Less than 12 weeks pregnant club! 2

lisa26_2

Just wanted to add my experience. I had REALLY bad pain and some light bleeding at about 6 and a half weeks, had a scan which showed everything was fine and was told the pain etc. was probably from implantation....yes it can and does happen as late as that apparently!!! Anyway, i'm now 17 weeks so a good example that pain and bleeding early on is not always a bad sign. Fingers crossed for those of you with worries at present xx

dizziblonde

whowants2brich wrote: »

Two schools of thought. a) too many scans are not always good, extra stress and anxiety of going to the hospital so often, plus it stresses the baby if you are stressed too... and b) what will a scan show? My theory with all this pregnancy lark is to just wait for each day to pass, and every day without pain/bleeding is a good day. And hopefully we'll hit 9 months... If we do, great... if we don't, well, we'll have to try again. A scan a week won't help either way.

One of the things the recurrent miscarriage consultant told me when we first went to see her was that they had research that showed that often just the extra monitoring and reassurance scans could be enough to tip the difference into a successful outcome. Certainly I know this time round we had weekly scans from her from weeks 5-11 and it made a huge difference in terms of stress and sanity levels if nowt else (and possibly the outcome to be honest - although with that you never know 100%)

museumworker

Just popping in quickly to say I have my first midwife appointment this morning! Am now 8+6, this stage is going soooo slowly!

scarly

whowants2brich wrote: »

Just out of curiosity, what date do you have down for your OV? What date did you get the BFP? Maybe your cycle length was different/longer, and whilst the LMP date says 7+2, if you're on a 35-day cycle then you would actually be 6+2... IYSWIM....

LMP was 17th Sept, ov'ed on 10th Oct according to OPKs, FF and CM. I usually have a 10 day LP so expected AF on 21st Oct (which would have put me on a 33 day cycle, my usual is 32-35) and tested on 22nd Oct at 12DPO. Got an extremely faint TLP on IC, but did a digi which said 1-2 weeks. I then did another digi a week later and got 2-3 weeks, and another a week later and got 3+, that was on the 5th Nov. If I was dating by LMP I would be 8+5 now, so I've been basing it on ov date and a 'perfect' cycle to come up with a reasonable number. There could be 1 or 2 days wiggle room if I ov'd a day later than I thought and it took up to a day to fertilise.

Two schools of thought. a) too many scans are not always good, extra stress and anxiety of going to the hospital so often, plus it stresses the baby if you are stressed too... and b) what will a scan show? My theory with all this pregnancy lark is to just wait for each day to pass, and every day without pain/bleeding is a good day. And hopefully we'll hit 9 months... If we do, great... if we don't, well, we'll have to try again. A scan a week won't help either way.

I absolutely understand your point and of course these things are always very personal decisions and most often the less interference the better. For me, I know I will be more stressed not knowing what's happening than I will be if I have another scan. My booking-in appt isn't until the 8th Dec, and I won't have an NHS scan for at least another 2-3 weeks after that, plus with Christmas in the way, it'll probably end up being in January before they do a dating/nuchal(sp?) test etc and I'll get to see if everything is progressing as it should. Also, this is my first pregnancy, so I'm just more nervous, and not exactly sure when to expect scans and things. Plus obviously the increased risk of MC from the PCOS is making me doubly nervous.

I'd like to be able to tell my family at Christmas that we're expecting, but I really don't want to tell everyone only to discover that the beanie didn't make it. So, if I have a scan in a couple of weeks it will reassure me and my DH, and if anything has gone wrong I'll have at least a couple of weeks to ease the pain before having to act suitably at Christmas with the rest of my family, most of whom don't know yet.

Thanks, you too, I'm more worried about your scenario than I am about ours, let's hope that your dates are wrong and that implantation was a few days late...

