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I’ll be honest, I’ve been extremely lazy since I fell pregnant because I’ve been exhausted. It’s taken all my energy to drive to work, pretend to have energy for my day and drive home. Prior to falling pregnant I was trying to go for walks to gently increase my fitness. I can’t say I was a fit and healthy sort but I could give a longish walk a good go.
Today we did a piddly 5km walk and I’m dead! I’ve had two naps and my legs right up at the top of my thighs are screaming. Going up stairs has been entertaining. Whoops! It’ll pass but it’s made me realise I can’t be so sedentary.
I wanted to get into pregnancy yoga or Pilates but I can’t find any classes near me. Any good online/youtube type resources that anyone can recommend?
My blood test came back today. No issues with my iron levels. My exhaustion, palpitations and breathlessness have been diagnosed as the perks of being pregnant (and old and unfit!!)
Today we did a piddly 5km walk and I’m dead! I’ve had two naps and my legs right up at the top of my thighs are screaming. Going up stairs has been entertaining. Whoops! It’ll pass but it’s made me realise I can’t be so sedentary.
I wanted to get into pregnancy yoga or Pilates but I can’t find any classes near me. Any good online/youtube type resources that anyone can recommend?
My blood test came back today. No issues with my iron levels. My exhaustion, palpitations and breathlessness have been diagnosed as the perks of being pregnant (and old and unfit!!)
Glad all your tests came back ok! I’ve been getting serious fatigue post lunchtime around 2pm. So much so I’ve needed a bit of a nap. But then I guess given I’m awake in the night it’s just regular tiredness with pregnancy on top.
I really rate the downward dog app. They have a prenatal version of yoga and you just get to do it in your living room. I’ve been doing their regular yoga although stopped last dec as I was so sick and then had zero energy in the first tri so I am finding it a little bit of a struggle but i do need to stretch my body.
Bettina Rae on YouTube was my fave for pregnancy yoga and some of her videos are tailored towards specific trimesters. Also Pregnancy and Postpartum TV has a wealth of videos.
My morning sickness started at 5.5 weeks and it was AWFUL for about 2 weeks but ever since then (about 1.5 weeks) it seems to be getting a lot better, I'm now just over 9 weeks and this is when I was expecting I'd feel my worst but I probably feel my best, I still have a bit of nausea and gagging etc but I was really struggling to move without being sick before. Has anyone experienced anything like this? I'm so worried that something is wrong and that's causing my symptoms to get better (my boobs are also not as sore as they were before) especially as this is the time it's meant to peak! 
Disappointed to say I caved on the vaping (still 0%) after 24 hours.
I have complex PTSD, which has been very stabilised, but my mental state just WENT this morning and I woke up in such a state and had a full dissociative episode which was very distressing
I was having trauma therapy but we agreed I was good to be without it but I've emailed her again to start up again (she said most people come back when they fall pregnant). And I'll raise it with the GP on Weds.
I was having trauma therapy but we agreed I was good to be without it but I've emailed her again to start up again (she said most people come back when they fall pregnant). And I'll raise it with the GP on Weds.
All of these things work on a harm reduction spectrum. Using a 0% nicotine vape is the penultimate step of the ‘best behaviour’ end of the spectrum, with total abstinence from everything being the ideal. But you know what, there are so many other things that are definitely a lot more harmful so don’t beat yourself up about this. There might be a perinatal mental health team in your health board area and it would be the midwives that would complete a referral, if it is needed. I’ve been told if I feel my mood slipping I call them and they complete the referral based on all my booking in stuff. But some women might need the support from the very start and that’s totally ok! Just you make sure you are being really kind to yourself right now. The hormone changes are a bit of a trip all by themselves.
Congratulations!Hi folks
Careering onto the thread with no notice to say hello, I had a positive test yesterday morning. Because we'd sort of been informally TTC, I cannot remember what weekend my last period started, I know it was a Saturday but my mind is blank. I think I'm 5 weeks.
Whilst finding out just before a Bank Hol and some annual leave booked after is probably good, it might also be not ideal because my autistic anxious brain has been climbing the walls since yesterday, Googling every random thing I can think of
(Is my particular SNRI anti depressant ok?
