Did you fall asleep during meetings and go to bed early at night?
I just got super tired in the last 15 minutes and it's probably the progesterone supplements I'm taking, which mimics pregnancy symptoms.
I'm a night owl so going to bed at midnight or 1a is normal for me. I'm in bed at 9p.
cantaloupe / 6059 posts
Yup!! It was awful. I wanted to sleep all the time. I didn't have that option with my second but with my first I took a couple naps a day (I SAH as soon as I got pregnant because I didn't want to look for a new job and at the time was between work so I was lucky to be able to nap often!!) and was going to bed at 9 and getting up at 8. It was a lot of sleep but I was so exhausted.
wonderful cherry / 21504 posts
I never fell asleep at work but yeah, I'd fall asleep on the couch at 7. So tired.
cantaloupe / 6669 posts
Yes. I would fantasize so intensely about curling up under my desk and sleeping.
apricot / 340 posts
I thought I was tired in the first trimester, but so far the second trimester has been much much worse as far as tired goes.
nectarine / 2028 posts
No actually...I kept waiting for the exhaustion and it never hit for me in the first trimester. But for almost everyone exhaustion is a GREAT sign! I had insomnia very early on ironically! I am SO SO SO hopeful for you!!!!!! Fingers and toes crossed!!!
cantaloupe / 6692 posts
Yes. I was a zombie basically. I would come home from work at 4, nap until 8. DH would wake me up to eat and then I'd go back to bed at 9 for the night.
pomegranate / 3658 posts
Like 24/7 jetlag. My bedtime shifted about 1.5-2 hours earlier until I was about 17 weeks along.
persimmon / 1481 posts
Oh yeah, I could sleep all day and night. I actually first thought I might be pregnant because I fell asleep on the ride home from work one night. (DH was driving)
honeydew / 7230 posts
Yes! I've never been so exhausted in my life! I couldn't sit on the couch and watch a 30 min show without passing out.
apricot / 409 posts
Extremely tired. It took all my effort not to fall asleep at work. Then after I got home I'd pass out on the couch at 7pm some days. Things got better around 14 weeks.
pineapple / 12566 posts
Yes. It was worse in my 1st pregnancy than in my second. But weeks 6-12 I went to bed between 8 and 9 most nights.
grapefruit / 4213 posts
Utterly exhausted. Naps were necessary but I'd still be fatigued after.
nectarine / 2600 posts
Omg yes! Like I would basically not move off the couch for days.
pomelo / 5041 posts
Not with my first, but with the twins I was falling asleep during the day often and I never nap!
pomegranate / 3604 posts
Oh ya, like you wouldn't believe with all 3 pregnancies. It just hits me like a five ton truck. Napping is crucial! And even with a nap (or two....ahem) by 7pm my eyes are leaking because I'm just too tired to function.
pear / 1503 posts
Didn't fall asleep at work, but as soon as I got home from work, I'd go to bed and wait for DH to make supper. Then, I'd get up, eat, laze on the couch for a few hours, and go back to sleep.
Now in third trimester, I'm exhausted all over again, but more dragged out than needing to sleep. Although, that wouldn't hurt. Being able to sleep through the night would be great!
bananas / 9229 posts
Nope not at all!! I think I'm more tired 2nd trimester than ever in the 1st.
persimmon / 1458 posts
Yes by far the most fatigue I ever felt in my life. I would come home from work, eat and go to bed for the night. With my second pregnancy I did not have that luxury with a toddler running around.
pear / 1955 posts
My schedule did a weird shift during the first tri - I used to stay up late and snooze a few times when my alarm went off, but now I'm in bed by 9PM and just wake up about a half hour before the alarm!
persimmon / 1396 posts
Yes! I crawl in bed at 8pm after I put our toddler to sleep. The last week or so, I have at least watched tv until 9. So sleepy! I'm ready for this to pass.
apricot / 490 posts
Yes, I felt like I had been hit by a truck. I remember falling asleep on the beach surrounded my loud children because I was so tired all.the.time.
Then it got better in the second trimester!
hostess / papaya / 10219 posts
Not especially. I never napped or anything. I was super nauseous for the first 20 weeks, but never really had the exhaustion.
wonderful grape / 20453 posts
With my first, YES. it was so bad. Midday naps in conference rooms, etc.
With my second, not so bad. But i did have a few nights I went to bed at 7:30
I was on progesterone both times. It'll make you crash !
GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts
Yep, I'm asleep by 9 most nights, I stayed up until after 10 last night to watch a show and I'm dragging today.
edit: and this prego has some serious pregnancy eyes going on, I thought it said 3rd not 1st...I was super tired my first trimester too and again in my third!
cherry / 156 posts
Yes! I was SO tired! I didn't really get any other symptoms like nausea but the exhaustion made up for it! This time around I was napping on the couch, open my eyes and see 18 mo old LO1 climbing on the window seat. Not super high but if he fell it would have hurt. I thought about getting him down for a second.... and then went back to sleep.
pear / 1558 posts
I didn't feel that tired until about 6wks, I think. Since then I've been trying to go to bed in the 9:00 hr, which is about 2 hrs earlier than I did before pregnancy. I think I held it together during the day, but would get pretty grumpy by evening. Poor DH. 
GOLD / wonderful coconut / 33402 posts
Yes! I also had insomnia so even when I went to bed early I couldn't sleep. I think it was worse then newborn days
clementine / 920 posts
I was more tired during my 1st trimester but I didn't actually start feeling exhausted until the start of my 2nd. For the past couple of weeks I have been ready for bed at 8 pm.
coconut / 8861 posts
Yep, with both pregnancies, I've been super tired. It's harder to nap with a toddler around. In the first trimester, I would nap while he watched his show on the iPad and then go back to play mode.
eggplant / 11716 posts
no, but I think that's because my nausea is so awful, it just overshadows everything else.
nectarine / 2173 posts
I wasn't but I know lots of people are! My mom said it was always her worst pregnany symptom.
grapefruit / 4712 posts
Yes! I would come home from work and nap before dinner and then in bed before 10. DH was worried and kept saying this isn't normal. It got harder to get my naps in once I had a toddler too. I still sleep a lot but I link that to chasing a toddler and nursing my almost toddler.
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