Hi, I’m 27 weeks pregnant, with GDM, my body is showing a lot of signs and symptoms of entering the third trimester. I get it, logically, it’s tough on the body and mind and it’s a miracle that we get to do this, and I’ve genuinely learned to respect my body.
Having said that, when the fuck does this stop? It feels like a never ending list of things that happen and you’re not even warned one bit. Like my breasts have fibroadenomas and small cysts which I get monitored yearly, and then I got pregnant, now with the massive changes in size, I’ve had constant pain and discomfort almost some swelling on the boob. The one side feels a little harder than the other, there’s no obvious change in looks, both look more or less the same, but I feel like the one breast is hard. And I’ve been battling a weird throat and nose the last 10 days. The round ligament pain is no joke. The shortness of breath to even walk 10 mins is so annoying. It’s just all made me so dependent on my partner. Sometimes I feel the doctors don’t take me seriously. I’ve had such a difficult pregnancy so far, unexplained bleeding which obviously is still unexplained because no sane person wants to fund pregnancy research, in 2026 I still get answers like “we don’t know the cause”.
The GDM feels easier to manage than anything else. I’m really grateful for this baby and I can’t wait to meet it, it’s a miracle truly, but I just also feel like I’ve lost all of me in this process.