Just struggling

Currently 15+4 and having a rough time. Feel like all I ever do is cry or feel exhausted! I wake up tired everyday and I hate it! Feel like such an invalid! I’m working full time & live with an autoimmune disease so everyone tells me to be easier on myself but I feel like I’m failing at pregnancy- anyone else just having a hard time in 2nd trimester? X

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Listen, this us my 3rd pregnancy and I told my partner before we started trying that there was noway I was going to be working during and a good year or so after this baby. I worked during my last pregnancy and it was awful. Im a stay at home mum currently 16 weeks pregnant, both of my kids go to school and are quite self efficient and I am drained lol so dont be hard on yourself at all. It's completely normal to feel like shite. Your not failing your growing a human and it's draining and its emotional xxx

Same here
15 +5 sleeping the day away because i feel too unwell to exist😬 my first pregnancy was never like this. feels like there’s no end🥲

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