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I’m 12 weeks with my first pregnancy and have horrific nausea and vomiting and generally feel shocking. Every now and again I’ll venture onto the pregnancy boards and they seem full of tales of people with morning sickness that never ended, who had horrible labour and / or who had 101 things go wrong. I’m sure it’s a bit like review sites where you’re more likely to leave a bad review then a good one, but it’s so demoralising!

I know that things do go wrong, but I just thought how nice it would be to have a thread full of “my morning sickness cleared up after the first trimester” and “actually labour was manageable” memories. I’m sure I’m not the only one who could do with the hope!

My nausea disappeared around 11 weeks, it cropped up occasionally in the third trimester, but nothing too bad! I was fortunate in that aside from needing a wee most of the night so not sleeping great as my due date got closer; everything was more comfortable after the first trimester to be honest. I miss my bump now, but at the time I was impatient to meet my little one so wished the time away, I remember feeling anxious too, so I guess that was another reason; but I wish id appreciated it more.

My labour was not what I planned, and nearly have a different outcome. But I absolutely loved it. It is painful, but exciting and such an incredible experience. I started off Hypno birthing before having emergency surgery, and I think that helped me to feel calm and embrace it- the drugs in surgery helped with that part. I sound really hippy haha but I thought I'd hate being pregnant and giving birth before it happened, but I was lucky enough to enjoy it all.

I had horrendous nausea up until 13 weeks or so when it just stopped. I then felt great until 20 weeks when the acid reflux kicked in but I got ranitidine prescribed which helped a lot.

28 weeks onwards was tough due to an undiagnosed medical condition that came to light and it was very stressful until after the birth (both our lives were at risk). I was very well looked after though and DD arrived safely.

I recovered from the rather traumatic birth very quickly though and was doing light exercise within a week and had lost all of the weight within 6 weeks.

My pregnancy and birth wasn't completely plain sailing but it was fine despite the complications.

When pregnant with DS1 I had the loveliest second trimester. My sickness all cleared up, energy came back, I felt very loving towards my husband and was so pleased to be pregnant and so excited about the new arrival. It was bliss

Being pregnant was difficult at times, but it was also lovely at times too. I loved having my baby so close and feeling them move was the most reassuring feeling ever. Labour is so much fun and all three times I've loved it! Honestly it's great, like running a marathon. It's tough and tests your endurance, but there's amazing pain relief options and it's just the most exciting thing ever. I say this as someone who had a high risk, forceps delivery in theatre! Even though that delivery didn't go to plan, I felt so safe and looked after. It was just as exciting and fun as my two low risk deliveries.

I felt like superwomen after my first labour. Yes, parts of it hurt but the overwhelming feeling was exhilaration. Think those who had great births are less likely to share their stories because it feels insensitive to those who had bad ones. Yes, things can go wrong and be hard but the most likely outcome is great. I had my third at the end of last year and although perhaps not so much fun, it's such a short part of the journey. My advice would be to listen to your body, maybe investigate some hypnobirthing and trust that in most cases your body knows exactly what to do. Also the first trimester is often the hardest bit. Just rest as much as you can, the likelihood is that the fatigue and nausea will pass around the 16 week mark.

My morning sickness disappeared at 13 ish weeks. Labour was bad but far far better than being huge and exhausted so it’ll probably get better!

My pregnancy sucked (twins) but my elcs was absolutely amazing. The all day hangover stopped at about 18 weeks, and my hair was amazing, and my boobs looked fantastic.

Time is a great healer though, I’d love to have more!

Whilst I wasn't one of those people who really loved pregnancy I loved all 3 of my labours. Obviously there is pain etc but it is the most exciting day knowing you are about to meet your baby and me and my husband had the best craic in between contractions. After my first baby was born I said "that was nowhere near as bad as I thought it would be" because I had myself convinced it was going to be horrendous. I have had very easy straightforward labours though. Also I absolutely love gas and air, it is so fun! I feel sad that I won't have that experience of giving birth again as we are definitely done now.

I felt sick and tired up to 14 weeks but after that my pregnancy was pretty straight forward! I had a great birth, laboured at home using breathing techniques taught at NCT and arrived at the hospital 7-8cm dilated. Gorgeous DD was born 1 hour 40 mins later in the pool with gas and air (fab) and we were home by midnight. No stitches etc.

The worst part of labour was the final contractions before pushing, they were very painful but there is some relief in between. All in all it was nowhere near as bad as I expected!

I felt the same as you and spent ages trying to find positive stories! I’m third tri now but had really bad nausea and a cloud of depression til about 16-20 weeks when it lifted and I felt a lot brighter! Still have food aversions and very infrequent sickness but feel more like my normal self. I kept up running as I felt it helped my morning sickness and my mental health, you feel a bit grotty and like you can’t be bothered but it was worth the effort. Good luck :)