Extreme exhaustion- not coping

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I'm currently 19+5 weeks pregnant with dc4 and have been struggling with extreme exhaustion that is just getting worse.
I'm basically unable to function at a most basic level. Just putting a load of laundry into the machine takes too much energy at the moment. I feel so bad for my kids, I'm literally unable to do anything with them. Trying to give them attention whilst lying on the sofa/my bed but of course its not the same.
I've also been having constant nausea and vomiting but that I can cope with better than this extreme draining exhaustion and complete lack of energy.
At my booking bloods, iron levels were good and when I asked my midwife for advice, she just said "Its a pregnancy thing, there's nothing to do about it". I've had exhaustion throughout all my pregnancies but this time its by far the worst.
Has anyone else had this?
What are you doing to get through it?
Would love any advice/support. Not sure how i'm going to survive the next twenty weeks with my mental health intact!

Are you taking any kind of medication? I find HCPs can be really unsympathetic to quite extreme pregnancy difficulties. Anti-nausea drugs might take the edge off. Try your GP, and really hammer home how it's affecting your day to day functioning.

Thank you so much!
GP did prescribe Xonvea but it made me even more exhausted and zombie like, and didn't even help with the nausea! But I think I will ask for something else because this is ridiculous.
Thanks for your response.

I'm 16 weeks baby number 4 and the sickness has just stopped but the exhaustion! I'm coping badly. Not cooked dinner in ages falling asleep by 9pm I mean unconscious! 🤦🏼‍♀️ I have no energy for anything I'm not the parent I once was 😢

I'm 15 weeks and the sickness is slowly winding down now but the exhaustion and food aversions (basically all food is a struggle) is still awful. I don't have any advice just that you're not alone! DD has had a lot of TV but I can't seem to make myself do anything. Poor husband is basically by carer!

I keep trying to remember that it's not forever and that I have to get through it so I will

Hey, I had this with baby number two. I felt awful and so guilty, I literally could not get up out of bed, it was actually painful to move. DS was on the tablet all day for the first few weeks - I just couldn't do anything. I was sleeping maybe 15/16 hours a day.

I got over it eventually but I'm still pretty dead at 22 weeks :) and definitely don't feel the way I did the first time, which was full of energy.

@skymum82 sorry to hear you're going through the same as me... hope you'll start feeling better soon! I feel so guilty about the parent i've become, but my gran wisely told me that i'm giviing my kids a gift of a sibling, so I shouldn't feel too bad about it...

@Choclover89 @georgarina talk to me about screen time! Hope the damage is reversible!

Thanks for reaching out. Here's to hoping we all get bucketloads of energy real soon!