Does this mean im going to have a good pregnancy? Whats your experience?

[LER2023]

So im currently 5+2, ive had 2 miscarriages around 6+1 and 5+3.
Both i thought i was around 8 weeks until i had the scans.

Both those pregnancies, i felt a little bit sick and had a little bit of cravings, but that was it. No bloating, no hightened sense of smell, nothing else.

But this time feels completely different.

My boobs are SO sore, i can barely put a bra on, they hurt so much, it feels like razor blades are slicing my nipples off, the dull ache is vile too, my partner decided to tell me that my boobs have gotten very veiny too.. (nice, so i have razor nips and loads of visible veins)
I feel REALLY bloated too, like ive not been to the toilet in about 3 years, i get in the bath and feel like im floating in it because of how bloated i am.

No sickness or cravings yet but the sense of smell is ridiculous especially since i have to catch a bus and when you have someone sat across from you that smells like stale fags, one behind you that smells like weed and one in front of me that smells like sick... yeah i couldnt cope, i wanted to staple my nostrils together to stop smelling everything.

Does this mean its going to be a good pregnancy? Is this going to last?

What was your symptoms at 5 weeks pregnant?

I also want to add that i am exhausted too and keep waking up with a banging headache... i could go to sleep around 8 and wake up at 5 for work and still feel exhausted.. any advice from anyone who has gone full term with their little ones?

Fingers crossed for you! It's impossible to say really, but I've had 3 pregnancies - 2 babies, one missed miscarriage (growth stopped at around 5 weeks, I didn't know it had stopped until the scan at 13 weeks). The symptoms (sickness etc) were all worse in the two viable pregnancies. Every pregnancy is different though...

It's impossible to say, my pregnancy with my son who I is now 5 and my current pregnancy at 32 weeks have been FAR easier on me than the pregnancy I lost at 14 weeks last year. The symptoms were so much stronger with that baby for some reason.
Wasn't a gender thing either as I'm currently pregnant with a baby girl x

It's really impossible to tell. All the best though

Yeah, nobody can say. I never really had any symptoms with DS (now 2), apart from gagging more when i brushed my teeth. And I bled on 2 occasions! Didn't look good on paper. But he was fine! I ended up having a really easy pregnancy and quick and easy birth.

Good luck🤞

I understand why you are desperate for reassurance but symptoms or not mean nothing. I had a brilliant pregnancy and had no symptoms at all, no sickness.
You just have to wait and see. You can have all the symptoms and still have a miscarriage and no symptoms and a successful pregnancy.

I was anxious throughout mine, as I was old. Every stage brought something new to worry about. It’s hard having no control at all. Good luck!

Can only reiterate what has already been said there is no way of knowing for sure. It's a common misconception that symptoms are a sign of a healthy pregnancy but it just doesn't work like that. I had nausea before and during a MMC last year. I'm now 21 weeks pregnant and had zero symptoms in the early weeks, nothing at all. My midwife said it's quite common to not have symptoms we just assume we will because that's what is portrayed in the media and people are more likely to talk about it if they feel unwell.

So it's not quite true that symptoms do not predict a healthy pregnancy at all.

Numerous studies have shown that, if you have nausea, you are less likely to have a miscarriage.

Now this doesn't mean at all that if someone does not have nausea, they will miscarry - plenty of women have no symptoms at all and go on to have perfectly healthy pregnancies. And also sadly vice versa. So you shouldn't worry if you don't experience nausea.

I'm not aware of studies showing other symptoms predict miscarriage risk. But if it helps you feel less anxious to be reassured by your symptoms, then do!

The thing I find most useful when pregnant after miscarriage is to try and think: "I'm pregnant today". You can't control tomorrow, but you are pregnant today. And if nothing else, your symptoms can maybe help you think that.

Impossible to say. I'm on my fourth pregnancy and I've had loads of symptoms this time but on my previous three (all successful and good, healthy pregnancies) I haven't had many symptoms at all.

@cunningplan101 that's interesting, my midwife was very insistent that it makes no difference.. symptoms are your bodies way of dealing with the extra hormones, mainly HCG Even with a miscarriage HCG can continue to increase so the symptoms persist. I had increased HCG for 3 weeks after a miscarriage was diagnosed. I guess it's a very difficult thing to prove either way. There are many many people that have zero symptoms and healthy pregnancies and many many people that have lots of symptoms and healthy pregnancies..then there are fewer people that unfortunately miscarry and either do or don't have symptoms there really is no way of knowing in those very early stages if the pregnancy will progress.

@cunningplan101 yeah I don't believe this lol, my nausea and vomitting was so intense with the baby I lost and quite mild with my two healthy pregnancies. I lost my baby at 11 weeks but my body didn't even begin dropping hcg until 14 weeks. My belly continued to grow and my symptoms continued and even worsened within that time

It means absolutely nothing, unfortunately.

MC chemical baby MC MC MC baby.

All varied in symptoms and MC between 6-10 weeks.

@JRTfan after one of my MC, I was still testing positive on pregnancy tests at home and EPU even 6 weeks later!