I’m 13 and a half weeks and still feel (and look) like total crap though my midwife at the scan appointment, plus various pregnancy apps etc are telling me that now is the time when it starts to get better and I should be getting my energy back and getting that ‘glow’ some time now.
This is a long awaited and much longed for pregnancy so I don’t really want to complain, and I have gotten away really lightly on the nausea front too, so I’m lucky in that respect. A lot of food tastes gross now and I find if I let myself get hungry I start to feel really sick, or sometimes in the evening I’ll get a bit of nausea but generally it’s not too bad which I’m grateful for.
But I am so so tired all the time, constipated which gets quite painful, constantly burping and yet still somehow full of painful trapped wind, my skin has gone really really dry and also spotty at the same time, my boobs are still so painful and my poor DH is either having me snap at him in a rotten temper or burst into tears for seemingly no reason, often both at once. (Only been married a month and not quite the blissful newlywed stage we envisaged 
) We were at the IL’s for dinner last night and I ended up missing dinner as I felt so so rotten I had to go for a lie down instead. Although I’ve woken up today full of a cold so possibly it was more that?
I know that it’s all worth it and that when I’m in the last few weeks I’ll look back on this time and laugh that I thought this was hard, but all jokes aside this is kicking my arse much more than I thought it would. I’m 40, not sure if my advanced maternal age is making a difference too.
Anyone else at a similar stage and want to share a moan? Or anyone been through it and did have the ‘glowing’ stage and can say when that kicked in?