Symptoms fading at nine weeks... terrified

[CobaltRose]

Hi everyone.

I'm currently 9+1. This is my second pregnancy but (hopefully) first baby. My first pregnancy sadly ended in a missed miscarriage in April. I was supposed to be 12 weeks, but a scan revealed an empty sac, so baby never developed

In hindsight, my symptoms with this pregnancy have been way worse than with the pregnancy I lost, but in the past couple of days I've noticed my symptoms have been decreasing gradually. I've gone from getting severe nausea to feeling fine, and from my boobs being super sore and sensitive to only really hurting when I press them or catch them on something. I still retch when I brush my teeth (fun!) and get the occasional wave of nausea in the evenings and after eating, but aside from that I feel fine!

I'm terrified history is repeating itself I've had two early reassurance scans, one on the 24th of July at 7 weeks and one just four days ago. Both scans showed a healthy baby, growing well (was actually measuring two days ahead at my last scan) and with a heart beating away strongly ❤ But I'm terrified things may have gone wrong in the days since my scan. I've got my first midwife appointment on Wednesday.

Somebody please reassure me! I've gone from wishing my nausea would go away, to worrying myself silly now it has (mostly) gone!

Thanks

Bump!

I'm 10 weeks and have definitely noticed that the symptoms fluctuate. I think I had a few days at 8 or 9 weeks when my boobs were much less sore and I felt pretty functional nausea-wise - so I absolutely freaked out - but now I feel gross as ever and last scan showed that the baby is fine.

Of course I can't guarantee that everything is fine, but if you saw the heartbeat and healthy growth 4 days ago, that's really reassuring. I've had MCs myself and I can appreciate how particularly horrible only discovering an MMC at 12 weeks must be. This stuff really hangs over you, I know. But try to remind yourself this is a really different situation: you've seen the baby twice now, so whatever happens, your 12 week scan is definitely not going to show an empty sac. Looking from an absolute worst case scenario, if you've had another MMC in the past few days, it won't be indicated by decreased symptoms anyway.

Fingers crossed for you. The chances of this bean sticking are so hugely elevated now that you've seen the heartbeat. Just try to stay calm!

@ladycarlotta, thank you so much. Your words are certainly very reassuring.

It's funny, when I was very nauseous I wished for it to go away, and now it has I'm wishing it would come back!

The placenta starts taking over hormone production from week 8, though only fully by week 12 which is the typical time everyone feels better. So I think it's definitely possibly to start getting fewer symptoms from week 8, depending on the individual and how effective your placenta takes over. I felt dramatically better in week 8 which really worried me as I also had a MMC two years ago (ironically with that one, I didn't actually lose any symptoms and felt increasingly sick/pregnant right up till the day it happened even though the embryo stopped developing 2 weeks earlier). I had a reassurance scan at 8 weeks which showed everything being ok, and even asked my dr if it's normal to start feeling better so soon. He told me to be grateful and enjoy it :P!!

It's completely normal honey, due my 3rd baby this week and around about the same time I noticed my symptoms go down too. Everytime the sore boobies went away I panicked (never had morning sickness) with all my pregnancies so it's not at all wrong to feel worried. So long as you aren't cramping or bleeding then my only advice is to assume everything is okay unless told otherwise. I think most mummies feel a bit on edge until we can feel baby bouncing but your symptoms will come and go throughout.

This is taken from the miscarriage association web pages on early scanning and miscarriage

"Research amongst women with a history of recurrent miscarriage has shown that those who saw a heartbeat at 6 weeks of pregnancy had a 78% chance of the pregnancy continuing. It also showed that seeing a heartbeat at 8 weeks increased the chance of a continuing pregnancy to 98% and at 10 weeks that went up to 99.4%."

I've also been there and the not knowing is so hard, but the fact that you ahd a good, strong heart beat past 8 weeks is a really good sign.