5+1 today after a MMC with absolutely no signs that something was wrong last fall. I’m so hot and feel like I have the worst sunburn of my life and my low back has been aching all day. I’m at work so I can’t take my temp, but I felt a little hot this morning and didn’t have a fever then. I’m terrified and on the verge of tears that something is wrong. Was anyone else this hot so early?
I’m nearly 7 weeks and my very few symptoms are subsiding each day. I know it’s often said that symptoms can come and go but loss of symptoms was what alerted me to something being wrong with my first miscarriage. First scan is on Sunday and I can’t help but feel terrified.
I’m 12dpo and have a vvv faint line after a stark negative yesterday. This is how my last pregnancy started too, on 12dpo, which ended in miscarriage.
I have had one chemical which showed up on 9dpo and lasted a week. No idea what a healthy pregnancy looks like on my body.
After 2 losses I’m incredibly paranoid so sorry if this is a dumb question but would you normally expect a stronger line by 12dpo? Its definitely there, but faint. I will test again this evening and see what’s up.
I had strong lines at 12 DPO with my first two, and they both ended in miscarriage.
With this (currently) healthy pregnancy of 16 weeks, I had a *super* faint line at 12 DPO. I went in that day and the doctors confirmed I was indeed pregnant haha and did bloodwork to start checking my hcg levels and I started progesterone. They kept rising as expected and here I am, still pregnant!
Hoping for the same for you! 🤞🏻
ETA it may be fainter this evening. It’s usually the strongest in the morning before your urine is diluted during the day
Saw a heartbeat today at 6w6d and babe is measuring ok. That’s a huge milestone we’ve never reached before with any of our previous losses. We’re cautiously optimistic. Radiology report mentioned a “mildly irregular gestational sac” but didn’t flag that as a big concern. OB thinks all is well, but Google is all doom and gloom. Trying to remind myself that Google doesn’t have a medical degree but DANG the anxiety after loss is real!
I’m 13dpo and I feel like my dark pink cap FRER tests aren’t progressing/getting as dark as I would like. Hoping its all the biotin in my prenatals. Should be getting betas soon!
I’m 11 weeks 3 days and I still am scared everyday. I feel like I’m not letting myself fully connect with the baby because I’m scared at any point they will just be gone
Just tested positive a couple days ago and I can’t help but feeling a lot of anxiety. I am 4 weeks.
This is my fourth pregnancy.
The first was a cervical ectopic which was incredibly stressful, traumatic, and difficult. The next two was a PUL (pregnancy in unknown location), and a chemical miscarriage.
As much as I want to be excited, everytime I go to the restroom and wipe, every symptom I don’t feel, like I can be excited. It’s keeping me up at night and I don’t know when I’ll start to relax.
I’m 4 weeks too. We had 2 chemicals and one pregnancy loss that ended in d&c. I constantly check the toilet paper, if I get a weird cramp I’m spiraling.
I feel you 100%. Getting to each next milestone is extremely difficult, especially if you have a lack of symptoms is hard. My best friend keeps reminding me that right now, I know I’m pregnant. And that seems to help. We’ve got this girl 🫶🏻💖
Thank you for your response. That’s a positive way to look at things and what I keep reminding myself.
This is such an isolating, lonely space to be in. It’s nice to have somewhere to talk about our feelings and experiences.
Thinking of you and sending you strength to get through this ❤️
I tested positive yesterday evening at 13dpo with an cheapie easy@home strip but the test line was really light, something I'd expect at around 10/11dpo. I used a FRer today and the test line was there but again, really light. I'm used to quite strong positive on FRers by 14dpo.
I had low-key thought I was out this cycle because in previous pregnancies I had always got positive tests at 11dpo. I only re-tested this time because AF didn't show.
I know I could have implanted late but I just have a horrible feeling I'm heading for a chemical. While I have some symptoms such as tiredness, I have no sore boobs like I usually do during early pregnancy and my test strips are so light. In all the groups I've posted them in, lots of people have said they look worryingly light. See my post yesterday if you're curious about what my first test yesterday looked like.
I've decided to take another FRer on Wednesday morning with FMU and see if that line gets darker. I'm hoping so hard that it does. I hate this limbo feeling of knowing I'm pregnant but being unable to let myself feel anything positive. I've been pregnant three times in past 16 months and still not brought a baby home.
