To think I can focus on work/usual activities throughout a first pregnancy?

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I love working and do an office job so nothing physically taxing. I also enjoy going for long walks and meeting my friends for meals/coffee and cake etc. Not much of a drinker. I’ve heard of some people having really rough pregnancies where they are bed bound, this is more unusual, right? All of my maternal family have experienced straightforward pregnancies with no nausea or morning sickness - I don’t know if this is something you inherit, but I hope so!

We’ll be trying soon, so not pg yet but just thought I’d ask the question

Most women are fine and continue with normal activities, although may scale back a little.

im pregnant with number 3, nothing really changed just wandering and walking more slowly. And I have a physically taxing job as a labour ward midwife, still do that

Even vomiting every day until birth I managed to work and take part in all my normal activities as much as I wanted to.
I was tired, especially at first but you just have an early night.
Was walking up the downs the while time.

I was going to the gym regularly OP, plus had a very physical hospital job as an AHP.
And I was ancient at 44 when I had DS!
No issues at all. Obviously some women have difficult pregnancies but that’s not the norm.

I spent quite a lot of the first trimester lying horizontal and constantly nibbling and sipping to keep fed and hydrated without throwing up. Second trimester was pretty normal, third I definitely slowed down a lot particularly towards the end!

I was working 50/60 hour weeks in my first pregnancy - caring for people and doing a lot of running around and worked until the end of my 38th week.

You'll be fine. I haven't known anyone to be on bed rest for their entire pregnancy. It does happen, but I'd imagine it's very rare.

I've got pelvic girdle pain this time round, had morning sickness until 20 weeks but I've carried on working (albeit I'm now desk based).

i've worked right up to 38 weeks in an office job. also worked in 44 degree heat until 20 weeks on my feet. Pregnancy- if a normal pregnancy is not an illness. Your body goes through changes but unless you have severe sickness or spd or something work is very doable in an office

I have hellish first trimesters where I'm sick, dizzy and weak but this only lasts til around week 12. My mum and sister are the same. Later on I feel mostly fine but during this pregnancy I haven't been able to be as active as I normally am, my energy levels just aren't the same but I'm able to do most of my normal activities.

I think it's a good sign that your family members have had easy pregnancies, I think that certainly morning sickness tends to run in families. Several of my friends breezed through pregnancy, so much so that it was a shocker when I felt like shit.

I had to stop riding my horse as it made me bleed but otherwise I carried on with life as usual including mucking outand all stable
chores on my due date.

Work I stopped a month before but I didn’t need to.

I didn’t have any sickness apart from teeth brushing and a few smells but there was a spell of extreme tiredness in the first few weeks and insomnia/ravenous hunger (I kept snacks upstairs to eat in the early hours).

I felt absolutely amazing when I was pregnant, no headaches, no hayfever and absolutely no aches and pains. I am back to all of those things now though.

I carried on as usual, working my normal hours during pregnancy, just going out a bit less and going to bed earlier. But when I look back, I wish I hadn't. I was absolutely exhausted, and fell asleep on the floor during my lunch break on more than one occasion. I was vomiting 8-12 times a day for 4 months and felt constantly ill. My pregnancy was normal and straightforward without any issues or complications.I feel that I bought into a whole "pregnancy isn't an illness" narrative where I was supposed to carry on as normal, and that I should prove that a pregnant woman could could do anything a man could do. With hindsight, I was a complete wuss who let herself get trampled on and exploited, and a real strong independent woman would have said "no" a lot more and taken time off and got more sleep.

Obviously if you genuinely feel fine, then you carry on as usual. But I think that a lot of mothers pretend to feel fine even when they don't.

After the first trimester with both DC I was absolutely fine. I actually felt great between about 15 weeks and 35 weeks. My body really likes being pregnant past the first trimester I think. Loads of energy, great mood, really confident in my body because it didn't matter that my tummy stuck out, I had a reason!

Even at 38 weeks with DD2 I went on a work night out (I asked the bartender to make me a fancy-looking non-alcoholic cocktail so I didn't feel left out). I was scaling a bouncy castle that same weekend too as DD1 got stuck trying to climb and DH was off getting food. I did get some slightly concerned looks from on-lookers though!

