Urgh these first 12 weeks…

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Just that. How horrible are they and I don’t mean the symptoms. I mean the waiting to get a first scan to make sure everything is ok, wondering if everyone little cramp is a concern, wondering if there will be blood on the tissue when you go the toilet, just trying to make it to the twelve week mark.

I know pregnancy is a blessing but I am just hating the anxiousness of it all right now. I’m literally only 5w1d. I found out at 3w5d and I swear the past week has just been the longest week ever trying to make it safe to the next one 😩

I feel exactly the same 😩 counting down until my booking appointment which is at 10 weeks and hoping to get a scan date following that. I'm wishing the days away just to get there and know that everything is ok

I know the early weeks are horrible. I only started relaxing after the dating scan.

I couldn’t wait for the NHS scan, I ended up paying for private early scans. It was much better after that, less stressful.

I know what you mean. It’s basically “you’re pregnant congratulations- we will hopefully see you in 5-7 weeks until then you are on your own”

Good luck with your journey though. I hope all goes well and you have a happy healthy baby.

It's torture. I kept saying the first 4 weeks after finding out felt like 4 months! But I do think it gets easier the more you progress you start to feel a little more sure. Scans definitely helped me if any early or private scans are an option for you. Meditation, relaxing music at night etc helped me. I remember saying to my husband I wish nature only allowed you to find out at like 10-12 weeks when some of that worry had faded. Why must we find out so early!

I remember I would let myself Google one week ahead of the "your baby at 4/5/6 weeks type stuff" and I'd just aim to get to the next week when I'd allow myself to Google a week further on. Also worth considering a private scan, can't remember exactly but about 9 weeks the odds of everything being okay are about the same as at the 12 week scan.

Also known since 3+4... 5+5 today and feel like I've known for an anxious eternity. Pregnancy after loss is no joke, and neither is the first trimester!!

Some days I don't even feel pregnant, then other days my gosh the nausea is something else. I'm bloated already only 7 weeks. I feel the nausea past two days has got worse. But it does feel like forever to find our at the scan 😩😩. Apparently it's 10 weeks you have first appointment is that right? I mean on NHS? Sorry first time for me this is.

Completely feel this. 4+2 today and only had my first positive 3+6 but knew for a good few days before then and it's just torturous. So convinced that it's going to happen again and I've been feeling a really weird pressure on my left side for the past 3 days and I'm just convincing myself that that must be it ending. I don't know how people manage through these early weeks after a loss(es)

So true, that's exactly how it is. It feels so lonely and isolating, nobody takes you seriously in early pregnancy at all