Please or to access all these features

Add post

Watch this thread

Save thread

Start a new thread

Flip thread

Hide thread

My feed

Active Unanswered threads

Getting started FAQ's

Unanswered threads Acronyms Talk guidelines

Hide shortcut buttons

Talk

Pregnancy

Talk about every stage of pregnancy, from early symptoms to preparing for birth.

Flip

1 2

Original poster

Please .... is anyone else THIS tired at 8 weeks???

29 replies

misty0 · 03/03/2011 10:28

OK, I know 'tiredness' is one of the first symptoms listed in the first trimester - but - God I'm knackered!

I'm not overweight, and i havn't even got morning sickness (my sympathy goes out to all who have) and i'm only doing normal housework and shopping ect.

I'm up at 6 to get the rest of the family to school and work, I'm 42, and fit and healthy, and i'm having to be in bed before 9 'cos i cant keep my eyes open.

As i'm writting this i'm loving the excuse to sit down for a bit AGAIN.

So ... do we think it's realy normal to just want this much to sleep, and sleep, and 'yawn' .... sleep?

OP posts:

Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

Set a reminder

Cyclebump · 03/03/2011 10:33

I felt like that up to about 13 weeks. I went to bed at 8pmish 'to read my book' and DP would come in 10 minutes later to find me snoring away and I'd sleep like the dead (until the inevitable wee trip) until 6.30am the next morning.

I'm 28 and in good health, I was just wiped out by it!

It does get better. I'm now nearly 36 weeks and have way more energy than at any other time in the pregnancy.

Oh and I too was sceptical before I got pg, surely you can't be THAT tired...

Crawling · 03/03/2011 10:33

Perfectly normal I had to sign off my job in my first pg as the hours were 8pm -3am and I kept falling asleep.

Original poster

misty0 · 03/03/2011 10:39

Thans girls :)

Thats ok then! Y'know reading it in a book is one thing but hearing that others are experiencing it and doing fine is miles better. But then thats what this forum is all about ay? I just cant remember if i had this with my last babe.

Oh yeah Cyclebump, the 'loo visits'. Twice a night... sigh...

OP posts:

lovelymumma · 03/03/2011 10:43

This is really normal.In my first pregnancy slept about 12 hours a night,for about 2 months.The tiredness is just overwhelming.My husband bwcame someone I passed on the stairs occasionally!I got pregnant soon after doing a college course,so wasn't working,but I don't think I could have held down a job.Also noticed heart rate goes up in early pregnancy,which makes everything an effort.Made me wonder how many women miscarried because they weren't getting the rest they needed.

Original poster

misty0 · 03/03/2011 10:58

Thats interesting lovelymumma,

I have felt my heart racing a bit.

I gave up work 3 months ago, (7 years of being teaching asst. at a primary school), mainly because of stress, and there is NO WAY i could have been doing that now! Although some have said it was giving up that job that ended the 16 months of TTC!

OP posts:

PipPipPip · 03/03/2011 12:31

I'm a fit-and-healthy 28 year old, and I needed 10 hours of sleep a night for the first couple of months. Even if I set the alarm to go off after 8 hours, I would either sleep through it or literally not be able to tear myself out of the bed.

silverangel · 03/03/2011 12:41

Im 9+3 with ID twins and SHATTERED!! Am asleep by 9 most evenings, fall asleep on the train on the way home from work and could quite happily sleep at my desk right now!

CameronCook · 03/03/2011 12:42

I was regularly asleep on the sofa by 7pm in the first trimester - its exhausting.

Cuppa and an afternoon nap for you if you can

CrazyAlien06 · 03/03/2011 12:58

I was shattered too. Am a full time teacher so constantly stressed and shattered! Am 10 weeks and getting really excited about the first scan!:)

lolajane2009 · 03/03/2011 13:08

I'm 11weeks + 6 and i am exhausted but I have insomnia too, which is a fun occasion.

glizzle · 03/03/2011 14:21

I couldn't believe how tired it is possible to feel when sleeping more than i had ever before! A mum at work described it to me like feeling drugged, there's nothing like it and it was true. It does pass though, but for now listen to your body and sleep, sleep, sleep (I had quite a few 7pm bedtimes, plus whole weekend days in bed, mind you i'm 26+5 now and have been in bed at 9pm this week, so it only gets a bit better!) :)

camdancer · 03/03/2011 14:29

First trimester I was going to bed as soon as my DC's were asleep so between 7:30 and 8. Now (26 weeks) I can stay up really late - sometimes as late as 9:30! It's pathetic and I can't get anything done but if I don't get enough sleep I'm the mummy from hell.

MrsBakerNeeld · 03/03/2011 19:15

At 8 weeks, I slept pretty much on every occasion possible. Up at say 9:30, 'napping' by 12-5:30 then back in bed by 9ish. I'm 10+2 now and feeling less tired, however still pretty knackered! Remember all the extra work your body is doing =)

Mondayschild78 · 03/03/2011 19:20

I'm 7+5 and the tiredness has really set in this last week - been in bed by 9pm every night (could have gone earlier!) and getting up about 7:30am for work, which is a really struggle - very unlike me, usually awake until 11:30pm easily and up at 6:30am for work.

