To ask how you dealt with pregnancy tiredness

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Because maybe I'm being a bit dramatic but I am literally ready for going home 'sick' from work just so I can have a nap. I am exhausted like I've never felt before.

Are you in the 1st trimester? If you are, it's likely to pass pretty quickly.I did really feel much better around week 11, and at week 14 I was going to bed at an adult time again!

Just do what you need to and look forward to week 13. It might be worth asking your midwife about anemia if you haven't had recent bloods, this can make you feel knackered too.

I don't think I dealt with it. I just muddled through it 😂. Hopefully you'll feel better soon!

I remember that well. That plus the morning (24/7) sickness absolutely floored me. There were a couple of days where I went home 'sick' from work around 30 mins or an hour before the end of the day. Overall though I just tried to sleep as much as possible. For weeks and weeks I literally got up, went to work, got home and slept.

The hormones affect everyone differently, some have an easier/harder time of it that others. Try to get as much rest as you can.

I complained an awful lot. With my first I went to bed at six, with the other two I went to bed immediately after they did.

There is nothing growing a placenta to make you knackered

Naps in my car at lunchtime!

Yeah I don’t think I coped either!

Just muddled through. With first dc just went to bed at 8pm (and slept). More difficult with dc2 but I’d take any opportunity to nap or sleep in between full time work and childcare. It’s hard! At the moment there’s little “give”’in peoples lives to help women through this.

Are you in the first trimester?

In all honesty I dealt with it by being grumpy as fuck and going to bed at 7pm most nights. I’m a real night owl so it was a massive change in habit.

The tiredness eased off after the first trimester - the ‘i could lay down on this wet pavement and sleep’ feeling went anyway

Are you in the 1st trimester?

Yes I am, not even that far (6 and a bit weeks). The last few days it's just hit me like a train though.

I feel like just walking out of the office and lying down on the backseat of my car and dealing with work later 😂

i could lay down on this wet pavement and sleep

This is me right now.

The floor in the toilet cubicle is looking quite inviting.

I slept in my car at work during lunchtime. One my husband came in from work to find me asleep in my car on the driveway. I'd been there for an hour.

Naps, early to bed, moaning a lot, fantasising about naps but ultimately pretending I was awake when at work and then crashing as soon as I got home.

It's awful. It feels like no matter how much sleep you get you'll still be tired and it's the time you need caffeine the most but you just have to sort of muddle through it. In a few weeks you'll suddenly realise you have a bit more energy again and it's amazing.

Coffee and going to bed early. With my first I was in bed by 7/8 most nights in 1st trimester. 2nd and 3rd, I was commuting 3 hours each way to work (6 hours of travel, leaving home at 5:50). I didn’t have the luxury of an early bedtime with older dc, but I did nap on the train. And coffee! Which in reasonable amounts (not 6 cups a day!) is perfectly safe in pregnancy.

I'm currently 15 weeks pregnant and just getting out of that phase!

It sounds horrid but some light exercise really helps, that and eating right (which obviously is hard if your feeling sick and have food aversions)

Try and get as much sleep as you can, even if it means leaving the dirty dishes for another day, you are literally growing a human, and the first 12+ weeks are hard!

Look after yourself x

Oh god those first few weeks are awful. Some nights I'd be in bed by 6pm. No advice really, just sleep whenever you can. Roll on week 12/13 and you'll be full of beans again!

some light exercise

Oh my lord... Really?? I don't know if I could 😖

I’m 16 weeks and the tiredness has lifted gradually over the past few days thank goodness so I feel your pain. For me I grabbed naps when I could and had the odd sneaky bottle of Lucozade pink lemonade - it’s been a bit of life saver for me. If you are feeling really ropey make sure you are not anaemic and mention to your midwife.

I had to just get on with it as I worked in fairly physical full time job. I would just flop at home at 6pm though. Early nights. Lots of easy food and no plans.

I'm right there with you.
I've just had a week off work with nausea and exhaustion. I can wake up after 8 hours sleep and have a 3 hour nap.

I've never felt this tired before and I'm a shift worker.

I ended up falling asleep at work and my manager told me to go get myself better.

I wonder if you have tried Floradix? It's v safe for anyone.

So much sleep if you don't have anything else that needs doing. Some evenings I got home from work at 5 and slept all the way through to 6am the next morning when I got up for work again (I moved from the sofa to bed at some point) I couldn't even be bothered to eat dinner most nights which on reflection probably didn't help. I also had morning sickness from week 6 up until 2 days before the birth. It was definitely worse for the first 20 weeks or so which added to the exhaustion.

Not sure what I'll do if I have another and have a child to look after!

Just sleep when you can, I went to bed at 6pm most nights and slept til morning. You're growing a person, its hard work! Week 11-13 I think the tiredness abated for me though.

I was lucky in some ways as I haven’t had any tiredness throughout. But I was cursed with horrific sickness so I just figured it was the universe balancing itself out. I was also in huge denial about being pregnant so I kept being active and exercising (once my sickness was medicated) and I think that weirdly, helped boost my energy levels.

However, it will pass. By about 14 weeks my sickness was dying back so I expect it would be similar for tiredness. I also allowed myself a lovely proper coffee in the morning to get me going and had decaf nonsense the rest of the day.

I hope you feel better soon.

Lots of carbs, naps, empty weekends (first trimester is not the time to be diving into the car and driving to a giant supermarket on a Saturday morning) and a great work poker face despite feeling bloated and cranky.

It did pass quickly I think, when the placenta took over baby duty. I was about 7 weeks when I found out and I walked all around Boston at about 10-11 weeks without too much effort.

It's weird because I actually have no other symptoms, my boobs aren't sore, I don't feel sick apart from one short episode of nausea a few days ago, nothing.

But I am SOOOOOOO tired.

I hope you stay nausea free. 🤞🏻 Mine kicked in about week 7/8.

Try being a bit active to boost your energy levels, and have lots of fresh fruit and veg and not too many starchy carbs (have wholegrains). Though to be honest, at the weekends and in the evenings if you need to sleep, sleep. It will pass.