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.

14 weeks. Still nauseous. SIGH.

I’m 8+4, and I’ve kind of been feeling a bit better for this past week and a bit. Not actually well, but there have been very many occasions when I haven’t actively felt sick, and I kind of feel vaguely rough right now. It is a massive improvement!

Last night, I actually won a gold medal for GB in the bloating Olympics. I didn’t even know there was a bloating Olympics, but obviously I am very proud, and looking forward to a sponsorship deal from Gaviscon, or someone. It came with my first lot of actual heartburn, which might be because my appetite returned yesterday.

I’ve not quite had appetite like this before. It’s still very specific, and won’t let me eat just anything, but it’s a bit less specific than it has been, and will now include foodstuffs I can readily obtain. It creeps up on me, and then I MUST EAT THE THING RIGHT NOW!!! Fun.

My gag reflex also decided that yesterday was the day it would start to do its thing. It’s been sensitive for a while, but I’ve been able to wait it out. Yesterday I gagged after swallowing my (massive, smelly) prenatal vitamins and then again when I let the toothpaste get too far back in my mouth. This morning I had a tiny bit of phlegm in my throat, and the reaction was very dramatic. I was lucky it was before breakfast.

Still, I’m enjoying the current discomforts more than the worse nausea I had before. Obviously it’s a bit worrying starting to feel better so soon, but if there’s a problem it’s unlikely I can do anything about it, and I do feel moderately ill, so I’ll continue to do my best to relax!

I have an early scan tomorrow so so so nervous guys :( any advice??

@delilah7 what is the scan for? I'm sure everything will be just fine. Hand hold if you need it

I've not been back for a while but wanted to check in, 1m now 19+3 and to give a little light at the end of the tunnel the sickness and fatigues have started to wear off now (replaced by a stinking cold but I'm surviving lol) I have been nesting these last 2 days and am very impressed with my efforts lol
How is everyone else coping?
Would you ladies mind if I posted my scan an asked for opinions on sex guesses pretty please haha I have my twenty week scan in 5 days and am so excited

@Exhaustedmummy1811 go go go!! I'll guess!! And just to see if things are ok. I miscarried before so I'm just conscious it'll happen again xxx

Aww huni I really hope it goes well, keep us updated. I've had 3 miscarriages and gone onto have perfectly normal and healthy pregnancies

This is at 16+3

@Exhaustedmummy1811 awww I hope my times now! I'm saying girlllll xxx

I'm keeping everything crossed for you @delilah7 im here if you ever need a chat or advice (I'm on baby 5 so a bit of a veteran now lol) please let us know how you get on. Oohh a girl would be lovely can't wait to find out, will you find out what your having?

@Exhaustedmummy1811 I will let you all know. Not expecting much :( as I'll be 6 weeks and 2 days based on LMP. No we won't find out I don't think!

I hated pregnancy all the way through. I never want to go through it again and I am not! One child is more than enough.

If you are lucky you might still see a sac and a heart beat I'm really preying for good news for you

@Exhaustedmummy1811 I hope so hun!!

Good luck for tomorrow @Delilah. If they try to do an abdominal scan but then send you to the loo to empty your bladder so they can do an internal, don’t panic! It just means the baby is too tiny to be seen on an abdominal scan.

@Iswallowtoothpaste perfect thank you honey!! Xxx

Wahhhhhhhh it's not even 6am and I've been sick 3 times. Can't seem to keep anything in me this morning

@TwittleBee it’s really no fun is it?

I’m 11+5 today and for the past 2/3 days my symptoms have been fading and I haven’t been as sick/nauseous as usual. I woke up this morning though and was retching an bringing up bile before I’d even had anything to eat. Then managed to wee myself thanks to the force of the retching! So glamorous.

Measuring 4/5 weeks. Had a cry. Go back in 2 weeks.

@delilah7 that's a shame but at least it wasn't bad news, I'm sure everything will be fine but the next 2 weeks is just going to drag now

@Exhaustedmummy1811 they said it all looks good. Gestation and yolk sack. But nothing else yet. Go back 29th x

Well at least you have taken some positives from it. Just try and relax and enjoy pregnancy (easier said than done with all the symptoms lol) it will soon fly by, I cant believe I'm 3 days away from being half way through

Ladies is anyone else taking Ondansetron for the morning sickness. Mine was unbearable and I was getting so down. All food taste gross but to had to eat every 2 hours because an empty stomach made the nausea even worse. I was taking 1-2 8mg tablets/ day which at least stopped the vomitting but I was still miserable. Then I read on one of these threads that of you half the dose it can work better as taking more than your body needs can make the nausea worse. Just wanted to let you know it has worked a treat. I now take half a tablet twice a day and I feel human again! Still feel queasy of my stomach gets empty but sooooooooo much better. I'm 12+3 so I guess the symptoms could be clearing up anyway but defo try it if anyone is struggling on ondansetron.

I didn't realise you were all still chatting on here!

I was just thinking it would be nice to have another moan.

I have thrush. AGAIN. For the fourth time since falling pregnant. And at 11+3 my sickness has come back. Ffs.

Sorry to hear you are struggling Delilah.

I panicked yesterday because I didn't feel like shit.
Today... Well I'm in bed and have been since 6pm! So am almost convinced everything is fine.

Me! I need to rant! Im 6 weeks 42 constantly worried I’ll mc again, I’m in agony with my boobs which are like 3times the size already! I am a horrible nasty person at the moment and if I had actual energy I’m sure I’d end up locked up or sectioned I feel like I’m a complete basket case, I’m in so much pain with fibro and m.e as Iv had to greatly reduce my meds, this baby is all Iv wanted since my son was born 21 years ago🙈 but wow I’m feeling this pregnancy so bad and feel so bad my ds & dh are getting all kinds of anger and anxiety thrown at them, hugs to you all