9 Weeks Pregnant with COVID!

[FirstBaby2021]

Hi all,

I’m new to this (although I’ve spent most of my pregnancy so far reading through everyone else’s threads for reassurance).

I am 9+1 and have had 4 gruelling weeks of sickness and Nausea. Up until this point I’ve been sick 1-2 times a day but the constant Nausea is absolutely relentless. To top it off I’ve now tested positive with COVID and haven’t made it out of bed for 3 days in a row.

The flu feeling and COVID symptoms are pretty brutal and now my sickness has also decided to ramp up and I’m struggling to keep any food down at all.

I guess I’m looking for some reassurance that my sickness may be close to the point of subsiding or even hearing from anyone else who may have battled the tricky first trimester along with having this virus?

This is my first baby and I couldn’t be happier to be pregnant - I just how no idea it was this tough!

Any advice or reassurance would be amazing! Xx

I'm there with you... although, minus the COVID!

I'm 8 weeks and have had all-day/all-night nausea and general upset stomach for 3 weeks now. I rarely actually throw up, but those times I have it has almost been a relief and part of me wishes I could properly be sick occassionally just to get those few mins of respite before the nausea craps back down on me again. I've been pretty miserable, and I just keep counting down to the end of 1st trimester when it should become more bearable!

This is my second pregnancy... I had nausea and stuff with #1 but this is another level. Most of the weekend I've been laid up in bed because even moving about the house makes my nausea totally unmanageable! Working is hard at the moment (they don't know yet)! In my first, I vaguely remember feeling slightly better at 12 weeks, but not totally better until about 14. By then I was fine though and had no nausea at all after that, even during labour! Please god let this be the same and I can feel human again!

How are you finding Covid? Make sure you really rest up and take care of yourself x

Hi im 8 weeks pregnant and caught Covid this month. I couldn't get out of bed covid completely knocked me out. But please be assured that you will recover from it and to add i couldnt stop being sick the days i was in bed due to covid and the fever made it hard. I literally crawled to the bathroom and back to bed. Had no energy to do anything else. I hope you feel better soon and rest as much as you can Xx

Hi, i had covid as did oh & 1yo in my first trimester. It was brutal. Toddler needed to breastfeed constantly as he felt so poorly. I was really worried about baby but now at 38 weeks I am looking forward to welcoming our healthy baby. I know this may seem a bit perverse but at least covid will subside and havinv had pregnancy sickness AND covid at the same time once the covid goes you will feel so much better ( I know i did). It is miserable and I feel for you. You are nearly in the 2nd trimester which is usually the best for how you feel. Hope you feel more like yourself soon

God you poor thing, no advise but a lot of sympathy. It'll make for a tale to tell baby one day. Really hope things improve soon

You poor thing. Talk to your GP if that nausea is that bad. You don’t have to just put up with it, extreme nausea can be debilitating.

I'm so sorry your so poorly! I can't help with the COVID but morning sickness with mine was awful. Apparently it gets steadily worse each pregnancy (yippee) I did find that I needed to force food down to stop it being so bad, which was massively difficult but it did work.
So I ate the tiniest amount of absolutely anything that I could stomach at the time, I mean the list of weird food stuff is endless but once I got something in my stomach it would ease slightly for a short time. Particularly difficult when your trying to hide your pregnancy from your awful boss!!
Sorry it's not much more help, but it maybe worth trying....best of luck and hope your feeling better soon

I’m also 9+1. Can’t help with Covid info but I’ve also had sickness from around 5.5 weeks. All day everyday nausea. Not physically sick everyday but a few times a week. I’ve found the only thing that helps is to make sure I’m never hungry, just to constantly eat little and often. Which is easier said than done. Fresh fruit and fizzy drinks really help too (god help my poor teeth!). Good luck op, hope you start to feel better soon x

@MummyOfZog I totally understand the feeling of wanting to be sick. As I said my actual sickness has got worse the last couple of days and in a way, as hard as it is, the small amount of relief it gives you is almost worth it!

Thank you all for your kind messages, praying that one of them starts to ease up over the next few days. I actually called the doctor this morning to get some tablets for the sickness as trying to deal with everything in one go feels a little too much right now.

@Nat4392 how funny, Coca Cola and apples and nectarines are my go to at the moment and I asked my Husband the other day if my teeth were looking yellow from all of that plus the sickness. Trying to eat little and often too although the thought of anything other than chips or bad food seems repulsive at the moment. What a wonderful journey 😂 hopefully yours starts to ease soon also.

@Rainbowbaby3 & @LayTheTableMabel I’m so pleased you both got through it ok and are out the other side 😘

Hi, just jumping on this as I can’t see many feeds on this topic, just looking for some reassurance.
I’m 13 weeks and tested positive for covid a week ago, initially I just had heavy cold symptoms, but now, the aches have come on and I just have no energy, my breathing is fine, and think I am still struggling with pregnancy related symptoms too 😰 so I don’t know where one starts and the other ends, I am feeling really fed up and just wondering how long anybody was before they felt half normal after this? Or any tips on what I can do to feel half human, obviously I’m just keeping up with paracetamol to help the aches x

I tested positive at 8 weeks just before Christmas. I do feel for you, it’s utterly crap but sounds like we had similar symptoms. I did lose taste/smell a few days in which coupled with morning sickness did limit my eating massively when it came back again. I’d say to just accept that you’ll be functioning on survival mode for a bit, watch loads of shit tv, drink as much fluids as you can and live in clean comfy pjs until you start feeling better. I swear by the calpol diffuser vapour thing for nighttime, it is literally lavender and eucalyptus but it made me feel better! I did notify my midwife team and GP (was pre booking in appointment at this point) and tbh they weren’t too interested.

I’d say I felt completely normal about 3 weeks after contracting covid, after initial symptoms went after about a week i was just left with fatigue - it wasn’t limiting but it was noticeable, although I will never know how much of it was early pregnancy fatigue!

Oh that is reassuring and I take it the baby has been fine throughout too? I’ve read a lot where the baby is not affected, just a constant worry of everything.
Yes the tiredness is off the scale and just wish these aches would go away, I lost my taste and smell straight away & that is so annoying, and making me more nauseous, so strange not tasting food!! How ling did it take for your taste to come back?
Thanks for your reassurance, times like this we really need to hear other people have been through it and there is an end to it, every day just feels like an eternity at the minute x

So far so good, I’m 35 weeks and nothing has been picked up as a potential problem. Another friend had covid at 30ish weeks and she’s since had a strapping and overdue baby so there’s two bits of anecdote for you!
Taste and smell came back really gradually but a lot of specific things had the ‘covid smell’ for ages, which is impossible to describe but was absolutely rank. Maybe about 10 days after I was clear of symptoms for it to come back? I’ve heard differently from everyone who lost their taste and smell though, it seems to vary massively.
It’s so crap, it will definitely end though! When you’re feeling less rubbish but still isolating it was actually quite nice to have a built in reason for not being able to go anywhere!