I so, so, so could have written this post when I was pregnant. I was really miserable when I was pregnant, especially the first....ooooh, 6 months or so. It is seriously hard, and impossible to understand that it might be worth it in the end when you have never experienced the awesome love you will have for your bubs when you eventually meet them. I thought I might smack the next person who told me "it will be worth it in the end"....I thought that would be absolutely impossible given how completely and disgustingly horrible I felt. But, amazingly, they were right.

Just get through each day as best you can. It really can be very hard. Be nice to yourself.

One of the best things someone told me when I was so unwell and miserable was that you might go through all this difficult stuff, but as soon as that baby is out, your body really does start to heal. I was so scared I would never be well again, that I had done some permanent damage to my body and I would never feel like my 'old self' (at least physically) again. But you really do heal. Of course you have to get over the birth stuff, but eventually you do feel physically 'normal' again. This shall pass!!