Anyone else fed up with the early weeks?

[greenbeanie]

Just wondered if anyone wanted to join me through the early weeks of pregnancy. I am currently 14 weeks pregnant with dc3.

I can't wait to feel my baby move and have a proper bump rather than just looking rather podgy round the middle.

All I have so far is constant nausea and tiredness as a sign that I am pregnant (which I am more than a little fed up with!).

greenbeanie i am only 7/8 weeks with dc3 also.

isnt it so long at the minute the tiredness has just washed over its awful, got up to clean kitchen an ten mins in had to sit down.

i am sure you were happy to have your first scan but ? i cant wait as am having crampy pains getting worse as days go on too.

and i havent even had my booking in app yet.

greenbeanie i am 14 weeks as well and i am fed up thoroughly. my house is a tip because i don't have enough energy to actually clean it properly and i'm far too acquainted with the toilet bowl.

although dd 2.5 did bring me cornflakes to the loo this morning saying mummy it will make you feel better it's hard smiling and being sick at the same time!

And finally, none of my clothes fit, argghh. I look like a bag woman wearing anything I can squeeze into and the few items of my old maternity clothes that don't fall down. Will have to sort this out as i have to go to one of dh's work functions not sure the bag woman look is appropriate.

I'm only 12 weeks but am struggling to get into my clothes, mainly due to excessive consumption of biscuits and peanut butter on toast.
Bump didn't really show until about 18 weeks last time I think

Tried on mat trousers this morning but they are ridiculously big.
Am loathe to buy bigger size 'normal' clothes so have resigned myself to undoing top button, very stylish!

Should be grateful I've had very few symptoms this time, just tired, so not sure why I've been stuffing my face so uncontrollably.

Having NT scan on tuesday, looking forward to seeing the baby, the 1st trimester seems to drag on so slowly and baby doesn't really seem real IYKWIM.

Hope your sickness settles v soon

Me! I'm fed up!
Really fed up.
I am 12 weeks. My scan is a week on Monday. I have spent from week 5 onwards feeling dreadful. My morning sickness has been all day and all evening and I have been tired to the point of not being able to get up to go to the loo when I need to!

I haven't cooked anything in 7 weeks and have barely done any cleaning or grocery shopping. My husband has had to fend for himself and is living off fish and chips and crisps. I feel nauseous all the time and haven't felt myself in ages. That's the worst thing about it - I just don't feel like me. I am not enjoying pregnancy at all and actually - dare I say this - wonder if I have made the right decision in getting pregnant. I never thought I would feel like this. Sometimes I think I am the only person feeling like this or that I am making a great big song and dance about pregnancy, but I know I'm not. I just don't feel good. My skin is bad, I am losing weight. I am unhappy and difficult to be with.

I am sure my husband wishes I had never got pregnant. I am not very nice at the moment. Oh dear. I just hope I love the baby when it arrives and forget all about this part.

It's good to know I am not the only one feeling this way. The first scan was lovely, but on a day to day basis the constant nausea and exhaustion sometimes feel overwhelming.

DH is being brilliant, doing the shopping (walking through the door of Tesco's prompts instead sickness!!), helping with the cooking etc. Although I think the other dc are getting a bit fed up with salad and fishfingers!

I had 4 days last week with no sickness at all and really thought that it had gone, but it has come back with a vengeance this week.
Hang in there everyone, it can only get better. Perhaps we should support each other over these early days.
Wonderif - I hope that the time passes quickly until your scan, I know the waiting is the worst. We cheated and had a private scan at 9 weeks which was really reassuring.
Mum2oneloudbaby - My dc are the same always trying to look after me, and saying have you been sick again mummy?
Montifer - good luck with the scan next week. I know what you mean about clothes - I've resorted to very flattering (not tracksuit bottoms)
Daisystone - hang in there, you will be amazeed how well you feel once baby arrives, with both previous pregnancies it is from about 6 months that I have begun to feel myself - I know this feels like ages away but you are 1/2 way there already. Good luck with the scan.

daisystone I feel for you I feel exactly the same but just bear in mind that in a couple of weeks you shouldn't feel so completely exhausted and you never know you might stop feeling sick.

Just remember put your feet up, get masses of sleep and eat anything you fancy.

Also, you will forget just how bad this part feels - I did, I knew it was bad but had forgotten quite how rotten it was. It passes

I logged on to see if anyone else was feeling like this - thank god. Only 7 weeks with number 2 and i have no memory of being this miserable the first time. Tiredness overwhelming, apathy huge, grumpy with DS, makes me feel guilty, and then a trip to a hideous indoor playcentre where ds whacked another boy and a father had a go at me cried all the way home in the car....i'm looking forward to week 12 and the end of first trimester as I'm sure it got better!!