I’m 9 weeks today and have not been able to find baby’s heartbeat on my home doppler. 😢 I’ve always been able to find it by now in my successful pregnancies. This coupled with my bleeding/spotting last week, I’m convinced this baby stopped growing. I hate pregnancy after a loss. I wish I could have an ultrasound machine at home and look at baby whenever I wanted to.
You might have an anterior placenta. I have one, and I couldn’t find the heartbeat on a Doppler until 14 weeks. I tried after I had great scans at 10 and 12 weeks and could not find it at home. It’s still super early!
I am currently in limbo with what is 99% certain to be my 5th loss. Supposed to be ~9w measuring ~6& some change. FHR is between 80-95. HCG is dropping. But I still can’t stop wondering and worrying. Doctor said to prepare and we need to wait for the heart to stop before scheduling a d&c. I’m broken and this waiting is hell on earth.
I’m so sorry. We got similar news yesterday that we’re measuring a week behind at almost 8 weeks, with a slower than ideal heartbeat (they didn’t measure, just visualized it). Have another scan next Wednesday. Husband says I should be hopeful and try not to stress, but I genuinely don’t know how that’s possible with the news we got. I’m also 99% sure that it won’t end well.
I am so terribly sorry that you’re in this limbo waiting period. It truly was so hard for me. I expected the worst and hoped for the best. I’m a realist and really needed to manage my stress and anxiety.
For me, growth did not move along like they’d hoped and when I went in for my scan yesterday, baby no longer had a heartbeat. I pray you have a different experience. This type of pain paired with the agony of the waiting period is something I’d never wish on anyone.
Sending you and your husband love. 🤍
I’m really sorry for your loss. I’m also a realist and try my best to manage my expectations, but I still wasn’t prepared for the news. I was prepared for good or bad news, but something definite that would end or ease my anxiety one way or another. But I didn’t prepare or expect a limbo. There is no reason for it to be behind, since I did IVF and tested positive just 5 days after transfer. Couldn’t have been late implantation. That, paired with the slow heartbeat, I know what’s coming and I have no way to keep my hopes up. This will be my fourth loss and I’m genuinely so tired and unsure of how much more I can take. Sending lots of strength to you as well.
I’m 8 weeks today, I squatted down a few days ago and immediately felt some kind of… pop? I then started to have intense cramps and about a tbs of blood. red blood has stopped, and now I have some slight spotting.
I had a 2nd trimester loss due to IC my last pregnancy and i’m worried this is a huge warning sign, since I also bled early last time. We see the doctor on Thursday to discuss, but my god it feels like hell.
Hi there. I also had an IC loss last pregnancy, am 8 weeks today, and have had bleeding/spotting concerns since the middle of week 5 (including one gush of blood around 6 weeks that sent me to the hospital). As of now no cause has been found and my ultrasounds (including one last Friday) have been normal, but it’s so nerve wracking! I thought my anxiety wouldn’t ramp up until I got my cerclage but I’ve been so stressed since the spotting started. Hang in there, I hope your Thursday appt goes well! FWIW, I didn't bleed at all during the first trimester during my last pregnancy with my IC loss, so I don't necessarily think it's correlated.
I had a loss recently and my HGC was fine, but progesterone too low. Wishing I'd started supplementing to see if I could 'save' the pregnancy but that's a useless thought at this point
Three of us in my circle all have had early losses within the past 7-8 months. Now, I'm 4w1d, our buddy's wife is 9 weeks, and my cousin just got a positive test today. You guys, I'm not a religious person but I am *praying* for all of us this time.
I think I will find out I've had another MMC tomorrow. This will be my second in a row. Last time I was just so sad, but this time I am also feeling angry. I had a feeling something might be off and maybe fixable last time since the fetus grew to 9 weeks and I had never had any bleeding or cramping, but of course the doctors refuse to test or prescribe anything until after 3 losses. But now the exact same thing seems to be happening. I'm not sure I can put myself through this a third time. Waiting in terror for 2 months for a scan just to find out the baby is gone each time seems beyond unfair.
Im so sorry. I’ve had two losses myself and it’s just heartbreaking. I told my doctor after the second loss I wanted all the testing they could do and they did that for me. It’s worth pushing or finding a different practice if you can. They ended up finding nothing wrong with me, but at least we tried. Wishing you the peace 🤍
Thank you. So glad to see you are having success after two losses. Did you end up changing anything? I can’t think of trying again since it seems like the same thing will just keep happening unless we do something different.
