Due late Oct 🎃 - early Nov 🎉

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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 😊

Thanks @GodspeedJune and @lilyj13

@Annny27 I was given a booklet when I was told to return in a week. The week isn’t up until Wednesday but I think it’s passed. I am feeling increasingly sick though which is a bit of a worry.

@Annny27 I'm with you on that one, in a constant state of nausea and feeling starving, sometimes it's hard to differentiate between the two!

I'm feeling a bit meh today. Had a bit of spotting yesterday with cramping and still feel crampy today. No spotting yet this morning but lots of discharge. I know spotting can be normal but it's the cramps on top that are worrying me. I can't help but feel like this is bad news. I'm supposed to go up to the path lab today for bloods but don't know whether it's worth it the way I'm feeling. Has anyone ever experienced similar?

@Jfb23 I can understand your concerns. I have had 2 losses, but I didn't have any warning, they were both picked up on early scans so I've never experienced the onset of MC so to speak, although both times I had to wait for another scan and the day of /day before said scan, I had a teeny bit of spotting.
Firstly, cramping is totally normal in the sense the uterus stretches, so that may bring some comfort.
I would be worried about the blood, but equally, a bit of spotting can be totally normal, especially in early pregnancy
Can you get yourself and private scan or will your local EPU scan you? How far along are you?

I'm really struggling with nausea, I've been sick a few times, I am struggling to work and feel very weak, off to hospital tomorrow so will ask for different meds as cyclizine and ondansatron not really working for me 😞 how long does this last for

@dreams2727 sorry for you losses. We actually have an early scan booked for Saturday which I was really excited for but now I'm just nervous. We were also going to take our toddler but not sure if that's a good idea and whilst my parents would have her, I don't really have an excuse for why we need childcare for a random hour on a Saturday. I know logically it could all be okay and these symptoms can be normal, but I'm not thinking logically 😂

@Jfb23 As far as I know children aren't allowed at scans. I think you'll have to get someone to watch the toddler :/

@TheBirdintheCave it's a private scan and they've said it's fine. Thanks though, I know that's the case with NHS scans

@Jfb23 Oh interesting! Our private scan place don't allow it. I'm glad you can take the toddler that makes things far easier.

@thebirdinthecave best of luck today!!

@jfb23 apparently brown spotting is very common in the 6-8 week mark :)

@lilyj13 seems really tough :( my nausea is mild in comparison so I really feel for you!

@Annny27 Thanks, I'm really nervous. Four hours to go.

Good luck @TheBirdintheCave ! Will keep fingers crossed for you.

I’ve been quiet as had rough couple of weeks. We all got covid in the end and I was quite badly affected, 4 days of fever :( worried about what impact that will have on the baby and their development but there’s not much I can do. Over it now and back to the nausea which is really bad at the moment!

I’d be up for a Facebook group now if anyone else would :)

@TheBirdintheCave thinking of you today and hope it went well.

I had my first scan today at exactly 8 weeks with a lovely strong heartbeat. I balled my eyes out!

I can at least rest easy that there really is a little baby in there, and the nausea isn’t for nothing!

@ChocolateCupcake123 amazing! So lovely to get that first glimpse of your tiny baba!

@TheBirdintheCave hope all went well. Let us know how you got on!

@ChocolateCupcake123 congrats 👏 it's good for reassurance

Not good I’m afraid!

So the bleeding seemingly isn’t coming from my uterus though she couldn’t find a source for it at all. I’ve been prescribed progesterone pessaries to see if it helps.

There is a pregnancy sac with a yolk sac inside and ‘maybe’ the beginnings of an embryo... BUT the sac only measures 5mm.

The sonographer said I ovulated from my left hand side. This is when I got confused as I marked ovulation as the day I got pains on my RIGHT hand side. There are two outcomes here:

One

My dates are correct and the pregnancy isn’t progressing.

Two

I actually ovulated later than I thought making me 6 weeks today (O day 21 rather than NHS 14. It’s impossible for me to be any earlier than this based on the last time we had sex). This theory does get bonus points for making sense of my paltry pregnancy symptoms and explaining my extremely faint tests at what I thought was 14dpo but could actually have been 9dpo.

I have to go back in two weeks for (what I see as) a pointless scan where they will just tell me that the ‘baby’ stopped growing at 5 weeks and that I’m having a MMC. I don’t understand why she’s given me false hope? She seems to think that no embryo at 6 weeks is ok? Nothing I’ve read (as a layman) would support that notion. Should I not bother using the pessaries and let the miscarriage happen? It seems like a waste of two weeks that I could have spent getting my cycle back and preparing to try again. At 35 I really don’t have any time to waste.

@TheBirdintheCave I'm clueless so will offer virtual hugs. Were you tracking OV at all? I don't know why they would give you false hope, it doesn't benefit them so maybe there is actual hope still. Use the pessaries and go back in 2 weeks. Why would they tell you to come back if it was pointless?

@TheBirdintheCave this is the latest NICE guidance as there have been cases where there was suddenly a baby. They will not recognise my miscarriage until tomorrow as I had my first scan a week ago, and the shortest timeframe they offered was a week but recommended 2. Feel free to PM me as our experiences seem similar, although I know my dates for sure as I had IVF

@mochii Ah I see. That seems really daft though, especially with people like us (where you know your dates and I know the last time I had sex). I think I just won’t bother with the pessaries and hope it all comes away soon.

@thebirdinthecave sorry it was majorly positive :(

I had a mmc at 11 weeks but baby was only 6 weeks so it was very clear to me from the first scan that it wasn't viable with a difference of 5 weeks in dates! But for 1 week difference like yours it's very plausible! Especially with the really faint tests at the beginning

Sending lots of love and strength 💗💗💗

@ChocolateCupcake123 amazing news lovely!!!!

Sorry it wasn't majorly positive*

@Annny27 The dates work yes but the size of the sac doesn’t. A 5mm sac is 5 week size not 6. It’s impossible for me to be 5 weeks.

@thebirdinthecave :( its probably better to be realistic isn't it 💗 how are you feeling about it all?

@Annny27 Just angry at her now that I’ve crunched the numbers. I’m 35. I can’t waste two weeks on a pointless pregnancy. I don’t have much time left and as a couple we’re not very fertile. It’s just so, so cruel.