Early pregnancy after IVF. Please come here to worry and support!

[NookNook]

Right then! Come here if you are 4-12 weeks and can't stop fretting. Didn't think anything could be worse than the 2WW? Think again!

I know Maybe it still feels wierd. Also a bit stressful that I've had to tell people who knew I was doing IVF. Makes me feel a little bit more pressure for it to work!

Where do you live btw? Are you London based?

That's how I feel too Nook!

I'm in Essex, how about you?

Can I wade in (rather timidly though) please? Can I suggest that the airing of personal differences and grievances between posters are kept to PMs? I have had differences with other posters on here, and sometimes things do become personal, but it really ruins the general ethos of support and respect to have people slagging each other off on the thread. I am not taking sides, I am pretty ignorant about the nature and content of the grievances, and I respect everybody on here. I appreciate the support I have had from everybody, but this sort of business makes me nervous to come here. Xx

Hi Motor! Lovely to see you. Please don't be nervous. I hope that's settled it once and for all.

Where are you based? I like being able to get a bit of an idea of your lives

I'm 6+1. Still not going to believe I'm pregnant for real until I have my scan, which has now been brought forward to next Weds when I'll be 7+2. My hcg had nearly quadrupled over 4 days to 22000, which I was surprised about because the last reading was 6000 and I read that over 6000 it takes about 4 days to double.
Still very few symptoms - felt quite nauseous all morning, and getting light- headed at times, but fine otherwise.

nook I'm in Cambridge. How about you?

Ah so you're exactly a week ahead of me. So nice that we're all around the same (apart from Prammy and her immense norks steaming ahead!).

I gather it's natural to feel so utterly pessimistic as we all seem to! Roll on 12 weeks.

Very good news that they've brought your scan forward. I'm thinking of having one privately next week (at 6 weeks).

I'm in South London.

And I have very few symptoms. A bit of nausea (I think) and sore boobs. Oh and a bit of cramp but that's nearly stopped now.

nook my clinic were very clear with me that they would not consider doing a scan earlier than 7 weeks because you run the risk of not being able to see everything you want to at that stage, hence making you more anxious, and meaning that you probably have to go back again in a week. So denied that course of action (which makes sense) I resorted to the blood tests! It seems like such a long wait though doesn't it - almost unbearable.

..that's Zorba's Americana pizza with chips for you.

Motor! So lovely to see you . My clinical so refuse to see you before 7 weeks.

I have sore boobs and nausea if I don't eat. But I don't know what I want to eat. I also have constant headaches. My nurse told me paracetamol is absolutely fine, so I may have some. I also have some strange sensations down there

Motor which clinic are you at? Is it bourn hall by any chance? Only I'm at their other clinic in Essex!

Ooh, did you save me a slice Prammy?

Motor, I honestly don't think you'll believe you're having a baby until the midwife says, 'It's a boy!/girl!' [delete where appropriate] When I had my scan at 6+1 she was about to do an external belly thingy but I told her I'd just been for a piss and she asked if I minded a fannycam. The baby is as clear as owt on my photo and exactly the shape of a monkey nut, bless. I'm looking forward to seeing teeny tiny stubs for limbs this Friday

It's a bloody stressful and arduous wait isn't it, this first trimester? At least we're all in it toggevver, innit? By the time we get to the second trimester it won't make a scintilla of difference that I'm a couple of weeks ahead; we will all just be plain old preggers by then. Yay!

Did I fuck as like, Maybe, the bastard didn't even tough the sides. I was sicking into my mouth waiting for the delivery man but I'm so used to what that means now: get me some carbs and other fattening filth, pronto!

Weird feelings 'down below': yep, had them, too, a week or so back. Sometimes it felt as though my cervix was pulsating then other times I felt that vague dragging sensation in my bikini line which used to precede my period. Around six weeks I had the most terrifying firecracker-type cramps - do you remember me saying? Nasty. It may well have been a backed-up mammoth shit. Who knows?

I'm going to the scan on Friday alone....AGAIN!

*touch!

Oh, I'm Oop North, by-the-way, 45 mins away from South Lakes but nowhere near Yorkshire (eee by gum!)

Bollocks Prammy. I shall have to stick with my king prawn and chorizo pasta

Yes to the dragging feeling. Though to be fair, this is normally relieved by having monumental poo . Alone again? That sucks arse.

It does indeed suck the sweat from a cadaver's balls. Ne'er mind....hopefully he'll be at the birth

We've chosen our names

...ish

A quick hijack guys!!

Just wanted to congratulate you all - my very own 7m IVF monster has just gone to bed

I remember every last day of my pg from the dreaded 2ww through to the day I gave birth. It never got easier. I told myself after every appointment that i'd stop fretting but that lasted, oh, until I got in the car on the way home, lol

And then, the mw hands you your much longed from baby and words just cannot describe.....

well, then you have a whole load of other things to worry about

good luck, hope all goes well

Aw, thanks, Kafri, very kind of you to come and encourage us. Congrats on your baby!

I'm chuffed to buggery for Kate & Wills. Watching them with their big boy made me all warm inside. Aren't we just the most fortunate women in the world to be preggo?

Thanks so much Kafri it's so nice to know we aren't mental

Prammy what names? . Are you finding out what bits it has?!

Im also chuffed for them. I got butterflies loser