Due late Oct 🎃 - early Nov 🎉

[Foxella]

I don’t know when I’m due, I’ve not had a period since DS was born but I got 1-2 weeks on a Clearblue digi this morning which puts me sometime late October or early November (I think!)
Feels like I’m too far behind the October group but too early for a November one… anyone due a similar time and want to join me? Would love to have some company 😊

I can’t take this anxiety anymore. When we have our doctors appointment on Monday I’m just going to say I don’t want the baby and hope they can arrange for it to be dealt with. I just want to start again and hopefully we can get a better outcome if we manage to get pregnant again.

Sorry everyone. I won’t post here again. I’m just bringing the vibe of the group down too much. Enjoy your pregnancies and your babies when they arrive! :)

Thanks for trying to help me! I do appreciate all of your kind words xx

@TheBirdintheCave really hope you can get the help you need at your appointment on Monday 🙏

Is anyone else not really getting any symptoms? I'm 5 weeks tomorrow so not sure if it's too early for symptoms but apart from slightly sore boobs I feel completely normal.
I have my first midwife appointment on the 21st for booking in so just waiting for that at the moment. I feel less anxious if I break things down into smaller chunks like that, makes it more manageable for me.

@Frida9 I don’t have any! I very occasionally get slight moments where I think I might feel sick, then it goes so I’m probably imagining it 😂

@Frida9 im5 weeks today and not feeling much either. Here are a few things that may be pregnancy symptoms but I’m not too sure! Boobs a little heavy when I take off my bra in the evening. Getting slight food aversions but seems to pass fairly quickly. Had heartburn the other night. I’m thirsty a lot. I think I’m peeing more often. Hard to know. Oh and I think I’m getting tired earlier in the evening the last 2 evenings. This is all very vague and I don’t really know if I’d call any of it pregnancy related! I wish I had something that I could say for sure is related to being pregnant. I’m not sure if just making all of this up in my head!!
@TheBirdintheCave I do hope all works out well for you. I think once you get to the first scan you will feel so much more confident. I hope you get the help and support you need to go forward with the pregnancy. Please don’t feel you can’t post here for support. We’re all worried and trying to get through these first few weeks together!

Glad it's not just me 😂 I had a headache 3 evenings this week which I thought could be a symptom but I've not got anything tonight so who knows!

Acid reflux / heartburn is getting real tonight ladies!!😂

@TheBirdintheCave please don't feel like you can't post here please keep us updated on how you are lovely x

@DM1720 my symptoms A bit more bloating and wind. A stronger sense of smell. Like I realized out fridge stinks and had some time on Wednesday so cleaned it out. At the same time I'm really enjoying protein foods like I don't normally, tofu and those cheep, fake crab sticks and also eggs. Plus I'm more thirty and need to per more often.

Morning all,

Really regret doing this now, but I took a Clear Blue digital weeks, hoping to see a 3+ and it's still only 2-3 🙁

I'm 5+2 so it should be 3+ by now. I know so many people say they are unreliable, but I I've been through this before with the same pattern. I'm devastated!

@theblueflowers that happened me this week.
Took one at 5+2 and it was still 2-3. Took it again at 5+4 and it went to 3+. I was googling like crazy, some only get 3+ at 6 or more weeks and all is fine and some people never get 3+ and everything also works out.

So stressful. I don't have a lot of symptoms so I am a little worried but hopefully everything is okay. First scan is two weeks away.

Morning ladies 😊

I’m totally exhausted and was asleep by 9pm last night 😴 still feel it this morning and adding a bit of nausea in, typical that it’ll be my day off that I start feeling yuck. I think I’ve got a bit of a cold coming too which I’m dreading as pregnancy = no lemsip or anything that does any good 😫

@TheBirdintheCave I’m sorry that you’re struggling. Do you have a close friend/mum/sister that you can talk to? It’s so hard to step back and look at things from the outside, especially with all the pregnancy hormones. We’re all here to talk to as much as you like.

@theblueflowers they are totally unreliable! I’ve seen plenty of ladies say they never got a 3+ but had a perfectly healthy pregnancy, you could have had a more diluted sample, and there’s such a huge range of ‘normal’ HCG anyway. They’re a novelty guide for some and a horrible worry for others. I know that none of that will help. I hate this anxious stage where we pin all our emotions on these little sticks, they’re so cruel, but somehow we all do it. If everything else seems fine then there’s no reason to let that test make you think otherwise 💐

@HellsBellsK same for me, 2 more weeks until first scan, it feels like ages! But if I had one sooner I know I’d want another so I’m holding out

@TheBirdintheCave I’m sorry you feel so anxious :( Definitely keep talking about how you’re feeling to partner and people you trust.

@theblueflowers I really wouldn’t read too much into the weeks indicator (easier said than done I know, I’ve been there!). With my daughter I had the same thing and didn’t get 3+ til nearer 6 weeks. She’s now 3! Some people have slower rising HCG levels but it doesn’t mean anything is wrong. This time round I got my 2-3 and 3+ earlier than I was expecting and stressed myself out by Googling that as apparently that can be a bad thing too!!

Have my scan this afternoon and the anxiety is intense. I’m counting down the hours. Unfortunately I had a terrible night as woke up to pee twice and then had a migraine at 3am, felt like someone was drilling into my head and made me vomit due to the pain! Couldn’t get back to sleep til 6am and even then it wasn’t for long so I’m exhausted! I get migraines a lot so not completely unusual and I think it was triggered by a very stressful week and pregnancy anxiety!

