u/Profail955

I'm currently 11w3d and I've been struggling with my blood pressure for years. My medical team has done a lot of tests and we don't know what is causing it, but they also never seemed super worried about it. But as soon as I got pregnant everything changed so quickly. I'm on blood pressure medication for the first time, and I've been referred to high risk OB.

Pre-pregnancy my blood pressure liked to sit around 140/100. I started blood pressure medication and it helped for a couple of days, but then it shot right back up to my "normal". I ended up in the hospital a couple weeks ago because my blood pressure decided to sit around 169/117. They dramatically increased my medication dose and sent me home. According to my gp I'm on the highest pregnancy safe dose of this medication and my blood pressure is still consistently sitting around 135/105.

I'm just so worried that my blood pressure is gonna restrict blood or nutrients from my baby. It feels like no matter what I do I can't get my diastolic under that magically 90 number. I am on low dose aspirin and have been since 6 weeks. I'm just so scared of hurting my baby.

I'm currently 10w2d pregnant. On of my first pregnancy symptoms was suddenly sleeping on my stomach. It's often the only way I can get comfy at night. I found over the last couple of days it does get a little uncomfortable in the mornings, but once I use the bathroom it's fine.

When did you guys have to transition from stomach sleeping to side sleeping?

So I'm 9w6d and currently in the ER with preeclamsia type symptoms. My blood pressure was crazy high (consistantly over 160/110) on at home readings and I was having symptoms like a severe headache, chest pain, dizziness, blurred vision, tingly fingers, and generally feeling really off. So off to the ER I went. My bp is still really high and during triage I had an abnormal ekg. They found protein in my urine as well. I don't know what to make of it all, and honestly I'm pretty scared of something being really wrong. I'm still in the waiting room waiting to see the doctor and see what other tests and stuff they want to do. I have had 2 previous first trimester losses and this is supposed to be my rainbow baby. I just want everything to be ok...

I'm currently 9w5d into my third pregnancy. My first two were anembryonic (a complete molar and a blighted ovum). I still feel all of the symptoms of the first trimester (extreme morning sickness, fatigue, smell sensitivity, constipation, unusually bad acne, etc) and I've had no intense cramping or bleeding. We saw our baby at 6w1d and 7w5d, and both times they were growing right on track with a strong heartbeat. It's been 2 weeks and not seeing them for that long has me paranoid. I had no idea my other pregnancies weren't viable until an ultrasound, and I felt pregnant until my D&C with both of them.

In theory I will get a 12 week scan, but I don't see my doctor until Thursday, and it usually takes about 3 weeks to get an ultrasound appointment after a referral where I am, so I probably will be closer to 13 weeks for that scan. The wait feels torturous.

My partner and I have been thinking of going to a boutique place, just to see baby. Ot would be abdominal, but I'm ok with that because at our 8w5d ultrasound we could clearly see baby on the abdominal ultrasound. I could only find one in my area, and they have over 600 positive reviews. The only hangup I have is that the clinic seems to turn the audio heartbeat function on at some point during all ultrasounds after 8 weeks. One of the very few negative reviews is from someone who wrote that they did not want this function on their intake form, and they used it anyway. One of the things they heavily try to sell are recordings of the heartbeat, or teddy bears with the heartbeat recording in it. I absolutely do NOT want to use the audio function in the first trimester.

I guess I'm just scared in general. We want this baby so bad. I wish I wasn't so scared all the time, but pregnancy after loss will do that...

This is my third pregnancy, both of my last ones ended in a miscarriage that was resolved via D&C around 9-10 weeks. With both I had pretty bad morning sickness. My first pregnancy was a complete molar, so I was throwing up every 20 minutes from just before 6 weeks. My second was a blighted ovum, and with the help of medication I was only throwing up every day or two, though the nausea was still very constant. That started just before 5 weeks as well.

I found out about this pregnancy at 3w1d, so super early. I guess that lulled me into a false sense of security because I knew I was pregnant for so long without the debilitating nausea. Well today I threw up. I'm 5w4d.

I'm so frustrated that I always get this awful morning sickness that starts before 6 weeks. I'm so frustrated that I'm having to do this for a third time without knowing if I'll have my rainbow baby (my viability scan is in 2 weeks). I'm just so tired of this awful first trimester Groundhog Day.

So I have had very very faint positives the last 2 days, which means I'm once again on this journey! And god am I terrified. I had a complete molar pregnancy in 2023 and a blighted ovum this past January. I had a D&C to resolve both. Basically my body can get pregnant and create a gestational sac, but it struggles with the actual embryo part. I'm so scared of going through another miscarriage and what that would mean. I'm scared that having 2 D&Cs in the past will affect my ability to stay pregnant. I'm scared of so many things. I want this baby more than anything. And because I found out so early (3w2d today) it means that the first trimester is even longer, and I have to wait even longer to find out if an embryo will actually develope this time or not.

CW: previous pregnancies, previous miscarriages

So I took a test today and the results looked... weird. So I've decided to count it as an invalid/inconclusive test and I took another one a few hours later with my second urine of the day and it was very negative. This is the first time I've ever gotten an inconclusive test, and it's had my mind reeling and I've been on edge all day, even with the negative after. I wasn't tracking my ovulation this cycle, but I'm very confident I'm between 7-10 dpo currently.

This is my first cycle trying since my blighted ovum back in January. Trying again has already been so hard. I wasn't really tracking becuase I wanted to ease myself back onto the saddle, but it looks like the universe had other ideas and really wants me to obsess over this TWW.