1st trimester & miserable...will it get better?

[Pascal3]

I am currently 7 weeks pregnant and I just feel like utter crap!

My morning sickness is so bad I have to take medication and lost all appetite for food! I feel soo exhausted!

Everyone says how wonderful pregnancy is and how they love being pregnant. Will I ever enjoy my pregnancy and feel well?

Has anyone started out really unwell and gone on to love their pregnancy? How long did it take?

Sorry for the moan, but I just feel so upset as I’m finding it so hard so early on!

T.I.A xx

This was me, I was absolutely awful. Felt like absolute crap all day everyday, no energy, constantly feeling nauseous and being sick 10+ time everyday. I started taking ondansetron about 14 weeks and it helped slightly but not so much. At 16 weeks I started to feel better. I’m still sick everyday but don’t feel as bad (now 24 weeks).

Honestly be kind to yourself, pregnancy has been the hardest thing I’ve ever had to go through.

The first trimester literally sucks! It usually gets better around 16 weeks

Thank you both!

Have you ever seen what to expect when expecting? When Elizabeth banks calls ballsh*t on pregnancy and says it’s really really hard! I feel like her already lol xx

The first trimester is always the worst, this sounds like me in the first bit m now 28 weeks and sickness has just started to go away now but it's not been as bad as in the beginning, you will get through this I promise, hope you feel better soon xx

I hate pregnancy. I make no apologies. I hated my first one & I’m hating this one. I’ll never be doing it again.

I’m an unlucky one & suffer with HG. Which has for the second time given me severe anaemia. I just feel awful for one reason or another. Sometimes it’s the hellish nausea, sometimes it’s my heart racing just sitting down & the sheer exhaustion.

It’s miserable & hard work. But second pregnancy, I do know just how much the end result will be worth it.

Most people feel better during the second trimester at some point. Last time, it was around 20 weeks for me. I’m 17 weeks now, so I remain hopeful. It’s not as bad as it was in the first trimester. I’m able to leave the house now & semi-function! Sending lots of love 🧡

@Pascal3 I threw up/dry heaved/suffered from food aversions and crippling nausea from week 7-37. BUT most people feel much better by week 20. I was an outlier.

FWIW I hated every single second of being pregnant and have never been more miserable in my life, but I absolutely love my baby .

I hated being pregnant and am not doing it again. Whenever I see a pregnant woman now I think 'Thank goodness I'm not pregnant'. But yes, it probably will get better. I had severe SPD and I still think the first trimester was worse than the third.

I don't think people tend to love the first bit. You feel like shit and can't tell people.

With mine it eased by 12 weeks or so.

I'd forget what you've seen/read/heard about pregnancy - it has its good points but it's the luck of the draw and there are so many things that don't get spoken about much eg constipation, nipple tenderness, all sorts of delights!

The first trimester is hell. You're not alone and you won't be the last, 9 months from now you'll be commenting on some other woman's thread who's suffering.

It eased around week 16 for me too as others have said, that is the tiredness and morning sickness. Felt great for about 2 weeks until spd started to rear its ugly head. Second trimester is OK, you get to feel the cute butterfly flutters and you have a reasonable sized adorable bump and you have energy. Third trimester sucks ass again as your flutters turn into sometimes painful kicks, tiny knees pushing against your ribs, you can't get comfortable to sleep because you're the size of a house, heartburn is eating your stomach lining alive and if one more person asks your due date you're going to be done for gbh.

Then it'll all be finally over and you go home with your baba and you're someone's mother 😊