Hello hopeful mum and congrats! Would you be about 4-5 weeks? Are you having any further blood tests? I bet you're on the count down til 18th March! I know I was.
I had my scan on Friday at 6w4d and we saw the heartbeat flickering away. I've been very tired and a bit nauseous, sore boobs too.
Ugh, not doing so great... Hcg didn't rise as much as they'd expect this week, and prog has dropped. I restart progesterone tomorrow. Feeling lots less confident. :/
No scan yet. Normally the clinic would do a scan next week ( 7th week) but we're away for another couple of weeks, so it'll be ages yet.
Pholi I hope everything is progressing well inside. Its hard to analyses HCG levels after 5-6weeks. They seem much more predictable in that first week you find out your pregnant and then the variation of normal just gets bigger and bigger.
Thanks, Mildez. I was starting to feel so confident and safe... And all of sudden I feel like I might lose my baby . That I shouldn't book in with the Obs yet because I not even be pregnant by then. That every person I tell had to be someone I'm happy to tell the bad news too as well.
I had my first major freak out yesterday and couldn't go to work today.
How do ppl manage to stay happy and positive in this situation? We're supposed to be happy but all I feel is scared. I got so used to AF coming every 25 days and all the emotions and disappointment that goes along with it that now I don't know how to deal with this BFP. Everyone around me is so happy and looking to the future, have I thought of names, where will I give birth, when will I finish work, what games do I want at the baby shower?? I feel like a deer in the headlights tbh.
I've moved my scan forward to the 27th and I don't know what I'll do if there's nothing there. I keep checking for blood every time I go to the toilet. How do you get through it?
Yeah, same. We're keeping it pretty quiet for now, just a few people know, and they know that I'm not counting my chickens (so to speak) yet. I say something like 'So far, so good. But we're not out of the woods yet.'
It's so stressful, so much pressure to just grow a baby, and we have no control at all over the outcome! I'll feel a lot better (I think!) once we get a scan that shows appropriate development, a heartbeat and so on.
The friends we've been holidaying with this week have respectfully said nothing despite overhearing phone calls (in the car) about my progesterone levels, and actually collecting my pessaries for me from the compounding pharmacist, and noticing that I was on soft drink all night at a classy food and wine degustation... They must know. :/
It sounds like your friends want to give you the opportunity to tell them yourself, when/if you are ready. How long til your scan? I moved mine forward to this Friday. I'm hoping it's not too early to see anything.
We don't get back to Perth til March 7th, and my scan is booked for the following Wednesday. So it's still 2 1/2 weeks away. I have one more blood test this Tuesday, then nothing til the scan.
I thought 6 weeks was about the stage where they definitely see a heart beat if it's there? I suppose if you're a few days out, though... Gosh, how did our mothers and grandmothers cope?!
I thought 6 weeks was about the stage where they definitely see a heart beat if it's there? I suppose if you're a few days out, though... Gosh, how did our mothers and grandmothers cope?!
Pholi that's really nice of your friends to not ask questions. Its a long wait until your scan but think when you have it your baby will actually looks like a baby. At 9weeks they really start to take a more human like appearance.
Spoons I was always very anxious especially with my last. I'd had 5 losses before him, my HCG I thought was low (compared to my successful pregnancy before him), I had no MS and a lot of pain. I'd had an ectopic before and lost my tube and was in agony. It turned out I had 3 ovarian cysts the largest measuring 11cm but combined they got to 21cm across at their largest. They were going to operate as soon as I hit the 2nd trimester. They were just something else to worry about but at my 12week scan they had shrunk by 3cm so I didn't end up needing the surgery. I tried to be happy I was pregnancy today and tell myself that that's all I wanted and not look too much into the future but take each day at a time. Easier said then done but you do eventually get to the end and once they are born worry about something else like SIDS.
Hopeful mum, it's very scary. I really hope your scan on Monday is good news.
My scan was bad news. The embryo had stopped developing around 6 weeks (I should have been 9 1/2. It probably never had a heartbeat.
I had a D&C yesterday. The remains will be tested for chromosomal disorders. I will have BTs to track my hormones and see my FS in a month or so for results and to make a plan.
I am very sad.
I'm also really ****ed off that I got that far and have to go right back to the beginning in terms of IVF, as we have no embryos left. And I'm ****ed off that had I know this 3 weeks ago I could have at least enjoyed a drink and eaten a salad on my holiday .
But mostly sad.
And DP has already initiated the 'we can't afford this forever, it's taking a toll on the family, I'm under a lot of stress as the money earner ' conversation.
It sucks. I totally get the feeling of having to go back to the beginning. In some ways it feels like it's starting all over again. I tried to comfort myself by saying at least I GOT pregnant this time. Be kind to yourself and feel as sad as you need to. Tell hubby that you're too sad to talk about that right now. But you promise you will discuss it with him when your grief isn't so raw.
We have to deal with it now because of other financial consideration (moving house, etc) which are coming up soon and have deadlines for decisions next week.
So I just have to bite the bullet and talk about it regardless.
Pholi I am so sorry to read your news I don't really know what to say except I hope your future has another baby in store for you.
Hopeful mum I hope you have some news now and its good news. HCG levels taper off at a certain gestation. I hope that is all it is.
Sarah4Kurt I can't tell you how happy I am to read your brilliant news. I bet she is just beautiful. I hope everything went well with the birth and she is settling in well. What does your daughter think of her?
WW I hope all is well and your holding your precious baby now. What a roller Coaster you have been on.
Hello to everyone else I have not read all the posts but I hope everyone is having smooth sailing pregnancies.
I can't believe my baby is 10weeks old. I put DH referral in for a vasectomy the other day. Its the end of an era for us. I usually get pregnant once a year just its taken 2.5-3yrs to get a sticky baby so we are 100% done. A bt sad really but I am also so happy to put ttc behind us.
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I have not read all the posts but I hope everyone is having smooth sailing pregnancies.
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