When did your early pregnancy symptoms start to fade? Is 10.5 weeks normal?

[Notamumyet81]

Hello,

Hope you are all well. I'm just looking for some reassurance I suppose on when early pregnancy symptoms usually start to fade.

I'm a pretty anxious mum-to-be already as my last pregnancy (my first) ended in a fairly traumatic miscarriage at just over 11 weeks back in October.

Fast forward to now and I'm currently 10.5 weeks pregnant again. This pregnancy has been worrisome as I had an implantation bleed at the very beginning, which at the time I thought was the beginning of the end. I then had light spotting between weeks 6-9 - mainly discoloured light-brown discharge, but with the occasional bout of pink-red, which again had me thinking everything was over! I've had two early scans, one at 6+2 which showed a heartbeat, and another at 8+2 which showed correct size and a strong, fast, heartbeat. They couldn't see any bleeding within the uterus at either scan, so it may be that the spotting was coming from my cervix. As they told me at EPU 'some women just bleed' and not to worry - but it's not ideal having this symptom straight after a miscarriage. Although with my first pregnancy I didn't have any spotting for the first 11 weeks, prior to the actual miscarriage itself.

Anyway ... my latest worry is my symptoms are starting to fade! They are not gone completely, but the last couple of days I've definitely been feeling less nauseated and my breasts aren't as tender as they were. I'm hoping that at 10.5 weeks this is fairly normal. Against my better judgement I bought a doppler and tried it for the first time yesterday. The first couple of attempts I couldn't hear anything except my own heartbeat at various points, but on the 3rd attempt I'm fairly sure I found the fetal heartbeat - I counted nearly 15 beats in 5 seconds, which seems about right, and it sounded like a steam train. This definitely made me feel a bit better ... but I'm still anxious about symptoms starting to fade! I think I'm feeling particularly anxious right now because I'm so close to the time when I lost the last pregnancy ...

Reassuring words, if you have them, would be much appreciated ...

Definitely normal. I had bleeding and multiple scans throughout the first trimester as well, so I know the anxiety well! My symptoms really came and went after 9 weeks - I'd have a teeny bit of nausea every few days but it was practically gone by 11, I think. The breast tenderness also disappeared around the same time. Hang in there!

My symptoms got more manageable around the same time but haven't disappeared completely. Just as I start feeling well for a change, the symptoms hit again, sometimes worse. Definitely feel every day is different now (I'm 12w) compared to a few weeks ago when the nausea & fatigue lasted all day every day. It's an incredibly scary time, particularly when you've already had a bad experience. I wonder if bleeding is more common after a miscarriage, due to scarring or something. I've also had a small bleed but 2 positive scans so we have faith it will be ok

Sorry to hear about your past loss and experiences this time. If it makes you feel any better my symptoms started to fade around then too. I heard it's because the placenta starts kicking in and taking over. I'm 13 weeks now and this is my 3rd pregnancy (1MC/1DS). This pregnancy has been quite different in that my sickness has been more intense but for a shorter period whereas for my DS it lasted until 16 weeks but was more manageable. I'm grateful it's eased this time but I do empathise. After having had a mc I don't think you ever stop worrying. Have you got your 12 week scan soon? That will give you some reassurance and as soon as you can feel the baby move regularly I found it a lot more reassuring. I don't have any other words of wisdom other than try not to worry. X

In both my healthy pregnancies symptoms have started to wane around 10.5 weeks. In my 2 miscarriages the symptoms went well before then. Try not to worry, it doesn't help. x

Mine started going away around that time this time around, too (later last time). I'm not sure it was exactly then, with a toddler around I don't have as much time to monitor or think about symptoms as I did the first time.

You might not stop worrying, and that's OK. If worrying really did cause miscarriages, I wouldn't have a toddler now. It doesn't help you to worry, but it won't hurt. You don't want to get into that cycle where you're worried, and then you're worried about being worried, and so on. It's just not a nice place to be.

Thank you SO much to all of you for replying and for the reassurance. Just knowing that other people have had symptoms start to wane at this point makes me feel much better!

Only another 12 days to wait for the 12 week scan. I'm hoping that I'll start to feel more confident about this pregnancy if that goes well and I get into the 2nd trimester. Although I'm sure the worry will never fully go away ... and I'm not too worried about that, but I will try to keep the nerves in check for the sake of sanity!

Thanks again

My symptoms vanished at about 9-10 weeks. So much so that I was convinced the 12 week scan would be really bad news. I'm holding the four week old result now. Enjoy the brief hiatus of symptoms.

Im 12+2 today. I don't have my scan until Friday but I too started to feel more human around the 10 week mark. I was also worried but after reading people's experiences it seems we are pretty normal

Mine came and went randomly throughout this pregnancy. It was a very anxious time because like you, I lost my last pregnancy at 10.5 weeks, and had bleeding and emergency scans at 6 weeks this time. but I'm 15 weeks now and last week's scan showed a healthy, growing, and extremely active baby!