Tiredness in pregnancy

I had to laugh at the bit were it said allow friends and loved ones to help ha no chance for me.

same here :)

This is my 1st and im so tierd, my husband is always goin on about me being tierd and not wantin 2 go and do much @the mo.

this is my 1st and i have been off work this week with a chest infection so im double tired lol and acheing, im defo taking advantage of all the help and fuss im getting thou :)

This is my first to and am always sooo tired even after i sleep!...my other half mostly does all the house work now so i cant complain lol :)

Rest. 20 minutes with your feet up in the morning or a siesta in the afternoon will help to recharge your batteries - & How r u supposed to do that whist at work?! My boss would love that !!!

I know how u feel i've been there i'm preg with my 2nd and find its harder this time around as you have to have energy to look and run after my 2 year old whereas when i was preg with my first i could rest as much as i wanted ( outside of work lol)

Iave to agree with all of you it is impossible , when i was only on my second child my hubby couldn't cope with me being tired and sick constantly! He was trying to work, look after our eldest and do the housework and he definately can't multi task that includes washing dishes to the extent that most of my kitchen went in the wheelie bin and he had a trip to argos to do instead and there was nothing i could do about it cos i couldn't get off the sofa lol!!!

So happy to be 7 weeks pregnant, so don't like to moan! But didn't realise how tired and sick I would feel! Bad headache today aswell. Hard to work when u feel like that, hope it passes at 12 weeks

Only 9 weeks and so tired!

I am 25 weeks pregnant and always feel exhausted never seem to have any energy! all part of the fun i suppose. Luckily my Hubby is great and doesn't let me over do it xx

This is my 1st aswell, I've been run off my feet recently because me and my partner just moved into a new home! I have had so much to do, he keeps telling me to take it easy! But I just want everything sorted for when he finally come :P xxx

am pregnant with my 4th, talk about being tired!! plus i work nights, so im tired constantly!! love the tips, rest for 20 mins, put your feet up and treat your self to some you time, ok when you are preg with your 1st, but little diff the more kids ya have! x

im 29 weeks now and my energy has just vanished, i want to do all the housework and preperations for my baby but im finding it sooo hard. after forcing myself to do this i sometimes manage to grab 40 winks but always feel more tirered when i awake but i dont know why??? any ideas???

This is my first, I'm 12 weeks and it sounds like I'm really lucky to be a student, I'm in my final year so it is stressful but I do get a chance to rest. Although, I seemed to have trained myself to fall asleep when I start reading, not so good. :) I am working nights just now and I have found it so much more difficult to get up the next day but hopefully I'll get a burst of energy soon... Delusion is a wonderful thing. hee hee.

This is my 1st pregnancy and I can't believe how tired I'm!!!! I'm 7wk and all I wnt to do is sleep......;o/

im 12 weeks with my 2nd and dont remember feeling this tired before! everytime i sit down i fall asleep, hope it passes soon!!!

I'm only 7 weeks but can't even climb our stairs without getting really out of breath!! Tending to blame everything on the pregnancy but surely it's too early to feel this??!!

i dont really know how many weeks i am becuse i new from the beggining and they estimated 8 weeks now but my actual dating scan is 23rd march 2011, i am feeling the worst i got morning sickness in like a week of my pregnancy, when i go to work i feel awful! when i wake up im sick straight away doesnt matter what i do, i get headaches and i feel so much bigger then i am, this is my first pregancy and im 17, i just want to get over the sickness and nothing seems to be helping, i hope im not that unlucky to have sickness all the way through my pregancy, if anyone has the same let me know im feeling abit weird as i ask others they say it wasnt that bad x

Lilly93, I have had really bad sickness with my pregnancy (I am now 24 weeks), don't despair though, I went to my doctors and they gave me some tablets to help ease the queasiness....they were brilliant (although not guaranteed to work I should add), they really worked for me and would recommend to anybody who is suffering to go to their GP, it is completely normal for you to feel so sick, as it is completely normal for other people not to feel so sick. I also found that Boots do a sparkling water that is called Ginger Beer (in the Shapers section), that helped as well when I couldn't face eating anything to get rid of the sickness.