Daisystone - I feel your pain! Most of what you've said I totally relate to and it is tiring, esp when so happy to be pregnant but never thought it would make me feel so different and ill each and every day. I am clinging to the hope that it will subside soon (I'm nearly 11 weeks) - and I'm sure yours will to... Glad to know others feel the same xx

I can't tell you how good it is to hear other people's experiences. I am clinging on to the fact that now I am moving out of the first trimester I may (just may!) begin to feel better.

I managed to eat a ham and pickle toastie for lunch yesterday and it was good - although I spent the evening feeling rubbish. But you can't have everything....

I sometimes can't believe what women go through. We have it tough and men really have no idea.

Good luck with your scan tomorrow Daisystone.
Toastie sounds good - might try it myself!!

Feeling really crap today, permanently nauseous and tearful. I am currently signed off work with sickness and am due back the week after next, I am seriously considering getting signed off again as I am struggling to cope at home let alone going to work.

know what you mean greenbeanie i worked with first (now sahm) and not sure how i got up and went to work everyday although i do remember one classic of getting halfway there and having to come home to get changed as was sick on the way there. Not entirely sure even now that my boss really believed me.

daisystone think you may be starting something with the cheese and pickle toastie

I felt the same when i was in early pregnancy but now i'm 38 weeks pregnant and a little sad i won't be pregnant any more in a few weeks. I wished it all away so fast with my first pregnancy so i've appreciated this one more.

I'm just trying to appreicate the peace for the last few weeks too. Hold on ladies your babies will be here soon x

Ahhh found you! I've just had a moan about this very subject on another thread!

I'm only 6 weeks and I feel absolutely shocking! Really depressed and paranoid! I didn't think I'd feel like this and we've been trying for quite a while so it really is one of the happiest times of my life! I just wish I felt like it!

I've had mild symptoms. Nasty taste in my mouth, bloated stomach, tender boobs, tired etc. But this symptom is by far the worst! I thought I was going crazy last night! Was sobbing on DH, who was fantastic and very understanding. But as soon as he showed even the slightest indication that he was getting a little bit tired of my constant fretting, I freaked out and decided he didn't love me anymore and that I must be a nightmare wife! Feeling very sorry for him!

Thinker mentioned taking a (pregnancy friendly) Sanatogen Omega3 supplement as apparently diet can significantly effect your frame of mind and Omega3 can help with feelings of depression. I'm going to search some out and I'll let you know. Until then I'm going to go and rock in a corner somewhere!

oh i'm so glad it's not just me. I am around 8 weeks i think and although the sickness isn't so bad the tiredness and incredibly sore boobs have, I want to enjoy being preggers but it seems so hard right now. Oh and this weekend I have been an emotional wreck..crying at the drop of a hat...it's brilliant being pregnant isn't it!

We'll feel better soon girls....i hope xx

Hang in there ladies, it seems so far off but it really won't be long until we can hold our babies, which is after all what we are doing it for.

Must go and have another toastie, they really seem to be doing the trick!!!

Oh god i have become addicted to toasties too! I never even ate cheese before I got pregnant, or fish and chips and that is all I want now! I am going to be HUMONGOUS by the time baby is here!

Luckily I am feeling my symptoms easing the past few days (am nearly 12 weeks) - nausea not as bad, boobs so less sore. Though now I'm getting stressed out with thinking that something is wrong! I had my dating scan early at 9 weeks (due to spotting and cramps) so we booked a private one for next week at 13 weeks - it seems so far away though! Could really do with some reassurance!

By the way...DO NOT watch Steel Magnolias - it ruined my Saturday and I am usually not a blubber!

A toastie sounds delicious right now! all i have been eating is dry cereal out of the box wish I could stomach a toastie lol.

Is any1 scared about giving birth??? im terrified!! I use to get really bad period pains and apparently contractions are 10 times worse than that ahhh and then after all that we have to push it out

Hello, I hope you are all feeling a bit better. I have a friend who is also in the early weeks of her first pregnancy (8 weeks now) and I am wondering what I can do to support her? I can't visit her very often as we live at opposite ends of the country, although I hope to organise lots of trips later on in the year.
Any useful tips about I can do remotely would be much appreciated!