@Bramblecrumble21 those are my symptoms too. I'm so bloated I look 16 weeks pregnant 😂

@Bringonbaby3 aw best of luck with your scan today! How exciting. I'm sorry you had such a bad night, that sounds awful and isn't going to make you feel any better. I hope everything goes well, keep us updated 💐

The bloating has been unbelievable … solid and huge!!! Thankfully I haven't had the sickness yet (hopefully won't) :)
Hope everyone is smiling

@theblueflowers - this is my third pregnancy following two miscarriages, technically both missed miscarriages picked up on early scans.
I got 2-3 at a certain date, expected 3+ one week later and it didn't happen, got 3 + 2 days after expected...

Now, I'm a bit of a fraud being here, as I'm already 8+4, my last scan was 7+5/6 with a strong heartbeat, so fingers crossed as this is the furthest I've come in terms of growth. I've become a bit obsessive having many private scans though, hopefully I can back off from those soon...

I wanted to mention sickness as I can see the is is a big theme / topic of convo here. I've not thrown up once. I have heavy and sore boobs, which are big anyway so it can be a nightmare! I also have nausea of varying degrees at varying times, often enough to make me sick a little in my mouth but never full on sick.

I've also noticed that pre pregnancy 3 I was eating a lot of rubbish (try not to judge haha) to console myself following the miscarriages, it started at the point of loss. I would eat crisps chocolate and ice cream after dinner. Now the thought makes me feel ill, so I can eat something sweet after dinner, I.e. and ice lolly and maybe a few bits of chocolate but I can't stomach a lot...

I do feel bloated and I'm up every night from before the alarm to pee.

All these are positive symptoms I know, but I'm continuing and functioning in day to day life. A) I guess that makes me very lucky B) it panics me that because I'm not super sick I'm going to lose the baby. That wasn't my point of posting though! It was more to give reassurance that at least up to 7 weeks + 5/6 my pregnancy has been going perfectly. So for those who aren't too sick, it's not necessarily a bad thing...

A friend of mine had her son 18 months ago, she didn't even find out she was pregnant until 8 weeks (I'd have loved that luxury with no obsessive testing haha!) - point being, her symptoms were obviously very mild until that point for her not to clock!

I have another scan tomorrow, so wish me luck honestly, this experience is so scary, the nerves are just something else. Every week feels like a year, but here we are and I've made it through these nerves for nearly 9 weeks now and so can you!

In my obsessive reading, I've found that after 6 weeks with a heart beat, the chances of everything being ok are 78%, after 8 weeks, the chances go up to 98% so for me, I think I can gain a lot of comfort when I have a scan past 8 weeks

I hope you all have wonderful and successful pregnancies.

Is there a FB group I can join? If I can get through the 9 months it would be great to join a group of people who are in the same situation

Hi all, just checking in and hoping you are all doing ok. Praying for healthy pregnancies for all of us 😊

I am 5+2 today and so far my symptoms have been ridiculous bloating (I already look about 6 months), sore boobs and tiredness. Pretty mild but the bloating is annoying me greatly lol.

Has anyone else had bloating previously? Does it stay throughout the whole pregnancy?

This is my first experience with conception so I don't feel overly anxious. I did 3 tests in week 4 and got strong positives and have left it there. Planning on booking a private scan for week 8... I think.

Thank you all for your encouraging messages. I know I can't do anything at this stage but wait and see, but that's just so frustrating! I think I was just a bit shocked this morning to not see what I was expecting, even though this entire trimester is filled with uncertainty.

Really going to try and put it to the back of my mind as much as I can and just focus on the fact that I am experiencing nothing to suggest anything is going wrong.

@Bringonbaby3 all the best for your scan this afternoon, totally understand how anxiety inducing the whole process can be x

@thebirdinthecave it's definitley worth speaking to the GP about the anxiety because if you do want a baby then termination isn't the answer but perhaps they can help you through these first few weeks otherwise when you get pregnant again you may face the same anxiety so a termination isn't addressing the current problem. Either way, it's your decision and whatever you decide is best for you!

@bringonbaby3 good luck!!! Mines in 2 days ahh!

@theblueflowers so many threads I have seen people even going down in weeks but still having a healthy baby by the end of it. I have one more clearblue but deciding not to use it to avoid any anxiety like this as its so common from reading threads about clearblue indicators

@dreams2727 thays promissing to hear! As I am having various levels of nausea at 6 weeks and worrying it's "not enough" so ots promissing to hear someone further along also isn't super sick!

Hope it’s ok to join,
Surprise pregnancy 😊 3rd baby both girls suffered badly with hyperemisis, I’m hoping this one I can enjoy more.
Last period 24th Jan - due 31st October

@lilyj13 hey! Welcome x

My last period was 23rd Jan and I am due 30th October. We got this 🙏

@Bringonbaby3 how did your scan go?
@lilyj13 welcome to the group! Hope you don’t get too sick this time round! 😬

It all went well thank you! I’m about 6w4d and saw baby and heartbeat. It just looked like a small blob but has given me some reassurance!

@Bringonbaby3 ohhhhh look at the little baby 🥺 so glad everything went well and you saw the heartbeat. What an amazing feeling 🤍