This is my first baby, and we were trying for a year. I stopped drinking and eating crap. Went to the gym, took folic acid and prenatal, tracked cycle. But after over a year (Oct 23 to Nov 24) I was so tired of the monthly heartbreak! We gave up in November, and we just decided to forget about it, I said I’d get healthy for a year and we’d try again once I was healthier and I accepted a job with travel opportunities. So during the Xmas period we had many drinks, many late nights, and on Saturday there I got absolutely wasted with my friends to celebrate my new job. When I say drunk. I mean super drunk.
On Tuesday my boobs were sooo sore and something just clicked in my brain. I grabbed a test I’d bought last year and it was positive. I done 2 more. All. Positive.
We are elated, and I cant believe it. But I am terrified that those binge drinking episodes from conception (I’m guessing around the 27th Dec), has caused fetal alcohol syndrome. I know I’m probably overanalysing it and I called my doctor yesterday, and she literally laughed. She said it’s only round about now as I enter into 5 weeks does my baby begin using the placenta, it was using the yolk sack before.
I am honestly terrified though, I have read so many conflicting stories about how the first trimester is then worst but then the last trimester is. All I know is my app says my baby’s neural tube is developing now so I am eating lots of omega-3 and folic acid. I love this baby with all my heart. I am just so scared imma rubbish mum already.
Reassurance or advice welcome. I want to enjoy my pregnancy, not be terrified!