To ask Worst thing about pregnancy?

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For me it's the constant burping after every meal - massive giant burps ! Also in the first trimester morning sickness

Constipation and insomnia

Morning sickness till 20 weeks, now 38 and can’t reach my own feet, can’t sleep, can’t get comfy aaaand I pee all the damn time. Morning sickness was the worst though.

Britwife . I'm so sorry.

@Notajogger

I know, but I live in a different country...
Just a few reasons I remember from back then:

• to make an internal echo to check the location of the placenta
• to take a vaginal swab for checking if I had chlamydia (standard procedure here)

Also a few other reasons that I don’t remember exactly but I remember joking that the gyneacologist must be obsessed over my vagina as with every visit she had an excuse to take a look at it!

Oh and birth as I had a retained placenta and no pain relief 🤮

to those who have lost or can't conceive firstly.

Think for me it was the unrelentingly anxiety. I had reduced movement throughout my third trimester. I ended up a shadow of my former self.

I was also heavily pregnant at the height of summer so basically spent 4 weeks laid back with a fan pointing at me constantly. I was so bone tired.

Other than that, probably heartburn. I had, on reflection (and bar the reduced movement and anxiety) a pretty easy pregnancy.

Agree with PP.

After three losses (first one put me in intensive care), the only thing I will ever moan about in pregnancy is the worry.

21 weeks now, and he’s started moving. I’m just about ready to believe this could be real.

Horrific thrush - Worst I’ve ever experienced. So bad, doctors wondered if it was Herpes (it wasn’t!)

HG.

Worst physical symptom I ever had was the heartburn. But I think the worst thing is the waiting and the constant worry!

For me it was SPD - it came on overnight and lasted about 3 weeks. I was in utter agony whenever I tried to walk and ended up on crutches and signed off work for the duration. Stairs, particularly going up them was impossible and given that I lived in a top floor flat with no lift I was housebound!

Eight months of morning sickness and feeling claustrophobic. Even a hug from DH made me feel stressed and like I couldn't breathe

Oh yes in pregnancy 2 I got stuck bad heart burn I couldn't walk. Called 111 and they sent an ambulance as they thought it might be a heart attack. (Family history of heart problems) never had heartburn before then. 5 years later I get it all the time now

I had hyperemesis. At one point I only ate tinned peaches for three weeks. Bizarrely now I enjoy being sick. It gives me a bit of a high. Think it's because I associated it with brief relief.
(I don't do it in purpose, but I'm sick quite often now, stomach never went completely back to normal).

Loosing babies. Everything else was just a temporary annoyance.

So sorry for those who have suffered.

For me it’s been the 15 years of privately funded IVF thanks to the postcode lottery, losing out on much-needed breaks away.

Having finally got a successful pregnancy, I then had to give up work because they thought I had a blood clot on the brain because I was blacking out, so I lost even more financial security and the enjoyment of being finally being pregnant. Injections of Dalterparin Sodium every day which was annoying because stupidly I thought and hoped injections were over and done with.

Then my spine went wrong from an arthritis accelerated by the pregnancy so occupational health got involved and I’m now permanently in a wheelchair, receiving PIP, unable to be wholly independent or work in my old career.

I now have to inject a Biologic weekly, take 19 tablets a day, have MRI’s every 6 months for life.....

Oh and my 3 closest friends from the old days don’t talk to me any more because funnily enough, I’m not who I used to be and they don’t know how to deal with it

@Timeschange I'm sorry that happened to you.

IVF and infertility in general SUCK. I would give ANYTHING to be suffering from hyperemesis (I was sick 20-30 times a day in my last pregnancy before anyone starts. I still lost the baby.) or be knackered or unable to sleep from uncomfortable ness.

Actually - apologies to the pregnant folk having a whinge. It's NOT easy to be pregnant sometimes, you deserve a place to vent. Infertility is notorious for turning people into selfish navel gazers

Hyperemsis.

Burping, sickness early on, heartburn at the end and for me, very painful carpal tunnel.

The constant worry every single day that something could go wrong. I'm 33 weeks and not a day has gone past that I haven't been gripped by terror that something terrible could happen.

I fully expect that to continue in a different form once she's actually been born 😬

I've had two early losses in between my first child and this one but I absolutely hate pregnancy. Feeling like a whale, being told you look like one (more or less), unrelenting heartburn from the second trimester, no alcohol, wanting to sleep but struggling to find a comfy sleeping position and also the aforementioned heartburn. Then the conflicting emotions as the due date draws ever closer. I'm still anxious about it going wrong but have opted to be prepared for the birth. Hospital bag packed, lots of cleaning done and I'm happy that I've got prepared but still nervous I've tempted fate.

Acid reflux/heartburn/indigestion. Bloody awful and by far the worst thing is it's every day and only gets worse and keeps u awake at night. I've some tablets from doctor which help now but not always.

Being so effin tired all the time but still having to do 1000 things a day before going to bed and realising you either can't sleep from insomnia or your hips feel like theyve been kicked by a donkey so you roll over and then back again (which should be an Olympic sport whilst the size of a barrel!)

Oh and going from everything you eat making you feel sick to everything you eat being so so dull when you finally feel better but realise all you want is red wine and soft mouldy cheese

Morning sickness.

It makes me so bloody miserable and its relentless.

Currently in week 7 and it started week 4. I'm in tablets for the sickness and it just takes away the bulk of it. Theres still this background nausea which is constant.

Everything makes me want to vomit. The smell of my own house makes me sick. The smell of OH's deoderant makes me sick. The smell of my kitchen and residual food smells makes me ill.

Last pregnancy it stopped at 14 weeks. Praying it does again. I dont want to be a miserable bitch for 9 fucking months.

(Truly grateful to be pregnant btw but I'm feeling quite miserable now)!