When does the first trimester exhaustion end??

[BrienneofQarth]

I know it sounds like a stupid question! I'm 10+5 and had started to perk up again aroubd week 8. Thought that was the back of it broken but im a wreck again this week and last! When does it go away??

I'm 11 weeks today OP it's hideous isn't it my eyes constantly sting my head is constantly sore and sometimes I am so tired I feel sick . Tbh I was like this the whole way through my last pregnancy . Sorry

But just wanted to say you are not alone and have all my sympathy . We can feel sorry for ourselves together

It's definitely worse second time round! Don't remembrr feeling this shattered with dd.

Full time job and a toddler too.... Suppose it's no wonder really

I feel your pain OP! I'm 15 weeks and dying for the exhaustion to end!! It doesn't help I have my toddler to run around after. Some days I just cannot do anything and feel so guilty not taking my toddler out or being able to play.

Cannot wait to have some energy!!

when they leave for university .

Ahaha ginger beat me to it!

With dd1 it was week 12 on the dot. Coincided with me getting my taste back for coffee. I think they were related

Its so different for each woman.

Lots of my friends definitely started to feel better around the 12 week mark.

For me, it was 18 weeks with DC1 and about 22 weeks with DC2...so def not just the first trimester!

Then at around 35/36 weeks the end of pregnancy exhaustion set in .

None of it compares to the newborn baby exhaustion, though. [helpful]

15/16 weeks for me. Will be 37 wks tomorrow and am tired again but still not as bad as those early weeks i don't think. I was sleeping 12 hours some nights and was still exhausted whereas i'm getting 4 - 5 hours atm and not as bad!

I think I started to feel better around 11 weeks.

Horrible isn't it. I would say it got better at about week 12 with my first and at about week 16 with my second - having a 4 year old doesn't help tiredness this time around lol.

About 19 weeks for me! So into the second trimester :( x

Don't know. My DS is 2 yrs 3 months. Will report back!

For me, at 15/16 weeks

My DS is 9 and I've never quite been the same since that first trimester!

For me, it was at 14 weeks.

I started to feel better at 16 weeks but tbh pregnancy is the most exhausted I have ever felt in my entire life. I can count on one hand the number of times I have stayed up being 11pm over the past 39 weeks (tonight being one of them). Around 22-27 weeks were the least tiring for me.

I like threads like this as they remind me of the not so nice parts of pregnancy and rein in the broodiness. It's amazing how quickly you forget.
Hope it passes soon OP.

When the child leaves home I suspect!!!!!

Get used to it it's nature's way of getting you used to never knowing a proper sleep ever again, even if your child is asleep you are still on alert and the slightest noise from them wakes you instantly.
Sorry I can't be of any actual help to you

I still tired at almost 24 weeks (mainly because i have not slept well for 2 or 3 months!) But that hit by a truck/permanently hungover feeling abated somewhere around 14 weeks if i remember rightly.

I didn't believe that the tiredness would ever end and was deeply sceptical about all of the stuff about feeling great in the 2nd tri. But we went on holiday when I was 12 weeks and after then I really started to feel much better. By about week 15 I was full of my usual energy again and have definitely benefitted from the 2nd trimester 'glow'.

Word of warning though: when you do get your energy back, don't be tempted to push yourself too hard. I took on my usual enthusiasm and work ethic, doing everything at a million miles an hour and putting myself under lots of pressure at work - and ended up with terrible ligament pains last week (20 weeks) which was excruciating and landed me in hospital at the weekend. All fine now but have consciously made myself slow down a bit.

Enjoy your pregnancy!

I had this early on to the point where I was in bed by 7pm and not waking up for about 12 hours. On the weekends I would sleep through!

It did get better from about 14 weeks though. Now I'm in the third trimester I have started to get tired again though. No where near as bad as the first trimester but I am feeling myself struggling during the day.

I'm drowning in the exhaustion too - in fact I had to come home from work yesterday as felt so horrendous. I'm 10 weeks so not expecting to feel vaguely human again for another 4 - 5 weeks at least!

I felt miles better by 12-13 weeks. A sudden burst of energy, other symptoms going away, felt like I was barely pregnant at all. Then at 27 weeks the tiredness returned with a vengance, and has brought along his friend PGP . Fell asleep yesterday afternoon - something that only happens usually when I'm really ill. I thought once a symptom was gone, it was meant to bloody stay gone, grumble grumble.

I felt shattered til around 12 weeks - I had a great 8/9 days then had back to back UTIs which left me exhausted & feeling really ill. I didn't start feeling better until 16 weeks but now at 17 weeks I feel amazing. I've developed morning sickness in the 2nd trimester but I have loads more energy!

I'm only just 3 weeks preg but I'm exhausted, that was the main reason I took the test. I've been bedded by 9/9.30 every night. Struggling to find the energy for anything. :-/