extreme exhaustion!

[am988]

Hello All,

I'm 8wks pregnant - and my exhaustion and feeling without any energy has reached a peak.. and I have heartburn all the time, and all I can manage to drink which soothes is milk. Is this normal? And will it stop? If so, when? I do hope it doesn't carry on the whole 9 months...

Thank you for any advice, support...

Keep your chin up - the exhaustion does end (with me it was when I was about 14wks!) And then I seemed to have an abundance of energy, so there is light at the end of the tunnel!

The heartburn comes and goes I'm afraid, had it bad in first trimester, I swore i had a stomach ulcer at the time, seemed to go away, but then in 3rd trimester when you're bigger it seems to come back again!

Just be glad you are not puking all day every day......
The exhaustion eases up in the second trimester but comes back in the third as you get more huge and it gets harder to drag your bump around!

I am around 12wks and still constantly tired, although up until a couple of weeks ago I had what felt like mind-numbing exhaustion!

I find the tiredness is actually worse if I sit about and do nothing - if I make myself go for a walk or do some housework I do feel a bit better (weird, I know)!

You'll be fine, as EmmaKateWH says, we've still got trimester 3 to look forward to!

Just keep resting, sleeping and eating as healthily as you can whilst appeasing the first trimester nausea / vomiting / cravings.

If milk makes you feel better, go for it. Gaviscon is a lifesaver for heartburn though. I've had a bottle next to the bed for swigging since the first trimester (in early third just now).

It'll pass eventually and it'll be a distant memory - you''ll have moved onto the next trimester and have a whole new host of pregnancy symptoms to manage (back ache, spd and extreme bitchiness). I hear that the baby is worth it!

Hope you feel better soon.

Thanks to all of you for your messages, I'm happy I'm not alone in this and that it happened to others! Its the first time for me so everything is very new.

Yes everyone says that its worth it in the end, then again at the moment I'm just concentrating to control my stomach & hide my tiredness at work!

And yes Rimsky that's what i was thinking yesterday that i might have a stomach ulcer!! And I will try gaviscon because (guernseygirl) beacuse we can't carry on buying 2 litre milk cartoons everyday!

34 weeks and I fell asleep in a multi-story car park and in the hairdressers last Friday . Find not eating carbs at lunch time helps, eat them for brekkie and dinner, that said my first trimester was sick/potatoes/sick/potatoes.... x