13 weeks and feel like a walking pile of shite :(

[Junebabyjoy]

Despite being overjoyed about the pregnancy, I am generally feeling fat, boring, ugly and pretty much non-existent. I have gained an insane amount of weight all over, despite STILL puking daily at 13 weeks. My belly looks 6 months pregnant and there's no way much of that can be baby, just undigested food and extreme bloating. yuck. Yet I ask myself why I feel this way, I should be so absorbed in the excitement of being a mum to be that my frumpiness isn't even an issue but I can't help it being constantly aware of the growing flab. Nothing fits me so I'm living in leggings and super baggy tops. I'm definitely not going to be a cute pregnant person. Anyone else struggling to come to come to terms with their changing bodies?

There are a lot of us that feel that way so don't panic, it's a massive change physically and emotionally. I lost 3st before conception so been finding the growing stomach really hard. Especially when I'm asked if it's twins, or my favourite "not long left now"... I'm 20w....

thanks for the sympathetic reply. I guess it's a weird stage, haven't announced it publicly yet so I guess I feel less pregnant and more like a huge beast. I'll get used to it! I get the annoying comments from friends and fam too 'oh don't you look healthy' and 'wow, you're really blooming!' Blooming Do One!!!!

Grab yourself a few really lovely maternity dresses. Will make you feel much better than oversized clothes! Topshop have some lovely things. I was in mat clothes at 9 weeks and now at 19 I look 30. Just the way it is. Embrace it x

You'll get your head round it in the end (at least that's what I tell myself) but it is soooo annoying that people think they can voice their opinion of your changing body! Big knickers, dresses and tubs of ice cream all the way! Xxxx

13 weeks here too and feeling exactly how you are. My only reprieve is that I feel nauseous about 9 hours a day now instead of the 24 hours I've endured since week 6.

Tummy is so sore and tender and I'm flipping fed up feeling so brain drainingly tired. DH is away to his cmas dinner tonight leaving me alone with the toddler for the 20th time this week.

I wish I could have wine....or gin

I'm 23 weeks and lucky to be enjoying a very healthy pregnancy but HATING the fact that people think its ok to comment on my changing body!! I'm like a broken record moaning about it on here, but just as I'm feeling better some twunt spoils it.

Today's daily insensitive comment 'You're only 23 weeks? God you're going to be MASSIVE by March!'

Yes. Thanks. You dick

Hi, im new here but feel so much better (I type whilst crying my eyes out!) after reading this.

This is my first and I am 9 weeks and have never felt so rough in my life, friends and family just keep saying don't worry it will get better but I am really struggling. I have had 3 days off work as feel sick constant and tried, not been able to eat anything as swallowing makes me gag.

I feel an emotional wreck and feel so on my own as I know I should be glad that everything is fine but I just feel so crap!

xxxx

I'm still waiting for the sodding glowing to start.

I'm glowing - due to dry skin and teenage style acne!

Op - I won't lie - at 20 weeks now I feel big and uncomfortable. But I feel a lot better than at 13. I look pregnant. I feel less sick etc. I can feel bubba move and whilst I'm permanently tired I feel less run down and useless. I managed to make dinner last night on my own!

Keep plugging away x

Oh bubsy.
Just eat whatever you can. I lived off whispa bars and vitamin pills until 14 weeks! Don't get hung up on it. Everything smelled like sewage to me. Couldn't go near a vegetable.

Hang in there and take it easy.

I lived off of dry croissants and cloudy lemonade!

Pregnancy clothes definitely look better than normal oversized ones! I'm only 12 weeks with my first baby but had to purchase a maternity dress for a work evening do when I was only 10 weeks! I now look bigger than my friend who is 20 weeks. When people comment I say it's genetic and that women in my family show really early (which is actually true but could be a good excuse if it wasn't :-)
I'm personally not that worried about bump (bloated stomach, really!) showing. What I don't like is facial hair and fat rolls on my back (!). My way of dealing with it is joking about it with people (planet of apes kind of jokes) And I do worry a bit about going on beach holiday when I'll be 24 weeks and what my body will look like post pregnancy...

I'm with you ladies - have been in maternity clothes from about 7 weeks due to extreme bloating (I have really bad IBS anyway and it's horrific now!) and now, at 15 weeks, I'm huge and feeling like a big whale :( I was trying to sexy myself up for my husband getting home last night and even painting my toenails was hard work :( And I'm soooo tired!!

Everyone keeps telling me that I'll feel less tired soon which would be lovely, but what am I going to go about the fact that I look like I'm carting triplets about on here?!

I'm only six weeks, and have been told by two of my bosses that I look 'fuller in the face'. GET LOST.

I've felt pretty hideous throughout - my hair was shedding at the beginning, and now it has grown back in and looks nice and shiny but my face is so furry I look like a wolf, and have two massive acne cysts on my face. I felt positively unhinged mentally until I reached 18 weeks! (now at 20 weeks). Struggling a bit with the changing body too, I was quite buff before all of this due to loads of exercise and high protein but could only stomach full fat cola, toast, potato scones, Doritos and the like for the first 14 weeks, so my regime quickly went out of the window! I know logically it's a baby bump but my mind still sees it as getting a big fat belly!