Hello Galaxy, mamma, Nordic, Emz, and everyone else who joined over the last 2 days! Congratulations to you all!
Nutella - I’m currently 4 weeks + 4 days – and I’m yet to experience nausea and other ‘orrible symptoms which will doubtless come along. But paranoia is an ongoing symptom… I did a(nother!) CB digital today and came out 2-3 weeks, which is great.
Went to see the doctor with DH earlier today and she basically said: ‘Congratulations – now come back in 4 weeks so we can sort you out for the 12 week scan!’
We did have a helpful conversation about the risk of mc, which (to DH’s frustration) she said there weren’t any particularly definitive/reliable statistics on. Apparently there isn’t very much anyone can do at this stage to prevent or accidentally cause mc. So if I accidentally eat a piece of brie and 5 tins of tuna and subsequently mc, it was important for us to know that the mc isn’t my fault.
She also said to keep going for a jog as I normally did prior to pregnancy, and that I would eventually reach a stage in which it just wasn’t comfortable for me to do it anymore, and that’s fine.
Like almostfullyfunctional, it’s important to me to carry on with exercise because I suffer from anxiety and The Black Dog. I really struggled to decide whether or not to continue with the medication I’d been prescribed, but my past history (and my mum’s own terrible struggle with PND) persuaded DH to drag me to the doc before we started TTC so we could all have a proper conversation about it. In my case, the doc suggested I switch to a low dose of Sertraline, which she said has a slightly lower “pregnancy risk profile” (whatever that means!), and after a lot of worrying, I decided to follow her advice.
I’d prefer not to be popping pills, though. 