boodle, so sorry to hear about your cat. I've lost one cat and it's just so sad. Wouldn't know what to do if our lovely old rescue cat would go. I hope your cat does return, but I know it's hard. Take care.
Regarding the cramping, in terms of experience in total numbers of weeks having been pregnant I'm really no expert, but just wanted to say that I had bad cramps twice but it all turned out ok in the end. Hope it will be the same for you.
lee / unsore boobs - have been asking myself something similar recently, as since the scan mine seem to be very "normal" too. Does anyone know if sore boobs are particular to the first trimester, similar to MS? Though on the other hand, have heard from others who sort of "forget" that they're pregnant after the scan (due to less worrying I suppose) and I'd guess it would be hard to forget if your boobs were constantly reminding you, so perhaps it is rather common. Anyway, I hope yours get just sore enough again to keep you from worrying!
How is everyone else?
I had a lovely weekend with my mum visiting, she took me shopping
Also, found out how to get more sleep out of nights: It took me forever, but I've finally realised that the reason I kept waking up in the middle of the night was simply because I had to wee. I'd just lie there hoping to go back to sleep, not noticing that I had to pee, until I gave up sleeping and got up... Now I just get up and find the bathroom immediately, and go back to sleep very quickly afterwards.
Ok and now a tale of what not to do:
So I had the scan last Tuesday. Slept like a baby that night, and had a great day on Wednesday. It felt as if I'd lost about 20kg. During the day I googled around a bit to see if the dating they performed based on the CRL was correct - they pulled my EDD forward by 4 days which I think is not possible, so wanted to know how they do it. Found out that they did it all right (what a surprise) - no idea why the EDDs are a bit off.
So, late at night, DP and I were already in bed, DP had his laptop and was finishing some e-mails. Before turning it off, I told him about my "research" and we decided to look up the normal range for the nuchal fold translucency too. At the scan the sonographer had told us "this is fine, we only get worried when it's higher than 3.5mm" (she measured 2.4mm). Well so we started googling and quickly found out that 2.4 is, well, at the very top end of normal. Only 5% of healthy babies have 2.4mm NT or more.
We of course became a bit worried and looked further, ended up reading through medical research papers and finally had to conclude that we couldn't really say and would just have to wait for the letter. Turned off the laptop and went to sleep. You bet!
Of course I couldn't sleep at all. Yeah we had concluded that we couldn't tell, but what kept going round in my mind was "only 5%".
Come the next day, in daylight rational thought, I quickly realised that "5% of healthy babies have 2.4mm or more" does NOT mean "Given 2.4mm means 5% chances of having a healthy baby". DP did some further research that day and we found that the chances of a chromosomal problem, given the NT only (the blood test result hasn't arrived yet), is, well, higher than average, but still only about 1:300.
Since then I've not felt worried anymore, but I did lose a night's sleep needlessly and accordingly had a groggy, unproductive day.
So, the morale of the story: If you want to stop feeling great quickly, do some late night googling.