Anyone feel like their feelings are disregarded as hormones?

I'm due August 10th, a month before my birthday so i think it's safe to say my 19th wont be anywhere near as wild as my 18th! we recently gave up sex for a while because i was having a bad pain in my tum during and after sex, i was quite worried so we waited to see the midwife. she told me it was probably the position and the look on my OH's face was a picture! we got out of the surgery and he said "you! home! now!". during that time i did tend to 'help' him in ways which shouldn't be discussed, but sometimes it made me feel a bit used! if he knew that though, he wouldnt have carried on, i just didnt want to tell him and spoil it for him. A friend of mine is due five weeks after me, and i'm always compared to her too. i dont like it at all, even the woman in the chip shop was saying i am huge! people dont tend to think about the position of the baby, for example if the LO is laid right at the front, we apear bigger. my LO has a knack for that. i'm just glad that i have other women to complain to who have the same problems with their men. let it be said though, my OH is an absolute star, he is lovely but just tends to have his moments! eeeh men, can't live with them, can't live without them! they're all big softies like us really =) xx

And i agree - whats with the belly being public property?! Im bigger than such-a-such and oh your all up front, i was all over etc etc. How nice it is to be compared...doesnt help that my SIL and my partners friend is pregnant and were all due within 8 weeks so we all get compared GRRRRR xx

We have only in the last 2 weeks given up on sex... i agreed to a once a week rule until i was big and uncomfortable. He pestered me every week and id just lie there thinking of ways for those 3 LOOOOONG minutes to go quicker lol. Im not being funny. im just not in the mood - my tummy is huge, my back hurts, i can feel it wriggling and i dont want him poking me too lol. Eventually he admitted he doesnt like sex with me atm as im not very "lively" so hes given up (woohoo!!) until after the birth. Unfortunately to accomodate his needs i did agree to help him occasionally but have managed to wingle out of it by moaning im tired all the time lol. Men are just rubbish and dont understand! xx

15th September how about you?

another way to put people off that i found is to lift your top up to reveal your bump, and start belly dancing as best you can rubbing your hands all over your tum, somehow they get more embarrassed than you do! i've only started showing recently too, i was quite small so people would say "you dont look that far along!". i really dont care! plus my little brother's friends all want to talk to me about it, and ten/eleven year olds are hardly subtle with the words they chose lol! just then a young girl shouted across the shop "wow you're massive!". it was belly dance time lol. i also hate being compared to other pregnant women, i hate hearing about how much bigger than so-and-so i am, or how a "friend of a friend" has got a certain glow that i apparantly do not. i like how i am at the moment thanks! and bobbysgirl, i know exactly what you mean about being needy, i am always needing cuddles and comforting, bless him for putting up with me. i've been even more needy over the past month or so, because we have moved in together i was finding it very stressful. fortunatly i only moved four doors down from my mum, so she has been around to share my whinges too! i think really, the lovely men in our lives love being needed, and even if they don't act it sometimes they love all the attention they are getting =) when is you due date?
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ha ha.
i only started showing over the last couple of weeks, and so at 24 weeks people feel the need to keep saying oooh your not very big are you? are you worried?. nightmare. i have a simular problem in the fact that because i'm small i don't look pregnant just a bit of a weird shape and i just don't feel happy in anything. Rob is a sweety and he makes me lunch everyday and wakes me up in the morning and rubs cocoa butter into my tummy, i couldn't really ask for much more, i have felt like i've become really needy since i've been pregnant like i can't be away from him for more than a few hours which must drive him insane.lol

You have really made me laugh, i just pictured you grabbing a handful of someone elses belly.

Genius!

lol thats too true! the guilt is horrible! especially when he does nice things for me after he has had a bit of a sulk. not that i dont appreciate everything he does for me, i don't think i could do any of this without his support and help. but he is a bit of a pain sometimes! i was really upset the other day because i can hardly squeeze myself into any of my clothes anymore, with exception to the extremely unflattering grey jogging bottoms. i just wanted to stay in my pj's and have a nice cup of tea and i was called a baby! ok, maybe i was having a little strop, but thats allowed considering the size of me now and i'm not showing any signs of slowing down. i haven't seen my waist in months either! nobody really feels my tummy, apart from my nanna, so i don't really have that problem. if anyone makes me feel uncomfortable by feeling my tummy i try grab a nice big handful of theirs and see how they feel! they dont tend to do it again after that.