How have your pregnancies differed?

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I'm nearly 9 weeks pregnant with number 2 and was just musing (whilst feeling terribly sorry for myself!) how your pregnancies (if you have had more than 1) are different.

I started off this pregnancy as smug as could be thinking it would be just like DD--that crippling exhaustion and hunger but nothing else besides that. A smooth ride most of the way!

And then 6 weeks hit and the nausea hit me like a tonne of bricks! I've not actually been sick which I'm very thankful for, but the constant nausea, how do people deal with that?!

I constantly feel like I want to be sick. The thought of coffee makes me sick. The thought of a vegetable makes me sick. I am a carb monster (was so determined to be healthy during this pregnancy as I ate rubbish the first time round) but the only thing I really want to eat is toast, crisps and tomato soup!

Horrendous back pain, god awful heartburn, I cannot get a full nights undisturbed sleep (with DD I could go to bed, close my eyes and sleep for a solid 12 hours if I could!) I'm working full time now so no opportunities for 2 hour naps before work like that last time.

I'll keep repeating "it will be worth it" and console myself with the fact that it won't last forever, but if you could come share in my misery with your experiences it would make me feel much better

(I shall also take this moment to say I realise how lucky I am, a good friend had hyperemesis with both her pregnancies and was in and out of hospital. I don't feel I can moan to her as I AM a total wimp)

I'm 1000x more tired this time. Probably just because you can't ever rest with a toddler! I'm having a lot more twingey ligament pain too. My first was a teeny tiny little girl. I'm having a boy this time and I have a feeling he's growing quick!

Same here with the tiredness @Oysterbabe, I bribed DD with YouTube on my phone if she would stay in bed with me so I could nap and know she wasn't getting up to mischief!

Hopefully you're in the flow phase and the tiredness goes away (I can't remember from the last time, but I'm praying it DOES go away!)

First pregnancy with DS was pretty text book, I can't remember having too many issues but then I was flying high on 'I'M PREGNANT' excitement and reading the updates weekly. I craved salty foods & carbs (and GALLONS of milk!). I got a lot of backache and hip pain (but never diagnosed with SPD), found it really difficult to sleep in final trimester.

I'm 37+2 with 2nd pregnancy, girl this time and craving sweets and sweet stuff. Have only JUST started getting little bit of back ache and even wondering if they're braxton hicks or things started to get moving. As Oysterbabe has said though - been SO much more tired all the way through due to running around after a toddler (he'll be 21 months come my due date). I've been a lot moodier and mentally felt as if been in a cloud for 9 months but again that can be attributed to tiredness. Also have had lot more heartburn this time.

DD is measuring a lot small but my weight gain has been the same and bump looks the same size.

You don't say the age of your DD1 - does she still nap? If so nap with her at the weekend and if really gets difficult consider telling just your manager at work to see what help they can offer (early leave, more breaks etc).

Third baby - 6 weeks.
First 2 were a breeze. I had sickness from 7-15wks roughly with both.
Only went off sausages (which I still don't eat). I didn't feel tired and I could eat anything.

Whereas this time I'm off pizza - which is my all time favourite food in the whole world. It's incredibly hard for me to find a food that I actually fancy. I'm very fussy anyway so my diet isn't great, but I do love my fruit and veg.
I'm also ridiculously tired. That may be because I'm not doing much due to half term.

Pregnancy no.1 and only son - hair became very thick, great skin, little or no morning sickness...

No.2, 3 & 4 (current - all girls) - varying degrees of ms but much worse than with DS...no difference to hair or if anything limited hair growth...skin worse than usual...

Weight gain pretty much the same with all 4....A LOT!

Low iron with no.2 & no.4...spd & heartburn with no.3 & sciatica with no.4...

It's just so much more tiring when you've already got one!!! I was exhausted second time round but mostly due to running after an 18mth old. I suffered more with my back/spd second time, quite badly at around 6mo the, morning sickness about the same, went after first 12weeks both times. Drank gaviscon from the bottle both times towards the end, and I absolutely craved bad food and carbs, and generally didn't feel as "glowing" as first time but, again, how can you when you're so knackered from looking after the first and working as well etc?!
I remember thinking how much I was looking forward to the second time because the first I actually quite enjoyed (after 12 weeks) but being bitterly disappointed.

I'm 32 weeks with DS2. By this point DS1 was 5 weeks old - so already feels massively different. But because I didn't do the third trimester first time round, I feel like I have no idea what I should expect this time. And because I'm high risk of prem birth, every twinge is making me panic. DS1 was 2lb 3oz, 2 weeks ago this baby was already estimated at 4lb 5oz with a head on the 98th percentile.

Pregnant with number 3 at moment currently 38 wks.

With baby 1&2 both boys morning sickness had went by probs 15 wks and I was feeling great even with a 2 yr old to look after when pregnant with number 2. However this time
I am still being sick everyday and I am so sore I am usually in pain from get up till go to bed but that's what happens when I have a 4 yr old and 16 month old to run around after. Just keeping telling myself only ) more days left till I get my c-section so I can't wait till it is over. I understand I am very lucky to be pregnant again as I had a miscarriage before I had baby 2 but just want baby here now (and to see if it is a boy or girl of course!)

With my son, I felt sick, so very sick for many many weeks. Though, was only physically sick a handful of times. I was so tired. I had serious hip pain from 16 weeks until the end. I became the size of a small whale. In short, I had a crappy time.
This time around, 6 years later, I'm pregnant with 'probably' a girl. My sickness was intense. I thought it was bad with my boy. First time, toast cured the sickness until i was hungry again. This time, nothing cured it. Not even for a minute. I had a seriously bad taste in my mouth all through the sickness stage. I became a spitter. The saliva was unreal. And then my hip started hurting. Much worse than with my son. My boyfriend got me a walking stick from his nan! But now, at almost 23 weeks I'm feeling a lot better. Even the pain had as gone. I was terrified I'd have it all the way through again. So, in short, beginning was worse second time around but this middle bit is seeming to be better. Though, I am stupidly tired still. And definitely on the way to returning to my whale form. Hope you feel better soon.