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!

Good for you, fish, keep looking ahead and ignore the demons.

Motor, I promise you: even after your scan, when the joy has worn off, you will worry until your next one. And then the one after that. My point is that our anxiety and doubts about this pregnancy have absolutely no bearing on the truth. Your levels are doing what the textbooks say and you have no evidence to point to any problems. Take courage.

I am over-the-moon to report that prawn-head is doing brilliantly with a strong heartbeat and is measuring 8+3, which brings my due date forward from 6th March to the 4th. And guess what? They're scanning me again in two weeks! I am so, so grateful and they have told me I am being looked after like this because of last year's mmc and because this is an IVF baby (she was polite enough to not mention I'm a dinosaur). So...my care will be consultant-led and I will be assigned a one-on-one midwife who will come to my home throughout the pregnancy!

Oh, I forgot to ask for a scan photo . It was a belly scan this time and rubbishly unclear and fuzzy - I honestly saw more at the six-weeks vaginal scan - but she pointed out the heartbeat and this prawn-like head developing. I am in love.

Thanks you, my friends, for hand-holding xxx

Oh I am over the bloody moon for you Prammy, that's the best news . And such special care!! Brilliant, brilliant news xxx

Aw, fanks, NoCarbsBeforeMarbsMaybs x

Tears are in my eyes pram - how delightful and wonderful! X

SidecarSandra, this will be you on Wednesday, I promise. You'll be skipping for, er...about forty minutes, until you find something extra to be paranoid about

Ooooh, and for the googling stat-lovers: a heartbeat at eight weeks puts the chances of miscarriage at 2%. Nurse Hatchett told me.

Yes, yes, pram you go ahead and take the piss! You're totally right though, and made me smile. I'm being pretty calm compared to my previous weeks panics! Fingers crossed I'll have a little peanut to see on Weds. X

You Will have a monkey nut to see Motor

Loving my new name Prammy so apt for my Essex connection

Thank goodness for old nurse hatchett!

Ohhhh, prammy thats wonderful! What a relief!

I am so happy for you and the prawn. I'm praying I get to the stage where I've a 98% chance of MC - I'm still fighting the demons.

Hs anyone got symptoms? Even pammy's had started by now?

fish, do not see my symptoms as a paradigm of early pregnancy! I had massive levels of HcG (remember the world was convinced I was having twins?) and that is why my symptoms were very pronounced early on. The March 2014 thread is full of women with no symptoms whatsoever and they're knocking on eight weeks. They have beige sludge/cramping/red blood/tiredness but no sore boobs or nausea or bloating or weight gain or...anything.

Hmmm... Ok.

I'm still over the moon for you though. How are you feeling? Has your sludge (what a lovely word) stopped yet?

I really do wish I could move time forward to Thursday. It seems way to far away.

Also, dates.... Surely I'm more than 2 weeks behind you? I'm sure there was a bigger gap between our EC (as so to speak) dates. I'm supposedly 6+1.

Well done Prammy! I'm glad Juicybean is doind well.

Poor Life! If it helps think of me and Maybe. We've got over two weeks to wait. Arghhhhhh!!

Oh nooks, sorry for being so self- indulgent. It is killing me that I am so neurotic about this, although I'm no where near as bad as I was yesterday.

DH an I are going to dinner tonight. I may ask for a IVF/embie discussion ban.

Fuck knows what we will talk about instead.

No no! I didn't mean that! You are not being self indulgent lovely Fish. We are all just as neurotic. Ihought that it might seem better. As in better than two weeks...

I might have healthy fish for dinner. Or burgers.

Fish you are not self indulgent. Far from it.

As for symptoms, incredible sore, massive, itchy boobs. Crippling tiredness and bloat. Oh dear me the bloat.

I'm feeling proper sick today, fish, thanks for asking.

Whenever I read about K-Middy's favourite shoes being those beige LK Bennett 'sledge shoes' I'm like:

For tea I'm making creamy tagliatelle with sausage, ricotta and basil

Ding Dong Prammy

Gadzooks! I just had a Zorba's large chicken kebab and chips followed by a Cadbury Chocolate Chaos Pot, which is the size of a small sandcastle bucket filled with [and I quote]: Cadbury chocolate mousse, vanilla mousse, Cadbury chocolate sauce, caramel sauce, chocolate sponge pieces and milk chocolate-coated shortcake biscuits. It was the dog's sweat-soaked testicles.

Oh Prammy yes to a chicken kebab. We are having curry. But I cannot eat chocolate at the moment. Unless its on a tunnocks tea cake. My poor pooch no longer has his testicles. But if he did, I'm sure they'd give your pot of chaos a run for its money.....

Ha! I know what you mean about the chocolate in general, Maybs, as I've gone off it, too. But this bucket is something else; it's just a filthy bastard heap of light mousses, a devilishly good caramel sauce and some other shit. It feels über dirty scoffing it out of a bucket, too.

I'm so very happy tonight. I hope you all have lovely weekends.

And you bloody deserve it Prammy. Hope you have a weekend of celebrations x

What you doing this weekend Marbs?