Hello all, it's been good reading & catching up with everything!
Truffkin, I remember when you got your BFP! Can't believe you're now almost at the end - really hope it all goes well for you all & look forward to hearing all about it when Little Miss / Master Truffkin arrives 
Congrats on the BFP Ready, very exciting! I waited a bit before going to see the GP (I was 7 weeks I think) and she didn't seem to mind. As long as you get there in time for them to organise your 12 week scan I don't think it matters when you go. They do give you lots of helpful info (well, mine did) about diet, supplements etc.
Well, I had a bit of a traumatic day yesterday. (it has been at least 2 weeks since my last crisis 
) I was sitting having my lunch at work when I felt something similar to if I was wetting myself - I know I've been needing to wee a LOT recently, but not needing it so badly that I haven't made it to the loo in time! Anyway, I finished my lunch quickly and went to the toilet and had a total panicy meltdown - my knickers were saturated with blood, with my tights down the blood was running down my legs, the toilet bowl turned red in seconds, it was absolutely awful. I cleaned myself up as best I could ran out & found my team leader, hauled him into a meeting room and said 'I'm 9 weeks pregnant (first he'd heard of it!) and I'm bleeding heavily'. He has 2 DDs so he's a bit of an old hand with all this pg malarky - he put me into a cab to the hospital. The blood was still coming out at quite a rate and I was really upset by the time I got to the hospital where DH was waiting for me. I was actually telling myself off for having got too confident that this one would be ok after than early scan. Something along the lines of, the more convinced I am that it's going to fail, the more it's likely not to - if I think it's going to be ok, it'll all go wrong. Highly rational.
So Emergency referred me straight to the EPU and as I was sitting there with DH trying not to think about my bean coming unstuck, I thought about your experience Womanly, you had all that heavy bleeding and your bean was ok, wasn't it? So I told DH about that and we tried to make ourselves feel a bit better... Had the scan and there was the bean, heart flickering away, waving it's stumpy limbs around and turning somersaults! Oh my word, the relief was like the most enormous wave of emotion, I couldn't speak - DH was welling up and trying not to let it show! The obs consultant said she had no explanation for it, just that it happens to about 1 in 5 women before they reach 12 weeks. I'm going back next week for another scan to make sure the bean is still growing. I'm still spotting, but after the serious amount of blood that came out in one hit yesterday, you'll never hear me fretting about a little bit of spotting again! It was way way more than when I miscarried, I had never seen anything like it!
So, I'm 9+1, completely wrung out and emotionally drained. I have another scan at 10 weeks, another at 12. Marking those milestones like Womanly and hoping we all get through it ok! I feel like I'm being properly high-maintenance which is so unlike me in every other area of my life! And I STILL need to wee!