I don't think you can predict it, and honestly it's something that didn't even cross my mind prior to getting pregnant. It was the tiredness more than the sickness that I struggled with but I managed to work, and still do some gentle activities like walking and swimming. I'd say being bed bound is rare.

First trimester was a write-off both times though. Loads of nausea, exhausted. From about 7 weeks to 13 weeks, I felt like shit. But once it lifted, no issues. I'd happily do pregnancy again (well I wouldn't as I don't want any more but if I did!) if I could skip the first trimester.

I was hideously sick throughout, not as bad as full HG, but still able to work (more or less office based) do outdoor sports, go camping - I've thrown up in a lot of bushes - go out in the evening - I was sick for so long I just kind of got used to it!

I'd actually say prolapse affected my day to day life postpartum almost as much as the pregnancy sickness, so my one tip would be do your pelvic floor exercises! Start now! It's never too early 😅

It’s really not normal or common at all to be bed bound during pregnancy. Most women will work right the way through until the later weeks, maybe with a week off sick, continuing their work outside life as normal too.

I had low blood pressure which curtailed some activities in later pregnancy (its a bit hard to get out and about alone when suffering dizzy spells) , but generally could carry on with most things.

My second pregnancy however... DH was in Afghanistan for most of it. It was just me and my toddler. I had no choice! Came close to being put on bed rest at 36 weeks but midwife admitted it was unrealistic in my circumstances so it was just rest as much as possible and drive as little as possible.

Pregnancy isn't an illness but some symptoms can be illness like, so just listen to your body.

Other than needing to eat a lot of biscuits during the first trimester, my life continued entirely as normal when I was pregnant. I had a bit of heartburn in the last week or so but that was it really.

A whole pregnancy on bed rest would be rare but I don't think it's usual to sail through either. I was able to work throughout, life didn't grind to a halt but my god I felt like shit for 9 months - vomiting through the whole pregnancy, restricted diet, terrible heartburn, very uncomfortable in my body. Probably mine was worse than average but I'd hesitate to tell you you'll be absolutely fine

I felt physically strong and healthy throughout my first pregnancy. No backache or mobility problems. My bump didn't feel like too much of an encumbrance until the last month or so. But the nausea didn't go away for the whole pregnancy and I found it quite debilitating to be honest. I wasn't sick, just nauseous, but it was relentless. I also had acid reflux throughout both my pregnancies and while this sounds relatively trivial, again it was the sheer relentlessness of it and the fact that nothing helped. I know women who have had much harder pregnancies and women who have had much easier pregnancies. You don't know what it will be like until it happens. And it will be nothing like you think! Good luck

The vast majority of women have uneventful pregnancies, work all the way through, socialise sensibly, take moderate exercise, and it's a joyful time with first trimester morning sickness the only real problem.

You have absolutely no idea until you're pregnant

First trimester I was actually exhausted like needed to sleep a lot and struggled to stay up last 9.30pm. Also felt v naseous

Second trimester I had itchy insomnia and so slept badly and was so tired

Third trimester I had back and pelvic girdle pain which meant I couldn't do long walks or walk very far at all

YANBU to think that you will probably be able to.
YWBU to think it is guaranteed.

Until you are in the position, you won't know. Most people are fine. One or two are over dramatic. Some unfortunate souls can be really ill. Many (most?) go through spells where they are sick (in the early days), or maybe not being sick but feeling nauseous, tired (more so in the later months), maybe feel a lot of pressure on their bladder, some get other bits and bobs. But most carry on going to work and doing normal bits and bobs for most of their pregnancy.

My first trimesters are hideous. I go to work as per usual and am just about able to look after a toddler too but all social obligations get binned from me. I also moan a lot! Just feel nauseated all the time and find it unpleasant to move. My second and third trimesters are mostly fine.

I might well be a wuss but there is also a hell of a lot of macho talk around pregnancy! I’d just see how you get on and not put too much pressure on yourself. Fingers crossed you have the no sickness gene! My friend has that and was doing all sorts in her first trimester. A very different pregnancy to mine.

It really just depends and there’s no way to predict.

Im currently pregnant and other than a couple of weeks in the first trimester when I was insanely tired, I’ve felt good.

As someone else said upthread, it’s great not worrying about having a belly, and never having a hangover is fab!

I’ve kept up exercising. The only thing I’ve noticed is I’m walking a bit slower towards the end.