All we can really do is hope, right? Wishing you and your OH a happy and healthy beanie and mummy :T

Thanks skintchick and lisa26 as well.

xxx

RebekahR

Morning All. I recieved my BFP over the weekend and am now 4+2. I don't really feel pregnant at all! I don't think I have morning sickness per say but I am finding it very hard to eat meals at the moment. I am always hungry but when I try to eat I feel unsettled after and a tad queasy. My goal is the little and often mantra but really getting fed up of eating now!Not been to gp yet will make an appointment next week.

Plans_all_plans

Hi Rebekah, congratulations. I'm 11 weeks tomorrow and have had terrible morning sickness. Hopefully you won't get it! I'm still having trouble eating: the thought/smell of food and even going in the fridge makes me want to hurl, but if I don't eat, I wretch so much it's unreal.

If you do get it, I've found that forcing myself to eat little but often helps.

jovichick123

Hi all

Congrats RebekahR :beer: (non-alcoholic ofc :P) And to all the newbies I have missed over last few weeks :wave: and congrats Wishing you all happy and healthy pregnancies

I am 11+5 today - still feeling really tired but am holding onto the hope that will ease off soon Not been online much as work has been manic and have been asleep by 8pm most nights Have my scan next week - am not sure if I am more excited or nervous. There is no sign that there are any problems, doesn't always stop you worrying though does it?

Thought I would reproduce the list below so that everyone can update themselves, think I have used the most recent one

Pistachio - no scan date yet (EDD 30th May)
LegalBlonde - no scan date yet (EDD 26th May)
Jovichick123 - 23rd November (EDD 2nd June)
Ginvzt - 28th October (wk 7) (EDD 13th June)
Triangle - no scan date yet (EDD 18th June)
Kaemi - no scan date yet (EDD 18th June)
LJane74 - no scan date yet (EDD 18th June)
Cullumpster - no scan date yet (EDD 28th May I think)
lixi - no scan date yet (EDD 20 June 2012)

12-24 week thread
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2999450

Pregnancy thread
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3297168

(can you tell I can't do fancy linky things :rotfl:)

Please feel free to update/add yourselves to list

Hope all ok, (((hugs))) to all who need em

Jovi x

scarly

Pistachio - no scan date yet (EDD 30th May)
LegalBlonde - no scan date yet (EDD 26th May)
Jovichick123 - 23rd November (EDD 2nd June)
Ginvzt - 28th October (wk 7) (EDD 13th June)
Triangle - no scan date yet (EDD 18th June)
Kaemi - no scan date yet (EDD 18th June)
museumworker - no scan date yet (EDD 23rd June)
Sexki11en - 14th November(wk7) (EDD 2nd July)
LJane74 - no scan date yet (EDD 18th June)
Cullumpster - no scan date yet (EDD 28th May I think)
lixi - no scan date yet (EDD 20 June 2012)
scarly - no scan date yet (EDD 2nd July)

Thank jovichick

xxx

whowants2brich

Our EDD is July 2nd, if we get that far...

whowants2brich

scarly wrote: »

LMP was 17th Sept, ov'ed on 10th Oct according to OPKs, FF and CM. I usually have a 10 day LP so expected AF on 21st Oct (which would have put me on a 33 day cycle, my usual is 32-35) and tested on 22nd Oct at 12DPO. Got an extremely faint TLP on IC, but did a digi which said 1-2 weeks. I then did another digi a week later and got 2-3 weeks, and another a week later and got 3+, that was on the 5th Nov. If I was dating by LMP I would be 8+5 now, so I've been basing it on ov date and a 'perfect' cycle to come up with a reasonable number. There could be 1 or 2 days wiggle room if I ov'd a day later than I thought and it took up to a day to fertilise.

Well, My DW's LMP was Sept 26th, a whole 9 days later than you, but our IVF cycle meant that collection/induced OV was on October 10th, the exact same date as you, how freaky...

We got the TLP/BFP on 24/26 October, so we are roughly the same times. My guess is that it is not impossible we'll have the same due date, if both pregnancies go ok... and yes, I appreciate that there are complications at the moment with both so who knows...