Exhaustion -

I’m 16 weeks pregnant and the exhaustion is unreal, especially having no energy at all. Any advice on how to help this?

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Lean into it and let yourself relax! You are growing a human! Your body is working on over drive!

For both my pregnancies I was a zombie for the first 20 weeks.. then felt better for a while and back to zombie towards the end!!

I would talk to your doctor about your iron! My iron levels were still considered fine with my first, but she also said it was safe to take an iron vitamin. With my second, I can iron treatment but it wasn’t until the end of pregnancy and once it kicked in.. I wish I got it sooner 😭 - it could all very well just be the exhaustion of growing a little human!! 🫶🏼

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