You know when you hear about all these symptoms and ailments and go "but no one has all of them, surely?" - yeaaaah - that was naive pre-pregnancy me.
TL;DR - in which OP suffers morning sickness, spotting around week 10, anxiety, norovirus, overheating, sprained rib, cracked rib, pelvic girdle pain and gestational diabetes.
It all started off so well. DH (34) and me (33) got married and bought a big family house together last July.
December, we decided to TTC.
December 31 we get a BFP - whoop!
A week later and my boobs were on fire! Like serious ow! Over the next ten days I went from a 34 J to a 36 KK/ L.
From mid-Jan I have horrendous all day nausea. I can;t even look at anything dairy without gagging. I throw-up at least two or three times a day.
Idiot me, books in for an early private scan because I'm so excited and impatient ... which was far from reassuring. At 7 weeks they said there was only a sac. My dates must be waaay off, or I'd had a MMC. I cried and soldiered through expecting the worst. 10 weeks in I get brown discharge with what looks like uterine lining/ tissue. I'm besides myself. My GP books me in to the EPU but I have to wait a week.
DH and I go to EPU. Expecting the worst (thanks to early private scan fears). But it's all okay! There's a wiggly active baby! And 4 days ahead of schedule. So we literally conceived the first time we did the dirty.
All seems good. At 12 week scan (12+5 days) and my morning sickness seems to have subsided. All tests look good.
Week 13. DH and I get norovirus. Me, while enroute to my aunts funeral. This was so totally unfun I cannot describe!
After a week of throwing up/ diarrhea. Things start to look better. We go on honeymoon to Japan and Hong Kong weeks 16 - 19. I have problems with overheating and keeping my electrolytes balanced but otherwise good. We walk 25k to 30k steps a day. That was the brief bit of second trimester energy I had. It all went downhill from there.
I get back to the office. And I hurt. They order me some additional back support. I ache all down my left side. Really hurt. GP and midwife say sprained rib. It happens easily because of all the relaxin and growing baby (I'm short, and very short of torso). Work from home a few days... then week 22 and we have to go to the big work death-by-powerpoint day. After a 2hr powerpoint stint in uncomfortable chairs I sat and chilled. I hurt. We get on the coach back to the office. I go to move my handbag to make room for anyone else wanting to sit in the front seats... it falls... I lean down to pick it up and CRACK. Go to A&E. I've cracked the already sprained rib.
Brill!
I start getting really, really tired and thirsty around week 24. I also ache everywhere. Midwife sorts out physio referral (Surprise - you have pelvic girdle pain!).
Week 26. I notice I've lost weight. Which isn't really expected at this point. Sugar shows in urine. I ask midwife to sort out GD test.
The next couple of weeks are a blurred mix of pain, discomfort, extreme tiredness, giddiness, nausea, tingling toes and weight loss.
Week 28 (last Friday) I have the GD test. Yup I am diabetic too. Weight loss since 24 weeks currently standing at 13lbs.
Please say there's nothing more pregnancy can send my way? I hurt and feel sick and I'm permanently exhausted and weak. I just want to meet my baby and for him to be healthy. Is that too much to ask?