Early pregnancy exhaustion - when does it end?

[pbdr]

I'm around 11 weeks pregnant with our second child, and I just feel persistently completely and utterly exhausted. The exhaustion is extreme to point that I can barely function. I have a 3 year old to look after but I feel like I'm being a crap mum at the moment because I can barely stay awake while I'm looking after her, no matter energetically play the way we usually would. I feel like I'm wading through wet cement all the time. I end up going to bed at the same time as my daughter (7:30), often not getting up until 12 hours later and I still wake up feeling exhausted. I definitely felt very tired during the early part of my first pregnancy but I don't remember it being this extreme, and I can't remember how long it lasted.

For those who experienced extreme early pregnancy tiredness, when did it end? I'm desperate to start feeling like a functional human being again.

I remember this so well - it feels like your very bones are tired doesn't it? Like you are living under a heavy weight at the bottom of the sea!

It definitely started to improve for me around about 13/14/15 weeks, feeling slightly less "submerged" each week.

I've never forgotten that feeling - I used to walk to the bus stop every morning, but had to stop and sit on someone's wall for a rest on the way as I was just so exhausted walking up my street.

Hope you start feeling better soon OP, it's hard when you already have a little one to engage with and all you want to do is sleeeeep!

I’m 14 weeks and no let up 😔 the only thing that helps is to sleep and sleep and don’t over do it.
for me it’s like a hangover every day.

I'm refusing to have a second child because of this hell. Well done to you for getting through it.

It stopped for me about 16 weeks. I used to go to work and go home and immediately to bed!!

In about 19 years

I'm 13 weeks pregnant with my second. In my first pregnancy it stopped at 13 weeks but this time it hasn't got any better yet- I am really struggling too and feel all the same things about being a crap mum! Hang in there

I’m 17 weeks and I’m still exhausted.

Around 15 weeks for me, tiredness was awful I was convinced I had low iron or something I couldn't believe how tired I was constantly. The good news is once it eased up I had so much energy

I would start taking floradix in case you also happen to have low iron.

I was exactly the same. It will get easier just go with it. I remember getting a lease of life back about 6 weeks before I gave birth and I painted my whole house 😅

The really debilitating exhaustion lasted till about 18-20 weeks for me. It's so hard with another child especially so you have my full sympathy!

I'm 35 weeks now and it's a different kind of exhaustion now.

Absolutely this. I told my husband this last night. I’m an older mum so we will only have one baby but even if I was 30 I don’t think I could do this again.

Yes! That’s it a different kind of exhaustion.

for me it’s like terrible jet lag and a hangover combined with zero let up once you’ve had a good sleep