Bionic Fatigue

One of the pregnancy books I'm reading, The Pregnancy Countdown Book: Nine Months of Practical Tips, Useful Advice, and Uncensored Truths, refers to the crazy exhaustion pregnant women experience in their first trimester as bionic fatigue. This is a pretty accurate description of how I've been feeling lately. No matter how early I go to bed, I am yawning and struggling to stay awake past 8:00pm. A friend of mine texted me on Thursday asking if I wanted to hang out, drink wine, and talk that night. Obviously wine was out of the question so that was a deterrent to hanging out but knowing this friend, leaving at 7:30 to go home to bed would have been unacceptable. I turned her down and said I had dinner plans with my parents (I ended up going over to eat with them but they understand when I leave early).

Then this same friend called me yesterday, Friday, to see if Bill and I wanted to go out to dinner with her and her boyfriend. I was willing to suck it up and just go since it was a Friday but Bill had a terrible day at work and was not in the mood to go anywhere. Secretly I was thrilled. I was in bed by 8 and asleep by 8:30.

I'm afraid our friends are going to start thinking we're avoiding them. I feel like a drug addict, passing up friends to get my fix. My drug of choice being sleep.

The books say this should go away by the second trimester. I'm not really complaining because I don't have much in the way of morning sickness so I consider myself to be very lucky in the pregnancy symptom department. However, it will be nice to finally wake up and have a life before the baby gets here!