Hello all! Lovely to see so many of us all in the same boat. Though, logically speaking, others being nervous shouldn't have any effect on me, there is always something reassuring about knowing you're not the only one.
Kannet so glad all is well - it must have been terrifying.
Well we had the scare of a lifetime yesterday, all ready to celebrate 12 weeks today and looking forward to our scan tomorrow, but last night in the midst of a little, er, "passion"
, I suddenly started bleeding, a lot. It was full-on red blood and both DH and I were frozen in fear. Called the hospital and they told us to come in this morning. We just lay cuddled up for ages, praying to God that we wouldn't lose the baby.
Went in to the drop-in clinique this morning, so tense and trying to prepare ourselves for the worst, and then, there on the screen was our perfect little baby - wrigging, kicking around, with a strong heartbeat. We both just burst into tears at the relief of it! The doctor told us that everything was perfectly fine, that a miscarriage at this stage was very very unlikely, and there was nothing to worry about. Apparently the fact that the bleeding happened during sex was "reassuring" (not at the time!) as it meant it was probably nothing to do with the uterus. Anyway, DH has sworn off sex "for at least the next 7 months", and we are just so very grateful that all is well.
As someone said earlier in the thread, the worry just never goes away. We keep saying "once we get to 8 weeks/12 weeks/20 weeks I'll be ok", but in reality I know I won't relax until the baby is in my arms. And then, it's just a whole new kind of fear and worry that appears. I know my mum is really worried about me being pregnant and overseas away from her, and I'm in my 30s! So I think we're in for a lifetime of this ladies, let's settle in and make ourselves comfortable on the worry train!