Early pregnancy turned out to be a little harder than I imagined. I didn't really know what to expect, and thought that morning sickness was the main thing I'd have to contend with. In the end, I had a little nausea, but I found the constant tiredness the hardest to deal with. This kicked in before I even got the positive test result, and is only just fading now I've reached week 13.
Anxiety was the other thing I hated. Very early on I accidentally read a newspaper article saying that up to 25% of pregnancies end up in miscarriage - not a very comforting statistic to read when I still had the whole of the first trimester to face! A bit more research led me to think that this statistic is misleading as it includes pregnancies that miscarry very early, even before you'd normally get a positive test result. So if you've seen those two lines, and are otherwise fit and healthy, the actual risk is less than the very scary 25%.
Having said that, nothing is as reassuring as seeing baby wriggling away at a scan sometime at around 12 weeks.
Now the first trimester is almost over those early symptoms are disappearing, I am much calmer, and beginning to look forward to the second.
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