I am just about five weeks pregnant with my 2nd baby. My older child is 7. Today I feel awful. I'm really excited about the pregnancy and DP is over the moon. I have tender, sore breasts, a headache, aching legs, really tired, feeling sick but also sooo hungry. When I try to eat I only manage a little and then have to stop eating because I feel nauseous and the smell of food/coffee/fruit juice is making me ill. The only thing that doesn't seem to affect me is water! I remember morning sickness with my eldest but I don't remember it starting this early. Is anyone else feeling like this? Is it even possible to feel this sick so early on?
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Anyone else pregnant and feeling like crap?
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Alisonjayjay · 23/09/2011 09:49
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Mikocat ·
23/09/2011 11:45
Oh god yes! When you stop feeling blooming awful and start blooming? That's what I want to know.
I'm off work at the moment as I had a touch of food poisoning earlier in the week and it's just turned me into a mess. I feel constantly tired, I'm weepy at the slightest thing, nauseous and headachy and full of trapped wind. Oh and constipated. I'm seven weeks tomorrow.
The doc took me off of my Antidepressants nearly two weeks too and I don't think that's helping!
I am happy about this baby believe it or not! I just can't believe pregnancy is this rubbish! 
RubyLovesMayMay ·
23/09/2011 12:23
Approx 10+4 here and everyday is a struggle. I had two weeks off sick when I was pg with DD when I was in the early stages with her but have worked through it all this time around, God knows how.
Sickness subsided at around 14 weeks with DD so this one BETTER do the same 
Im my experience:
1st trimester - you feel like shit, but as your baby is so tiny you feel all the sickness is unwarranted because it doesnt feel real yet. Especially if you havent told anyone.
2nd trimester - after you've had the scan and you see theres actually a baby in there, and if your sickness goes, your energy comes back and you're "blooming" (whatever that means) I started to think pregnancy aint that bad. Hence be having a 2nd DC. Hair/nail grow loads, cute little bump, first flutters, then full on kicks, interacting with your baby. Love this bit actually.
3rd trimester - bump gets bigger and starts to actually get in the way physically. Every one comes out with their "you sure you're not having twins?" "you not dropped yet?" "you're having a boy/girl, I just know it" nonsense. The constant toilet visits return because your baby thinks your bladder is a trampoline and your ribs are for football practice. You've done the whole pregnancy malarky and the impatience kicks in, you just want your child. All the while everyone will try and give you their over exaggerated horror stories of birth/surgery/blood/guts and glory. I got fed up and miserable at this point, if you cant tell
But hey, you've just got to focus on what its all in aid of and play the long game which I am not good at and cant wait for anything Cliche alert: it really is worth it in the end though
GwendolineMaryLacey ·
23/09/2011 16:20
25+3 here and am absolutely shattered, can't lift my arms up sort of shattered. I went out to get DH some birthday presents earlier, spent roughly 30 mins max at the shops and was crawling back to the car at the end, knackered and back was killing me. Have been flaked on the sofa ever since. When's the 2nd trimester bloom then? 
BellaCB ·
23/09/2011 16:35
Gwendoline - I'm entirely with you. 23w here, have only just finished throwing up every day but am still exhausted, still drained, feel rotten AND have developed constipation and the beginnings of carpal tunnel syndrome to replace the hypermesis. Oh, and possible high blood/high pulse rate
So, OP, you're not the only one feeling like crap! And my sickness kicked in about week 6, so it can start very early. Just start experimenting with whatever food you think you can get down (and if you end up only living on Weetabix for the next 3 months, so be it!) Hope you start to feel better soon x
Cheaptrick ·
23/09/2011 16:53
I'm nearly 30 weeks pg and feel like crap today and i have had morning sickness today as well 
madmomma ·
29/09/2011 21:34
Well I saw the thread title and nearly burst into tears, so that should answer the question. I wanted to start a thread like this but was too scared of getting flamed in a 'you don't know how lucky you are' kind of way. 26 weeks with no 3, and I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of days I've felt human in this pregnancy. Every movement feels like an enormous effort, I am constantly tired, legs aching all the time... just usual shit, but am finding it really depressing. I just want some energy, and when I think that there are another 14 weeks (at least- as other 2 went to 42 wks) to go, I just don't know where to put myself. Sorry, rant over
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