Exhaustion and anxiously awaiting the nausea

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I’m 5 weeks pregnant, 2nd baby and I’m absolutely shattered 😂, life is exhausting right now, I come home from work and I am sooo tired. I got really bad ‘morning sickness’ (ridiculous term) first time round and I know it will no doubt happen again and it’s on its way to me in about 2 weeks if things go similarly as they did with my first. I’m anxious about how I’ll cope, with my first it was lock down, so I was fully working from home, but I just don’t know how I will be able to hide the sickness in work, hiding the sheer exhaustion in bad enough right now and I realise it’s only going to get worse before it gets better. How has everyone coped being a mum/being pregnant/exhaustion/nausea and sickness/working/ all the other stuff that comes with having a family and a life

congratulations! Sorry that the exhaustion has kicked in already. I was also worried about this, having had really bad food aversions and nausea before and generally just feeling like crap. I was lucky in so far I didn’t have any physical sickness so it’s easier to hide a feeling.

Personally I found having a toddler to keep me occupied meant I didn’t “wallow” in my feeling crap as I was able to the first time around (or maybe it was easier, idk, it didn’t feel easier!). I also found that I made sure I found ways to try and make myself feel better, for example I avoided food last time because it made me feel sick which often ended up making me feel worse. this time I forced myself to eat little and often to keep my strength up and to try and get some relief from the nausea. Also ice cold water was the one for me, I sipped it all day at work, at home, it went everywhere with me haha. Try and find what works for you, it’s just about getting through it.

You can do this, take it day by day and it will be the second trimester before you know it and you’ll be feeling better. Your body is working so hard, hopefully you have support around you to allow you to find some time to rest as well.

@Goblet93 thank you for your message ! You’re right, when you have a toddler there is no time to ‘wallow’ just have to crack on. Good idea with the food, I found the same in my last pregnancy, I didn’t feel like eating but if I didn’t eat I felt so much worse. I could honestly just fall asleep and it’s only 8:30 in the morning 😂😂 oh the joys !

Congratulations. I had awful symptoms with my first pregnancy, could barely keep my eyes open. Extreme nausea. I was anxious about the same. However I'm now 10 weeks with my second and it couldn't be more different, the tiredness has only really just hit me and the nausea is much less than it was with my first child. It was that different I've worried somethings wrong but I've had 5 scans so far (due to a hematoma and also epu checking me over due to 3 previous miscarriages) and everything seems to be fine. 🤞 I would prefer the extreme symptoms for reassurance but all pregnancies are different.x

I had to cancel all commitments,freelance jobs,& was signed off sick this pregnancy first trimester. Turned out the extreme nausea,exhaustion,vomitting,abdomen pains & more was HG. Nothing helped other than bed rest.Been hard with 4 year old on summer holidays but we put him in nursery for few days a week & husband had a week booked off & just about made it through. Glad to see the back of first trimester & hope things go snootily now.

Do what you need to do to get through it it’s hard.

@LittleDoveLove congratulations ! I heard so many mums say they wish they had lots of symptoms as it would make them feel reassured, but I’ve known women have barely any symptoms who have had really healthy pregnancies and ladies who have had a really tough time and also had healthy babies so it doesn’t seem there is much rhyme or reason. Who knows, just got to get through the first trimester it’s such an anxious time isn’t it

@snoopy18 i can’t even imagine how hard that must have been for you !! I don’t think people fully appreciate how incredibly hard pregnancy can be. How are you feeling now ? Has the sickness subsided ?

my sickness is starting to creep in, if I’m hungry it’s game over, so I’m having to constantly snack to avoid it, I’m now waking in the night starving, which then makes me feel sick … Great isn’t it 😂