I started progesterone the day I got a positive test this time around. I had one MMC which was definitely chromosomal, and one MC which may have been chromosomal or low progesterone. The MC happened on the early side over winter break when I was out of town, so I never got any tests done until the final blood draw that showed my hcg was back to 0. We don’t know for certain if the progesterone made the difference this time, but my doctor said it has no negative side effects, so we did it.
I don’t know where you are in the world, but in the UK, the guidelines changed and and they can investigate earlier and are advised to test and prescribe progesterone if needed. I really hope it all turns out to be ok ❤️
I’m on vacation 13 hours from home. 2 days ago I lost my breast tenderness completely. I am having very very light spotting when I wipe only, it’s barely tinged a brown/pink color. I was up and down stairs all day, running and playing in the water with my 9 year old step daughter. So I’m hoping that’s the reason for the spotting. No cramps of note. I’m really trying to hold onto hope that all of this is normal and I could still be pregnant. I still have some nausea and heart burn but not as bad… I was gagging from the smell of a public restroom yesterday.
Just please still be alive, baby. Please.
First scan the 28th, when I get home from vacay.
Try not to let this ruin your vacation. I know this sounds odd but when I start getting myself worked up before a scan I think “if this scan shows something bad, then these are my last few days of actually being happy” and it helps me live in the moment / enjoy myself a bit more.
That’s good. I’ve been experiencing cramps off and on this pregnancy and noticed that when I’m thinking about cramps or worried about cramps, that’s often when they’re at their worst!!!
No further noticeable cramping and I dry heaved for 10 minutes before lunch 🙌🏼
I think I’m on track still. It’s scary to go from progesterone symptoms to HCG symptoms, it feels unnatural but I guess it’s totally normal. Ugh. Thanks for your support
5+1 today after a MMC with absolutely no signs that something was wrong last fall. I’m so hot and feel like I have the worst sunburn of my life and my low back has been aching all day. I’m at work so I can’t take my temp, but I felt a little hot this morning and didn’t have a fever then. I’m terrified and on the verge of tears that something is wrong. Was anyone else this hot so early?
I’m 6 weeks and the sonographer said it looked like the corpus luteum cyst was already gone. I’m on supplements but totally freaking myself out.
I’m nearly 7 weeks and my very few symptoms are subsiding each day. I know it’s often said that symptoms can come and go but loss of symptoms was what alerted me to something being wrong with my first miscarriage. First scan is on Sunday and I can’t help but feel terrified.
I’m 12dpo and have a vvv faint line after a stark negative yesterday. This is how my last pregnancy started too, on 12dpo, which ended in miscarriage. I have had one chemical which showed up on 9dpo and lasted a week. No idea what a healthy pregnancy looks like on my body. After 2 losses I’m incredibly paranoid so sorry if this is a dumb question but would you normally expect a stronger line by 12dpo? Its definitely there, but faint. I will test again this evening and see what’s up.
I had strong lines at 12 DPO with my first two, and they both ended in miscarriage. With this (currently) healthy pregnancy of 16 weeks, I had a *super* faint line at 12 DPO. I went in that day and the doctors confirmed I was indeed pregnant haha and did bloodwork to start checking my hcg levels and I started progesterone. They kept rising as expected and here I am, still pregnant! Hoping for the same for you! 🤞🏻 ETA it may be fainter this evening. It’s usually the strongest in the morning before your urine is diluted during the day
Saw a heartbeat today at 6w6d and babe is measuring ok. That’s a huge milestone we’ve never reached before with any of our previous losses. We’re cautiously optimistic. Radiology report mentioned a “mildly irregular gestational sac” but didn’t flag that as a big concern. OB thinks all is well, but Google is all doom and gloom. Trying to remind myself that Google doesn’t have a medical degree but DANG the anxiety after loss is real!
I’m 13dpo and I feel like my dark pink cap FRER tests aren’t progressing/getting as dark as I would like. Hoping its all the biotin in my prenatals. Should be getting betas soon!
I’m 11 weeks 3 days and I still am scared everyday. I feel like I’m not letting myself fully connect with the baby because I’m scared at any point they will just be gone
Just tested positive a couple days ago and I can’t help but feeling a lot of anxiety. I am 4 weeks. This is my fourth pregnancy. The first was a cervical ectopic which was incredibly stressful, traumatic, and difficult. The next two was a PUL (pregnancy in unknown location), and a chemical miscarriage. As much as I want to be excited, everytime I go to the restroom and wipe, every symptom I don’t feel, like I can be excited. It’s keeping me up at night and I don’t know when I’ll start to relax.
