1st trimester - why is it so hard!

[ZiggyandBC]

hi everyone,

just wanted to share a bit is a moan really in case anyone else is feeling the same. I’m currently 9w4d and the last 4 weeks have been ROUGH! Being sick almost every day, all day nausea, headaches and needing to have a nap after any activity and the low moods!

I really hope it gets better and this won’t be how it is for the whole 9 months. Does anyone have any advice to help? I’m counting down the days until the second trimester but I know this isn’t guaranteed to bring relief 😅

If anyone has any advice or just shares the same experiences to help me feel better would be much appreciated x

[Hidden]

All I know is - the 2nd trimester was radically better than the 1st trimester for my 1st pregnancy.

I barely had any symptoms just physically got bigger.

I really hope this happens for you.

It sounds terrible what you are going through you poor thing.

Does your gp/midwife have any words of encouragement for you?

X

[ZiggyandBC in reply to Hidden]

I really hope the second trimester is good to me! I’ve tried 2 different anti sickness tablets and am currently having some therapy to help with the low moods ❤️ Xx

[StarsAllAround]

Hi ZiggyandBC I am 10+3 and feel the same am sick every day, the nausea feeling is non stop been wearing travel bands on my wrists which has helpeda little with the sickness. Also so emotional have cried for no reason a few times this week. And am exhausted all the time but had covid just over a week ago so not sure if the tiredness is from that or the little blueberry growing. I hope for both of us the second trimester is better for both of us. X

[ZiggyandBC in reply to StarsAllAround]

I’m sorry you’re feeling the same!! I’m glad it isn’t just me though as I feel dreadful most of the day! Even going out of the house to do the shopping wipes me out! Fingers crossed for the 2nd trimester 🤞🏻💕

[Purpledoggy]

My best advice is just to try and remember it’s not forever and why you’re going through it. I know it won’t help with symptoms but it helped me get through the 24/7 nausea for the 25 weeks it lasted 😵‍💫 it’s unusual I think for it to last that long so fingers crossed you’re through it soon! xx

[HollyT7]

I'm still looking forward to the 16 week mark when sickness magically goes... I'm still waiting at 35+4 🙄 Had it throughout my first and now I'm on my second. it's had good days though then I'll have a week where I'll actually be throwing up, sickness comes and goes most days, I take sickness tablets. I've tried the old wives tale remedy recommendations but alas, I am still going strong 😂💪 my advice would be get your gp to give you some sickness tablets and hope for the best 👍🏼 it could just dissappear, you may not be so unlucky like me!

[LizzieBW]

My nausea was really bad, my mouth would water so badly at work I'd have to pinch my hand with my nails to divert my sickness (didn't announce my ivf pregnancy til 20 weeks) and eating dry things as little and often as I could kept it at bay slightly. Any time my blood sugar got slightly low the nausea would intensify so I realised albeit awful, the nausea was partly a sign my body needed sustenance for baby. Ryvita, little salted crackers, grapes, tea biscuits; you'll find what you can stomach. The great news on my end is it just suddenly disappeared around 13ish weeks, so drastic a change that I remember the exact day it happened 😂I'm afraid the not so good news is the tiredness and level of overwhelming emotions is yet to come in your postpartum period. I'm not saying this to make you feel bad but rather I wished someone had put a little more emphasis on just how normal it is to weep at the smallest of things whilst your hormones are adjusting. I cried like a baby at random things in the early weeks (at things like spilling my cereal or not putting a nappy on right and him weeing everywhere) 😂 joking aside I was lucky not to suffer from any mood disorders like postpartum depression but baby blues is very much a common thing so do please be prepared and know it's normal and does pass. Xx

[Fudge1980]

I promise it gets better…….for a while……..then the third trimester sets in 😂 oh that’s a lovely 3mths 🥴🫣. Totally worth every symptom 💗

Just get through each day lovely you should start to pick up about 16wks then the second trimester will fly by because your getting everything ready and bought! Exciting!xx