Newly Pregnant with questions

[samandaw1]

I am almost eight weeks along and had my ultra sound last week to confirm one healthy heartbeat.

My questions is this.....I am soooooo tired. Zero energy. I am out of breath when I walk up the stairs. I sleep all the time. I have no enegy to go out yet I am feeling depressed always staying in bed. Everyone says this is normal but mine feels extreme.

Is this part of the invetro? I feel more bloated than I should but is that part of the drugs still (I am on three supposotories of progesterone daily with a weeky trigger shot). I went walking today and thought I should start up working out again (had to quit for three months for the process). IS that safe? Any suggestions? I cried for two hours straight because I felt so lethargic, fat, sick, tired. Do not get me wrong, I am so grateful to be pregnant I just can't tell if this is normal or if I am swollen or whatever. I think this is overwhelming if this is the experience for the next eight months or do I get used to it.

Help!!

Sam

[PebblesUK]

Hi Sam

Congratulations with your BFP!

When women are pregnant naturally it is completely normal to be exhausted/tired in the first trimester. Unfortunately for us the progestone shots/pessaries we take make these symptoms 10 if not 50 times worse but it will pass. I remember struggling to open a can of diet coke, I just had no energy to do it! I would cry lots (again another symptom of early pregnancy but worse for us!)

Your ovaries take a while to go down from the treatment but again that will soon pass. You probably won't notice when that stops are your uterus is expanding and can cause you cramping as it grows.

Walking is great. In the pregnancy book I read it recommends an hour walk every day whilst you are pregnant. It is quite safe to work out but do what your body tells you to. Don't push yourself and I would stick to just light activities in the first trimester.

I hope you start to feel better soon so you can really enjoy your pregnancy.

Take care

Jo
xx

[samandaw1]

Thanks that helped. I am not a natural cryier or a low energy person. This foreign feelings I have are so hard to handle. I think I just need validation from an IVF person and not just a friend who had natural pregnancy as I feel worse than they described.

Thanks a million

Love,

Sam

[JustinesBaby]

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[terri1]

Hi Sam

Just wanted to say I felt exactly the same!!!! I have never felt such exhaustion in my life and felt like a fake trying to explain to my husband why I had to rest after getting myself a glass of water! I didn't have IVF but did have fertility treatment...menopur injections.
I felt like someone had drained all the blood out of me. Plus I was teary too. Like you I was so grateful to be pregnant but I felt very emotional.
I didn't get much sickness but my biggest symptom was tiredness.
I walked for about an hour every day too, I think that helped but when I walked I got out of breath and still collapsed in a heap when I got home! thank god I was not working, I would have been asleep at my desk! My motivation to walk was my dog, otherwise I know I wouldn't have bothered!

I felt like my tiredness was extreme too and I got paranoid that everyone thought I was just being lazy! But my accupuncturist said the baby was draining everything from me and that I should do less and just rest. I told my dh this and he said 'do less? If you do any less you will stop breathing!' He was just kidding and was very supportive but I know he and many others did not really understand just how exhausted I felt! It really is indescribable isn't it?!
I think some of us do get it worse than others so don't feel too bad about it. I was well into the second trimester before it wore off for me. Listen to your body and if it says rest/sleep........just go to bed! We have all worked hard to get pregnant and we must look after ourselves and our babies!

take care
love terri

[Rittie2000]

Hi Sam,

Nice to see you here. I have not had any pregnancy symptoms up until last week. Now I've developed afternoon sickness, am tired and caught a cold all in one go as we hit 8 weeks. And I was kidding myself that I could be one of the lucky ones to have a totally sick-free pregnancy. Hmmmm, guess it is catching up with me. So it happens my DH has also come down with the cold and since he's a man, he's practically dying in bed and its down to me to look after the 2 of us Once my cold is gone, I am going to resume walking. I am generally exercise averse but I am going to force myself to get some exercise. Hope we'll both feel better soon. Instead of getting any sympathy I've been getting - 'you did this to yourself'. Nice eh? Take care.

Lots of love
Rittie