4 weeks and 5 days pregnant

[Littleseed2020]

Hi all, I am brand new here. I found out on Thursday that I am pregnant and after trying for 4 years, was absolutely thrilled.

It’s Saturday today and for some reason today I am feeling terrified. My sore boobs seem to have stopped and I have no other symptoms at all so I’m petrified that I’m not pregnant anymore. Perhaps it’s irrational I don’t know.

I want to enjoy this time so much but it’s all I have ever wanted and so I’m so nervous that it’s going to go wrong. I feel stupid but every time I go to the toilet I am checking the paper for blood!!

Someone please help me to calm down.

Thanks in advance xx

Pregnancy symptoms come and go.

My boobs stopped hurting quite quickly but then ached just a few weeks later.

@Littleseed2020 I can't help you calm down but I can join you. I'm 4+6 today. I've been trying for 2.5years and this is an IVF pregnancy so I understand your anxiety. It's such an awful time. I'm constantly prodding my boobs even though I'm on progesterone which makes the sore anyway. I'm desperately looking for nausea, I think I might have had some but it could be in my head. I'm driving myself insane. I have a scan at 6+4 and I don't know how I'm going to make it to then. I really don't see how I can enjoy this.

Oh goodness me well congratulations to you for being pregnant too!!! It is so hard. It’s all I’ve wanted for such a long time and I feel ungrateful for not enjoying it but I’m so scared it won’t stick. I’ve had no sickness at all!!! I’m wishing you all the luck x

That’s reassuring, thank you! I’ve had a few little twinges today, like period pain but fainted but I’m torn into whether to be happy about that or scared! I’m going to be a bloody nightmare! X

Hello ladies, hope you don't mind me posting. I totally get the boob prodding and going to the toilet to wipe and check!
I'm 5 weeks today according to LMP.
I'm very anxious as I had CP a couple of months ago and the tests I took last weekend weren't progressively getting darker. So I've stayed away from testing all week and decided to live in ignorant bliss for just a little while.
I've got a digi for tomorrow morning waiting, I'm bricking it!
Congratulations to both of you!! xxx

I'm planning to do a FRER tomorrow morning then maybe a digital on Wednesday (5+3) to hopefully see the 3+. I've had 2 MCs so it's hard not thinking it will happen again.

I know how you feel @LillyLeaf
It's such a nail biting time! I got a 1-2wks pregnant last Sunday. So hoping for some progression tomorrow morning!
Good luck with your test tomorrow! xx

I’m so sorry you’ve had two miscarriages, that’s absolutely awful. Now that I’m pregnant (apparently!!) I know how absolutely devastated I would be and I’ve only known since Thursday.

I haven’t tested since the one I did Thursday that was positive, I wanted to go out today and buy another test but my husband stopped me and said I’ll go mad if I live like this. He said if I have no symptoms to suggest anything bad has happened, then I need to try and calm down. Easy for him to say!! X

He is right. You really don't need to keep testing. There's much more chance that this pregnancy will work out than not but we'll worry anyway. If taking another test makes you feel better then do it.

Congratulations to you all on your BFPs!
I'm super early as well, 4+3 and got my BFP at 14DPO on Wednesday... I really want to relax and enjoy it but I'm on pins and can't think about anything else!
Prodding boobs, going to the toilet to check all the time, Googling every cramp and twinge... it's not much fun is it? :(
Hopefully we'll all feel better as the days pass by.
Wishing you all happy, healthy pregnancies x

Dav87, I am EXACTLY the same. Poking my boobs to see if there is any pain at all. I look every time I wipe for blood and almost stop breathing. Ugh it’s awful. I didn’t feel like this Thursday or yesterday, but today it’s full blown anxiety and panic.

I’m torn between wanting to get another test to reassure myself and finding what I most fear and not wanting to know LOL! Madness.

Congratulations to you on your BFP! X

Hi, I am 10 weeks along now and have had the same panics as you. The only real symptom I've had is tender swollen boobs, with occasional mild nausea thrown in. The sore boobs will be quite bad for a few days and then it will be fine but then it comes back. I recall that around 5 weeks it went away entirely for a few days and I had an early scan at 6 weeks and all was fine. So basically, what I am trying to say is don't over think it or panic. Likely in a few days your boobs will be sore again!!