It probably does feel a lot like being drugged I guess, really spaced out!

YesPleaseDrChristian · 03/03/2011 19:24

I was falling asleep into my dinner at 7pm during the first trimester with DD1.

del1 · 03/03/2011 19:32

With my first, I used to have a sleep when I finished work, after tea.
I am now 14 weeks pregnant with number 3, and starting to get a bit of energy back during the day.
I would get to about 2/3pm and all I wanted to do was sleep. But having a hypo 2 year old boy, and an 8 month old - impossible!!
I still go to bed about 9ish to read, like others have said.
But as much as I am loving my book ( last book of girl with the dragon tattoo) I can only manage 3 pages, and im gone!!
I get annoyed with my fella, when he keeps waking me, asking me 'are you asleep already'.
Or when I dont get up with him at 6am - 'want me to get the kids up' --NO!!
If they are asleep, leave them!!
They never get it eh!?

nannyl · 03/03/2011 19:42

sounds normal

Im 30, have no children. and worked 9 - 3.
I had an afternoon nap every day from 4 weeks.
was then exhausted by bed time, and exhausted well, all day to really!

the tiredness stopped around 12 weeks

Vicky0316 · 03/03/2011 19:48

I'm 9 weeks pregnant and can honestly say that I have been totally shattered - I get home from work feeling beyond exhausted after the commute home. It really has taken me by surprise how tired I feel. I've had no morning sickness thankfully, just a lot of nausea in the late afternoon and evenings which is pretty unpleasant when you are also feeling really sleepy.

JimmyChoo17 · 03/03/2011 19:52

From week 6 to week 18 I was SERIOUSLY zonked the whole time. This is my first and I have to say I had NO idea anyone could be that tired...You can tell when you speak to people that have not felt that way - that they think you are a weak being who is slightly sleepy...dear god no!! Am so glad I never judged pregnant people before falling pregnant myself

Week 18 was better - week 19 was my worst :(

Week 20 is this week and finally feel better :)

zonkin · 03/03/2011 22:19

With all three of my pregnancies the tiredness in the first trimester was HUGE. Sometimes I would be walking along the street and wondering if anyone would notice if I sat down against a wall and had a little nap because I felt that I could fall into a deep sleep any time any place.

Have to confess that once when pregnant with DC2 the office was really quiet so I went off for a 20 min snooze in the toilets (they were quite swish toilets!). Set my phone alarm to wake me up!

Thankfully this passed around the 15 week mark each time and until the last few weeks of each pregnancy I had tons of energy after the 15 week mark.

It's a tiredness like no other and unless you have experienced that early pregnancy tiredness I guess it is quite difficult to understand.

MoChan · 03/03/2011 22:26

At eight weeks I was sleeping twelve hours overnight (from 6pm until 6am) and still struggling to stay awake during the day. In week nine, it was Christmas week and I was off work. I got up each day around 9am, napped from 10am - 1pm, ate lunch, napped from 2pm until about 4pm, managed to stay awake until supper, and then generally was in bed by 8pm. INSANE. Bear in mind that PRIOR to pregnancy, I had spent about a decade on between 4 and 6 hours sleep per night, and been a fully functioning human who arrived at the office every morning at 6am, bright and alert...

CitizenOscar · 03/03/2011 22:32

Yep, tiredness at 8 weeks ish was overwhelming. Now at 24 weeks I'm often sleepy/weary but nothing like in the first trimester. Be kind to yourself!

notheroldie · 04/03/2011 11:25

The tiredness in my first PG was overwhelming.
I was working split shifts and sleeping the rest of the time. Bed at 10 up at 8, work til noon, sleep til 5pm then work til 10 then straight to bed. I was living where i worked and just about crawled to work and back. The next pg was bad too, work, sleep 3-6pn, eat, bed by 8!!

This time with 2 toddlers, its bed by 8 up with them at 6.30, and trying to stay awake is nigh on impossible. How the hell do we ever function properly??

bumperella · 04/03/2011 12:54

I can't believe you're able to stay up until 9pm! I'm now 35 weeks (hurray!) and can honestly say the first 14 weeks were the worst. I would sleep on the way to/from work, get in the house, eat, go to sleep, spend weekends falling asleep all over the place.....I fell asleep at my desk at work twice.
Just give in to it and sleep whenever you can, it does get much, MUCH better.

Original poster

misty0 · 04/03/2011 13:32

Thank you so much for all these answers ladies!

I'm not glad you're all tired but i'm glad i'm normal.

The family is going to be made to read this thread tonight i think, as although they're not being unkind or anything - i'm sure they don't quite 'get it' about this ....

OP posts:

Flip

1 2

Swipe left for the next trending thread