Due December 2026 🎅🏼

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Hello,
Ive just found out I’m pregnant and due December.
i was on a group like this in my last pregnancy and everyone was so supportive of eachother. If anyone else would like to join please do.
i know it’s very early days… I’m 3W6D

Oh absolutely! For me it is also different steps - so blood tests was on Wednesday, first scan next Saturday, booking appointment etc. Now if only time would go faster…

@Aprahel87 ah, looks like you've got a few tangible things for a milestones. I still haven't decided whether to get an early scan or not, at the moment, I'm content with just knowing that I'm pregnant. I feel an early scan would just raise my anxieties.

Do you already have your booking appointment? I self-referred on Sunday, so I'm still waiting to hear back.

I had early scans with my first 2 but considering trying to go without this time, not sure I’ll be able to hold out. Will ask on my booking in appointment if we can get a nipt on the nhs this time as my first daughter has Down syndrome (will never trust the nt results again after that)as had to pay to have it done privately with my son but I believe they changed the rules since then if not I suppose I’d be wise to save my pennies for another private one

Completely, but each day feels like a week at the moment 😂 I had one loss between my two girls so I'm still very wary. I ended up having about three private scans before my 12 week one during my last pregnancy just to try and calm the worry. Really trying to hold out this time if I can

Ah definitely! I’m 5w today and still tested this morning 🤦🏻‍♀️. I feel like I’ve got into a routine of testing in the morning and seeing the line as reassurance. I’m torn between an early scan. I had them in the previous 2 pregnancies (1 living child), and feel like I would like another, but after a loss I’m also now really torn because I know now that it’ll ultimately have no impact on the outcome. My first pregnancy I was so unaware, and a little sad I don’t have that naivety this time round in a way, feel like the excitement has been robbed a bit. The private scan place around my me gets booked up like 3 weeks in advance so if I do book one I know it’ll be a wait yet so not sure whether to just wait… it’s also the place I went where they told me something was wrong in my second pregnancy so I’m not sure if I’d like to go back there either tbh. Anyway, I’m 5w today and that’s my little milestone x

@PhoenixSTL For me having a milestone to target helps keep my anxiety at bay! And I self referred the day I found out ( a weeee impatient) which was last Thursday and got my appointment yesterday so a week turnaround. Hopefully yours will come soon as well

@rach971 An early loss leads to so much anxiety in future pregnancies. My miscarriage in August happened at 8 weeks, so my next milestone is to reach 8 weeks now. Hopefully make it to my booking appointment this time.

@Lookingtogrowthefamily I was testing daily until 5 weeks 2 days. I'm still tempted to get another clear blue digital, but I'm also scared to, in case I don't see a progression. The private scan place near me uses staff from the hospital, so it looks like it would all be evening appointments, so it would be difficult for my partner to come with me.

@Aprahel87 definitely, milestones are so helpful for giving you something to focus on. My aim is to get to 8 weeks, and then my booking appointment. Funnily enough, with my first pregnancy, I self referred the day after I tested positive. I think because it was close to Christmas and I knew they'd need time to get me in beforehand. But with my last pregnancy and this one, I made myself wait a week before self referring.

So I think I'm out, had my scan and I am confident of my dates but she could only see a sac, yolk sac and potentially a fetal pole starting. I should be 6+4 so should have seen fetal pole and heartbeat. Have been advised to be taking progesterone and re-scan in 1 week but not sure if I can do another week of uncertainty when I know my dates are right x

@PhoenixSTL I think it's slightly less worrying once you get past the first scan, for me anyway. But the first scan feels like forever away. I should get a letter for my booking appointment next week at least so that's something

I had a missed miscarriage, found out at 9 weeks but baby stopped growing at 7

@Desperatelyseekingme 6+4 is still very early, so fingers crossed for you that things progress in a week. Have you got things to distract you for the next week?

@rach971 that sounds very familiar to me. Miscarriage at 8 weeks, but baby had stopped growing at just under 6 weeks. Partly why I'm grateful to have gotten to 6 weeks now - I remember my symptoms fading by this point last time.

