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Feeling down in first trimester...

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Createcomet · 17/01/2023 08:58

I'm about 10 weeks pregnant with my (planned) second.

I've noticed recently that I'm feeling quite down. I'm not sure I'd say I was depressed but I'm definitely feeling low and like I don't really want to socialise.

I have been struggling with constant nausea and a lot of fatigue. I feel really bad at work because I'm not really giving it my all, and the same with parenting my 2 year old, I'm just not really giving it my all.

My house is a tip, I barely have the energy to even do anything I enjoy by the time I've been to work (part time) and parented etc. I used to run 3 times a week too, but have been way too sick, tired and dizzy to even contemplate that.

I go out twice a week to toddler group and swimming lessons but finding them really hard too because I'm struggling to be sociable at the moment. Just feeling weirdly lonely and bit low.

I think I'm blaming hormones...Has anyone else had this problem in the first trimester? I'm just really unsure what to do to cheer myself up!

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Welly19 · 17/01/2023 10:34

I’m nearly 10 weeks with my second too and I feel almost exactly the same!

My sickness isn’t any where near as bad as it was in my first pregnancy, but I have constant nausea and extreme fatigue and feel dizzy if I stand for too long. I’m also sleeping terribly and have very vivid dreams. But I also just feel so down all the time. Very tearful and have huge guilt that I’m not being a very good parent to my little one. If I could stay in bed all day in a dark room I would!

I think it is just hormones and despite being really excited about this pregnancy, I think generally feeling crap with pregnancy symptoms makes anyone feel down and just not themselves.
I find that getting out and socialising a bit does help, but I really really have to force myself. And knowing that it will pass and being pregnant (and the first trimester) is not forever keeps me going! Xx

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Createcomet · 17/01/2023 14:15

Welly19 · 17/01/2023 10:34

I’m nearly 10 weeks with my second too and I feel almost exactly the same!

My sickness isn’t any where near as bad as it was in my first pregnancy, but I have constant nausea and extreme fatigue and feel dizzy if I stand for too long. I’m also sleeping terribly and have very vivid dreams. But I also just feel so down all the time. Very tearful and have huge guilt that I’m not being a very good parent to my little one. If I could stay in bed all day in a dark room I would!

I think it is just hormones and despite being really excited about this pregnancy, I think generally feeling crap with pregnancy symptoms makes anyone feel down and just not themselves.
I find that getting out and socialising a bit does help, but I really really have to force myself. And knowing that it will pass and being pregnant (and the first trimester) is not forever keeps me going! Xx

Ah this sounds exactly like me! I'm so sorry you're going through the same, but also I'm taking some comfort from the fact that we're not alone. It's such a rubbish part of pregnancy.

Oddly enough, I don't have sickness as bad as last time either!! How funny! But like you, the constant nausea and fatigue is a bit crippling to say the least.

You're right I think, we just have to hang on in there for now....also pre 12 week scan anxiety doesn't help does it?!

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