Hello, mamas! I'd like to join, if I may.
I'm 37 years old, I have a daughter who's 2 years, 5 months old, and I'm about 7w3d along with this new baby. It took us two months to get pregnant with our first and 16 months with this one, with a chemical pregnancy in June. In fact, I was due to start clomid the next cycle. We had a consult with the fertility specialist on a Tuesday and I got my BFP that Friday. I'm on progesterone because my levels were on the lowish side when I did my day 3 & 21 blood tests a few months ago.
So far I have almost zero symptoms. I guess I'm a bit hungrier than normal, and a little more tired in the evenings, but other than a few minutes of mild cramping every couple of days, nothing. Maybe the beginnings of some food aversions.
My first pregnancy was the same, so I'm telling myself everything is good, but being three years older makes everything more scary. I had my first OB appointment and ultrasound the other day (and I could tell even my doctor was concerned about my lack of symptoms) and we saw a sweet little bean with a healthy heartbeat. I've had two tiny "spots" since then -- but it was a transvaginal US and I also had a pap smear, and with the progesterone I think my cervix might have been momentarily irritated.
So now I'm just waiting for the time to pass! Being of advanced maternal age I'm going to do the blood test screening at 11 weeks, but mostly just because I want to know the gender!
We haven't told anybody IRL except three friends. Not even our moms. I'm sort of not looking forward to the influx of grandma attention. Pregnancy is really personal to me (except of course I'll make friends with a bunch of strangers online and tell them everything).
Beankeeper, I hope resting does the trick!