Does anyone NOT bloom in the second trimester?

[ViolaCrayola]

I just got this e-mail from Pampers (referring to 2nd trimester):

'The tiredness that you experienced in the early months will disappear and leave you feeling energized and positively blooming.'

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I seem to have leapt straight from sick and exhausted to huge and achey and exhausted... this is my second pregnancy but TBH I don't really remember being 'positively blooming' last time either.

Anyone else?

me, and i don't in the third either

this is my 2nd pregnancy im 37 weeks and I didnt bloom at any stage first time round or this time!!!

Me. I never bloomed. I was always tired and in both pregnancies I was diagnosed with Polyhydramnios, sciatica and SPD.

Me too! I think I had about a 3 or 4 week period between 1st trimester sickness and 3rd trimester fatness and heaviness! During my 4 week long 2nd trimester I never bloomed, I just felt a little less tired, but never energised! Probably because I was still under my pre pregnant weight in this period from all the sicking!

No blooming has happened here. Actually wasn't too bad in the first trimester apart from being tired and shit scared of miscarriage. Evening sickness started in the 2nd trimester. SPD by 20 weeks. Insomnia and sleepless nights. Definitely not radiant or glowing or any of that bullshit.

I look like death warmed up. I bloomed in my last 2 pgs. This time, nothing.

I feel fucked. An NOT in a good way

Bloom?! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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This bullshit about blooming is just something they write in all the pregnancy books (well, the more optimistic ones anyway) to "encourage" you along through the first trimester. You think, oh never mind the sickness and the tiredness and all that, I'll be blooming soon, just wait till I get to 16 weeks!
I know better now. It's all lies.

I got told I looked blooming the other week - I did, however have about 2 inches of make up on to hide the black bags under my eyes and horrible spots I have developed since being pregnant. Otherwise I look as if someone has just dug me up!!

Erm no. Was sick up until 31 ish weeks, 40 weeks now and still look like a total minger.

Second trimester is when everything went downhill for me. Strange leaks (turned out to be innocuous, but scary), pains, SPD starting at 16 weeks and needing mobility aids by 20 weeks... I got terribly cranky reading all those "this week in your pregnancy" things that talked about baby moons and people going to parties and all the do-stuff-now-before-you're-really-big, when it was all far beyond my ability already.

Nobody blooms. No one. I had someone tell me I was 'blooming' when I was pregnant with DS. I laughed all the way to the ante-natal ward, where I stayed until my blood-pressure finally rocketed enough for them to induce labour.

First time round I genuinely bloomed. This time. Ha- acne on otherwise totally normal skin, migranes that blurr into each other, pure exhaustion, and I'm 17 weeks so don't think it's letting up in time for the 2nd trimester!

I looked and felt like a water logged weeble.

I certainly didn't bloom in the second trimester -in fact, I spent most of it fainting! But I looked fab from about week 35 to week 39. Odd, really.