Heavy AF feeling - is this normal at 7 weeks?

[dusty]

The last couple of days I have had a heavy AF feeling - not cramps just heaviness like what I have in the days before AF is due - on and off. Is this a normal symptom for around 7 weeks?

Also my boobs keep expanding are really sore and then deflate for a couple of days and become almost normal to touch (although still a bit bigger) and not as sore. My BB veins remain pretty prominent though.

Also really emotional (its an emotional time!) and I don't know whether it is the hormones or because I am scared it is not going to work out for us.

Thanks for listening to my (latest) fears. I just realised this is my first ever pg related question

[~Trish~]

Hi Dusty, yes the heavy AF feelings are very normal. I had that feeling heaps in the first tri with both my boys. There is a lot going on down there!

Your symptoms sound so normal, the coming and going is very normal. Your body is doing what it's meant to .

[MantaRay]

I had that too hun, so yes, it is normal. It all sounds really good actually. Hopefully you'll be able to relax really soon, I think this little one's sticking!

[New Dawn]

yippy for your 1 st PG question

well lets see....

AF heavyness well I normally only just work out I am UTD about this time so not the best one to answer but I remember having a swimming class with May when I felt really heavy like I was going to have AF turn up... I was about 6.5 weeks and tested and found out we were UTD well I guess its kinda the same...

Boobs I NEVER get boobs until I have bub but do get vains so things can come and go and thank God they do as who would want MS the whole time

Cry cry cry thats all I seem to do... ( it seems to have staied with me since having Kai ) Cry at the sillest things... Cry at TV add's I remember bee UTD with Kai and crying very time they showed the next load of contestains for the biggest losers and thinking while crying you poor people life is so unfair to bigger people.... it wasnt even ment to be sad...

Take everything as it comes and please please stop using that wonderful brain of your to over annalize everything, things come and go...

here's a big squishy

hope something I have said might have help just a little

[Cassius2]

i guess i can say a big fat YES! to all of them! LOL! i too was a late bloomer (ie took 6 weeks to figure out i was UTD. and i distinctly remember feeling as though AF was always just around the corner. my bb's were also really inconsistent, except for the 'gorgeous' veiny look they insisted on having...

and the moods were terrible. i would just break down at the most ridiculous things. i think i dropped the keys on the floor on my way out of the house one day and completely broke down in big sobbing tears! after a few of these moments (and snapping DHs head off all the time he came home with a HPT and we went from there).

HTH

[dusty]

LOL Tali you are right, I am over-analysing everything aren't I! So hard to switch that part of the brain off and just accept and have faith .

Thanks ladies, for reassuring me that this is probably completely normal and a good sign at that. It is still coming and going and sometimes I want to run to the loo to do a check, but I have to have faith that all will be well.

Not as emotional today, which is just as well to get everything finished at work before Xmas hols.

Cassius, I hear you, I keep saying to DH (through tears etc) that 'this is not about you, its about me!'

MR, I hope so hun. Thanks for your faith in us.

Trish, my calm wise friend - thanks for telling me that it is all so very normal.
xx

[Snacks]

Hiya Dusty
I am still getting that heavy feeling from time to time (esp after DTD). I think it may be related to a muscle-stretchy-type thing (LOL! How convincing did I sound?!?) and I think it's pretty normal.
I too find my boobs are sore some days and some days not. (I don't feel like they get any bigger, although sometimes DH does a double-take, LOL.)
I am glad you are having a better day emotionally, mate. You are so entitled to feel emotional - it is only natural given all the hormones flying around your body and particularly after all your efforts to get where you are.
I remember about that time DH was working a lot and most days I would end up in tears because I was just so tired and couldn't help myself.
It all sounds so positive, Dusty - just like things are happening exactly the way they should be
Keep looking after yourself, mate.

[Cassius2]

I swear i ran to the loo to check things out AT LEAST 6 times a day LOL! i guess it takes a while to sink in that this time it's for real...good luck sweetie, and dont feel bad about wanting to go to the loo and check! (for me it's now part of my pregnancy story that i relate to friends and brings a smile to my face )

[briggsy's girl]

i still get that a bit now dusty - kinda heavy, but not painful - it was freaking me out to the point the FS gave me an extra scan to convince me it was all ok - at around 8 weeks!

boob wise - i went up a cup by five weeks, then another by 12 weeks - but i kinda move now between an E and F cup now, depending on the day - i guess that's a case of boobs growing and deflating...