EpdTTC
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Girls I just need to share my paranoid feelings...and hopefully you gals can reassure me.
This is the longest I have gone without a scan. I feel bad complaining because I know many of you go weeks at a time...I was 8 1/2 wks at my last scan and on Monday I will be 10 wks one day. I know that it's not that long and I am not having anything happen to indicate something is wrong-no cramps, no spotting, and I even gag a few times a day and did barf a little after breakfast today...but as scan time gets closer I am really starting to worry that when I go the baby will have stopped growing or they won't see a heartbeat. I've even contemplated calling my RE's office tomorrow (they are open 7 days a week since they are a fertility center and you never know when a woman is going to ovulate!)and seeing if I can come in for my scan tomorrow instead of waiting one more day. Isn't that crazy? I don't even have a good excuse except pure paranoia and anxiety.
I don't really have a rational basis for these fears but I think I get scared because I read so many sad stories where women saw a heartbeat at like nine weeks and then went for a scan a couple weeks later only to discover that the baby had died. I am so terrified of something like this happening to me. I try to remind myself that just because it has happened to other women does not mean that it is doomed to happen to me. It's hard though because the reality is that I know that anything can happen at anytime. I just have to tell myself that everything has been looking really good, numbers were good, I have had four ultrasounds where I have seen the heartbeat, and that maybe women that had mmc didn't have all of those things. Ugh...why do we do this to ourselves?
This is the longest I have gone without a scan. I feel bad complaining because I know many of you go weeks at a time...I was 8 1/2 wks at my last scan and on Monday I will be 10 wks one day. I know that it's not that long and I am not having anything happen to indicate something is wrong-no cramps, no spotting, and I even gag a few times a day and did barf a little after breakfast today...but as scan time gets closer I am really starting to worry that when I go the baby will have stopped growing or they won't see a heartbeat. I've even contemplated calling my RE's office tomorrow (they are open 7 days a week since they are a fertility center and you never know when a woman is going to ovulate!)and seeing if I can come in for my scan tomorrow instead of waiting one more day. Isn't that crazy? I don't even have a good excuse except pure paranoia and anxiety.
I don't really have a rational basis for these fears but I think I get scared because I read so many sad stories where women saw a heartbeat at like nine weeks and then went for a scan a couple weeks later only to discover that the baby had died. I am so terrified of something like this happening to me. I try to remind myself that just because it has happened to other women does not mean that it is doomed to happen to me. It's hard though because the reality is that I know that anything can happen at anytime. I just have to tell myself that everything has been looking really good, numbers were good, I have had four ultrasounds where I have seen the heartbeat, and that maybe women that had mmc didn't have all of those things. Ugh...why do we do this to ourselves?