Pregnant with my second and my eldest is school age so not like I'm running round after a toddler. I'm also self employed and WFH so I don't exactly have a physically taxing work life (and on mat leave from next week). But I am SO miserable. I have gestational diabetes so my diet is tedious and annoying and I'm having to take insulin, and a blood clotting disorder so I have to inject blood thinners. I'm barely 5ft tall and MASSIVE - feel like I can't breathe from baby pressing on my lungs. I am constantly exhausted and I mean exhausted to the extent a 10 minute walk to school and back is extremely taxing. I have terrible, painful carpal tunnel in my right hand and pelvic girdle pain. I feel broken. I see pregnant women still at the gym and all sorts and feel totally pathetic that I can barely manage to walk up the stairs! DH is having to do 99% of housework etc as I can't manage it. Pregnancy with my first was absolutely nothing like this, I sailed through.
My iron has been checked several times and is on the lower side of normal but nothing to write home about.
Has anyone else felt like this in pregnancy? I should be exercising to help with my gestational diabetes but I physically can't- by the time I've cooked a meal, served it and eaten it I'm ready for bed!!