15 week pregnant and feeling rubbish

[Jasperjonesc]

Hi all,

Sorry for the slightly dramatic subject title, but thats literally how I've been feeling emotionally the last week and I wanted to know if this is normal/ if anyone else feels down in the dumps whilst preg?! I'm bang on 15 weeks today.

I've been a non contributing reader of mumsnet for a while, but this is my first post, so sorry if I've posted in the wrong section, but REALLY keen to hear what other mums- to -be or seasoned mums feel or have felt during that beginning second trimester bit...will this pass?!

I'm usually a happy and very energetic person- I used to work out 6 times a week bf i got pregnant and really thought (naively!) i would continue with my high energy levels until the very end of pregnancy...how wrong i have been! ;)

Basically, my hub and I are over the moon generally to be pregnant (our first) and can't wait to meet the little one, BUT i have been feeling abit depressed about 1.) my weight gain and fact none of my clothes fit (I know shallow, but its true), 2.) my tiredness and the fact i have to miss so many workouts and social occasions due to being exhausted and going to bed at 8 each night 3.) achey body parts (ie boobs, legs, afternoon headaches) and my personal new fave- insomnia.

My friends are all excited for us and i feel like a miserable b**tch moaning about such small things, but all of the above things are really getting to me. Just would be great to hear from others who may have gone through this phase and come out the other side! and if you have, what helped?

I'm 99% sure its just my hormones this week (what can't be blamed on my hormones rn!) but still....

Thanks all,
Jasper

I'm 20 weeks now and absolutely agree with you! Obviously overjoyed to be pregnant but it's flipping hard work! Also find being tired/uncomfortable/inside all the time depressing :-(

No longer do anything I used to enjoy, just surviving and looking forward to baby!

Good luck with it all :-)

Hi Jasper
You are not alone, I feel exactly the same. I used to go to the gym 4 times a week, do yoga. Been ill since the beginning of pregnancy, morning sickness, colds, chest
infection, cold again. Hardly went to the gym at all. Being tired most of them time doesn’t help too. Feeling a bit depressed about it too. Can’t wait until the weather is warmer and hopefully there are no more colds and coughing.
I am 16w+1.

Feel the same.

Was size 6 and cycled 100+ miles a week pre-pregnancy.

I’m 30 weeks now and have a fat arse covered in stretch marks. Already outgrown my maternity jeans.

I’ve hardly been able to exercise due to severe sickness weeks 6-16, then a chest infection, then severe reflux sickness from week 25. Been on drugs most of the last 6 months for one ailment or another.

I binge on junk food and can’t seem to stop. I am EXHAUSTED.
I’m struggling to get through the days at work.

It’s really affected my mental health.

I’m grateful to be pregnant (took over a year TTC) but just ready to get pregnancy over with.

You are definitely not alone!

Was absolutely awful through the winter here too. The nausea did stop but the exhaustion and feeling of uselessness went on. Finally at around 22 weeks (now 24) I did feel better. It was like something lifted. Hang in there. It’s real!

Yep, 25 weeks here- placenta previa, bleeding on and off and bed rest. Bored, depressed and can’t stop crying!

Hi Jasper, I definitely know how you are feeling. Pregnancy is a HUGE life changing event and it can make women feel all sorts of difficult emotions. On a personal level I am having a really tough time due to the massive lack of energy and extreme nausea and digestive discomfort (thankfully the vomiting has improved a lot) I still have at nearly 17 weeks. Like you I assumed I would continue to be active and train for events (had planned a marathon at about 20 weeks and some sprint tris over the summer in my last trimester - oh how I laugh at myself now) and being almost completely sedentary has hit me hard. I’ve lost loads of muscle tone already and feel really tired and weak. Everyone kept telling me I would bounce back in my second trimester but I’m still waiting. I’m a midwife so you’d think I’d have expected this, which is making it a double kick in the teeth! I think this must be so much more common than I ever realised though, which is a small positive!

I can definitely relate to the working out part.

My first two pregnancies I gained a ton of weight and since then I've worked really hard to get it all off again and work out regularly. Am now 7 weeks with number 3 and I'm bloody exhausted. Thought I'd be able to keep up with the gym but no, I've been twice in 3 weeks ☹️.

I'm just over 11 weeks and feel exactly the same. I usually exercise 5 times a week and am always booking my next triathlon or 10km or whatever. This morning was the first exercise I've done in a fortnight and I only managed half an hour of my class before I left as felt so terrible!! I'm aleays shattered and nauseaous too and it's making me so miserable even though I've wanted this for so long. I'm also miserable thst my clothes don't fit - I was size 8 a few months ago and my clothes started feeling too tight within a fortnight of my bfp.

You're definitely not alone. The tough thing is pregnancy can take over your life. I knoe everyone says to just embrace it but it's bloody annoying and inconvenient!!
Hope this is just a blip and you feel better... but if not, know that you are not the only one who is frustrated and miserable about it!!

Yes I also thought I’d continue to exercise as normal - ha bloody ha!

And as for the feeling amazing in the second trimester everyone promised me.....well I just felt marginally less shit! No feeling amazing here!

Hi, I am also 15 weeks and feel like I am running on about 5% of my usual energy levels. Total, overwhelming, crushing exhaustion. I have been off work for the last six weeks as I am barely able to get off the sofa and haven't left the house in 6 weeks other than to (occasionally) collect my toddler from nursery. It really is the pits. I was much the same with my daughter but it is worse this time as at least last time I was able to go to work all the way through apart from three days at around 10 weeks. Last time my energy levels were more or less normal at 20 weeks...

Hi all,

Thanks for all your replies; such a relief really to know this is quite common. I'd really thought after 11-12 weeks I would have some of my pre-pregnancy energy back but alas guess not. Just got to keep reminding myself of the how amazing it will be to see our little bub in September... haha can i also say how amazing it will be to not be pregnant?! ;)