Would anyone like to rant with me about how much early pregnancy sucks?

[Stormwhale]

I am so grateful to be pregnant, I really am. I can't wait to meet this baby and it is 100% loved... but my god I hate early pregnancy.

I am 9+5, have been nauseous and fainty since bfp, I have had thrush twice, now possibly have a uti. I have put on far too much weight already due to existing on carbs. I'm tired, spotty, greasy, hormonal and generally feel fucking shit. I am nervous all the time whether the baby is ok, and time is moving so so slowly. I am also worrying about my dd (5) and how much the pregnancy is impacting on her already and trying constantly to keep normality for her. I'm just exhausted and being a shit wife to dh to boot. I look fat not pregnant and really don't like what I see at the minute.

I just want to skip to the bit in the middle when I feel more human and start to feel baby move. I loved that bit with dd.

If you are having a rough 1st trimester, feel free to let it all out. I will not judge.

When I found out we were expecting this time I said 'I just want to enjoy this pregnancy'......my other half has thrown that one back in my face ever since! Has been awful!

Everything so far - and now at 31 weeks (have always had SPD so was expecting that) but have added placenta previa, so C- section

Also even though I have been complaining since I was 6 weeks and had an early scan about extreme tenderness, pelvic pressure, have had 2 bleeds at 27 weeks, ultra-sounds (plus private) - it took until 30 weeks for my Obstetrician to scan me and immediately spot a 10cm Fibroid right on my pubic bone....the place I have told 15 + midwives, doctors, sonographers etc has been extremely painful throughout -

It's actually scary as it's pretty much at the sight where the C-section will happen - what if it wasn't spotted!!!??!

(you did say we could rant on here!!!!?????)

I hate to break it to you but it doesn’t get better.
I’m 29+2 and still feel like crap.

Whoever said you glow in the second trimester is a big fat liar!

I’m constipated and exhausted, I’m about the size of a blue fucking whale and cry at the drop of a hat.

(Sorry, my eyes bypassed the 'early' bit and went straight to 'rant' and pregnancy sucks....as you were ladies x)

It does suck big time. I was sick almost every morning, one day I was sick more than 10 times. Eventually I got used to the sickness, and then the sickness disappeared at 10/11 weeks. There is a light at the end of the tunnel...

@Sexnotgender I'll raise you piles with that constipation!

Haha, Tadda. You can keep your piles to yourself

I was doing well on the constipation front until I was given iron tablets to take for anaemia two weeks ago.

Not early but please can I still rant? 30 +1 with my first and still waiting for that feeling wonderful 'glowing' stage! At least the nausea stopped around 16 weeks. @tadda I've also got the oh so wonderful piles to match the constipation, great aren't they.... and @sexnotgender what's with the crying all the time!! Dogs trust advert on tv - cry, anything vaguely sad or emotional - cry. Couldn't get a lid off a jar - cry. Happy - cry, Angry - cry. Argh!!! Just have to keep reminding myself it'll all be worth it in the end :)

My people! 19+3 first pregnancy and feel like I've been hit by a bus. I had about 2 days of glowing at about 17 weeks and got all smug. Pah! Constantly dizzy, windy and irritable. Glad to know it's not just me because it's really bloody hard!

Oh yes, the ridiculous emotions. I have cried over so many stupid things. Or I'm insanely angry over nothing at all. Poor dh only has to breathe near me and it pisses me off at times.

It’s not fun is it?! I’m in the looking a bit pogdy stage at 8 weeks with dc3. Sickness comes and goes and I’m exhausted and very dizzy. Also going to bed at the same time as my 2 dc.

I’ve just arrived on a working holiday (mostly holiday, thankfully) in Budapest. Worked really hard to stay on top of the nausea for the flight and taxi journey here, and it worked! I wasn’t even close to being sick at any point in the journey!

Unfortunately, when I put my first spoonful of breakfast in my mouth this morning, my body decided it wasn’t interested. I managed to get some of the milk down me, but had to chuck out the Rice Krispies. Then we were late for the flight, and had to jog the last bit. By the time we landed (4pm uk time) I was shaking and also starving. Managed four crackers with triangular cheese. Got into the apartment and obviously the cupboards were empty. So we went out for dinner. I ate a whole bowl of soup. Now my body is yelling at me for being so greedy, and I’ve had to lie down.

This will not be the holiday we planned before I was pregnant (I’m 7 weeks). I hope I don’t feel too rough the entire time. Especially for the working parts. I probably oughtn’t to let on that I’m pregnant, because we want to deliver a pretty big project, and I’m half of the current team. But ugh. Feeling this bad all the time really is wearing thin.

(On the other hand, I’m mostly not working this week, which is easier than working! A waste of a holiday, perhaps, but it could be a lot worse!)

Also 10 weeks and miserable. Like a permanent grade 1 hangover. The only way I can stop puking is to eat beige stuff, and I can’t stop burping. I only like lemon squash and fizzy drinks and nothing with any flavours. Flavours actually make me full of rage. Not sure how much longer I can keep quiet at work.
This is my second, my first was nothing like this.

