Struggling today

[jesshask]

Hey guys.

I'm struggling today. I thought I would be so much better with this pregnancy but I'm much more anxious now than ever.
I'm on my 2nd pregnancy and have a beautiful 17 month old baby boy.

We spent years trying to conceive and had various missed miscarriages. Conceived my little boy naturally and totally out of the blue and exactly the same happened this time.

I literally have no symptoms at all...I'm on progesterone pesseries and Asprin. I'm literally only approaching 5 weeks now but I can't help but think the worst.

I've always taken progesterone on pregnancies and apart from son they've always masked the miscarriages I til 13 weeks.

I've had a lot of Saliva and heavy feeling in the lower back but literally nothing else.

Would appreciate some reassurance

5 weeks is super early still lovely, for me I don’t get symptoms until at least 6

I also had a lot less symptoms generally in my second pregnancy so far - it’s like my body knows what to do and it’s less of a shock!

X x

Thanks lovely for your reply.

It's really hard isn't it because you over think things so much and because the lack of symptoms are there it stresses me out.

I'm hoping to see something change soon. Maybe I should try and embrace it a bit more. Is excess saliva a symptom do we know? Xx

Yep I had the excess saliva a lot in my first - then it turned into lovely full on nausea yuck!!

OP, congratulations! And yes, excess saliva is most definitely a symptom! So is the other feeling you described. As a PP said, excess saliva will most likely change to nausea as you pass the 6 week mark. So hard not to be anxious, but it sounds like you're right on track at the moment!

Congratulations. It's super hard when you don't have symptoms. I have had two miscarriages including a missed miscarriage. With my second my morning sickness stopped at 8 weeks and my midwife tried to reassure but I miscarried not long after. This time I had the same again and started freaking out so we had a private scan and there was a heartbeat! I mention this as every pregnancy is different.

So I am still constantly anxious but I am trying to focus on small milestones each week. I just can't wait now to get through the 12 week scan.

With multiple losses could you ask about extra scans? I know I couldn't cope waiting till 12 weeks - it's mentally too long.

I had extra scans on my little boy who's now 17 months and my consultant did it every week until I was 14 weeks.
I have an early scan a week Monday which I should be around the 6 week mark then.

I think I'm being a bit silly considering I'm newly pregnant but It was so unexpected. Now I'm so happy about it I have the fear of it being taken away.

I hope I start to develop more symptoms as we go on x

Hello @jesshask :)
I am 17 weeks pregnant and i didn't have any symptoms at all other than my back and hips aching I was shocked when my test said i was pregnant and I was convinced I wasn't pregnant, I didn't start getting more symptoms until I was about 8 weeks pregnant and then the morning sickness hit big time.
I miss carried in my first pregnancy many years ago and I didn't trust my body to keep this baby safe, I have had a lot of anxiety and its been making me feel very unwell and down in myself, I spoke to my midwife about the fact i felt very anxious and down she arranged for me to do a CBT thing and it is helping but its not easy even with people around who care for you you still feel like its all on you and your alone, but I found using this site even in the last few day (I am new to this site) has really helped me. sending you love and lots of strength
:)

Thank you so much for your reply. I've been trying to be as calm as possible but you know what it's like. The pregnancy was such a shock after we struggled to conceive for so long but now we know, we are really happy about it. I've had so many miscarriages that were Missed die to my progesterone masking it. It's a general fear of mine, but I just wish symptoms would be present and I would calm down a little lol.