Have 0 energy in the first trimester- worried

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Can someone please tell me if they've had the same?

7 weeks and for the last week I've not been able to do anything. I mean literally. I've not left the house in days, DH has had to do the school runs and picking up the housework and looking after DC. I can barely move. I'm not being sick although I was constantly nauseous until recently. I am pale naturally but I'm like a ghost right now and I have dark red spots which I didn't have a few days ago. I've had 2DC and didn't experience tiredness until 3rd trimester. Has anyone else had this? Could do with some wise words right now, if someone told me I was seriously ill I wouldn't be surprised. I feel worse than I ever have, the only comparable feeling was how I felt after I had a PPH with DC1.

Also to add, a few weeks ago I was going to the gym 4x a week and walked 10k steps a day. I don't have the energy to leave the house now.

I wasn’t nauseous but I remember in my first trimester I’d go to bed at 8pm and sleep till gone 10am as my fatigue was awful.

Get your iron level checked. Buy some Spatone or Floradix.

I was like this in the first trimester with DC2. I could barely walk. I was anaemic.

@grumpypedestrian I'm also going to bed around 8pm. Did everything go okay for you?💜

@DreadPirateRobots I will do, I was anaemic with DC1 but didn't feel anything like this.

I was like this, bone crushing fatigue from about 4wks pregnant. Asleep by 7pm every night and no enthusiasm for anything.

In my case, I had fatigue throughout my entire pregnancy, although not quite so bad in the second & third trimesters. So much so that I felt I had so much energy when I had my baby, even on minimal broken sleep!

I thought the unbelievable fatigue in first trimester was really normal? With first DC I slept almost all day long and had to "work from home" (God bless my then line manager, who held the fort for me) as I couldn't get out of bed. On the other hand, I've never had a single issue with being tired in the third trimester so there you go.

Also, had a big PPH with DC1, scraping below threshold for transfusion after 24 hours of monitoring. I was tired generally after that, but only in the initial 4 hours post birth was the fatigue of the PPH was comparable to first trimester fatigue. I'm afraid you just have to ride it out best as you can, and have your DH pick up the slack.

I remember needing a daily nap during the first trimester! I was lucky to already work from home a lot. I wasn’t sick but I was nauseous and anaemic. The fatigue lasted until second trimester and then I felt much better, and my iron tablets helped too. I suggest a visit to GP and blood test.

I had this. It lasted the whole pregnancy. Fatigue in the first trimester is normal. You should have more energy in the second trimester. I didn’t but most do.

Look at it as a good sign. All your energy is being used to grow a new human being! No wonder you are exhausted!

Hi OP. So sorry you’re feeling like this.

I am also pregnant with my third - now just over halfway. I have been very sick up to week 18 with all three, but the bone-crushing exhaustion of the first trimester was new to me in this pregnancy. I felt totally unable to keep my eyes open at times, and was going to be at 7pm with my toddlers. It’s unheard of for me - I’m usually fine on 4 or 5 hours of broken sleep, walk everywhere and run for fun. Husband says it was like my batteries had been taken out. At times, I wondered whether I was dying (possibly a bit dramatic but I just felt so ill). I was anaemic in my second pregnancy but the tiredness was much worse this time despite better iron levels.

The good news is, the worst of it was relatively short-lived, and probably began to improve by 11/12 weeks. Now that the vomiting has finally mainly stopped too, I feel like a new human and am back to almost normal activity levels and crap sleep!

Hope you can hang in there and get through it. Would suggest speaking with your doctor though to rule out anything treatable.

I was bloody exhausted in the first tri. Would get home from work at 6, go to sleep on the sofa, wake up to eat dinner at 8, go straight back to sleep in bed, and wake up at 7am.

Felt fine in the second and third trimester- huge amounts of energy as usual. (As was usual THEN- as I was preDC and 27 years old 😂. Now I’m zero energy again… not pregnant. Just a middle aged working mum…)

Four normal pregnancies here. Healthy lots of energy before prego. First tri slept 75% of the time and could barely hold my eyes open; exhausted! Every pregnancy. Nausea if I smelled coffee or fried eggs the first half of preg. Your body is working twice as hard as it will the next two trimesters; building a placemta and baby. Normal to be exhausted! Once I hit 14-15 weeks felt great and energy was back! Hang in there!

Oh, and it was the last uninterrupted sleep I had for 32 years! Took me 10 more years to learn to sleep more than 5 hours a night! But it is now GREAT!!

Yep, second pregnancy for me and didn't get it too bad in the first but the tiredness this time has been utterly debilitating. I don't feel like I've got the energy to do anything and have days where I can barely even get out of bed.

I've had it from the beginning and still got it now at 20 weeks.

I'm taking iron so it's not that but I have low blood pressure which won't be helping

I'm 8 weeks and have had the same for about 3 weeks - used to run 5k 3 times a week, but current step count now averaging 300 a day 🫣 (mainly just back and forth to the loo tbh). I feel like I've been hit by a bus.

I'm exhausted but can't sleep. I seem to have some kind of insomnia 😭😭 hormones don't agree with me one bit but its all normal according to my gp

Sounds exactly like my second pregnancy! I had some tiredness with my first, but my second I've never been so continuously exhausted like that before. It did get slightly better in the second and third trimesters, but I couldn't stay off the sofa for long.

No idea what caused it. My bloods were perfect. Zero anaemia.