I rarely need or ask for it, but after almost three WEEKS of painful contractions for fair portions of each day, I'm completely fed up. I always have slow, drawn out labors. It's never going to change, and each baby it gets earlier and stronger with no end in sight. But I'm about THIS close to throwing up my hands and eating the house down.
I have no desire for off plan food, but 4000 calories of on plan stuff isn't ideal, either . I know I won't be pregnant forever, but remind me exactly why I shouldn't just freak out and eat my emotions and annoyance, after months and months on plan? I seem to be forgetting exactly why endless self control is a good idea
Because you won't feel better after you do it. You will still have all the emotions and annoyance (and still be pregnant until the baby decides otherwise) but you will have eaten lots of stuff you wouldn't normally eat and be annoyed with yourself as well as the fact that you're still pregnant.
(Everyone woman is different, but I did not like being pregnant) Fortunately, the baby will come and you'll have an additional precious little one, and you'll be glad you didn't upset your tummy and self by attempting to eat your emotions.
Baby! I love babies!!!! I wish I was close enough to visit your baby! You'll have your baby SOON!
OH my gosh, you poor thing. I really really did not enjoy pregnancy, and of course the end is just awful. You are so strong and dedicated. You know you really will end up feeling worse, physically and probably emotionally/mentally too, if you give in.
Maybe have an extra square of dark chocolate just as a little treat. You gotta be burning more calories with all those contractions right???
I know you have a very specific dietary plan, and that your body can go especially haywire if you deviate. I don't want you to make yourself sick or anything, but what kind of treat can you have that fits in with your diet? What is a splurge? Sounds like you need one! Maybe you can plan it for a time when you have twenty minutes of silence to yourself (hard, I know!).
That's what I'm currently doing, Chickie. It seems like a safer bet for my sanity than anything else.
Instead of my normal salad with a tin of sardines, I'm eating 2 oz walnuts and 20 grams dark orange chocolate for lunch, with a can of diet dr. pepper to wash it down. All on plan foods in controlled quantities, but it makes me feel a bit less snippity. I have no desire to eat anything off plan and haven't for months and months, but I needed something that felt a bit more indulgent.
And instead of stabbing something, I'm just knitting nicely and making lunch for my kids (while contracting painfully, of course). I consider that a win for self control for THIS hour, anyway.
*sob*
Last edited by Arctic Mama; 03-18-2013 at 04:36 PM.
At the end of my pregnancy no matter how hungry I was, I physically could not fit more than a couple of bites in my stomach. So I endured ravenous hunger but no contractions. In your shoes I'd probably eat, but you seem stronger (mentally) than me, hang in there, the end is near!
Is it affecting your sleep too? That would do it for me, as you know.
Hugs to you. The end will be in sight soon. And that you still think you want more children after that. Oh, goodness. My second pregnancy was so awful for me (baby was fine) that it was the best thing in the world for me to keep from being nostalgic for pregnancy as DH was DONE.
Of course, newborn and staying on plan will be another thing to tackle, but at least you won't be in pain.
Melissa - it definitely affects my sleep at this intensity and duration. Amazingly I've been able to sleep through many nights of this, but last night was incredibly rough and I think I got maybe five hours of broken sleep, max.
The only thing that has made the prodromal nonsense tolerable thus far is that, unlike my last pregnancy, I've been sleeping fairly well. But between muscle soreness from multiple days of hip/butt/thigh spasms and being woken from sleep with a particularly strong wave of contractions on multiple occasions, I'm beginning to crack
And yes, that does indeed worsen my cravings and insulin tolerance, just like you. Fortunately staying on plan isn't particularly challenging for me and I'm not worried about it postpartum - this is purely emotional right now. I've put myself on social lockdown precisely because I am neither patient enough to be tactful nor calm enough to deal with questions on how someone can have 3-5 minute apart contractions for DAYS and yet have no baby, nor be in active labor. That makes my eyebrow twitch dangerously
I'm usually patient and calm, but today and last night just put me over the edge. I'm still feeling a bit stabbity but I'm not struggling with munchy urges this moment, at the very least. That's a blessing, even if the contractions haven't much tapered off.
Last edited by Arctic Mama; 03-18-2013 at 07:16 PM.
Hey, ArcticMama!! I've been thinking of you, because you don't post that much, specifically about your pregnancy. But very best wishes!! Sounds like it will all be over soon, with another ArcticBaby in the fold!!
Are these Braxton Hicks or labor contractions? I guess it does not matter what you call them....they all help prepare your body and baby for the delivery.
Been there/done that/got the tee-shirt. You don't want to eat the house down because you don't want to find yourself in hard labor with a totally stuffed full stomach.
Melissa - it definitely affects my sleep at this intensity and duration. Amazingly I've been able to sleep through many nights of this, but last night was incredibly rough and I think I got maybe five hours of broken sleep, max.
The only thing that has made the prodromal nonsense tolerable thus far is that, unlike my last pregnancy, I've been sleeping fairly well. But between muscle soreness from multiple days of hip/butt/thigh spasms and being woken from sleep with a particularly strong wave of contractions on multiple occasions, I'm beginning to crack
And yes, that does indeed worsen my cravings and insulin tolerance, just like you. Fortunately staying on plan isn't particularly challenging for me and I'm not worried about it postpartum - this is purely emotional right now. I've put myself on social lockdown precisely because I am neither patient enough to be tactful nor calm enough to deal with questions on how someone can have 3-5 minute apart contractions for DAYS and yet have no baby, nor be in active labor. That makes my eyebrow twitch dangerously
I'm usually patient and calm, but today and last night just put me over the edge. I'm still feeling a bit stabbity but I'm not struggling with munchy urges this moment, at the very least. That's a blessing, even if the contractions haven't much tapered off.
I hope you got some sleep last night - I figured it had to be messing with your sleep which makes the rational brain less rational.
For what it's worth, I had days of contractions too - though I didn't know it was contractions either time - it was all in my back. I never had frontal contractions - ever, all back labor. I just thought it was a back ache. It was only when I finally discovered they had a pattern, that I realized, "Oh, this is labor!"
Had labor for 24 "known" hours with my first (though it was several days before that with little sleep from back aches).
Second pregnancy, I had to be induced, but I was already contracting regularly - the midwife broke my bag of water to hope that would do it. I was far enough along that that was all I needed, but even still, it was another 18 hours.
Turns out though, that they weird liver enzymes I was getting was not from pre-eclampsia, but a bad gall bladder which came out 10 weeks later. Though, I was puffing up big time and the blood pressure was getting pretty high too. They wanted the baby out with all the "bad" signs.
Anyway... I 'get you'. SOOOOOON it will be over and you'll have a sweet little baby to hold.
Okay, encourage me.
. I know I won't be pregnant forever, but remind me exactly why I shouldn't just freak out and eat my emotions and annoyance, after months and months on plan? I seem to be forgetting exactly why endless self control is a good idea 
