First trimester wasn't too bad for me. I didn't get morning sickness really except when brushing my teeth. I did, however, sleep 15 hours a day for about 8 weeks. It felt like I could never get enough sleep. I didn't have a lot of energy or discipline in my diet and workouts either, so a lot of that slipped by the wayside.

Second trimester was really great. I had a ton of energy and was able to do pretty much everything I wanted to.

28 weeks hit, and I started sinking a bit. My energy levels dropped, and I started having a lot of discomfort. I'm 36 weeks and 3 days now, and I'm borderline immobile from back discomfort when I'm up too long. It is usually manageable in the morning, but by evening, I'm hurting pretty bad.

I'm not going to tell you, "it's going to hit you" though. It might not. It definitely hit me though, and I'm counting the days until labor starts.

My advice is just to take it day by day and enjoy the days when you're feeling great. There's not much else you can do really

This is my third child and my pregnancies have all been pretty much the same from a health standpoint. I typically have decent vitals and can generally move fine during my pregnancies. My first two were a bit more difficult from a fitness stanpoint because I was so tired. This pregnancy I haven't been as tired and was able to keep up my running a lot longer than the first two. I have definitely worked out the most this pregnancy, but quite honestly looking at all my belly pics, I look the same basically across each pregancy. I usually can only tell the difference depending on my hairstyle from each pregnancy. Count down is on for me and I'm excited to be delivering in 7 weeks!

My first pregnancy was a breeze! Pretty much 0 morning sickness, and I ate whatever I wanted. Now I ended up gaining about 55lbs, which didn't come off for 2+ years, but the pregnancy was easy peasy.

THIS pregnancy however has been trouble from the get go:

Started with major pain in my gut, after two days of it my husband took me to the ER. They sent me home with a UTI (which i told them, that wasn't it). After three more days, my husband and I went to my family doctor. He told me he was going to run some tests to find out why I was having so much pain in my lower abdomen. In the middle of the blood work (after I had peed in a cup) the nurse swoops in and takes us back to the medical room. Doctor walks in and tells me I'm pregnant...(WHAT?) I started to cry because I knew then that this was a tubal pregnancy, I mean that would make since with all the pain. So he had me rushed to get an ultrasound to which they didn't find a pregnancy. Then off to see my OB to find out his opinion on the whole situation. He said that blood work would help give us a direction to go, but he was worried that my pregnancy had escaped my tubes and was now rogue in my body. We would have to do a CT scan to find it. (WHAT???) So I was pretty emotional and overwhelmed at this point.

Got labs back the next day and my doctor calling me to tell me "EVERYTHING LOOKS GREAT! lets see you tomorrow for your first appointment!" I was so hesitant to get the least bit excited, because I was still in enormous amounts of pain.

Woke up the next day pain free. PAIN FREE. I laid in bed and told my husband i was afraid to move because the pain might come back. All to say the pain was apparently my colon. ((I POOPED)) Apparently after having my colon looked at, I had been so constipated that my colon was almost to the point of rupturing and somehow didn't.

So that's how I found out i was pregnant

Then the severe morning sickness hit a few weeks later. I couldn't keep ANYTHING down. I ended up losing 7+lbs and felt horrible. Didn't get an appetite until about week 18-19.

Contractions started up around week 15. I was put on bed rest until we figured out a month later that the contractions weren't being productive (yet) so I was given the "okay" to go back to work, but NO EXERCISE. (awesome)

Then the kidney stones...ugh! Had to suffer through those for a whole week! PAIN to the max!

So here I am 24weeks 3days, still having contractions, but eating better. Gained 8lbs so far in the pregnancy. I love being pregnant, but this one is a doozy compared to my first!!

You learn something new everyday, a rogue pregnancy?! YIKES!

I felt pretty great up until a few weeks ago (I'm 31 weeks) but now its not THAT bad compared to what it could be (achey back, heart burn, and, um digestive system slowed up) But I can still get out and do yoga and hike a little - work is going fine, full days without being too too terribly pooped

Hello everybody. I am almost 26 weeks pregnant and pregnancy has just been a breeze for me I can still wear high heels I'm working out I'm full of energy no headaches No acne no heartburn no bloating no swelling no nothing. On my OB/GYN's agreed that I am picture-perfect pregnancy, That I'm one of the women that pregnancy just agrees with and I was just made to be pregnant. I'm not trying to make anybody feel bad or anything but I'm starting to get sick of people telling me "oh it's going to hit you and when it does hit you it's going to hit you hard." I understand that the third trimester is the hardest. And I understand that the last couple weeks of pregnancy are the most miserable above all. So what's everybody else's pregnancy like? I want to hear all the details the good pregnancies, The downright miserable pregnancies, And even the medical difficulty pregnancies.