@Desperatelyseekingme I am so sorry. I imagine it feels like history repeating itself and your fears all confirmed. I so hope that she was wrong somehow or couldn't get a good view. Was it transvaginal? The feeling of limbo is horrendous, I have been in that position and remember actually feeling relief when the confirmation of the miscarriage came. Bizarrely. Thank you for your comment to me, I so wish this morning had gone differently for you and will be thinking of you in coming days. Can you take some time off? Or is it better to keep busy? I find it very hard to concentrate on work at times like this.

@PhoenixSTL It's interesting that your symptoms faded. Mine didn't and even after the miscarriage (I had to have tablets to start it) my HCG took about 13 weeks to come down to a non-pregnant level. Having to go every week for a blood test was awful, just a constant reminder

I've just been to my doctor's appointment about my suspected UTI and it turns out I do have one, so antibiotics for 7 days!

@rach971 oh gosh, that must have been hard to keep having to get your blood tested.

I was convinced from the first pregnancy test that it wasn't a viable pregnancy. The lines weren't as strong as with my son's pregnancy, and the line progression wasn't very strong. I also struggled to get the dates to add up with the testing dates and how strong they should have been. So maybe that's why my symptoms faded quickly. The bleeding happened over two weeks, and I was testing negative straight away 😔 but at least I knew that it was over

@PhoenixSTL Funny you say that because although I did get a strong positive on my tests, I was convinced during that pregnancy that something would go wrong, I just had a feeling. I just knew when I went for the private scan it would be bad news

@rach971 I think it shows how well we know our bodies 😔 I'd just about convinced myself that I was being paranoid for no reason, and started to imagine life with our second child, when I started spotting 😔 they would have been due in March... part of me wonders if my body needed to wait until after March before it was ready for another pregnancy

@Desperatelyseekingme its still such early days so crossing all my fingers and toes for you! So sorry that didn’t provide the reassurance you were looking for x

Just noticed light spotting - trying very hard not to panic! I know that it is normal in some pregnancies. I have no pain and it is light pink on color. Anyone have any positive experience of this? I am about 5 weeks 4 days

@Aprahel87 I've been having pink spotting on and off this week. Only when wiping, and it doesn't stay. I read through my diary with my son's pregnancy, and I had the same until about week 6 or 7 with him.

With my miscarriage in August, the pink spotting came on in week 8, and was consistent throughout the day.

@Aprahel87yes I had spotting at around the 6 week mark with both my pregnancies. Only when wiping, it was a mauve kind of colour but never lasted more than a day or so. Can be v common!

@Desperatelyseekingme even with dates, you can implant late and still have a viable pregnancy. I can understand wanting to leave the thread, and you will stop getting updates as we’ve almost run out of space.

It’s good to prepare yourself but as others have said it’s still so early. It not a scan at 8 weeks and measuring 5. I hope they offered a rescan for you in a week or so - or maybe contact your EPU.

on the dates it’s not an exact science, my first I had sex once and they dated him where it would have been an immaculate conception. I know it’s the other way, but a friend said with her pregnancy she always dated a week late from where it should have been. She had a girl, I had a boy.

thinking of you regardless

Thank you all .. I have settled a bit now and know the dates aren't way off and it could have been worse news today .. so will just get through the week and hopefully by this time next week will have a clearer picture.. xx

Keeping everything crossed for you @Desperatelyseekingme xx

@Desperatelyseekingmekeep us posted. So many women dont see much at this gestation.

Hello all. Hoping to join. Had a positive test this week and then a positive digital this morning. My app says 5 weeks but I know I ovulate late (due to blood tests last month) so I know I’ll be a little out on my dates etc.

Feeling exhausted today but not sure it’s just in my head.

Hi everyone, I’m hopefully due December 5th!

I had an early pregnancy scan at EPU where I was measuring around 5+1/2 weeks, although based on my LMP I thought I was closer to 7 weeks (I think I may have ovulated later so could be around 6 weeks). The scan showed a normal looking gestational sac in the uterus, a yolk sac, and a possible tiny fetal pole measuring 1.6mm. They said it may simply be too early, but they also mentioned a 3cm ovarian cyst and “multiple anechoic areas” which they described as possible bleeding, and they couldn’t completely rule out a partial molar pregnancy. I’ve had no spotting or bleeding and my pregnancy symptoms (strong nausea and sore breasts) are still increasing. I’ve been referred back to EPU for a repeat scan in a week and I’m really anxious about what they might find. I would really appreciate any similar experiences or reassurance!