2nd trimester...when does the energy come?!

[ells20]

I am now 17 weeks+2 and I am so tired! I am struggling to get through my work and having 10 hours sleep a night yet I am still so tired!!!
It is so frustrating as I am normally up and about but now I am struggling to even find the energy to go for a long walk, go shopping etc.
Does anyone else have this or have any tips?! In my 1st trimester everyone said I would get my energy back in the 2nd... am still waiting....

Sorry for the moan!!! Just having one of those extra sleepy days!!

I start the 3rd trimester next week and this 2nd trimester energy has completely passed me by.

I could honestly go to sleep right now!

ells20 I was the same and still being sick up until 18/19 weeks then turned a corner, 22+6 now and feel great. Hopefully you don't have much longer of feeling rubbish

22 today and still feel exhausted. Keeping my sugars up, hydrating and resting whenever I can even it that means sitting down to do stuff that I'd usually do on the go or stood up. Best of luck!

I’m 14 weeks and would also like to know the answer to this

I had very little symptoms up until around weeks 10-11, thought I was one of the lucky ones and them boom, the nausea and exhaustion kicked in and hasn’t stopped since. Everyone kept saying at week 12 that I was nearing the second trimester and would soon feel fab but it hasn’t happened yet. I’m exhausted!

Have you had your iron checked? I didn’t start feeling ‘2nd trimester’ until about 17 weeks when I started taking floradix each day. Felt pretty good until about 25 weeks then pelvic pain and discomfort kicked in. Now 37 weeks and willing this baby out!

But those 8 or so weeks were great! Felt like a normal person.

Its a myth

I’m 22 weeks and have yet to glow as promised! I feel short changed

It didn't for me. Sorry!

Well I am glad I am not the only one as I feel short changed - I was expecting this glow and burst of energy!!

Thank you for all your replies, I think I will be heading to bed shortly

31 weeks and the magic lightbulb moment where I can take on the world has never materialised. Sorry!

Yeah, glow, energy all that jazz, just a myth to get you through the 1st trimester!

I started feeling a bit better by around 17 weeks (now 20 weeks + 5) but by no means do I have loads of energy. I just don't fall asleep on the couch as soon as I have eaten my tea. I manage to stay up until around 9pm which is pretty late for me haha I think it is our bodies way of getting us used being so tired when the babies are here

I’m almost 34 weeks and still waiting for the random spurt of energy to happen- think I’ve missed the boat at this stage .

I'm just into the 3rd trimester and my energy never came!! in fact I felt worse all through the 2nd trimester. I had no symptoms at all until I got to 9 weeks pregnant and then had a little evening sickness, nausea and struggled with having an appetite. About week 16 I started having hormonal migraines, sickness and uncontrollable hunger! plus the tiredness and lack of energy was something I was not prepared for, I felt horrendous!

Now I am into the 3rd trimester and I am having the worst back and rib pain, I am unable to sit on the sofa even! I just stand in my lounge to watch tv and walk up and down trying to relieve some pain! I am still working full time 6 days a week and long hours but it is a struggle to say the least!

Ahhhh sounds like we are all shattered!! I am actually going to try and take iron tablets for the rest of the week just to see if it helps - I really hate taking them but I will try anything at this stage!!

I just don't want to seem like I'm always using the excuse of I'm pregnant and so tried for things - know that probably sounds silly but hopefully you know what I mean!! I am genuinely exhausted 🙈😂

26 weeks and still waiting...

The energy never arrived for me. I just embraced the naps.

I'm 26 weeks so nearly in the third trimester and the energy never came either. Got so sick of everyone telling me how great I was going to feel when I feel permanently shattered.