Tw: previous loss
Hi All! I am currently 9 weeks with our rainbow 🌈 baby. This is my first rodeo getting this far along. One major difference between this pregnancy and the prior is that we went through a whole gambit of infertility treatments due to PCOS to get our first baby so I had very frequent monitoring. This time we somehow had a happy but unplanned pregnancy which feels ironic after all the $$$, blood, sweat, and lots of tears of infertility treatments.
Consequently, I am not being monitored nearly as much—my first scan of the entire pregnancy is at 12 weeks. I am located in the US.
I am having the typical 9 week symptom disappearance but I’ve been trying to reassure myself by reading experiences of all the others who have had the same thing. But they’ve all mentioned already having healthy scans and 7 or 8 weeks. I’ve had two hCG draws at 6 weeks and 7 weeks which had good numbers but that is the only reassurance we’ve had. It’s a little difficult to have not seen baby at all and having to wait so darn long.
Wondering how people have been able to manage their anxiety during this long long wait! I’d rather not go to a boutique place to get a reassurance scan due to lack of local availability.