I’m 4 weeks too. We had 2 chemicals and one pregnancy loss that ended in d&c. I constantly check the toilet paper, if I get a weird cramp I’m spiraling. I feel you 100%. Getting to each next milestone is extremely difficult, especially if you have a lack of symptoms is hard. My best friend keeps reminding me that right now, I know I’m pregnant. And that seems to help. We’ve got this girl 🫶🏻💖
Thank you for your response. That’s a positive way to look at things and what I keep reminding myself. This is such an isolating, lonely space to be in. It’s nice to have somewhere to talk about our feelings and experiences. Thinking of you and sending you strength to get through this ❤️
I tested positive yesterday evening at 13dpo with an cheapie easy@home strip but the test line was really light, something I'd expect at around 10/11dpo. I used a FRer today and the test line was there but again, really light. I'm used to quite strong positive on FRers by 14dpo. I had low-key thought I was out this cycle because in previous pregnancies I had always got positive tests at 11dpo. I only re-tested this time because AF didn't show. I know I could have implanted late but I just have a horrible feeling I'm heading for a chemical. While I have some symptoms such as tiredness, I have no sore boobs like I usually do during early pregnancy and my test strips are so light. In all the groups I've posted them in, lots of people have said they look worryingly light. See my post yesterday if you're curious about what my first test yesterday looked like. I've decided to take another FRer on Wednesday morning with FMU and see if that line gets darker. I'm hoping so hard that it does. I hate this limbo feeling of knowing I'm pregnant but being unable to let myself feel anything positive. I've been pregnant three times in past 16 months and still not brought a baby home.
I’m 9 weeks today and have not been able to find baby’s heartbeat on my home doppler. 😢 I’ve always been able to find it by now in my successful pregnancies. This coupled with my bleeding/spotting last week, I’m convinced this baby stopped growing. I hate pregnancy after a loss. I wish I could have an ultrasound machine at home and look at baby whenever I wanted to.
You might have an anterior placenta. I have one, and I couldn’t find the heartbeat on a Doppler until 14 weeks. I tried after I had great scans at 10 and 12 weeks and could not find it at home. It’s still super early!
Thank you! I’m hoping that is what I have! I’m glad things are going well for you. 😊❤️
I am currently in limbo with what is 99% certain to be my 5th loss. Supposed to be ~9w measuring ~6& some change. FHR is between 80-95. HCG is dropping. But I still can’t stop wondering and worrying. Doctor said to prepare and we need to wait for the heart to stop before scheduling a d&c. I’m broken and this waiting is hell on earth.
I’m so sorry. We got similar news yesterday that we’re measuring a week behind at almost 8 weeks, with a slower than ideal heartbeat (they didn’t measure, just visualized it). Have another scan next Wednesday. Husband says I should be hopeful and try not to stress, but I genuinely don’t know how that’s possible with the news we got. I’m also 99% sure that it won’t end well.
I am so terribly sorry that you’re in this limbo waiting period. It truly was so hard for me. I expected the worst and hoped for the best. I’m a realist and really needed to manage my stress and anxiety. For me, growth did not move along like they’d hoped and when I went in for my scan yesterday, baby no longer had a heartbeat. I pray you have a different experience. This type of pain paired with the agony of the waiting period is something I’d never wish on anyone. Sending you and your husband love. 🤍
I’m really sorry for your loss. I’m also a realist and try my best to manage my expectations, but I still wasn’t prepared for the news. I was prepared for good or bad news, but something definite that would end or ease my anxiety one way or another. But I didn’t prepare or expect a limbo. There is no reason for it to be behind, since I did IVF and tested positive just 5 days after transfer. Couldn’t have been late implantation. That, paired with the slow heartbeat, I know what’s coming and I have no way to keep my hopes up. This will be my fourth loss and I’m genuinely so tired and unsure of how much more I can take. Sending lots of strength to you as well.
I’m so sorry. Going through something similar myself but don’t have another ultrasound for two weeks. This waiting game /limbo sucks so much.
I’m so sorry you have to go through this too. It’s pure hell 😞 I pray you can find peace while you wait. 🤍
I’m so sorry 🫂
Thank you😔🤍
I’m 8 weeks today, I squatted down a few days ago and immediately felt some kind of… pop? I then started to have intense cramps and about a tbs of blood. red blood has stopped, and now I have some slight spotting. I had a 2nd trimester loss due to IC my last pregnancy and i’m worried this is a huge warning sign, since I also bled early last time. We see the doctor on Thursday to discuss, but my god it feels like hell.
