7 weeks pregnant - extreme tiredness!

[dreamerkr]

Hey guys! I’m 7 weeks pregnant today, and over the last few weeks I had no symptoms at all which worried me because I have a history of recurrent miscarriage before my DS (aged 2). However in my last pregnancy with DS, I didn’t have any symptoms at all. I woke up at 1:30am last night, with such bad nausea like I’ve never had before. My stomach was hurting a little, I had diarrhoea (TMI sorry) but only twice. After that I thought I felt better until the nausea started as soon as I got into bed. I’m not so worried about the diarrhoea as I’ve been having that almost every morning since I found out I’m pregnant. The nausea hit me so hard though that I was crying to my husband in the middle of the night, feeling so shit. I’m not feeling nauseous today during the day though, although I do think I’m starting to get some food aversions as I don’t really want to eat right now. All day today though I’ve been sooo tired! I actually got a good night’s sleep last night, and I took an almost two hour nap this afternoon and right after that I asked DH if I actually slept or not 😂 the tiredness was so bad this evening I couldn’t get out of bed and I felt bad because I couldn’t do anything with DS. I didn’t even want to get up to go to the bathroom I was so tired. I made myself go for a walk which made me feel a bit better and more awake. Is this tiredness normal at 7 weeks pregnant? I did have it in my last pregnancy but it wasn’t this bad. Maybe it’s because I’m always busy with DS too? I don’t know. Sorry for the longest post guys! I guess I just wanted to know if this extreme tiredness is normal or not at this stage

Yes, I had it at that stage. It does go but is awful. I fell asleep in the middle of conversations and all sorts.

I don't know if it's a second pregnancy thing but I've seen loads of similar posts on here and I am definitely struggling a lot more this time round.
The sickness started earlier, lasted longer and was more severe, and the exhaustion was/is on another level, also suffered badly with insomnia in the first trimester. I found it absolutely debilitating.

I'm 23+3 now and still constantly tired with low energy everyday but at least the sickness has died down (only to be replaced by awful headaches and heartburn)

Well, I'd say it falls within normal

DH said I was basically dormant in the first and third trimesters

Thank you so much guys, it’s so difficult 🥺 hopefully it gets better soon

I have the exhaustion coupled with insomnia . It's super super frustrating, sleeping is the only thing that helps the nausea 😵

Congratulations on the pregnancy. Commiserations on how shit it makes you feel!
Extreme fatigue is normal in the first trimester. I have never felt fatigue like it since.
Not much to be done about that but it may make nausea worse so do as little as you can, rest like never before

The nausea though can be safely treated. Ring your gp now and ask for help, the sooner you start treatment the better. It only gets worse. You dont want to get to dehydration point before asking for help.

The gp will likely ask if you've tried ginger, anti sickness bands etc. these are worth a token try but I've never heard anybody with bad pregnancy nausea find them particularly helpful.

I feel like this is very normal OP, at least in my experience. Did not have extreme tiredness in my first pregnancy but was pregnant from Feb 2020 until October and so had nowhere to go and nothing to tire me out!

I am secondary school English teacher and this time, around 6 weeks I fell asleep on my desk chair whilst reading a play with my class. I had a character and actually woke up saying “is it my line?” because I felt the room go silent. 😂

not my finest teaching hour but after I put the TV version on … it was a case of doing anything just to get through it!

it went shortly after that but has come back now Im 26 weeks with a vengeance. Fell asleep on Sunday morning on the sofa two hours after waking up 🙈🙈

I was incredibly tired from 7 weeks in my first and the midwife picked up I had low iron at the booking apt and I had iron tablets for 10 weeks.

Im now in my second pregnancy and I asked the midwife if she would test my ferritin and she said she would but then never requested it. The haemaglobin was 130ish though so it looked ok. I started feeling very tired from 11 weeks. I have just got worse, by 18 weeks I had a point of almost feinting due to a weird feeling (I was sat down when it happened). I initially put it down to working plus DS but it’s just next level. So I asked my doctor if they could do a blood test to check my iron and my ferritin is quite low.