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How tired should you feel during 1st trimester?

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MaybeBabyOct2015 · 08/11/2015 18:00

Hello, just wondering what people's thoughts are on tiredness during early weeks of pregnancy. I know it is normal to feel tired but I am really struggling and worry that I am too tired. I'm nearly 7 weeks pregnant and I seem to be getting more and more exhausted with each passing day. I only went to work for the afternoon on Friday and by half way through my shift I could barely hold my head up. I slept for 10 hours last night (give or take a few trips to the loo) and all I've done today is visit family (my husband drove) and I feel like I've run a marathon. I've got annual leave this week so I'm hoping I will feel better but the way I am feeling at the moment I don't think I could make it through a day at work. Is it normal to feel this bad?? I really don't know what to do with myself. :(

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mummyneedinganswers · 08/11/2015 18:04

I felt horrific I had hyperemesis and slept most of the day and night. Constantly tired I think I didn't leave the house for 6 weeks apart from appointments. My energy didn't pick up until around 27 weeks and I've hit a brick wall again at 32 weeks. 37 weeks tomorrow and can't wait to its all over x

IndomitabIe · 08/11/2015 18:08

There is no should about it.

Normal is anywhere from bedridden to bouncing off walls.

If you're tired, you must take things easy. You're making a person, that takes a surprising amount of energy!

IndomitabIe · 08/11/2015 18:11

I would say, a good multivitamin (with B vitamins, iron and vit D) might help. And an extra dose of iron on top (e.g. Spatone) might be even better.

This time I didn't wait to discover I was anaemic and started on the Spatone as soon as I started to feel tired. It's probably coincidence but I feel so much better this time than last time.

MouldyPeach · 08/11/2015 18:12

Any amount of tiredness is normal. You should pick up after 12 weeks & forthcoming blood tests will pick up anything contributing to excessive tiredness ie anemia

KateBeckett · 08/11/2015 18:14

I feel the same maybe ! I'm nearly 6 weeks and feel like I've been hit by a bus most days. Unfortunately I can't really take it easy, as I'm a year 2 teacher, so have to just get on with it, but I don't feel like I'm doing my job properly right now!

Enjoy your annual leave, and rest up as much as you can

LBOCS2 · 08/11/2015 18:16

I found that the tiredness was not as bad as ME tiredness but worse than being-out-all-night tiredness.

Taking a good antenatal vitamin (possibly with an extra iron supplement) does definitely help in my experience. Annoyingly I also found that if I wasn't so tired I didn't feel so sick, but feeling sick made it very difficult to take the tablets in the first place...

NorthernLurker · 08/11/2015 18:17

It's not a type of tiredness I've felt before or since. It's total body sapping fatigue. So yes what you describe does sound normal to me.

EnglishWeddingGuest · 08/11/2015 18:22

Sounds like how I felt
I actually crawled into a bathtub and curled up to sleep because I couldn't be bothered waking to the bedroom - it was also the only room in the house where no one else was and I could lock the door

About 14 weeks I felt better

Reebok · 08/11/2015 18:23

Sounds normal today. I've been suffering from hyperemesis since 5 weeks and I am constantly shattered from doing nothing as I don't leave the house apart from appointments with hospital/gp. Been signed off work since 6 weeks. Back to work tomorrow and I'm so scared (not only of vomiting but the exhaustion as it makes my sickness worse).

BlacknWhitePanda · 08/11/2015 18:27

I was so tired early pregnancy, I would come home from work and just go to bed.

I found vitamins help a little but mostly as the pregnancy went on I felt a little better.

Skiptonlass · 08/11/2015 18:55

Well, there's a wide range of normal, but I personally was bone crushingly tired. Exhausted. I was severely sick and could have slept twenty hours a day.

Get your iron levels checked, eat well and get as much rest as you can. Hopefully it'll lift in trimester two.

TwigsWithStupidLittleLightsOn · 08/11/2015 20:14

Everyone will differ, but I was so unbelievably exhausted that if it had been caused by anything other than pregnancy (and therefore a wonderful outcome in the long run), I honestly felt like I would have a breakdown.