Can I eat a high protein diet? How much protein is too much protein? Can I paint my nails? Can I dye my hair? Can I weed the garden? How much decaf coffee is too much decaf coffee? And so on)
Also today I just keep bursting into tears. Like a Dad carrying his toddler in B&Q, started crying. Looked at my cat and started sobbing about how cute he is.
Probably not helped by the fact this morning I blitzed through Allen Carr's Easyway for vaping book and threw all my vape stuff away including walking to the nearest battery disposal point shop to get rid of the battery segments. I'd cut down nicotine strength to the weakest since the New Year anyway and then went 0% yesterday as soon as I found out, but just decided to rip the bandaid off today and stop feeling rotten for it
I think take the advice with a pinch of salt as things change each week and stay off google as it will only tell you worst case scenario!
Hair wise you can still get your hair done just let your hair dresser know you are pregnant they may do an updated patch test xx
I’m not too sure, I think it’s about how your body is coping with the hormonal changes? (Except for the ladies that get HG as that’s just a whole other level by the sounds of things!) Have you had your first midwife appointment or contact with them yet? You can always give them a call for peace of mind if you’re worried, or maybe EPU? My boobs stopped hurting relatively early on although they occasionally have a little tenderness ‘flare’. I never threw up (so far), only ever the dry heaving and whilst it’s better than it was I occasionally just have a mad attack of it out of nowhere!My morning sickness started at 5.5 weeks and it was AWFUL for about 2 weeks but ever since then (about 1.5 weeks) it seems to be getting a lot better, I'm now just over 9 weeks and this is when I was expecting I'd feel my worst but I probably feel my best, I still have a bit of nausea and gagging etc but I was really struggling to move without being sick before. Has anyone experienced anything like this? I'm so worried that something is wrong and that's causing my symptoms to get better (my boobs are also not as sore as they were before) especially as this is the time it's meant to peak!
I think the weirdest thing is it feels like my entire world has been turned upside down and shaken but then .... nothing has really happened. So I feel bad for not carrying on as normal and spending most of the past few days frantically Googling.
Also I feel quite unsettled because I am not jumping for joy happy. If anything I am feeling bleeping terrified if not a little regretful and wanting to back out, which makes me feel even worse and like I'm defective
It doesn't help that I've had broken sleep since I found out and I've had nausea up to my ears for days and I am EXHAUSTED
Also I feel quite unsettled because I am not jumping for joy happy. If anything I am feeling bleeping terrified if not a little regretful and wanting to back out, which makes me feel even worse and like I'm defective
It doesn't help that I've had broken sleep since I found out and I've had nausea up to my ears for days and I am EXHAUSTED
I promise this is so common! Whether a pregnancy is an oops, casual ttc or desperately wanted, those what the duck have I done feelings are super natural and normal. I’ve been pregnant 5 times under various circumstances and always get those thoughts on and off throughout. Pregnancy emotions are so complex
This all sounds so, so familiar! You’re not defective I promise. It’s a wild ride in hormones alone, even in the really early days when you think it can’t be possible that your hormones have change that much and the apps tell you you’re growing a poppy seed (I got a poppy seed out of a jar of them in my kitchen and my husband and I stared at it and our minds were blown!). Nobody can manage to jump for joy for the entirety of their pregnancy. That’s all fake Instagram crap. Practicing as much self care as you can really helps. My sleep has been ducked from the first week of knowing and trying to keep myself awake and avoid danger napping has been totally pointless so if i have the ability to have a nap, I just have one and sod it. How I wish I could nap at work
. I love a bath and they’re not off limits as long as you don’t overheat yourself so I wallow about in there for a bit watching a programme on my iPad. I found my nausea was helped by snacking, which, like the napping, felt so counterintuitive to everything I’ve ever done my whole life but it got me through/still gets me through when I have a rough nausea day. My one true love snack is lightly salted tortilla chips (preferably the cheap Tesco ones) but other snacks have come and gone in my preferences. Sorry if I’m being a fool and offering solutions where you just want a place to vent.
I’ve been really humbled today by the smell of my leg of lamb joint coming out of the packet which sent me into a dry heaving spin. My husband had to take over but then I saw the, err, juices from the packaging on the chopping board and it got very ropey for a bit. Thankfully we both made it through and the lamb was delicious, if a bit salty because he over salted it as I still couldn’t get anywhere near it.
