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Insane early pregnancy tiredness - normal?

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somewherewest · 14/05/2014 20:17

I'm 7 weeks, mostly a SAHP (very part-time) with a 2yo.

7.30am Struggle out of bed
Struggle through morning as SAHP to lively 2yo DS.
2pm DS goes down for his nap. I collapse into bed, sleep for several hours, surface and just sit around feeling exhausted for the rest of the day, while DH takes DS (he works flexibly and from home, and has temporarily rejigged his work to help - I am very lucky he can do that!)
9 - 10pm collapse into bed, sleep restlessly

Is this actually normal? . I was like this during my last pregnancy as well. Sadly that ended in a MMC discovered at the twelve week scan, so I'm now worried it will happen again.

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beccajoh · 14/05/2014 20:19

Yeah I had that with both my pregnancies! Worse second time but I was up several times a night with a non sleeping 12 month old.

neversleepagain · 14/05/2014 20:22

For the first 16 or so weeks I slept from 6pm-7am. I would also sometimes cry from the tiredness. Normal, but something I wouldn't want to go through again.

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somewherewest · 14/05/2014 20:25

'Good' to know I'm not alone, although I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy! I feel guilty for being this knackered even with DH helping out so much.

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ChoudeBruxelles · 14/05/2014 20:27

I've never known tiredness like early pregnancy. I used to get home about 5pm and go to bed. Dh would wake me about 7 for tea and I would be asleep again by 8 and then sleep til 7am. At weekends I would just sleep. I felt better by about 12 weeks

Quodlibet · 14/05/2014 20:29

There should be a special word for pregnancy tiredness, because it isn't exhaustion, it's like the very life force of you is being sapped out through your spine.

eggybrokenoff · 14/05/2014 20:32

very normal. I had to leave the office and sleep on a bench in the garden for half an hour to make it through the day during second pregnancy!

Moonshine1 · 14/05/2014 20:41

The tiredness is horrendous. I have also found it worse second time around. I felt more normal during the second trimester but am now knackered again in the third trimester due to being too big to get comfy and waking several times a night for the loo!

ohthegoats · 14/05/2014 20:56

I had that too. Home from work at 4pm, in bed for a few hours, carry on working, eat dinner then get absolutely wiped out by digestion. In bed by 8 latest.

Jcb77 · 14/05/2014 23:18

Seriously - 24h shifts were easier. With an 80 mile commute at each end. Was skippingly alert in comparison. Admittedly I was 10 years younger, but even so, never known exhaustion like early pregnancy.

lolee777 · 14/05/2014 23:47

Yep me too, now 21 weeks and still need my bed when I get in from work but early on it was a struggle, you feel like your body shutting down ready to sleep.

BikeRunSki · 14/05/2014 23:48

Normal

MrsMaturin · 14/05/2014 23:49

I agree. The fatigue is UNBELIEVABLE. Hope you feel better soon.

Barbsta · 15/05/2014 07:06

I had the same tiredness where I actually fell asleep sat up at work and would just cry from exhaustion when I got home. I'm a dep manager and my manager was off sick and this was before I told work so I was working 45+ hours in a stressful job. Luckily it passed though :)

LittlePink · 15/05/2014 13:45

The fatigue is bad. I have a 2 year old who tantrums several times a day and refuses to do as I ask all the time. I was tired with all of this before I got pregnant, now my fatigue has ramped up by about 100 times!

Missteacake · 15/05/2014 14:19

Somebody once told me and it's so true "if you didn't know you were pregnant you would think you were dying" I'm sure some people breeze through I'm yet to meet one. I hate the attitude women have been doing it for thousands of years, suck it up, what you moaning at? (and it's usually from other older women)

Fissawissa · 15/05/2014 14:43

I'm 18 weeks & have just woken from a 2 hour nap - I tend to need one every second day!
On my first I was 29 and would commute 4 hours a day into work & didn't feel this tired!
I'm luck that DD is in school so I can get all I need doing done around the house then have a nap & not feel too guilty

Gennz · 16/05/2014 03:19

I think it's normal. Weeks 6/7/8 my brain shut off at about 2pm and I gave up on work and just gawped at the Daily Mail website while trying to keep my eyes open.

hubbahubster · 16/05/2014 05:42

I've fallen asleep mid-sentence before. The ridiculous exhaustion lifted at about 14 weeks, but before that I really struggled to pretend I was fine while working in a busy office. I'd even worry about dropping off while on the loo...

JustAboutAdeqeuate · 16/05/2014 06:04

My granny is 81 and has had a fairly tough life and still remembers clear as day how exhausted she was when she was pregnant, so I'm guessing its normal. The thing I found is that unlike other kinds of tired, no amount of sleep makes any difference. I could sleep for 23 hours a day and still be knackered when I was up.

I'm pretty tired now in my third trimester but nothing like in the fist 14 weeks.

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