@WeightoftheWorld @LuxeBiscuit Glad the pep talk helped! @LuxeBiscuit I think you're right that a lot of anxiety stems from not much happening in the first half of the second trimester - the symptoms start to ease, there isn't much contact with the health service and suddenly it's like "wait, am I actually even pregnant or did I imagine it all?". It's definitely been a shock to my system to go from having 3 scans in the first trimester to nothing for several weeks!
@TubbyCustard11 I'm 18+3 and haven't felt any movement yet - I get lots of random twinges and wonder if that's it, but I think it's just everything stretching and growing. It's my first so I know it might be a while before I notice anything, and 12 week scan report shows that my placenta was growing anterior so if it hasn't moved then that might mean it's a bit longer until I feel anything. I would feel better if I could feel movement though, it's definitely one of the things contributing to anxiety for me.
@GingerJ Welcome and congratulations - sorry to hear that you've been having a rough time of it, I hope things start to improve for you so you can relax and enjoy it a bit more. I haven't started buying anything yet, not planning to until after the 20 week scan - we booked a babymoon at the weekend for June and I already feel like I'm jinxing things by planning a holiday, so I definitely don't want to buy anything for baby yet! We've started to do some prep work for what will eventually be baby's room - choosing a paint colour and some other decorating stuff that has needed doing for years but we hadn't got round to it yet. Everything else we're planning to sort over the summer once we're a bit more confident that it's all progressing okay.