LTTTCer needing some reassurance....

I am feeling a bit emotional this morning - at 6 weeks I am feeling much better than I did a week ago. I know that probably the OHSS was the culprit for the symptoms last week. But I really thought I'd be having more pregnancy symptoms - in fact I feel fairly symptom free :(

This is what I am feeling.....

Bit of a full feeling in my lower abdomen
cervix seemed a bit higher this morning. I could not feel whether it was open or closed and usually I can
nipple did have extra bumps on them. But doesn't seem much like it this morning.
No spotting or anything at all
hungry - a lot!!!
Maybe I am a bit more emotional - but not sure if that is the LTTTC thing....

I just need some reassurance that it's normal for symptoms to wax and wane for a few days here and there. That the OHSS is supposed to reduce at this stage (I was expecting 12 weeks of it...)


I need to find the lovely positive attitude I have had this whole cycle where there is no reason why it won't work for me this time... I was doing so well just last night and this morning I feel a bit worried.

From one LTTC'er to another, I totally understand your concerns. It's so hard to embrace the pg and trust your body to do its thing.

But let me reassure you that yes, absolutely, it's normal for symptoms to come and go. I felt fine for a few weeks, hungry and a bit tired but no MS, no stretchy cramps, nothing. I can clearly remember at 6-7 weeks my husband saying - "hey, maybe you won't get sick at all!" - and then bam, hello insane nausea.

Some days I felt hideous, others fine. It was always just when I was feeling better that something new would hit.

It starts to feel more real after the first few scans and bump starts to make an appearance. The first tri is the hardest - I looked at my positive tests about a million times (yes, I kept them!) to remind myself that yep, I was in fact up the duff finally. That actually helped a lot.

Take each day as it comes and look after yourself. Congrats again :)

Oh Buffy. Thankyou so much. I am now crying... Bah...

I didn't think I would be this scared.... Just started telling people on the weekend. And now I think I'm scared even more that I have jinxed myself... Doh....

Im a bit of a teary sook anyway... But maybe it's the hormones too....

Big big big hugs. Symptoms coming and going is very normal, and being worried about it is even more normal. Unfortunately, the LTTTC journey doesn't seem to end with the BFP, it has latched on and follows us for life. Enjoy your next scan, I hope you see a beautiful bouncing little bubba.

Yep, totally normal for symptoms to go on a holiday. Some days there it will feel annoyingly 'normal' and then the worry really kicks in, and then as suddenly as the symptoms 'disappear', BAM, they are back!

FWIW I rarely felt any real consistent symptoms before the end of 6 weeks and more into 7 weeks.

Hunger is a FANTASTIC symptom as well, man i could just keep on eating in the beginning :lol:

:hug: myturn. I am in a bit of a different situation to you so I hope you don't mind me replying...it took me 3 years and 3 mc in that time to conceive DS2. I had NO morning sickness at all and my symptoms would come and go. It's very stressful! This pg I have had absolutely no symptoms at all apart from cramping early on. I've had bleeding from 6-14 weeks, low hcg and really low progesterone (which is suspected as the reason I was mc)
I have everything crossed for you Hun xx

my symptoms went from really intense at 3.5 weeks to non-existent at 6.5 weeks - so much so that the last appointment with FS at 6.5 weeks he gave me a referral for another viability scan because it all just stopped abruptly. a few days later is started again in a big way. and thats how the whole pregnancy progressed - sick as a dog for a few days, one or two great days, and then extremely ill again! it was constantly screwing with my head!

I sometimes forgot I was pregnant in those early weeks. To me l, the symptoms you described sounded how I felt too. I ended up getting lots of m/s both times, which was reassuring (if not a little annoying, but I kept reminding myself that it was a good sign). As others have said, your journey to your BFP so doesn't end when you finally get it. I don't feel like it ends even when your baby is in your arms; even now, with a toddler and an accidental pregnancy, I still feel the hurts and old twinges of the time we spent trying for DD :hug: One day at a time was the best I could do.

Myturn you sound exactly like me in the first trimester. Actually it has only been this past week where I have past 16 weeks (my mum lost a perfectly healthy baby at 16 weeks do it kept playing on my mind) and a few people have commented in my teeny bump. My symptoms definately came and went in the beginning until they ramped up so much that I decided to panic about what all the vomiting would do. Such a scary time. Lots of people were patronizing if I admired I was scared and in the end I just kept quiet but the truth is I haven't even bought a thing just incase something goes wrong. I did go to the baby expo this weekend though so confidence must be gaining!
The point of my ramble.... Yep symptoms come and go and feeling crazy and scared makes you the perfect ltttc'er. Wishing you a very boring and healthy pregnancy. Xxx

Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou

It's scary scary scary..... But so exciting all at the same time xox

Yep, I'm sure it's all completely normal! At least that's what I keep trying to convince myself of as well ;)
There is absolutely no reason to think that anything could possibly be wrong, and yet the fear of a 'missed miscarriage' plagues me...
:hug: Soon we will be out of this limbo of a first trimester, and watching our bellies swell with baby, feeling those first flutters of movement :D

Oh Ree Ree that sounds exciting!!!! xox Thankyou lovely

my turn I felt symptoms at 4 weeks ( made me do a poas I felt so pregnant), then for the next 2 weeks NOTHING, I was petrified like you, ms started at around 6 weeks i think but only every second day or so and gone by 9 weeks. I know exactly how you feel, I just wanted to go into a coma for the first 12 weeks. Its so hard, it gets better but I still have moments when I feel like a pregnancy 'fraud'.

((hugs)) hun. I was very much the same as you, minimal to no symptoms and that had pretty much stayed the same right through until I could finally feel bubs moving. Even now I get a little worried if bubs hasn't moved and I hang for something, any little sign that bubs is still doing ok.

I was hungry constantly during the first trimester, which looking back is a definite symptom. Sometimes you are looking for the most obviously symptom being morning sickness.....

Definitely try to enjoy your pg and live in the moment. You can't change how things are going to turn out but at the moment you are pregnant and there is a good chance you will go on to have a healthy & full term pg.

Sometimes it just feels so unreal. I thought it was probably a normal feeling but it is nice to know I am not alone xox

Oh rhi! I am definitely hungry... Had lunch at 12.15. But was munch in strawberries and biscuits before that and I feel hungry again.... At least I CAN bring myself to eat this week... Last week the OHSS just messed with how everything was working and I didn't feel like eating at all - even though I was hungry...

My mother told me yesterday that 2 1/2 years 'wasn't that long' and I would 'talk myself into it' if I kept thinking about all the symproms... Bah humbug mum.

Oh, you ignore those comments hon! Don't let anything take away from your joy. You're pregnant! Keep looking at your signature, your BFP, BT results etc. It's real :)

Hey gorgeous lady. I was talking to a friend who got pregnant through ivf and she said something that made me think of you. She said when ltttc you spend so much time focusing in getting that bfp, then you do and she said all she did then was worry everything was ok. When i asked if she was enjoying being pregnant she said yes but now I want the baby to arrive safe.
It's like one massive roller coaster ride.

Enjoy everyday and use that positive thinking and relaxation you did to get pregnant to keep your nerves at bay.

Oh and by the way, it is real, you are going to be a mummy ;-))))

Always here for you anytime you need xoxo