Anyone Worried About 12 wk Scan??
Hi All,
I am now 8+6 and due for my dating scan in a few weeks. I am so worried something will be wrong, like they won't be able to find a heartbeat. I started to tell people i am preggers but worried if it is bad news i will have to tell everyone. I know there is nothing i can do to prevent anything going wrong, but i am so worried!!
Anyone else the same?
I am so pleased to be pregnant but i still cant enjoy it all ( especially due to the constant sickeness!)
xx
I am now 8+6 and due for my dating scan in a few weeks. I am so worried something will be wrong, like they won't be able to find a heartbeat. I started to tell people i am preggers but worried if it is bad news i will have to tell everyone. I know there is nothing i can do to prevent anything going wrong, but i am so worried!!
Anyone else the same?
I am so pleased to be pregnant but i still cant enjoy it all ( especially due to the constant sickeness!)
xx
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Im sure everything will be fine for you though.
Thanks for your help!
xxx
sarah
xx
Dont worry though it will be fine.
Although the scan cost around a ??100 is was worth it to have some reassurance.
Littlep
(7+2)
Everytime I think my symptons are calming down I then get worried that i've lost my pg; i've taken (i think) 7 pg tests since I found out almost a week ago ! How crazy is that.
I know I wont relax till after I have the scan and see a healthy bean !
i regesitered at the doctors today and told the gp did not need to see me but just booked me in with mid wife at 9 weeks for booking appt. thats two and a half weeks ago.
my pg tests have gone blank now so i feel in a strange limbo land where i'm telling close friends i;m pg but starting to doubt it. i just owuld like someone to check me over and say all is well theres a little heart beating away and i'll be happy till week nine but right now i'm just really worried about it.
glad to hear i'm not the only one but it really seems a bit unfair that you are left to wonder like this.
Was crying all last night to hubby about it, and am spending the morning at work trying to find out about it on the internet but not coming up with anything useful.
Eeek....why do we put otherselves through so much worry?!
Won't be long hun!
Han xx
I think it is such a shame that they don't make early scans standard! The first stage is so difficult, worrying about everything that might go wrong. Although I was talking to a friend of mine, who has two small children, and she commented that actually you start worrying in the early weeks, and it never stops! She said first you worry about MC, then you worry about something going wrong later, then the birth, then the early days, then them falling over or hurting themselves or getting sick...she said that it is basically the beginning of the joys of parenthood! Funnily, that somehow made me feel better!
But I must confess, the way I dealt with being so worried about problems was, like littlep, to book an early scan. We had one at 8+2, and it was such a relief to see everything was looking good. It has relaxed me slightly. I know that for a lot of people, it is an unbelievable extravagance, but if you are able to, I would recommend it. I have relaxed since, and am beginning to be able to enjoy it.
Even with out that, it is worth remembering that 75% (I believe) of pregnancies are absouluty fine, so the odds are in your favour!
Hugs to you all,
Ally xx
Can anyone tell me how i go about getting a private scan?
xxxx
im feeling exactly the same.
very paranoid about it all. im about 6-7 weeks. ive had no vomitting yet, just sick feelings, sore boobs, extreme tiredness, and some cramping/stretching feelings down there.
im also convinced that there will be no heartbeat at the scan and that i'd have had a missed miscarriage.
i still cant believe im pregnant - because we werent even trying, i was on the pill, ive got pcos and i just never thought it would happen so easily for me.
i just really want to get to the 12 weeks mark, have the scan and see things are as they should be.
i think this is all normal, i found the wait for the 1st scan the absolute hardest bit of the whole pregnancy. Im now 38 weeks. I had to put off my scan date for a whole week too as i just couldnt attend, it was agony! Then i was put forward a week to what i thought so was actually 14 weeks by first scan and a much more advanced looking bean than i thought! A little person rather than a bean! The wait was horrid. I had a symptomless pregnancy until 17 weeks when a growing tummy and movements were my only symptoms. I simply did not believe it, i thought that id have an empty sac or simply no evidence of anything and they'd tell me i couldnt read a test!
the rest of the pregnancy has flown though, it was only a 6 week wait to 20 week scan after that and then by then there were regular movements to reassure me. Its only now ive finished work and started thinking about the birth (and how much i want the birth!) that time is stood still again.
There are no words that can really reassure any of you in this tricky time, other than to say everyone goes through this. You don't have to be throwing your guts up or even to feel any different for this amazing thing to be happening to you. Earlier scans are an option but (as awful as it sounds) they only mean the baby is ok in that split second - i just felt until the first trimester was over they wouldnt offer me any real reassurance and i just preferred to wait. We only told nearest and dearest so didnt tell everyone else till after 1st scan at 14 weeks. That was personal choice though, and there's also something to be said for the argument that things going wrong in early pregnancy is a fact of life and one everyone would understand and want to support you through. Best of luck xxx
It's really nice to know that I'm not the only one-by far!! I am 11+5 and have my scan in just over a week and the wait seems agonising. I just want to know that there is a little something in there! I have had loads of symptoms and no bleeding etc so I should just trust my body, and trust God that all will be fine, but still I'm terrified of miscarriage. I'm sure I didn't feel this paranoid when I was pregnant with my daughter!
Very good point to remember: Rather than 1 in 4 pregnancies ending in miscarriage (which is what I keep thinking of...) 75% of pregnancies survive!! Same thing I know!!
i have my first scan today i have been up all night i am 11/2 and scared there is nothing there lol but reading this has helped thank you.