What is pregnancy REALLY like?

Question

So all my life I always said I wouldn't get married until I'm 30, and IF I had kids it would be way after. Well, I learned that some serious infertility issues run in my family, and from that I'm figuring if I want a good shot at a healthy no risk pregnancy, I should probably aim for a baby around 25. 
My bf and I have been together 3 years, if I want a child I would want it with him he's so amazing, and we have our future planned out. But it's starting to hit me how soon everything would happen, and it takes my breath away, honestly it makes me super anxious! I'm terrified of what pregnancy will do to my body and my health and how much it'll hurt etc. 
I don't have any friends or family who I've been around while being pregnant or giving birth so idk if I'm imagining it worse than it is. 
If you could share your experiences with pregnancy, good and bad, I would love to hear them!!

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I'm 20+3
The good:
The kicks are so sweet
Hearing the heartbeat is the most amazing sound in the world
You fall in love like you've never been before
The bad:
I was nauseous from 5w-14w all day every day
I'm having heart palpitations
Blood pressure? What's that?
Oh you got a good body? Bye bye!
Sleep? Never heard of it
Back pain? Oh that's my best friend rn
Breathing is in the past 😂
Hip pain is lyfe
But honestly. It's the best thing that's ever happened to me and I love my little Harper more than life. Every discomfort is worth the discomfort x100000000000.

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Pregnancy is different for everyone. For some it’s hard and for some it’s easy. Personally pregnancy has been hard on me.

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Every pregnancy is different. With my daughter I had no morning sickness but with my son I did. In the third trimester you can expect lack of sleep, frequent urination, hip pain and just plain being uncomfortable with all the extra your carrying around. I loved being pregnant, feeling your baby kicking is the most amazing thing, people always wanting to feed you and being excited to meet the little one. I had no close family around either but it didn’t bother me, my husband was all the support I needed.

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The issue with explaining pregnancy to someone that haven’t experienced before is that It won’t do it justice to your own experience.   There aren’t two people on this planet that have had the same pregnancy. You can have an easy going pregnancy all 40 weeks or your first trimester can be a challenge because it’s so exhausting. Is it rational to be concerned about it? Absolutely. However, there are more rewarding things that come from it rather than negative things. You’ll have your ups and downs in your own way. Just take it like a grain of salt, and one day at a time.

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Well. It’s always different. I’ve been pregnant 11 times. And about to deliver baby number 7&8. This has been my hardest as twins take up so much more body then a singleton. Girls too. And I’m always more nauseated with girls🤷🏻‍♀️ but the sickness, sore ribs, painful back and nerve pain down my legs.... I wouldn’t not do any one of them. I generally feel better pregnant. My hormones are probably better🤷🏻‍♀️ but all so different.

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Mine has been great up until my 3rd trimester. I never got morning sickness. I was just super tired and hungry all the time. My 2nd tri I felt fantastic. I've been working out 4 times a week at the gym. Once I hit my 3rd tri its kind of all gone down hill from there. I have SPD which is symphisis pubic dysfunction so my pelvis is literally splitting and it hurts to walk, I've gotten really bad heartburn that I have to take Zantac for and constipation so I take Miralax. My feet swell and hurt. I've gotten super moody and emotional and can't control my emotions sometimes. I can't sleep at night because I'm so uncomfortable. 
Like someone else said, its different for everyone. You may have an amazing and smooth pregnancy or a crappy one. You dont know how your body will handle it until it happens. Even your 2nd pregnancy can be way different from your first. I have still overall enjoyed my pregnancy and am grateful to be carrying my baby boy.

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This is my 3rd baby and pregnancy can be beautiful and it can be rough. Pick the week. 😊 The pregnancy part isn't the funnest for everyone, but the outcome, that precious baby, is what makes it worth the go! ❤️

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Things I like: 
Reading weekly reports on how baby is developing 
Feeling the baby kick for the first time, and generally after (although sometimes it feels weird, lol)
Things I dislike:
Morning sickness, which has lasted anywhere from 15-20 weeks between my 3 pregnancies 
The exhaustion...it’s been pretty constant
Worrying about things you’re advised not to eat
The aches and pains, like round ligament pain and pelvic pressure near the end
Struggling to sleep
Being limited in what you can take to relieve pain 
Carpel tunnel with my second
A crazy lip rash with my first
Gestational diabetes with my 3rd
Sooo, it definitely looks like I dislike pregnancy more, lol. Honestly, my first was the most enjoyable, aside from the initial morning sickness and lip rash. I had a lot more energy into the second trimester and just generally felt pretty good for the remainder of my pregnancy.

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Like others have said it’s different for everyone and even different every pregnancy... my first was a breeze and I enjoyed it soooo much even in my third trimester. I only got nauseous during the first trimester. My second pregnancy has been rough.  Just a couple times of morning sickness thankfully but my body hurtsssss and my hormones are way worse making me so much more emotional. This one I look forward to the end even though I know I know I’ll miss it being my last. Positives in general- feeling the kicks and hiccups & watching the bump grow
Negatives- tiredness, soreness, and peeing alllllllllllll the time. There’s more but that’s the jist of it from me.

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Pregnancy was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. I felt sick the whole time.  I do have emetophobia, so I think that made my pregnancy worse.  By the last few weeks I was just fucking miserable.  But take that with a grain of salt because you can have one pregnancy that’s terrible and then the next one is great!  
I though labor and delivery was the easiest thing ever.  My contractions were painful enough to put me in tears before I had my epidural, but not painful enough to deter me from going through it again.  The only ‘hard’ part was I pushed for 4 hours because my contractions were never consistent and at the 2nd to last push I became a little upset because I was exhausted from being awake for 2.5 days (I was waking up every 10 minutes bc of a contraction) and from pushing on top of that exhaustion.

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