I know I am being ridiculous and I think I could just do with being talked down.
NC as this is outing.
I am 5 weeks pregnancy, 6 weeks in a few days. Next week we are going on a holiday that we have had booked for a long time and we are all looking forward to as a family.
I am particularly anxious about things going wrong in this pregnancy due to a previous loss, and needing fertility help to get pregnant this time. Every time I go to the toilet I am preparing myself to see bleeding, for example.
For some reason, a little voice in my head is panicking me about ectopic pregnancies. I seem to be castrophising that something is going to happen whilst we are away and that my life will be at risk in a foreign country.
I know that this is highly unlikely at the risk of ectopic is something like 1% or 2%. I currently have no symptoms that would suggest anything is going wrong, at all. I do have other pregnancy symptoms such as food aversions, very sore boobs, bloating etc. This is my second pregnancy and I already feel like everything is stretching.
I think this comes from a family member talking regularly about their multiple miscarriage and heavy blood loss during an ectopic (circa 35 years ago).
Can somebody talk me down? I know I am being ridiculous but I can't stop worrying. I know that going abroad during the first trimester is safe or they wouldn't say you could do it.
I have just booked an early scan for when we get back from holiday, I will be 7 weeks. I am hoping this will help to settle my clearly very anxious mind.
If I mention this to my husband I think I will freak him out entirely, and if I mention it to my other family (incl. person who had the ectopic) they'll tell me to cancel my holiday if I'm that worried...but it seems silly to do that, we are gone for 5 days.