How shitty feeling is normal?

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Feeling like a massive whinger, I have no sympathy from the home team (Mum and Granny) as they had babies easily and symptom free apparently (I don't believe them, I think they have just forgotten....!)!

I feel like crap, like rolled in a big pile of poop, left to marinate in the hot sun and the beaten with sticks....oh and I'm sick as a dog.

I'm eating well, sleeping (reasonably) well, taking exercise blah blah blah..... all the things I should be doing, I still feel shocking.

Is it just luck of the draw how you feel or am i being a bit of a drama queen?

Is there anything more I could be doing to lessen the feeling of ick? Or just suck it up.

I'm more than greatful to be pregnant, I've had two losses this year so I'm not taking anything for granted at all but I'm only 10 weeks...,it's going to be a looooong pregnancy if I feel this shit the whole time.

Feeling a bit disheartened by hearing how that second trimester upturn can be utter bollocks and that my mother in law was violently sick for the whole 9 months....

All the accounts I seem to hear are either horrific and exhausting sounding or unrealistically perky and positive.....I'm expecting to either stay a swamp dwelling, greasy, nauseous pile of frogspawn or grow wings, emit an ethereal glow and suddenly be able to find all the matching socks....

I'm 11 weeks, second pregnancy, and I'd say 8-10/11 weeks are definitely the worst in terms of feeling sick, nauseous, exhausted, no motivation etc etc. Sorry you aren't having any sympathy, that's tough. I am lucky to have a v supportive DH, especially with a toddler to look after this time round. I do feel better than I have the last few weeks, but I'm still napping for a couple of hours in the afternoon or early evening, and am struggling to do anything.

Some unlucky people do have sickness all the way through, but for most, get past 12-14 weeks and it definitely turns a corner and last time I found everything much much easier after then.

Hope you start to feel better soon.

I found the first trimester hardest in a way as you feel awful, sick and exhausted but don't even look pregnant

It does get better!

First trimester is shit, no matter how glad you are to be pregnant. You will start to feel more lile yourself soon. Sleep as much as you can and eat whatever you feel like.

I swung from feeling fine to awful. One day I cried because I felt funny.
I think your relatives may have forgotten how their pregnancies went, and even if they were fine they need to remember everyone is different.
My "morning" sickness went at about 16 weeks.
Hope you feel better soon, what helped me was KFC and full fat coke

My experience is that so far (eldest DC is nearly 11) early pregnancy has been the worst part of parenthood.

It's luck of the draw, you poor thing.

I felt utterly awful with DC1, like the worst hangover I ever had as a student, which lasted 4 months. If I hadn't known I was pregnant, I would have thought I was dying.

Fortunately, I felt pretty bloody great with DC2, leading me to conclude it is indeed entirely down to luck.

One thing I'm sure made a difference was rest/sleep. But that did also make me put on much more weight (that and the EATING).

Sympathy, OP. Look after yourself.