GoodtoBetter · 08/11/2015 20:23

I had hyperemesis with both but even before hyperemesis kicked in with the first, I remember thinking in a supermarket that I just wanted to lie on the floor in the middle of the shop and go to sleep, bone crushingly tired, despite sleeping about 14 hours a night.

donajimena · 08/11/2015 20:26

Sounds completely normal. I would come in from work and pass out. Like I'd been on the lash. It was that sudden. It got loads better after first trimester

Thegentlemonkey · 08/11/2015 20:32

Definitely normal. 2nd pregnancy I'd get home from work & be too tired to sit and read a bedtime story to my 2 year old - usually my favourite part of the day. I could only cope with crashing straight into bed, no dinner, eyes shut, while DS cuddled up & DH read to him then took him to his own room. I felt terrible as didn't want it to affect him, but until 12 weeks I just couldn't keep my eyes open past 7pm.

applecatchers36 · 08/11/2015 20:46

Totally normal, I crashed out on coming home from work. DP had to take over with all evening duties bathing & putting DC to bed, cooking etc.. As just exhausted. It does lift though, in the second tri now and feel like a horrible energy sapping fog has lifted.

megletthesecond · 08/11/2015 20:48

Drugged tired.

I had a few days off work just sleeping. I could barely keep my head up. Heaven knows what those hormones were up to. (Back at the gym and fighting fit in second trimester).

Icklepickle101 · 08/11/2015 21:02

I have never felt so tied in my life, for me it was worse than ME tired, but maybe ME & early pregnancy is always going to be tough!

I remeber coming home from work when I was 8 weeks at 5 and falling asleep on the sofa and crying when my boyfriend woke me up to put me to bed, I honestly didn't think I had it in me to sit up on the sofa let alone walk up the stairs. 14 weeks and the god lifted, 20 weeks and I felt AMAZING and now I've hit the third trimester it's slowly going down hill but without doubt the first 3 months was the most difficult!

polexiaaphrodesia · 08/11/2015 21:35

Yep, totally normal. Up until about week 10 the tiredness fog used to descend at about 2pm and I'd have to make a huge effort to stay awake until I could leave work and go home and straight to bed! Around week 8 I was so tired that I even had a 20 minute nap in our first aid room at work on a couple of occasions.
I completely second the suggestion to get as much iron as possible - I'm taking a pregnancy multivitamin and Spatone sachet daily. The tiredness lifted considerably at the 11 week mark and from week 18 onwards I've had tons of energy. Just look after yourself as much as possible, eat well and sleep as much as you can. It will pass and you will start to feel loads better.

DelphiStar · 09/11/2015 14:34

I was pretty much a zombie for weeks 6 - 12. Sleeping and eating and zoning out at work was about all I managed.

Luckygirlcharlie · 09/11/2015 16:59

It's a tiredness that all the sleep in the world can't cure! Totally indescribable to anyone who hasn't experienced it in my view! both times for me. Sounds normal to me.

NorthernChinchilla · 09/11/2015 17:52

Like having 24-7 flu for 8 weeks. You only ever seem to hear about morning sickness before you're pregnant.... I had no nausea even but was crying with exhaustion!

mumchkin · 10/11/2015 04:17

Tired as a word barely seems adequate to describe it.
Forr the first 6-14 weeks if I hadn't known I was pregnant, I'd have thought I was dying. Just utter bone crushing exhaustion.
Be kind to yourself. Go to bed an hour (or two earlier) than you currently are. Spend the weekend in bed. Sneak home for a nap from work if you can.
It does get better. 2nd trimester you will have so much more energy.

frikadela01 · 10/11/2015 04:36

I'm exhausted and I'm only 6 weeks. Working nights doesn't help. I kind of feel like a fraud complaining about it since you obviously can't tell I'm pregnant or anything.

OhWhatAPalaver · 10/11/2015 12:13

I am 7 weeks and I'm lying in bed next to a bucket and a half eaten bagel as I type! Today is the first time I've had to call in sick to work in early pregnancy. I feel like I've been hit by a bus and then some. Unimaginable tiredness. Let's hope it passes soon!

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