Congratulations and good luck!

Ah LH1987 thank you so much 😊 that is genuinely very reassuring. Who’d have thought we would be wishing for sore boobs or sickness LOL!!

I wish you a happy and healthy pregnancy. Does it feel less surreal yet? X

@Littleseed2020 yes it does, thankfully! I am still constantly overthinking every little thing. In fact just this afternoon I was concerned that my boobs were not sore anymore, despite waking up this morning with them being terrible!

I think we need to make peace with the fact that for nine months we will not be thinking logically and worrying about totally miniscule things.

Ha so true! X

@Littleseed2020 hi, I'm 10+3 weeks today and found out when I was around 4 weeks. I remember feeling the same as you for the first week or 2, because I still felt 'normal'.. then the nausea hit, and has been with me ever since (unless I'm asleep!). I have had sore boobs but this seems to come and go. I've read that it's unusual for nausea to hit before the 5/6 week mark so try not to worry about that - maybe you'll be in the lucky 20% who don't get it at all! As for other symptoms, as far as I'm aware they do come and go. All you can do is take things a day at a time, and I won't tell you not to worry because I'm aware that's impossible! All the best x

@Littleseed2020 forgot to say, during the time I was feeling really anxious, I bought a few cheap pregnancy tests and did one every few days to reassure me. Then a few weeks on I did a digital test to see if it said 3+ weeks, as opposed to my 1-2 week positive digital. I have heard of others doing further tests then finding it worrying if the result line is fainter than the last test etc, but it reassured me x

Hi HL123, ah congratulations on your pregnancy. 10 weeks, that’s amazing, you must be so pleased. Any bump showing yet?

Thank you for your message, that is reassuring. Feeling normal is exactly it, I don’t feel at all different. I’m obviously very happy I’m not feeling sick yet, but something, anything would help haha x

Hi just wanted to comment on the "loss" of pregnancy symptoms. I got a +ve result at 3+5 -obsessed- and then had a little bleed at 5+1. The hospital said it might be a miscarriage but there was nothing they could do until i was 6 weeks, and then they'd scan me. For those 6 days, I didnt have a single symptom (or convinced myself I didnt) but everything was fine.

Just wanted to say try to relax, its so hard, but good luck.

Congratulations on your pregnancy I'm sure your so excited! I was the same with my pregnancy to the point where I had 3 early internal scans due to cramping and loss of symptoms.. my wee boy is now 16 months 😊 i

Congratulations on your Pregnancies everyone! I'm 5 weeks today with Baby number 2(according to my LMP). My DS was 2 on the 2nd of Nov!

I am also feeling terrified something is going to go wrong every little cramp or stretch I feel in my abdomen freaks me out. So nice to have others to talk to.

With my DS I was sick from 6-23 weeks I felt like I had a bug that just wouldn't go away I was in bed the whole time. I'm just hoping it doesn't happened again this time because I have a toddler to look after now i don't have the luxury of staying in bed Haha.

So far I've had mild nausea in the mornings and through out the say when i get hungry. Tiredness but the worry seems to be giving me insomnia! Cramps and stretching in my uterus. Heightened sense of smell and sore beasts but they do come and go they seem to be more painful at night!

@Littleseed2020 Thankyou! It's my first so don't think I'm showing yet.. but I've gained weight purely from only being able to face eating carbs for the past few weeks 😂
I hope you're able to enjoy feeling 'normal' as much as possible for now!

Omg omg!! I can't quite believe it still! Didn't quite believe the digi so went mad and did other tests as well as an OPK!

@pottypotamus that's great, I'm still nervous about doing a digital. I did a FRER this morning and the test line was so strong the control line was faint. I'll do a digital either Tuesday or Wednesday. 5 weeks today and decided to freak out about ectopic pregnancies because I haven't had one so I'll probably have one... Roll on 12 weeks, actually 20 weeks please.

@LillyLeaf
Wow if you FRER is that strong you should get a good result on a digi. But I can understand why you'd want to wait.
I know the worrying doesn't end. And when they're born it carries on!!