Pressure and fullness early pregnancy

[Josiedis]

Hi all I am so happy to have gotten a positive from my first frozen round of ivf. However I’ve been quite manic worrying about line progression and symptoms. I am 4 weeks today and past two days I have a feeling of pressure and fullness in my abdomen. It is particularly noticeable when laying down and makes it uncomfortable to sleep. I’m surprised how noticeable it is so early on. The only place I can see this mentioned online is as an ectopic symptom, which is of course worrying me. Did anyone else experience this at all?

I'm at 6 weeks and I'm feeling the same, kind of bloated and heavy regardless of whether I've eaten or not. I don't remember feeling this with my first until much later. Hope others can chime in with their experience.

Just to add I presume it is hormones, which is making me feel nausea and tummy upsets.

I had this. It was quite painful at times. It felt like my uterus was an expanding balloon - a bit like a full bladder. I think it's hormones

I find the bloating weird for me as I don't experience it with PMS. It's just weird to have it constantly when you know everything is still quite small.

Is there much point in having an early scan at 9+1 weeks? My DH wants to come, and is the earliest date that fits with his work. The doctor doing the scan recommended after 8 weeks so that we can actually see something.

I'm just questioning if it's worth us spending the money. If we have the NHS 12 week scan on time it's only 3 weeks later.

Having said that I have had no contact from the NHS yet despite registering 2 weeks ago so it's not filling me with confidence at the moment.

Can feel very bloated early on because your uterus is expanding so there is room to fit the baby in, along with hormones going wild. I almost immediately couldn't get into about half my skinny jeans because of bloating.

I wouldn't worry about no contact from NHS yet, they probably won't start booking things in for a bit, you're still very early. I booked at 5 weeks, they called me at about 6 weeks I think, and my first/booking midwife appointment was at 8 weeks.

I thought they usually offered did a 3-5 week confirmation scan with IVF pregnancies though? Have you contacted the IVF provider?

Best of luck, fingers and toes crossed for you.