Constant Exhaustion - does it stop?

[PamBeesly]

I'm finding it extremely difficult to cope with the constant exahaustion I don't know how mothers with other DC's can do it, I'm constantly drained and I find it so hard to wake up in the morning. Does anyone else (or everyone) have this too? It been constant for a week now and I just feel like crying (but have no energy) It really has overtaken the nausea as the worst. Any ladies who have been pregnant before do you know if this abates after a while? I'm 9+4
TIA

you really really need to sleep, don't you!

bless.

just sleep, sleep, sleep whenever you possibly can, and in a few weeks you'll find you don't need to anywhere near as much as before. It does end, but you feel like you've got ME for weeks. Horrible. X

Thanks madmomma, I'm doing my best with naps x

I also often wondered, when pg with DC1, how people managed the tiredness when having a toddler to look after. I'm now 13 weeks, and I have discovered how. YOU DON'T HAVE ANY CHOICE!! When it wakes in the morning you have two choices. Leave it in the cot to fester and starve all day, or get up! I think most of us would just get up! So there you go, the secret to the second pregnancy is, you just have to.

How joyful it is too to wake up early in the morning. la la la laaaaaa

Oh Woowa thats why women are my new idols, all of them.

Pam

Someone elsewhere said mothers are forged out of iron and steel!

You'll be surprised what you are capable of when your DC is born ....

Bumpsadaisie I can only imagine how the love takes over, I'm already in love with him/her and can't wait to meet her/him :) (30 week wait though)

aw, you just wait til you can feel it moving around!

it's madness!
the first time I felt it move (and knew it was the baby and not just a grumbly tummy/deep breathing), I felt really connected to it - it moved in the morning before it was time to get up, and I felt like I was having a snuggly cuddle with it :)

thats so sweet, a snuggly cuddle...I have about 10-ish more weeks to wait for that :)

9+6 now/
yes, i think I felt it for the first time at about 18 or 19 weeks.

then it's pretty constant

Yes tomorrow is 10 weeks! I don't think I'll truly believe until I see him at the scan, 12+5. It must be so lovely to feel yours kick, like she is saying hello to you, lovely connections and I guess that just makes all the rubbish parts worthwhile :)

I didn't believe it when I saw the scan.
I suppose cos I only felt sick by that point (and tired, and hungry), it could have been anyone's scan video

but now, it really does feel like there's someone growing inside me.
:)

What week are you now Nickelbabe? Are you or have you found out the sex?

22+5 now.
we had the anomaly scan yesterday.
no, we're not finding out the ssex. :)

How exciting to keep the surprise (I'm not, I was never able to wait to open a present anyway :) )
I don't think they do anomaly scans here in Ireland, mumsnet was the first time I heard about them.
My friend is also 22 weeks and she has a lovely bump now

my sister's the same - always wants to know what the present is before opening!

i've got a little more patience and willpower

Yes, when they start school generally

Jiltedjohnsjulie

Nickelbabe I always said (so did DH) that we would wait for the surprise but the minute I found out I was pregnant we both so desperately wanted to know! I can't wait, I know you have to wait until 20 weeks but I might be cheeky and ask anyway at 12 weeks, you never know :)

i remember my first trimester being absolutely exhausting (and that's without having other children) - I hadn't ever felt that tired, i used to cry with it sometimes. i used to get home from work and just go to bed. for me it did pass though - 2nd trimester much better. they say that tiredness returns in the final trimester - it does but it's nothing like the tiredness in the first trimester.

Thanks humph123 I am hoping that I have a similar pregnancy experience and that it disappears in the second trimester, I'm living in hope (I'm 10 weeks today)