If you enjoy early pregnancy, what do you like about it?

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Ok this is for a whinge. I’m six to seven weeks.
I have had horrific sickness. I’m constantly exhausted. I’m spotting which is a huge worry.
This is a very much wanted baby and I am so so grateful.
But I feel awful at the moment. All I can think about is the worry of having another miscarriage.
Or months dragging out ahead of me being sick and tired. No cider this summer in a lovely beer garden. No energy to even go for a walk in the sunshine.
It just feels so depressing.
After the joy of getting a positive test, I feel like even if there are no complications, early pregnancy is truly torturous.

Does anyone enjoy it? If you do what do you like about it? Please inspire me with some positives

I could’ve cried earlier when I had to walk past my favourite Smirnoff cider and pick up a bottle of shloer instead 😭

I’m not sure if I’ll be able to convince myself I’m drinking rosé or not, but I’m going to try!

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No one enjoys early pregnancy it's utterly shit.

I mean if you really have to grasp at straws I suppose I was so sick I finally shifted half a stone that needed shifting.

Not much fucking good when your going to spend the next 7-8 months after that eating fecking ice cream though is it.

Not enjoying it either I'm afraid so can't answer your question - just replying in solidarity. I am 7.5 weeks and just feel completely and utterly shit. I cried earlier because I am just so fed up with feeling as though I'm on a ferry captained by Mr Blobby and I just want to get off! I'm either retching or feeling as though I could do. Even yawning makes me feel dodgy. Looking after two children is so hard like this and I don't feel like a good Mum at the moment at all - not even to the baby as all it's getting is bread and the occasional banana. Sorry - I'm really struggling to find something positive about this stage. I'm sure someone who feels good will be along soon!

Thanks for the solidarity ladies.
It’s just truly awful. I would love to be glowing with happiness at carrying a new life.
But it’s truly dreadful, if men carried babies I think maternity leave would start from about five weeks....
I wonder if there is anyone out there who enjoyed/is enjoying this stage.

Picklesandpies I too feel like a shit mum. My poor toddler doesn’t understand why mummy is too poorly to play all of the time. Also why he’s being fed chicken nuggets most nights for tea

All I keep telling myself is that the nausea is a good thing, it means everything is doing what it should. Still feel crap though lol xx

The glowing thing is a myth to make women feel ok about getting pregnant. I've not met a single person in real life who has enjoyed pregnancy. For most people I know the first trimester is about being exhausted and nauseous, the second is about getting a bit fat and the third is about being tired and uncomfortable.

I'm sure someone will come along and say they felt great during pregnancy, but I've never met one of these unicorns in real life!

All I can say is that you're likely to feel better in the second trimester so look forward to that!

There's the anxiety and the knowledge that if something were to go wrong at this stage no one would be able to do anything, nausea and / or vomiting, secrecy and associated keeping up appearances, all the things you have to give up, the utter exhaustion that only increases week on week to the point where you can literally sleep all night and wake up more tired than you went to bed, heightened emotions and growing unreasonableness, lethargy, the knowledge that there's still so much of it to go, if it's your first you can't enjoy any of the things you normally do for fun and if it's your second or subsequent you can't even nap on the couch... oh wait you asked for positives. Oops. I guess you can tell like most of the pps I'm not a big fan. Truly the only good thing is that however bad it is it's going to get better. And whilst the end is bad in its own special way, at least by then people are taking any anxiety you have around the baby's wellbeing very seriously and the end is finally in sight. I'm currently 37 weeks with #2 and I have no plans to be back for more. Good luck op!

The first trimester is awful. Especially when the nausea is just hitting in, your moods are all over the place and you wonder how on Earth you can get through it. But you do.

I can’t talk for other ladies as everyone’s pregnancy is different but after about 12 weeks I started to actually enjoy it. I got quite lucky as the nausea had pretty much stopped by this time, I’d had the scan and told everyone. At that point you started to look forward and get excited about my little baby. I found that despite all the crap pregnancy chucked at me (thrush pretty much constantly, severe constipation, sore hips, uti (s), back pain, occasional bouts of anxiety and exteme emotion, heartburt, exhaustion etc) I managed to get through it all plus still work, see friends, save money etc. I don’t know if it’s the hormones but I feel very empowered by it. Like I can do anything! I had to face quite a lot of things that I was scared of but I managed it. I feel stronger in a way. I’ve also found the kind hearted ness of others very touching. People have gone out their way to check I’m ok and it’s strengthened my friendships and made me realise how lucky i am. On a shallower note my hair and skin is pretty good.

I never thought I would have enjoyed pregnancy at all. I went in with extremely low expectations...But now at almost 38 weeks I actually think I will miss it. Not sure if it’s the realisation of the massive life change ahead or the fear of birth but I will be sad to go back to normal. I’m quite scared that all the hormones will just plummet and I’m headed for a massive crash!

As I said I’ve had a very straight forward pregnancy and my experience is not reflective of everyone’s. I realise this and don’t want to sound too smug about it. How you find pregnancy is also no reflection on the sort of mother you will be or the baby or birth you will have. I know plenty of friends who hated every second of it and are the best mums. However, for me, although It has had its moments I have found it very positive....here’s hoping the next stage is the same...

Good luck with your pregnancy. I really hope that nausea lets up.

I've just hit second trimester beginning of this week. I hated every minute of the pregnancy. The constant 24hour nausea. Vomiting every meal. The worry id lost the baby again. The pissing myself twice whilst violently gagging! But then every once in a while I rub my belly and remember my baby's still in there. And one day I'll get to hold him/her. Nausea is starting to disappear I'm starting to feel more normal and second trimester is looking up already. But we'll see!! Now I'm just excited to feel baby move.