I half suspect that it's simply the time I'm at in this pregnancy which is causing all the stress, but right now I'm worried, scared, and desperate for someone to reassure me.

With my first pregnancy, I'd had several rounds of spotting... one at 5 weeks, another at 7 weeks and the longest when I'd reached 8 weeks. This continued for several days, was followed by a small bleed one night. The next morning I woke up with no nausea at all, no sore breasts - all pregnancy symptoms had vanished over night. The following morning saw the nausea return, but a scan later that day revealed that my baby had died. The scan was at 8 weeks and 5 days, but the baby had probably passed around a week earlier.

This was followed by a couple of very early miscarriages, a lot of tests and a lot of theories but nothing definite as to why this happened...

This pregnancy has had no spotting at all. Nausea and sore breasts from when I was barely past 3 weeks pregnant, muscle cramps setting in around 5 weeks, terrible heartburn at around 7 weeks. A scan at 6 weeks and 3 days showed everything to be perfect. I'm 8 weeks tomorrow and I can't stop worrying.

For the last few days my nausea has been declining. I still have sore breasts, I still have heartburn (although not so much of either of these today), but today I've felt almost completely normal. Yesterday the lady I see for acupuncture told me that when the nausea subsides, it's usually replaced by headaches... I've been having bad headaches lately, but never connected them to pregnancy (too many other possible causes from a sinus/chest infection with lots of coughing to simple eyestrain). I can't find any information to confirm or refute this at all.

I'm just so far beyond petrified that the lack of nausea means things have gone badly again. I don't appear to have any other reasons to believe things have gone wrong, but I just can't shake the fear. Ironically, the point in time when my first baby died was most likely when the nausea was at its absolute worst.

When we went for our first scan, our FS offered to have us back in around three weeks for a follow up, but we elected not to, because we had our first OB appointment in a week. It seemed silly to have two appointments close together to check the same thing. I'm kicking myself for not taking the appointment with my FS!

Please reassure me that things can still be ok. I can't get back to see my FS at the usual place because he's only there Mondays and Thursdays - damned public holiday and the OB appointment is next Thursday.

So we have a week in which to try to stay sane...

BW