Not in the least. Very tired here as well. I miss my old job where I could go and take naps on the waiting room couch in the OB dept (small town hospital and that waiting room was never busy) during my breaks. I've laid down a few times where I currently work, but it's on the floor with my coat as pillow. Not very comfy.

My back has started aching something fierce as well the last two weeks. So on top of being exhausted, I just ache and ache and ache. I get home in the evening put on my pajamas and don't do anything for the evening. Sit or lay down and let my body rest and relax.

I am so glad to hear you guys say all this. I am older and thought this was just my age showing. I have a mostly desk job and by 2pm my back is killing me. I managed to get my 3 yo to daycare in time for him to eat breakfast today and myself to work 35 min late, but I really don't know if I can make it at work till after lunch. I think my allergies are contributing to a lot of my problem today.
Saw my dr yesterday and she says if all goes well with my high risk dr, we will deliver baby Eli the week of May 21 thru 25 sometime. Today I don't feel like I can make it that long... Just keep swimming, just keep swimming...

I see a lot of people in the other preggo board talking about wt. I get that this is on the myfitnesspal site, but I honestly don't give a crap about my wt right now. I'm just ready to have this baby (sorry I'm in a negative mood today)

I see a lot of people in the other preggo board talking about wt. I get that this is on the myfitnesspal site, but I honestly don't give a crap about my wt right now. I'm just ready to have this baby (sorry I'm in a negative mood today)

I totally agree and need to quickly get rid of a hormone-fueled rant about this.

Us pregnant women, especially in our second or third trimester, need to be eating. I see so many of my friends on here, many of whom are in their third trimesters, eating 1200-1500 calories a day or eating over 2000 and freaking out that they went over. It's not rocket science, the guidelines are to eat MAINTENANCE calories or above, not whatever you were eating to lose weight and then adding the prescribed amounts to that. I am six feet tall and was overweight prepregnancy, and I feel like crap if I eat less than 2400. Some days sure, I am under because baby is growing and I can't fit food into my stomach, or I am not hungry. But for Pete's sake, some of these women who are drastically undereating and then ALSO having preterm labor scares - it makes me INSANE!

I have a desk job and even just the acts of getting ready in the morning going to work and getting out of the house are causing my ankles to swell, LOL. I am so crazy tired it's not even funny. I don't get much activity because every time I try to do something I get lightheaded - all that extra blood flow makes things hard! It's also starting to heat up in Vegas - it was 82 already yesterday and I'm due the end of May. By the time she gets here I am going to be so ready!

This pregnancy I am at a desk job 4 days a week. My other two pregnancies I worked at a hospital as a nurse on the floor. I don't have the swelling luckily, but it amazes me how any little bit of activitiy just wipes me of all energy. Or how much I huff and puff doing it. Or how quickly the contractions start with any little bit of exertion.

@spunkychelsea - Rant away!!!! I would be in a near panic if I had that kind of news on my plate. And it most definately would be keeping me awake as well. What keeps me awake at night is my internal whining that I can't sleep on my back or making a to-do list of cleaning that I should accomplish the next day and don't. I will be thinking of you and hoping that things work out for what is best for your family.

My hubby was just informed that starting next week they will go to 10 hour days/6 days a week for the rest of the summer at least. This is on top of the two hour commute to get to work. He gets up to leave for work at 3am, shift starts at 5am and he'll be looking at getting home around 6pm. I feel awful for him. I hope that it is just the worst case scenerio and something else occurs. The only slight plus side is that we planned all of his annual leave vacations during the summer months, so he'll have a few breaks in there in May, July, and September.

We are hoping that is not what happens. He works as federal meat inspector at a turkey processing plant. Another plant within their district caught on fire last week and burnt down. So now all their turkeys have to go somewhere to be butchered and processed. The plan they have right now is dividing those amounts between all the plants within the area. They were told last week that they would have to start working Saturdays again. But the 10 hour days on top of the Saturdays was the new rumor this week. The one crappy part with his federal job is in Sept or Oct we have to plan when he will take his week vacations the following year. So in 9-2013 we had to figure out when he wanted vacations in 2014. Luckily we knew about the baby by then, so he took his first vacation two weeks after her due date. That way we can also get the garden in. July was just when it seemed to fit and we'll try to go on a family vacation out to the Black Hills. September is when dove season opens and him and his friends hunt that whole week long.

I must be one of the earlier due dates, because my bag has been packed for weeks now! I keep adding things and what not, but for the most part we are ready to go. Only thing I need to do is make the list of daily things I use that I need to grab and pack before we leave. Hubby purchased his emergency delivery kit supplies and has that in the vehicle. I still think he is crazy and jinxing himself and will have to deliver the baby on the side of the road, but whatever makes him feel more comfortable.

With my first I did not have my bag packed. We were getting ready to head out to my husband's military ball and I told him we should quick pack bags in case. He was torked because it would make us run late, but good thing we did. I ended up going into labor during the meal portion of the ball. Contractions were not too serious and we were in the same town where we would be delivering, so we headed to the after-party which was the local bowling alley. I ended up bowling until midnight before I had to call it quits. Told him we should go home as I was tired, but contractions were still not too bad or that close. We drove 30 minutes home (stupidest idea ever) tried to lay down and sleep. I made it 45 minutes before I was trying to wake up my sleepy hubby to go back to the hospital. Since it was a guard weekend and his platoon leader had told him that unless I was pushing he was expected to be at drill the next morning I had my nurse pick my post-partum room and let him go lay down and sleep. At 6am, he woke up and was heading back to the labor room and passed the nursery and saw a baby. He came storming into labor room thinking I had delivered our son without having them wake him up. Surprised him when I was still fat as ever sitting on the birthing ball. Luckily, he did not have to go to drill as my doctor chewed the platoon leaders behind when she called to let him know I was in active labor and that my husband needed to be with me to support me during the labor.

Well I've been off work for a couple days at home sick with some kind of stomach bug. Sucks to be sick, but to be sick and preggo REALLY sucks.
My husband is off today and is hopefully at home completing some of the projects he started in January (flooring, boys room, new play room for all of the toys)
We are suppose to have nice weather this weekend so I hope that will lift my spirits some. Planning a picnic and going to a state park with our extended family.
I have my High Risk dr. apt on Monday and am sure hoping it goes well.
Hope you all get some rest this weekend!