Exhausted all the time!!

[Flannz94]

I'm 5 weeks and 4 days and I'm completely exhausted!!
I sleep for about 10 hours (on and off) wake up and within the hour I feel like I haven't slept at all!
I'm also a shift worker and every shift feels like a mission!
Is anyone else experiencing this? Has anyone got any tips?

 

[Luvspnk31]

Welcome to pregnancy!!!!! Lol I know it's so hard, but it is totally normal. You really just have to learn to let some things go, and focus on what HAS to be done. Will the house be as neat? Or dinner on the table every night? NO but, it will get better. Usually by the 12 wk mark, energy starts to return. Goes away again by the third trimester, lol. But, we get a few weeks of not feeling exhausted!!

 

[jadza]

So normal.. I felt like this from about 5 weeks until 11 weeks. Now I get little waves of energy then feel tired again. I'm almost 12 weeks. So it does get better. I'm also a shift worker, I was getting about 9/10 hours a sleep a night. The only way I could get through it was by eating... pretty much every hour I was at work. Like bananas, apples, toast, muesli bars. Gave me enough energy till I got home and collapsed in a heap. Best of luck!