First trimester blues.

[rivka]

It's like having a mild case of the flu.

For two months.

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[rivka.livejournal.com]

It's not just the nausea and the complete lack of interest in food, it's the exhaustion, aches, and mental fog.

I'm actually pretty lucky with the morning sickness, compared to a lot of women. My first trimester symptoms could be much, much worse. But I've been feeling just generally under-the-weather for seven weeks now, and I'm tired of it.

[ailsaek.livejournal.com]

Yup. That it is. When I was pregnant with David, I had seriously miscounted my cycle, so for the first month I thought I had a nasty case of whatever's going around. I didn't twig to the fact that I might be pregnant until cd50-some.

Second trimester is much much better. And once the third rolls around, everyone can tell you are pregnant, so you have people being solicitous all around you and making allowances for any oddities you might display - which doesn't quite make up for the foot-balloons or the difficulty sleeping or the lack of bladder control, but it helps.

Oh, and sympathies. Many sympathies. Just because overall it's marvellous to be pregnant doesn't mean that day-to-day it isn't also pretty awful (at least at times).

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

Second trimester should be much, much better. In the meantime, try, as much as you can, to pamper yourself. Of course, when my doctor told me that, I had to laugh. Especially when I turned up pregnant again (how did *that* happen? ;-)) when my first was only 9 months old.

Oh, gods, there I go starting to tell my pregnancy stories. It's a disease, I swear. I'll not touch a pregnant woman's belly without her permission (that's annoying if not downright scary from the receiving end - total strangers seem to think a pregnant belly is public property or something), but I *will* yack about my pregnancies until her eyes glaze over.

[nellorat.livejournal.com]

Extreme sympathies! At least, as I say about my menstrual problems, (1) you know it will go away at a definite time, and (2) you don't have to worry about being contagious. But a week of pain is bad enough--months of being icky should get you some medla. Well, I guess you'll get something much, much better, but still, you should get a medal too!

[wiredferret.livejournal.com]

My sympathies. It's that nagging not-rightness that gets to me, too. Like I remember academically what it was like to be healthy, but can't pull it up as a sensation.

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

When I was 13 weeks - suddenly one day I literally felt as if I'd emerged from a fog. May that come to pass for you shortly.

Now I'm just in the midst of severe ongoing crabbiness.

OTOH, I'm starting to get a serious tummy now, which is a happy thing.....

[geekymary.livejournal.com]

I was a zombie for the entire first and third trimesters - I feel your pain. The upside for me was that I could go take a nap without feeling guilty at all.

So go take a nap. :)

This, too shall pass. Before you know it, you'll be exhausted because your child kept you up all night crying with gas pains. :) But that's OK, too.

[shaktiqueen.livejournal.com]

Unless it is a girl....then it could be a full nine months.

probably not helping.


Congratulations by the way.....there is almost no one I can think of who would make better parents.

[odanu.livejournal.com]

On the upside, in both pregnancies, I remember the 2nd trimester as being a time of enormous energy, of feeling beautiful and sexy and happy. Then, because I typically fall asleep on my belly, I stopped sleeping at the end of the pregnancies, and things got...not so good. But it's all worth it. Really.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

I'll be 13 weeks on Monday, so here's hoping. It really happened that quickly? Like a light switch? Huh.

OTOH, I'm starting to get a serious tummy now, which is a happy thing.....

Oh wow, that's cool. Any possibility that you'll be posting pictures?

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Just because overall it's marvellous to be pregnant doesn't mean that day-to-day it isn't also pretty awful (at least at times).

Yes. I feel guilty about complaining, because I wanted this so badly - and because I know many women - like you - who would give anything to be pregnant. But it really is hard to appreciate the minute-by-minute experience, sometimes.

[ailsaek.livejournal.com]

Just about. Suddenly you realize you don't feel awful and you feel like you could actually do something.

[ailsaek.livejournal.com]

I remember that feeling really well. Yes, I wanted to get pregnant, and yes, I want this baby very much, but I still feel horrible and want to complain about it.

I think that's the major reason for expecting boards - to give pregnant women someone in the same stage as they are to complain to. ('Course, the major problem of the boards is the same - they're all composed of women in the same stage of pregnancy.)

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

There's a huge hereditary component. In my family, we seem to be sick for the whole pregnancy, regardless of the baby's sex.

We also seem to be intolerant of hormonal birth control.

Bad combination. :)

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

For me, anyway, it was definitely a light switch kinda situation.

Any possibility that you'll be posting pictures?
First we need to start taking some. (I keep meaning to....) Then I have to figure out how to post 'em. But yes, eventually. I have 23 weeks (+/-2) to figure that all out, right?

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

Screw that. Kill the Angel In The House, and kill her now.

Somebody out there somewhere glows, but it sure wasn't me. I didn't love pregnancy, I loved the babies. I loved the idea of the babies. And I love the kids an ocean more.

If it's any comfort, a friend of mine pointed out that growing the placenta is essentially equivalent to growing yourself a new liver, so no wonder you're tired.