on or would roll over in bed. I talked to my doctor about it and all she would tell me was that it was probably the way the baby was laying, but she did make an appointment with a physical therapist for me (but I missed the appointment because I was sick and overslept). I couldn't lift either leg more than a few inches. It felt like my hips were splitting in half. I've not been hurting since about Sunday, but I'm so afraid of it coming back, but since then I've noticed that I'm either peeing myself or I have a really watery discharge. Which does scare me, but there's always a smell to it and if I'm not mistaken amniotic fluid doesn't have a smell, right? My water didn't break with my first pregnancy until they broke it during the c-section...so I don't know anything about that. I used a heating pad on my hip and that helped for as long as I was using it, but not afterward. I would say to try tylenol or something like that, but I don't know if that would help completely. I was thinking about moving the thread to the third trimester boards because I know that there are some of us that are already in the third trimester, even though I'm not there yet.

isabellasmommy - the pain is more in my pelvis than hip. the best way i can describe it is instead of pelvic bones theyre like v____a bones LOL it feels like they are opening up & the baby is going to just come out. it hurts SO bad. & i know what you mean about the discharge - it was so bad i thought either i was peeing myself (i ruled that out when it didnt smell like that) or sweating really bad. amniotic fluid apparently can smell like a few different things. most say it has a slightly sweet smell, some say it can be metallic & theres a list of what it can look like too. as for my pain im trying to avoid tylenol because since its the only thing im able to take (& tylenol has never worked for me) ive been getting yeast infections ALL the time. so im trying to avoid because apparently acetaminophen leaves you more susceptible to them than other medications & being pregnant they're more common to begin with. UGH im ready for july!

I guess that I should say that the area I was having pains wasn't really my hip, but it was the area between my thigh and my va jay jay...at first I thought maybe I had overworked the muscle because it felt like it was up inside of that area. Tylenol doesn't work for me either, which is why I've been trying to deal with my headaches as best as I can. While I was having that pain in the left side, I was getting pains on the right side that I just shrugged off as round ligament pains.

thats EXACTLY where my pain is! im a__suming its the pelvic bones but im no expert in anatomy lol. i think round ligament is more just soreness & pains in the lower abdomen. i cant find any real explanation for shooting pains in the pelvic bones except for that condition that i cant remember the name of

Hello all :) Hopefully you two ladies will get some relief soon. Me... I am just having mild back pain right now... especially when I sit for too long (which unfortunately is what I do at work all day). I am also suffering from calf cramps when I sleep. Does not matter how much I stretch the muscles either.... sigh... a good nights sleep is definitely a thing of the past! I am hoping to start ma__sage therapy next week, and see if that helps any. Mommylovesyou - I am still a couple of weeks away from the third trimester.,.. but I seem to recall coming over here a little early too... lol. I guess I can join you over there :) What do you say IsabellasMommy??? Shall we abandon ship?? LOL

I'm all for moving on to the third trimester. I'm 25 weeks today and I still have a few weeks until I'm officially into the third trimester, but I've always thought I could be in whatever trimester I wanted to be in..LOL I say lets go for it!!