Hi all,
Am 24 weeks with my third HG pregnancy. This one seems to have been managed much better than previous ones; lots and lots of regular hospital stays in the first 12 weeks and plenty of medication meant that at around 12 weeks I actually began to improve in little bits. By around 16 weeks I could potter at home and do very small things for my 5 year old son (make dinner/get him ready for school in the morning etc). We are now nearly 4 weeks into the summer holidays. I always knew this would stretch me a lot but I seemed to cope really well in the first couple of weeks...we could go out and about as long as I napped over lunchtime. We managed a day trip to the beach, swimming, park trips etc. But the last ten days I feel like I'm having a relapse. Don't know if its due to doing so much more during the summer, if something else has caused it (maybe low in iron?? Change in pregnancy hormones??) or what but I am really struggling. I am so exhausted that today I struggled to even get off the sofa all day; my poor son was so frustrated and bored. I feel so so sick I've gone back to having to really concentrating on not vomiting and I just feel horrendous. My aversions to smells/tastes have returned. Don't know why I'm posting really as there's nothing to be done. But just needed to vent. With my first pregnancy, things eased at 24 weeks and I had a few weeks of feeling OK. With this one, while things improved earlier, I hoped I might keep getting better and actually cope OK with the second half of pregnancy but the opposite seems to be happening and I just can't cope with the idea of returning to the awful days of not being able to move/eat/drink etc if that is what's coming. Thanks for reading if you've got this far. Just needed to rant a bit.