That's pretty much me in a nut shell. I do have times where I have minor heartburn (started week 37, I'm week 38), but as long as I eat small meals to keep food in my stomach for it to have something to digest and drink milk with each meal, I don't notice it. I have had the swelling feet, but found that was because my sodium intake was getting away from me. Once I got that under control it went away so I don't contribute that to the pregnancy (although it seems like it's easier for me to puff up now than before lol). My mom with both me and my brother had easy breezy pregnancies just like yours and so far I've been lucky to have mine similar to hers. Now to see how labor compares! :laugh:

I'm glad some of you had easy pregnancies. Lol makes me feel better

My first one was super easy! I didn't feel that tired, and the early pregnancy symptoms (cramping and painful boobs) were more than gone by the end of the first trimester. I had some nausea and headaches, but as far as food I mostly only had aversions early on. Towards the end my legs swelled a lot, and I had bad heartburn, but that was it. I gained a lot of weight (about 65 lbs), so I had my work cut out for me postpartum. After losing 20 lbs right off the bat, my weight stabilized, and using MFP I lost another 82 lbs.

I figured this pregnancy would be easy like the last one, only better because I am in much better shape this time. I was more nauseous, and painful boobs lasted until about 18 weeks (though not REALLY painful like the first pregnancy, just a bit sore). Then around week 12 or so I took a Spinning class (the norm for me) but couldn't get comfortable on the bike. Later that day I had a bit of bleeding when I wiped. I freaked out and called my doctor, who said it was probably just irritation from Spinning and that I should chill out on it for a bit. A week later it happened again, but this time it was unrelated to exercise.

Long story short, I've regularly had a bit of pink or light brown in my discharge since then (I'm 22.5 weeks, and it's about 1-2x/week now). As long as I'm not having period-like bleeding and/or painful cramping, I've been told not to worry, plus I can feel the baby moving, which is reassuring. I did go into my OB inbetween appointments to check it out, and she said my cervix was closed but is very vascular, which makes it prone to bleeding. Sometimes simply having to poop will mess with it. Lots of things can irritate it, but I've been advised to stay on pelvic rest (ok, I guess) and to take it easy otherwise (don't mess with my workouts, please!). She said it should get better as I progress because your cervix rises and gets out of the way of what's irritating it, which is true (I used to get it 4-7 days/week!) - plus I had my 20-week ultrasound two weeks ago, and everything was lovely (placenta was not low or anything). Basically my cervix is just being sensitive, and even though it's totally harmless, it's still disconcerting to have spotting :frown:

So while I was overweight/obese, I had a great pregnancy, and once I got in shape, I had issues! Needless to say, I can't wait to have this baby so that I can stop worrying - and this has convinced me that my nerves definitely can't handle a third pregnancy! (I was pretty sure I was done after two, but my husband wants to wait and see.)

Hello everybody. I am almost 26 weeks pregnant and pregnancy has just been a breeze for me I can still wear high heels I'm working out I'm full of energy no headaches No acne no heartburn no bloating no swelling no nothing. On my OB/GYN's agreed that I am picture-perfect pregnancy, That I'm one of the women that pregnancy just agrees with and I was just made to be pregnant. I'm not trying to make anybody feel bad or anything but I'm starting to get sick of people telling me "oh it's going to hit you and when it does hit you it's going to hit you hard." I understand that the third trimester is the hardest. And I understand that the last couple weeks of pregnancy are the most miserable above all. So what's everybody else's pregnancy like? I want to hear all the details the good pregnancies, The downright miserable pregnancies, And even the medical difficulty pregnancies.

That's pretty much me in a nut shell. I do have times where I have minor heartburn (started week 37, I'm week 38), but as long as I eat small meals to keep food in my stomach for it to have something to digest and drink milk with each meal, I don't notice it. I have had the swelling feet, but found that was because my sodium intake was getting away from me. Once I got that under control it went away so I don't contribute that to the pregnancy (although it seems like it's easier for me to puff up now than before lol). My mom with both me and my brother had easy breezy pregnancies just like yours and so far I've been lucky to have mine similar to hers. Now to see how labor compares! :laugh:

About HEARTBURN!!
A 77 year old neighbor of ours shared a trick with me about Heartburn at night and it's really worked for me!! Eat an APPLE before bed!! I know that's weird and you wouldn't think it would work, but it truly has for me! And I've had it BAD until I started the apple at night trick
If you try it, let me know if it helped!