Feeling overwhelmed!

[summeryet]

And just wanting some advice..

Currently ten weeks into a much wanted and planned pregnancy. Super chuffed as had been down the fertility route with exH, and have a diagnosis of PCOS, so expected trouble which never arrived.

So whilst super excited (and admittedly terrified), pleased to have baby on board, even if it was somewhat speedier than expected.

OH and I have just booked a wedding for a Couple of months time, (as of this week) and we're currently housing hunting, (to buy) as have been living in a rental.

We met about 20 months ago, and have lived together since June following some fairly intense dating. Although I did take a sabbatical and travel for three months last year.

I'm just feeling totally overwhelmed by everything that needs to happen (balanced with a super stressful job) and not really feeling in touch with any of it.

Is this natural because I'm pregnant and exhausted.. or should I be super concerned? I love this chap, but don't feel excited by life, and I'm sure that I should be!

I can see why you would be overwhelmed so much going on. Would it not be possible to kick back and enjoy your pregnancy? Put off the wedding and house hunt for the time being...with so many big life events happening at once it would be easy to lose the excitement over 1 or indeed all of them.

Hey!

You make sensible comments. But re house, if would have to be on hold until after mat leave, so that I had the required payslips to get a mortgage. Re wedding... sends a bit of a message to be calling it off :(

I just need a single day to myself and don't have one on the horizon for five weeks. Mostly of my own making!

Time to get a grip I think! And to realise what I have.

The first 3 months of pregnancy are exhausting like nothing else, it’s hard to muster much enthusiasm for anything during that time! Does get a bit easier in the second trimester so hopefully in a few weeks you’ll feel a bit more energetic. Personally, I just didn’t feel like myself from when I got pregnant until about 6 months after the birth, I was just a confused mass of tiredness and hormones. If you were sure this is all what you wanted pre pregnancy, I’d just go with it.

Thanks for the advice!