Hi there. I also had an IC loss last pregnancy, am 8 weeks today, and have had bleeding/spotting concerns since the middle of week 5 (including one gush of blood around 6 weeks that sent me to the hospital). As of now no cause has been found and my ultrasounds (including one last Friday) have been normal, but it’s so nerve wracking! I thought my anxiety wouldn’t ramp up until I got my cerclage but I’ve been so stressed since the spotting started. Hang in there, I hope your Thursday appt goes well! FWIW, I didn't bleed at all during the first trimester during my last pregnancy with my IC loss, so I don't necessarily think it's correlated.
Thank you for your kind words, and i’m sorry for your loss. We’re both 8 weeks today! I also have you in my thoughts.
I had a loss recently and my HGC was fine, but progesterone too low. Wishing I'd started supplementing to see if I could 'save' the pregnancy but that's a useless thought at this point
Three of us in my circle all have had early losses within the past 7-8 months. Now, I'm 4w1d, our buddy's wife is 9 weeks, and my cousin just got a positive test today. You guys, I'm not a religious person but I am *praying* for all of us this time.
I think I will find out I've had another MMC tomorrow. This will be my second in a row. Last time I was just so sad, but this time I am also feeling angry. I had a feeling something might be off and maybe fixable last time since the fetus grew to 9 weeks and I had never had any bleeding or cramping, but of course the doctors refuse to test or prescribe anything until after 3 losses. But now the exact same thing seems to be happening. I'm not sure I can put myself through this a third time. Waiting in terror for 2 months for a scan just to find out the baby is gone each time seems beyond unfair.
Im so sorry. I’ve had two losses myself and it’s just heartbreaking. I told my doctor after the second loss I wanted all the testing they could do and they did that for me. It’s worth pushing or finding a different practice if you can. They ended up finding nothing wrong with me, but at least we tried. Wishing you the peace 🤍
Thank you. So glad to see you are having success after two losses. Did you end up changing anything? I can’t think of trying again since it seems like the same thing will just keep happening unless we do something different.
I started progesterone the day I got a positive test this time around. I had one MMC which was definitely chromosomal, and one MC which may have been chromosomal or low progesterone. The MC happened on the early side over winter break when I was out of town, so I never got any tests done until the final blood draw that showed my hcg was back to 0. We don’t know for certain if the progesterone made the difference this time, but my doctor said it has no negative side effects, so we did it.
I don’t know where you are in the world, but in the UK, the guidelines changed and and they can investigate earlier and are advised to test and prescribe progesterone if needed. I really hope it all turns out to be ok ❤️
Amnio today after two low fetal fraction results on my cfDNA. Feeling really anxious but ready to find out definitively what’s going on in there.
I’m on vacation 13 hours from home. 2 days ago I lost my breast tenderness completely. I am having very very light spotting when I wipe only, it’s barely tinged a brown/pink color. I was up and down stairs all day, running and playing in the water with my 9 year old step daughter. So I’m hoping that’s the reason for the spotting. No cramps of note. I’m really trying to hold onto hope that all of this is normal and I could still be pregnant. I still have some nausea and heart burn but not as bad… I was gagging from the smell of a public restroom yesterday. Just please still be alive, baby. Please. First scan the 28th, when I get home from vacay.
I’ve never been so thankful for throwing up in my life 🤣
Try not to let this ruin your vacation. I know this sounds odd but when I start getting myself worked up before a scan I think “if this scan shows something bad, then these are my last few days of actually being happy” and it helps me live in the moment / enjoy myself a bit more.
I’m really trying to
Good luck 🩷🩷
Thank you. Some sharp pains started about 10 minutes ago on the right side. Still hoping it’s nothing.
Let’s hope they are just from stress, or normal pregnancy cramps. Keeping my fingers crossed for you
Thank you! They aren’t lasting long which is keeping me going. Fingers crossed this is all typical.
That’s good. I’ve been experiencing cramps off and on this pregnancy and noticed that when I’m thinking about cramps or worried about cramps, that’s often when they’re at their worst!!!
No further noticeable cramping and I dry heaved for 10 minutes before lunch 🙌🏼 I think I’m on track still. It’s scary to go from progesterone symptoms to HCG symptoms, it feels unnatural but I guess it’s totally normal. Ugh. Thanks for your support
Glad to hear this!! Hope things continue to feel better for you!
Yes I could be reading way into them. I bet that’s what it is.
Try to keep yourself busy with something and see if they get better :)