My oddest pregnancy side effect to date has been what I’ve finally figured out is seborrheic and peri-ocular dermatitis. I’ve been moaning about weird sore skin round my eye for ages but I’ve figure out with google image search that that is what it is, and I also have it under my nose and a bit around my chin. I’ve always had ok skin, a bit spotty and greasy but no conditions like this. It makes me look even more tired than I feel and apparently can be caused by tiredness and stress. Whoopee! I’ve bought Nizoral anti-dandruff shampoo because apparently putting that on your face helps. What an absolute delight
My oddest pregnancy side effect to date has been what I’ve finally figured out is seborrheic and peri-ocular dermatitis. I’ve been moaning about weird sore skin round my eye for ages but I’ve figure out with google image search that that is what it is, and I also have it under my nose and a bit around my chin. I’ve always had ok skin, a bit spotty and greasy but no conditions like this. It makes me look even more tired than I feel and apparently can be caused by tiredness and stress. Whoopee! I’ve bought Nizoral anti-dandruff shampoo because apparently putting that on your face helps. What an absolute delight
my periocular dermatitis worsened and never went away after baby was born (SORRYI’ve been really humbled today by the smell of my leg of lamb joint coming out of the packet which sent me into a dry heaving spin. My husband had to take over but then I saw the, err, juices from the packaging on the chopping board and it got very ropey for a bit. Thankfully we both made it through and the lamb was delicious, if a bit salty because he over salted it as I still couldn’t get anywhere near it.
My oddest pregnancy side effect to date has been what I’ve finally figured out is seborrheic and peri-ocular dermatitis. I’ve been moaning about weird sore skin round my eye for ages but I’ve figure out with google image search that that is what it is, and I also have it under my nose and a bit around my chin. I’ve always had ok skin, a bit spotty and greasy but no conditions like this. It makes me look even more tired than I feel and apparently can be caused by tiredness and stress. Whoopee! I’ve bought Nizoral anti-dandruff shampoo because apparently putting that on your face helps. What an absolute delight
) and I also have perioral dermatitis - I saw on the skincare thread someone else was recommended azelaic acid (and I actually see it’s being discussed again today ) and it’s made a massive difference to me. Pregnancy safe too!Ohhhh! I don’t think I realised it was pregnancy safe! I find it really hard to figure it out!my periocular dermatitis worsened and never went away after baby was born (SORRY
The thought that this won’t go away scares me (but I won’t hold it against you as I value the honesty!).
my skins always been a bit sensitive and tit in that respect so that may be a me-specific thing and it’ll be hormone related for you
Definitely relate to the skin thing. Pretty much since finding out my skin is constantly dry, especially on my face. My nose and cheeks are constantly peeling and sore like they do after you've been sunburnt. No amount of water or moisturizer fixes it. Living life over here like a reptile constantly shedding it's skin. No glowing for this pregnant lady.I’ve been really humbled today by the smell of my leg of lamb joint coming out of the packet which sent me into a dry heaving spin. My husband had to take over but then I saw the, err, juices from the packaging on the chopping board and it got very ropey for a bit. Thankfully we both made it through and the lamb was delicious, if a bit salty because he over salted it as I still couldn’t get anywhere near it.
My oddest pregnancy side effect to date has been what I’ve finally figured out is seborrheic and peri-ocular dermatitis. I’ve been moaning about weird sore skin round my eye for ages but I’ve figure out with google image search that that is what it is, and I also have it under my nose and a bit around my chin. I’ve always had ok skin, a bit spotty and greasy but no conditions like this. It makes me look even more tired than I feel and apparently can be caused by tiredness and stress. Whoopee! I’ve bought Nizoral anti-dandruff shampoo because apparently putting that on your face helps. What an absolute delight
The glow is a complete lie. I’ve never moisturised/hydrated my face so much, obvs no alcohol, hardly any caffeine, lots of water and fruity teas. It’s so depressing!
I agree!! Skin is constantly dry and almost flaky
Anyone else struggling with brushing their teeth at night? In the first tri it was doing my back teeth that would set me off retching and now I can do those but I struggle so much with my tongue. Then I retch so much I’m actually sick a bit - completely voiding the tooth brushing I just did 
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