Or is it normal to feel this flat and fed up during the whole of my pregnancies?

[Arabiandays]

I must get some kind of hormone change, but literally every time I fall pregnant I just get down and depressed. I'm over the moon about being pregnant and looking forward to having another baby, but I can't seem to keep my life ticking over while pregnant.

Today I am five weeks pregnant, and though my house is a messy tip with toys everywhere, there is no clean school uniform for my older children for tomorrow, and I have not cooked the food in the fridge for tonight's dinner, all I want to do is lie in bed and maybe watch some daytime TV or read a book.

I cannot spend the next eight months like this! What can I do to motivate myself, or address this hormone imbalance that's making me feel almost depressed?

I feel the same way! I find that some gentle exercise really helps. Force yourself to get up and go out for a walk every day. Once you've got into the swing of it you might want to do something else.

Thanks, I do a lot of walking, and of course the school run in the mornings. Still sitting here staring at my messy living room though!

Both my pregnancies were like this. I cut myself off from family and friends, couldn't get motivated to do anything and felt very flat all the time. I was always impossibly tired until 12 weeks, then very sick, and weak from being sick, by the time the sickness stopped I was starting to get big and uncomfortable, and by the end I found simple tasks difficult.

I don't even have any answers for you. As soon as I gave birth both times it was like a lighbulb switching back on.

It's not even 12 o clock yet.

Be nice to yourself. Have lie ins where possible, and everyday when you get your chores done, give yourself a treat - be it a good film, ice cream from the van, or a new nail polish.

Keeps me motivated when I can't feel up.

I never do anything before 12pm btw!

I isolate myself too. I envy those mums who just carry on as normal! I'm snapping at my other children already, not good :(

Oh I would love to not get up before 12! But my eldest 2 are at pre school, so it's 8.30 leaving the house during term time.