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Hugs.

I wasn't a big fan either and my list wasn't anywhere near what you're dealing with. Don't feel bad for not loving pregnancy, it's hard work! And not loving pregnancy doesn't mean you aren't grateful for your LO or excited!

Hang in there!!

@travellingbee: Hugs!!!!!

@travellingbee: I hear ya lady! your post made me LOL. wtf is with the sore tongue business? mine's been puffy and sore for ages!

So sorry you have to deal with all of that!! The worst thing for me was the acid reflux! I have never had it before but I def did while preggo and it was terrible. I don't know how people can live with it.... the waking up in the middle of the night feeling like you about to heave and having it right there in the back of your throat. Ughhh it was terrible.

I feel you. Horrible constipation, reflux, bloat, insomnia, constant hunger, relentless fatigue, round ligament pain, backaches and headaches for me, not to mention all the bizarro emotional side effects. I am really happy to be having a baby, but this pregnancy stuff can shove it.

ETA: Maybe I would feel slightly less shitty if people stopped telling me how I should "enjoy" this "wonderful," "magical" time.

Oh I really don't enjoy being pregnant at all! I finally passed the constant nausea phase, but now I'm in the immediate indigestion so bad that I can't eat more than a few bites of something without feeling like I've had a third helping of Thanksgiving dinner. I'm exhausted all of the time, and have the worst lower back pain (maybe sciatica? I have no idea but I can't move without pain...). I seriously limp the first like 10 steps after I stand up. I'm not that big but I can't sleep comfortably in any position.

I'm excited about this baby, but I'm so ready to not be pregnant...

@travellingbee: with my first I did love a lot of it. First trimester sucked but then it was all oh so amazing and I had time to just enjoy being pregnant. This time... Ugh. As soon as one crappy symptom ends the next starts up- done with that nausea? Cool, here are some crippling headaches for the next month. Ok, hormones are stabilizing so your headaches should get a little better, so let me just put the baby's head directly on your sciatic nerve- go ahead and chase your kid at the playground now! BUT- I remember that newborn days were even harder than pregnancy so I'm not even wishing this away because I know it's going to get worse before it gets better. Sigh.

@lovehoneybee: does the pain kind of shoot through your butt when you stand up? If so, prob sciatic pain. When you stand try scooting all the way forward in your chair, then turn the foot on the painful side in towards the other leg (like pigeon toed) before standing, helps a little (chiropractor showed me that). That and Childs pose, plus the chiropractor, seems to have helped some.

@travellingbee: newborn days were easier for me too. hang in there momma. I hate it just as much as you. I love my beautiful little people but for me being pregnant is nothing but misery

@TravellingBee: @Mrs. Lion: I found the newborn days so much easier, too.

I also did not enjoy being pregnant. The first 10 weeks were awesome. No nausea, lots of energy, no unpleasant side effects. Then it hit me. MS, combined with motion sickness. Severe food aversions, mostly unable to eat meat. Sensitivity to smell. Ugh! Then bad reflux from 19 weeks on, bad hips and back from 28 weeks on.

Poor DH: he'd cook and I wouldn't eat, so he said he felt like a failure for not being able to provide for me. If he ate something during the day. I would still smell it later, despite brushing his teeth, and I'd have to ask him to face the other way at night. We went on vacation at 20+ weeks, and I still had the food aversions and nausea. Try finding vegetarian food in Istanbul! But we got through it.

Oh, pregnancy can go suck a big one.

@blackbird: hahaha my sentiments exactly

...and I say all of this having had a really rough time during the newborn days with lo1 (but an easy pregnancy.) I used to be more nervous about that but now I'm just ready to get going!

@wonderstruck: I got kidney stones from HG too! Being pregnant for me is like 9 months of an actual nightmare.