https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:16:05 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-tired-i-could-cry#post-338895 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:23:20 +0000 ladyfingers 338895@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@blackbird: It varies, but it doesn't seem to matter what I eat. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-tired-i-could-cry#post-338878 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:14:21 +0000 blackbird 338878@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I go to bed at 8:30 or 9:00 sometimes. I get at least 8 hours of sleep now and it really helps as long as it's quality sleep. </p> <p>In my first trimester, I used to go a conference room and put my head down for 15 or 20 minutes during my lunch break. Even if i didn't doze off, it helped me feel refreshed. </p> <p>What are you eating for lunch? 2-4pm is a typical lunch crash. I get SO SLEEPY if i eat a lot of carbs, pasta, or chinese food for lunch. I have a lot more energy if I don't eat sleep-inducing foods </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-tired-i-could-cry#post-338819 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:25:05 +0000 ladyfingers 338819@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@tororojo: That does help a little. I do need to also be better about eating more protein. It's not that I don't eat any, but I should be better about having a high-protein snack on hand!</p> <p>@Smurfette: Normally I would but it's like 83 degrees and humid here. If I nap in my car I'll be covered in sweat in like 30 seconds ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-tired-i-could-cry#post-338815 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:22:04 +0000 Smurfette 338815@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When I get really tired at my desk, I get up and walk around a bit. It always wakes me up some.<br /> Could you take a quick nap in your car/desk before your commitment tonight? 20 mins can really help me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-tired-i-could-cry#post-338813 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:19:48 +0000 tororojo 338813@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Poor thing! Can you get up and stretch when you're really tired? Maybe that will get the blood flowing and give you an energy burst. Or maybe if you have a high protein snack you can grab for a pick-me-up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-tired-i-could-cry#post-338811 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:18:34 +0000 ladyfingers 338811@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@JerricaBenton: Not yet but I'm leaning toward it. Today I have a heating pad, it's helping some. Glad to hear yours helped!</p> <p>I'm most tired in the mid-afternoon -- 2-4 p.m. I could change my hours -- I'm hoping to do that when LO starts daycare because his daycare closes at 6, which is when I currently get off work. But I don't feel like I have a good reason to ask for that right now. And honestly, I'm worried it would make me more tired, because I would be getting even less sleep getting up an hour earlier. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-tired-i-could-cry#post-338810 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:16:00 +0000 JerricaBenton 338810@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ladyfingers: Have you tried massage for your back pain? It has helped me so much! I'm not a big chiropractor fan but I've heard that has worked wonders for some pregnant ladies.</p> <p>Are you more tired in the early evening? Would there be any way to change your hours so you come in earlier and leave earlier? I don't know if that would help though, if you're super tired all day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-tired-i-could-cry#post-338796 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:08:46 +0000 ladyfingers 338796@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MamaMoose: Nope. I've taken a lot of time off and I feel bad asking for more, because they've been more than generous so far and they don't have to be. Not to mention, I live 30 minutes away and my commitment is on this end of town, at 7. I don't get off work until 6. Wouldn't work.</p> <p>I'm so miserable with the back pain too, I'm so scared of the next 16 weeks lol! I feel like all I do is complain lately. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-tired-i-could-cry#post-338793 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:07:16 +0000 MamaMoose 338793@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Can you leave work a little early and go home to rest before your commitment? I know the feeling. I'm almost 34 weeks and I'm exhausted all the time from lugging this big belly around. And last night I didn't sleep a wink after 3am so I am HURTING. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-tired-i-could-cry#post-338792 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:06:49 +0000 Mrsbells 338792@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ladyfingers: Aww sorry to hear that. Hoping the day flies by for you so you can get home and get some good sleep </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-tired-i-could-cry#post-338789 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:05:27 +0000 ladyfingers 338789@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrsbells: No! I'm 23 weeks along. This is on par if not worse with my first trimester exhaustion. I'm napping at my desk (turning my chair around since I have an office with all windows) but it doesn't help.</p> <p>@highwire: My car is right outside my CIO's office (I'm in pregnant lady parking). But it's also so effing hot outside, there's no way I could tolerate it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-tired-i-could-cry#post-338783 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:03:10 +0000 Mrsbells 338783@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ladyfingers: Are you in your first trimester?<br /> I would nap at my desk sometimes or ni my car, or splash really cold water on my face </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-tired-i-could-cry#post-338779 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:00:40 +0000 DillonLion 338779@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had to take naps in my car. Any chance you can do something like that for like 10 minutes? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-tired-i-could-cry#post-338776 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:59:45 +0000 ladyfingers 338776@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I can't even fathom how I'm going to get through the next couple of hours at work, and even then, I can't go home because I have a commitment I cannot miss -- so I won't get to go home until around 8:30. I'm so tired I want to punch myself in the face. And I went to sleep at 9 pm. last night! </p> <p>I have been so exhausted these past few weeks even going to bed at 8 or 9. What do you do when you work? </p>