14+4 feel like I’m only just surviving!

[Riley1989]

Just wanted a moan really. I’m 14+4 and I feel absolutely terrible mentally and physically. I feel so sick and tired all the time. I’m struggling with panic attacks and depression. I am being looked after by perinatal mental health midwives as they think I have antenatal depression and anxiety. My pregnancy book tells me that I should be glowing and feeling great now. I feel so awful all the time! I’m already on iron tablets as my iron is low so I’m doing everything I can. I’m so excited to have a baby (our 1st) but I’m hating being pregnant and I feel so guilty! Sorry please don’t judge me as I know how lucky I am to be pregnant it took us a long time to conceive but I just want to be able to eat and not feel sick and not feel so scared and down all the time xx

I felt exactly the same physically, try not to pay too much attention to the apps — they lie! I’m 20 weeks now and still tired but better than I felt at 14. Get plenty of rest and take all the support you can get. It’s okay to dislike pregnancy and to envy those who seem to have those magical unicorn sparkle perfect pregnancies, it’s a means to an end for a lot of people. Hang in there

Ugh. I hear you and empathise. The first few months were not fun, I was worried, stressed out and totally knackered and feeling nauseous 24/7.

It does get better though. I think it was about 16-17 weeks but then I felt a LOT better once the second trimester kicked in. The sneezing didn't stop though..

Thank you both so many people I know in RL at the moment are pregnant and all glowy and really enjoying themselves and I’m just so down in the dumps and hating it. I’m also further along then some of them and they are already feeling so much better then me Im just putting one foot in front of the other and getting through each hour at the time at the moment xxx