Yes!!

I’m very anxious thanks to previous MC’s, it completely takes the shine off!

I really wish there was a widow to my womb right now so I could check in every now and again.

The nausea isn’t really bothering me too much, I’m eating it and vomiting but can’t help but feel that it’s actually a good thing and means those hormones are racing through my body (although I barely had any with DD)

I am knackered though, I was hoping to tidy my absolute squat of a home today after DSD and DD ransacked it over the half term but instead I’ve been helping OH move a dead cow that had jumped off a bit of a cliff thanks to arsehole BIL’s viscious dog chasing her over there. We’re both gutted, she was a favourite and we’ve both had a cry over it.

Ah well, only a couple of weeks left until second tri!

Omg the burping. I burp all day every day. DP spends large amount of time banging my back to try and help shift the trapped wind. This is not how I imagined it would be!!

I'm really really sorry you're all feeling so crap but also really glad I'm not alone and have somewhere to rant!

I'm 7w5d and feel horrendous most of the time. We're in the last couple of days of our 2 and a half week honeymoon and I've spent most battling nausea and throwing up 2-4 times a day. I'm dreadit the 10.5 hour flight home on Wednesday.

My skin is a mess, I've got awful wind, I keep getting cramps (stomach and legs), have really vivid (sometimes horrible dreams), I'm knackered and it takes me a good 2 hours to build up to actually getting showered in the morning, on top of the puking. Last night I broke down and cried for the first time after nearly choking while throwing up the chips I'd only just finished for dinner.

I'm so so grateful to be pregnant but no one tells you how horrible this bit is! I'm dying to tell friends with babies or who are slightly ahead of me in their pregnancies but I can't because it's too early and the unwritten 12 week rule says so. I just want to talk to someone who understands!!

DH has been great and has rubbed my back as I throw up and runs to shop for things I think I want to eat. As much as I've loved being away I'm looking forward to being home with food I know and love!

13 weeks and I want to die :(

Why won’t the morning sickness just fuck off and leave me alone?!

It is shit. That is all.

Omg yes!!!!! My people!!! I am only 5+3 and this week has been horrific, especially the last few days.

My boobs are AGONY I constantly feel sick, today I had spewed twice in the work toilets before half 10. Normal healthy food gives me bolk. All I want is carbs. I am spotty and tired and narky and oh did I mention my boobs hurt :(

For those working and morning sickness when did you tell your work/boss?

@Iswallowtoothpaste Your so right about wishing 'you could have a window into your womb' just to check everything was okay now and again - the amount of times I worry 'she hasn't moved inabit'!!? Have a little wobble and can't stop worrying until I feel a little jiggle.....!

Me and DH paid for a few extra growth scans throughout this time, at the last one the sonographer was also pregnant - we both said in the car 'I bet when she has a little scan on her herself everyday and a listen in when she gets 5'....wonder if you can hire one....! (Apparently we can't....not that I checked or anything.... :) )

@Iswallowtoothpaste - I'm so sorry to hear about your cow. That has made me tear up. Please see previous comments about emotions. I love cows and that is so so sad.

Also I'm with the pp about the stupid dreams. Themes in mine have ranged from having a miscarriage with blood everywhere, Dd falling in a river, the baby being born then me losing it and not being able to get to it... stupid stuff like that.

Also on the boobs front. One part I was looking forward to was having big boobs like last time. I am usually rather small of nork, and felt quite womanly last pregnancy. But my boobs are not exactly large... They are just stupidly pointy! It's like only the tissue under the nipples has swollen, not the rest and they look like one of those pointed bras from the 1950s and are very sore.

Oh and one of last night's dreams was just ridiculous. I was hoovering, outside... and I went over a dog poo. It got sucked into the Hoover and I spent the rest of the dream panicking about how I would get the Hoover clean. Seriously, this is how my brain chooses to spend it's nights.

I feel exactly the same. I’m so over the worst trimester.

9 +4 today. Nauseas, exhausted, insomnia, grumpy, terrible headaches, feeling faint, having to eat carbs and crisps all the time and looking as pregnant as I did at 24 weeks last time.

I’m also appearing really rude and anti social as I’m not going out and I’m sooooo bored of being ill and doing nothing.

Roll on 2nd trimester. I want my life back. I’m vowing to eat healthily once I can and go back to exercising and hopefully feel amazing for the rest of the pregnancy.

Hope everyone starts to feel better soon.

@Stormwhale your pointy boobs and funny dreams have cheered me up

DH got up this morning and decided to call in to work sick because he's "feeling a little bit off"! I'd normally have a pinch of sympathy but not atm.

DH had to pull over the car on way to work this morn for me to spew :(

What is with the dreams??? And the need to constantly pee. I keep having dreams that am desperate for the toilet and franticly searching for one and I finally find one, sit down and am just about to finally pee when I abruptly wake up I realise am a split second away from peeing the bed!!!!

Eughhhhh