Your top 5 PAML concerns

[podgie]

Hi all, this is my first post - not sure how it all works! I have decided to join as I am now pregnant after having had 4 previous miscarriages. I am only 6 weeks pregnant, but am worried about
Another miscarriage
suffering the cramping and intense pain again

[~Aveta~]

not good news, girl!! have you been to your GP?

[podgie]

Yes have seen gp and have a good ob - he saw me today and referred for a viability scan by my obstetrician - what does that mean?

[~Aveta~]

Originally Posted by podgie

Yes have seen gp and have a good ob - he saw me today and referred for a viability scan by my obstetrician - what does that mean?

basically they are just going to check how your little one is doing...whether it has implanted well, and if there really is a foetus in the sac. with your other four m/c, what sort of treatments did you get? has your GP ordered blood tests to see what's happening?

[Where there's hope]

1. Another miscarriage
2. A chromosonal abnormality (caused by my age)
3. A MC caused by CVS
4. Another traumatic birth (I had 3rd & 4th degree tearing)
5. Having forceps again

[~Aveta~]

hey there, hope my girl...we're belly buddies!

[~StarBright~]

My fears so far from begining to now.....

1. another missed m/c
2. A problem with organs or any other abnormality
3. Growth problems
4. Something-anything new and different to go wrong to add my long list of losses
5. stressing too much about stressing
6.labour starting- due to c sections and previous placental abruption i am petrified that if labour starts something will go wrong
7. waking up from theatre and being told another baby did not make it
8. I hate not feeling comfortable about talking about previous pregnancies with some people- i HATE people who assume because i have no children means i have never been pregnant before- or made it this far before (32 weeks)
9.Getting my precious baby home- and then loosing him to SIDS or an accident of some sort
10. That something little will be wrong that the drs dont pick up on in time- which causes me to loose again

Umm, i could keep going, but thats basically it for now

[Where there's hope]

Hi Karan - looks like Monday was a big day for both of us!! Congratulations, sista

[Jessica_Rabe]

Well I am finding myself always concerned. I am only 5 weeks pregnant right now but it is so scary. You see I got pregnant right after my miscarriage in October. It was an early miscarriage only around 6 weeks but it was still scary. I am so young and this is my first time being pregnant. I used to think it was going to be so exciting but now all I do is worry. My last pregnancy's (miscarriage) hcg level only went as high to 40 and I didnt know that was bad then. Also I have whats called a SubSeptate Uterus and my doctor said its been known to cause preterm labor or breech babies. This time around at exactly 5 weeks my hcg level is 1332. Which I heard is really good. I have all the pregancy symptoms such as, sore breast, nausea, vomiting, insomnia, constiaption, fatigue, and of course heartburn. So I guess this forum is just nice to hear. Because it is scary to be pregnant after a miscarriage. You dont get to be oblivious to the negative parts of pregnancy, in fact you are all to aware of them.

[skye23]

Hi,

I was late by a few weeks and got a double kit pregnancy test, I tested at night time and came back negative, I tested the next morning and came back positive! That day I also started bleeding. I was very confused and booked in at the docotors for another pregnancy test and spoke with the nurse. She said I was pregnant and told me all the things I needed to do and said if my bleeding gets heavy or sore to call them. The bleeding continued over the weekend and I booked in to see the Dr but couldn't see him until that Friday, after a very long week of not knowing I saw him and was sent to get some blood tests to determine if I miscarriaged. I then recieved a phone call saying I had . It's now been 6 weeks and I havn't recieved my period, I have been getting cramps the last 2 weeks and thought it was all just because of the MC but then.......I had breakfast and almost through it up and thought I better do another test which has come back POSITIVE??????? This is the first time of being pregnant and it's been an emotional rollercoaster I am so confuse and don't know what's going on? I've booked in to see the Doctor Wednesday........is it normal to cramp?

[poppihome]

I have so many things floating in my head right now.
Each test is like another hurdle jumped over. Innocently each time I have thought that we were threw the worst, that innocence is gone and I am a true realist now.
My concerns now are
1. Seeing a strong healthy heart beat at our scan in just under two weeks
2. Getting through until the 12 week scan and seeing bub healthy etc
3. I will worry about everything else until I have them in my arms.....and then its new worries to contend with

[Hosebeastess]

So,I am pregnant for the 6th time, after 4 angels previously.

1-5 greatest fears this time:
1. Having to miscarry at home, giving birth to a first trimester baby on my toilet because the hospital won't admit me if it all goes wrong again.
2. Having to make the decision to allow doctors to remove a baby while it is still growing (if I have a heterotopic pregnancy).
3. Molar pregnancy
4. Miscarriage of any kind.
5. My father being right when he said if this one doesn't turn out I should stop trying because the miscarriages are affecting my health and therefor making me not able to properly look after DD.

Plus loads of others. But at this moment, today, they're my top 5.