Hi all. I can definitely relate to a lot of what people are saying. Early pregnancy is really difficult because you don't look pregnant and don't necessarily want to tell people, yet you have the symptoms in spades. I am 10/11 weeks with number two and CANNOT STOP EATING. It is really bad! So different to first time around, when my experience was much more like daisystone's. The only meal I could keep down then was lunch, and I lost weight in the first trimester. It is awful being sick all the time daisystone - feel your pain - got to the point where my husband didn't even notice when he came into the bathroom and I was crouched over the toilet bowl. I used to crave fish and chips, but then I'd immediately puke them up again. Now, however, I eat something and literally 5 minutes afterwards I am hungry again. If I keep eating at my current rate I will be the size of a house by 9 months.

And pregoDragn - I too spent my first pregnancy terrified by the prospect of giving birth. I was physically unable to open the pregnancy books to That Chapter, and I would come home from NCT classes shaking in my ballet flats. However...it was really fine - I was so in the zone, I forgot to be scared - and SO proud of what I had done when it was over. And, dare I say it, although all the books and the classes seem to focus on the birth as if it were the end - really, it's just the beginning!

pregoDragn - second time round and still a little apprehensive but don't worry too much it is worse than periods obviously but remember you get gas and air fantastic stuff. should be available for everyone all the time.

Ahhh siciliana you're obviously a good friend! I reckon you'd be great help to your friend if you just kept in touch and offered a constant sounding board for her. It's so difficult sometimes when you just want to moan for the millionth time and you've exhausted all your friends and family. That's why MN is so good. We don't mind when we all rattle on about being pregnant!

Also I've received a couple of cards and letters which have meant so much to me. Not congratulations cards as such, as we're so early on and obviously it's a bit too soon to celebrate just yet, but a nice letter is always a boost.

I've stopped feeling massively depressed now. Hopefully it won't return! Now I'm either feeling really nauseous or absolutely starving! Every half hour my stomach is so empty it hurts and if I don't get something down me quick I start feeling really sick. Oh the joys! Just started experiencing the fatigue too. Had to nap yesterday afternoon because I was exhausted from staving off the nausea all the time.

Anyway, more to come by the sounds of things! Enjoy!

I'm so glad I stumbled across this thread.

I've been feeling so crap, constant nausea, unbelievable tiredness and weepy and lonely.

I'm only 7wks tmrw. Had mc last Nov at 7.5 weeks and I think that is making me even more stressed.

It's a relief just to read that others are going through this.

I think I had some dumb fantasy that I would sail through pregnancy as if walking on proverbial clouds.

Instead, I can hardly find the energy to take a shower and leave the house.

I also feel very sorry for DP. He put his hand on my belly last night. And I thought, the guys have it so goddamn easy. I was just being a stroppy moany cow.

Is there any remedy for ms?

I'm not currently pg, but can I just point something out to reassure the first-timers? The first trimester is usually the worst... after about 14-16 weeks it does get easier. For most people, anyway ...

Hi LucyT66 you're in the right place! I think we're all going through much the same!

I've stopped feeling quite so depressed now but I'm still very stroppy and the 'morning' sickness has really kicked in! I've been suffering for the last few days and spent most of Friday clinging to the sofa whilst it kept spinning!

I've tried a lot the remedies and so far only ginger has worked but unfortunately I've had so much it makes be bilious just thinking about it! I did try the dry cracker in bed trick this morning so I'll let you know if it works. So far so good but whatever I try only lasts an hour or so anyway.

I also have this worry that I haven't had the overwhelming feeling of excitement and love for this little pink bean yet. Logically I know it's because it's only week 7 and I'm just feeling so up and down and rotten that it's difficult to muster up any positivity from it all. But as you say LucyT66 I'd had this totally unrealistic dream that I'd be glowing with love and well being from the start. I know I will feel this in time, especially once the sickness fades and (if we make it) once we've seen the scan. But in my lower moments I do worry about it. Especially as we've been trying for quite a long time and so desperately want this baby!

One other thing. We've had our scan date through but it's been booked for when I'll be ten and a half weeks. Is this normal? I thought it was usually in the 12th or 13th week?

i am nearly 15 weeks pregnant, and i am very very tired and misreable.
im uncomfortable, i feel like the baby is taking over my body. i just wanna scream.
i am 23 and feel like this should be so much easier, i feel CRAP!!!
i am so lonely as well, i want someone around to moan at. baby's father is so far away, and i get super frustrated, and just tired.

its good to know im not alone, but isnt it just so crappy. i insised on having this baby, now i am just so fed up.