Hating being pregnant :(

[Teeeee]

Am in my first trimester and this is my first pregnancy and I am hating it! On the day my period was due I immediately felt dizzy, fatigued and not myself. Am so exhausted and nauseous and emotional. I know this is normal but I am hating every second and just don't feel like me. Is anyone else feeling like this?

I absolutely hated the first trimester although even as the symptoms got worse they did become easier to deal with as I got used to them. The second trimester (well, from about 16 weeks) has been a delight so far - I've really enjoyed it and felt really good in myself. Hang on in there!

I remember when I first started telling people, and they asked how I was doing. So many of them were surprised that I had been suffering from bad morning sickness. Or said, "oh, I had a really easy pregnancy. Never had any problems!" Grr. Not helpful.

Then I spoke to my mum who said that she was terrible with me, and she thinks that some people just blank it out of their memories. Made me feel a lot better about it

Yes my partner sweetly looked at me and said I was glowing which is either a kind lie to cheer me up, or a loving projection of what he feels I look like cause he's excited about future baby. I replied in my new green complexion I've adopted, and my half opened eyes that I think the word he was actually looking for was haggard! Bless him for trying though!

I felt elated when I gave birth. Not only to see my beautiful babies but was so glad not to be pregnant anymore. I didn't glow apart from when I was vomiting. It was a means to an end I wanted.

I endured my pregnancies rather than enjoyed. It got marginally better late in the second trimester. Then SPD kicked in and I was miserable again.

You're not alone. There's lots of us who feel how you feel.

I hated the first trimester. And the second. And the third! Bloody pregnancy is shit! Was sick, tired and miserable! For both pregnancies! I now have a two DC - 3 yrs and 4 weeks and I'm just tired . I have to admit that they are worth it.
However, anyone who tells you that the 9 months will fly by are fucking liars!

It is rough, the exhaustion is what killed me. I know there are some people who are unfortunate enough to feel unwell for a large part of their pregnancy, but I think for most people it gets better after the first trimester. I felt so much better by 10 weeks in both pregnancies so hang in there!

Have you had your iron levels tested OP? I felt extremely dizzy (think the moment you wake up in bed after a night out with a raging hangover and the room is spinning kind of dizzy) and went back to midwife who did my bloods and I had Anaemia. Got meds, feel much better

Look forward to the third trimester when people offer up their opinions on your size and shape, the contents of your shopping trolley in relation to your "condition" and particularly relish it when strangers try to touch your bump in the supermarket. I'm 37 weeks and if I haven't punched someone by the time I go into labour I will be amazed.

So after a week of nonstop sickness today i finally get a break from it i actually feel quite normal. My only complaint today is that one of my boobs feels like it is being slowly squeezed in a vice and nothing i do makes it feel better 😕😕

3rd trimester with my first here, and I absolutely hate being pregnant. I've suffered from Hyperemesis though which has contributed to the bad feelings but there have been many times I've sat in the bathroom or hugged my DH and just cried for ages about it all. Although, considering I said I never wanted kids, I'm cooing better than I thought I would but really struggling still. Hopefully you've got some family or friends around you to help boost you?

Pregnancy is being held hostage in your body. Everything you know about your body and how to keep it healthy and feeling good no longer applies.
The first trimester when you're trying to keep it a secret is awful. You can't explain how terrible you feel. It's isolating.
I felt terrible for 9 months, anti sickness meds helped a LOT. I don't think I could've functioned and stayed at work without them.
I felt vulnerable in the third trimester, when it was obvious I was pregnant. I don't know why, I didn't expect it. Standing at the bus stop waiting to go to work, with a big belly, I felt like a target.

Before I got pregnant I thought I would love pregnancy, it would be magical! Ha NOT TRUE! Pretty sure I deserve a medal for getting through it, and my partner deserves a medal for putting up with me.

I'm newly pregnant with my second. All day morning sickness is back, ugh it's going to be a long 9 months.

Oh man you're so right. It is just that, being held hostage by your own body! I'm having issues with food presently and have started talking to my body like its another person and asking it what the eck it wants from me!

@Jessybear90 thank you! I hadn't thought about iron issues will ask the dr.

Oh gosh I think my face would say it all if strangers started touching my bump in third trimester! So much to look forward to

So i ended going up A&E yesterday over some concerns i have regarding this pregnancy and theyve reffered me to the early pregnancy team anyone have any experience with them?

First trimester is basically like a permanent hangover. You can five pounds in a week but can't stop eating white bread, cheese and sweet foods.

Second trimester you feel healthy, but like a ball is stuck under your shirt. You look at heavily pregnant women and think 'I'll never be that big!' Oh yes you will.

Third you feel like a waddling whale and are just desperate for the baby to arrive.

It's all awful. I can't say I liked being pregnant for a single moment. Best bit is not being pregnant once baby is born. Still did it three times though. Congratulations!

@profRiverSong are you ok? X

@Teeeee yes i am thank you. The comsultant at A&E suspected an ectopic pregnancy so i got rushed to the early pregnancy unit the next morning to have an internal scan to check everything is ok. Thankfully all is well and i got to see the little bean xx

I like being pregnant but I must say I hated the first trimester was horrendous!

With my first there was only a brief window I didn't hate it. I honk weeks 22-26...

Everything else was horrible.

I enjoyed my first pregnancy. This one however has been totally different 12weeks of sickness, horrible taste in mouth, can't eat , feeling exhausted , face has broken out in spots 😩got my scan on Monday really hope I start feeling better soon.

I hate it. I have 20 days left. I'm getting sterilised so it never happens again.

35 weeks here and another pregnancy hater. First time for me and have felt horrendous throughout. Never, ever doing it again. Depression, anxiety, weird normal states, exhaustion, constant sickness, constant heartburn and an overwhelming feeling of really not being arsed with the whole thing. Not feeling maternal, regretting not terminating to be honest....i had a MAP fail on unplanned pregnancy. Partner cant be arsed either. The whole situation is horrible and I have no idea what life will be like with a kid. You have my sympathies OP.

So glad to read this, I could cry my heart out I feel that shit!! I'm 20 weeks, HG and SPD already. Never ever felt this rotten in my life. Where's my glow?!?

I'm 21 years post my last pregnancy but reading all your posts I feel for you all. Hoping you all feel better soon and congratulations and wishing you all the best with your new babies

I'm 27 weeks... I have loved being pregnant so far but the first trimester I was tired and had no energy, 2nd trimester the
Joys of struggling to move get me but I find the more I sit about the worse I feel. 3rd trimester coming up looking forward to little one being born 😀 I feel for you all as everyone's stories are different. Oh the heartburn I hate it's horrible and makes me look like I have a real bad addiction to gaviscon it comes everywhere with me 😬