Feeling low in early pregnancy

[afrikat]

Just after a bit of a moan really. I am 6+5 and for the past few weeks I have just been getting steadily more fed up. I am suffering from bad headaches, painful cramping (no bleeding), crazily sore boobs and am v dizzy all the time. I was training for a marathon so was running or going to the gym everyday - now I feel too sick / dizzy / exhausted to do anything but walk and am missing exercise so much. I am so happy that I am pregnant but I just didn't expect to feel this bad! I feel guilty for complaining about how bad I feel and feel lazy for not exercising and my clothes are already getting tight which I hate. I know I will put on baby weight but at the moment it is just because I am not exercising I think. I am eating as healthily as possible but need to eat pretty often otherwise I feel more sick. I am also super emotional which is making me feel everything is worse than it is I suspect!

Can someone tell me this will ease off please??

I felt very low in my first trimester - I don't think it is uncommon to feel mildly depressed in the first 12 weeks. Like you, I wanted to keep running until I was at least 12 weeks, but felt so awful I had to give up.I was sooo tired I needed 2 naps a day sometimes (I am a school teacher - early pregnancy was in summer hols, thankfully). However, by week 12 I began to feel better and ended up having a great 2nd trimester. I am now 34+3, so not long to go, and swim 3x a week and walk 2-3 miles a day on the days I don't swim. Really hope you feel better soon, but please don't' feel bad because of the way you feel - you can't help it.

Oh, and I had the munchies all the time! Nairns ginger oat biscuits helped enormously, especially when feeling nauseous.

I felt terrible first tri too - and like you OP I was really fit Pre pregnancy. Now at 26 weeks I'm in the gym most days (doing light weights, cross trainer and yoga) have had to give up running (had SPD in first pregnancy and get aches this time round). I went from 6x workouts a week to nothing in my first pregnancy and didn't start again until my 8 week post birth check up. Within fours I was back to running 10ks and am actually fitter than I was before DD1. Hang in there and rest!! You will feel better soon x

Thanks both. Hopefully will start to perk up after 12 weeks and in the mean time will stop beating myself up for lying on the sofa more than usual :)