This might sound weird...

[katiediloreto]

Does anyone feel like HG "used up" your pregnancy tolerance? I know that many will agree with me for the normal reasons (because HG SUCKS, and lots of HGers never get to enjoy it)... but I actually feel like now that i'm not a super HGer anymore, that I should be more excited now than I was when I was sick...

I feel like for some reason we're given 40 weeks worth of pregnancy excitement/tolerance (less a few weeks), but I used up all of mine while I was sick to get myself through the worst part. I actually mentally feel like i'm ready to have this baby! Like i've been pregnant for the full term and served my time or something.. but in reality I still have my whole third trimester left! Isn't this how moms normally feel when they're like 38 weeks or something? I feel like the feeling is premature.

This might not make ANY sense, but it was on my mind and I'm hoping someone will relate to me!

[MichellevsHG]

Makes sense - Google "The Spoon Theory". I think it really explains that feeling you described.

[katiediloreto]

Wow- that's very intense. Thank you for sharing that.. it puts a new perspective on everything (not just pregnancy, but life in general). I had daily spoons for HG, and an allotted amount for pregnancy. We all have our spoons for something I guess.

I'm grateful that as HGers we don't have to count our spoons forever like her with Lupus (or others with other long-term illnesses). At least we have a maximum *physical* sentence of "until baby is born".

[MichellevsHG]

I'm glad you liked it. I'm sure there were plenty of days I had HGing that I just wanted to scream - "all my spoons are gone today!!"

[Hotbrass]

Totally with you on this one. I was thinking last night about how I'm over being pregnant and just really want to be done already and I just made it to 3rd Tri.

I'm trying to enjoy the good things about the position I'm in right now such as... I can get pregnant, the baby is healthy, it's a girl that my DD wanted so badly, I do enjoy feeling the new life in me, it won't be long and it will be over and this will end unlike so many suffering just to live etc...

You're not alone....

[eliana1300]

I felt in some ways like HG had used up my tolerance of my own pregnancy as well as other peoples'. I seriously got tired of hearing that so-and-so is pregnant and glowing, while I was so sick. Or hearing from someone who was fluffy about how difficult anything was for her to do (not that there aren't pg issues that can be uncomfortable for everyone, but I just got tired of hearing about it).

I also got tired of my own pregnancy quicker than I thought, even though I had very little prepped for baby before he came! I was just done with being pg by week 30 or so. I didn't wish ill or harm for my child, just didn't want to feel like that anymore. I think it is perfectly reasonable to want it to be over and done with, especially when you get into 3rd tri and are so close to the finish line! I would think anyone with a difficult-to-treat illness faces that.