Third trimester and feeling like 💩 any advice or similar experiences??

I'm 35 weeks + 3 days and feel awful! I can't believe how much I'm struggling. I feel completely exhausted all day everyday, desperate to do things but physically can't motivate myself. The nausea and headaches from the first trimester are back and I could just do with a good cry 10 times a day. I struggle with my mental health anyway and have been in touch with the perinatal mental health team but the overwhelming sad feelings are alot. I haven't been sleeping at night due to restless legs/feet so I don't know if it's just that taking its toll but I feel like this is gonna be a lonnggggg 5 weeks 😭 please tell me I'm not alone and this is somewhat normal 😫

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I don’t have the other things but I’ve been suffering with insomnia and when I get only 1-3 hours sleep, I feel so low and sad the next day. Can’t stop crying and just feel so awful. But when i sleep okay I’m absolutely fine. So I think the sleep deprivation does has a massive impact on mood and emotions . 🙁

I'm also 35w3, and feeling the same. This entire year has been so overwhelming as I've had (and still have) a construction site of a house to deal with. I work in a university where July to October is my peak time and work picks up 10x compared to the rest of the year. I finally reached my biggest deadline of the year this week, had to give a presentation to a director about it, and also had to do interviews for my maternity cover. There's still so much to do at home, that there's no time to do that relaxing thing people have been telling me to do for several months. I'm exhausted and burnt out, and I just want everything to stop to let me catch my breath. I'm either 5 weeks away from having my baby, or due to some complications which aren't being clearly communicated to me, I could be looking at a sudden induction next time I need to go to triage (I've been several times since July). Baby will be here soon, and yet I'm so exhausted already.

@T relaxing? That is a foreign word to me. What does it mean? lol I don’t have a job, but the amount of stuff I have to do in my house before my LG gets here is insane. I started what I thought was nesting yesterday, but today I have absolutely no energy to do anything and my back is killing me. I’m 36+6 and I’m getting induced in 15-18 days (my doctor is medical inducing me because LG is already 6.4 pounds).

Although I'm thankfully able to sleep (with 1000 pee breaks) I have complete solidarity with you! It's exhausting, it's sore. I want to do so much. There's actually a ridiculous amount needing done and I get so frustrated that I can't. Moving even to stand, go from room to room is so sore. I'm just praying it won't be much longer and then I'll start feeling better once baby is out.

@Trisha I spent over 10 hours deep cleaning my bedroom and I immediately got discouraged because it doesn’t look like I did anything. It’s exhausting, I’m over it and I will not be having another baby. Lol

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