My 1st baby 34wks and extremly tired sometimes, cant go out for more than an hour at a time, more energy in morning afternoon, so try to get things done then, just want it to be over and hold my baby!

I have a daughter age nearly 3 n im on my second not sure of how far but got a guess but not sure, i was really ill with my first couldnt get out of bed with constantly being sick but with this one im ok just headaches, feel sick but not actually sick, im also having twinges n niggles but not sure what that is as i has a c section with my first so dont know if its anything to do with that can anyone answer. x

This is my first pregnancy im only 7 weeks but im soooooo tired all the time, dont have energy to do anything, just want to sleep all the time hope this passes soon :-)

this is my 3rd. im 11 weeks today. felt sick all day with my other two. hardly tired except for a few weeks. only sick this time when i eat meat. hardly got an appetite and come lunchtime its a struggle to keep my eyes open. not good as i have one at nursery and one in juniors (4 and 8) come 4pm i have to lie down on the sofa. also feeling guilty on my kids for not having alot of energy. their dad works FT comes home and does dinner. i think i would rather feel sick all day than be tired. was tired from day 1 i think as lots of people commented on how tired i kept saying i felt so it is normal to feel tired so early on hopefully it starts wearing off soon!!

I'm just over the 8 week mark and I can't believe how tired I am. My partner reckons I slept for about 30 hours at the weekend, just can't seem to stay awake. My morning sickness is pretty bad too which isn't helping with the fatigue, totally wiping me out. Partner works out of town during the week so can't even get help from him, hopefully this part will be past soon and I can get on with enjoying my pregnancy! Oh and to top it off my favourite jeans are starting to feel just a little bit pinchy! :(

This is my first and i am two days off being nine weeks. Feel totally exhausted all the time. On the plus side, no morning sickness............Yet!!!

im nearly 12 weeks now, i find it really hard gettin out of bed in the mornin purely because im too tired, i find that i've lost my appetite too

i am constantly exhausted feel absolutely drained all the time the tips are all fine and well but this is baby no3 and my other 2 are at school and nursery so its ack and forwards at least 3 times a day to the school, whixh is at the top of a pretty steep hill and the steps are killers. my family say to put my feet up and relax but who else is gonna do the school run nursery pick up and housework? my partner works full time and is a godsend now he understands how exhausted i feel he is amazing

I feel the same, this is my third, although my second is not at school or anything yet. I also work 5 evenings a week and don't finish until 9pm. So I feel real tired all the time. This half term has been quite hard for me as well as my youngest won't have a sleep in the day whilst her big brother is at home, and if she does have a sleep, she doesn't always want to go to bed!

I'm just over 11weeks with my 1st and come 2 in the afternoon I'm totally knakered. My parter doesn't help around the house and none of my family know yet so I'm practically alone wen it comes 2 household stuff. :-(

I'm 27weeks with my 4th plus work part time so between work ousework and up and down to school 6 times a day i'm shattered. Start maternity leave soon and can't wait. My 10year old helps around the house bless her but my 6 and 3yr olds are te ones who wear me out lol.. wouldnt have it any oter way x

I am so glad to read some of the comments here about fatigue especially from those in their first trimester. I am 9 weeks pregnant and I am so tired at times and I can get breathless too. I'm trying to eat a good diet but sometimes I'm just not in the mood for a lot of food. I've also always been a very slim, petite person of slight build so I'm kind of anxious about the possibility of gaining enough weight during the pregnancy but hopefully everything will be alright.

I'm generally a bad sleeper and since about week 5 I've been having restless sleep (i'm week 7 now). I get off okay but then wake several times...and then usually can't get back to sleep for several hours. It's affecting my motivation and focus for the day. I'm making time to rest and thankfully am working from home so only do what I feel I can...
I think my ethos on this is to carry on as much as normal but not to be too hard on myself. I'm letting hubby in on it gently so I can build him up to supporting me more as I need it over the months!
Good luck ladies, hope you are all doing okay xxx