Morning all, I am currently 5 weeks 5 days with my first ever pregnancy following IVF in Feb. I am only 1 week on from my positive test but it feels like an age! I still have just under 2 weeks to wait until my first scan and have been really struggling to cope every time I feel cramps or heaviness and thinking the worst. I have nothing to compare too and so just looking for any shared experiences to help get me through this second 2ww!!!
Thanks, Kat
I completely get you! The anxiety doesn’t stop, I’m afraid… I guess because it has taken us so long to get to this stage, it feels like anything could just take it away 🥹
I did pay for an early viability scan at 6+3, so if you feel you can’t wait, that’s an option but just to flag that for some women it could be too early to detect a heartbeat so you could leave feeling even more anxious.
I did have a huge cramp at 6+5 which was a lot stronger than any other cramps/twinges I’d had so far and I ran to the EPU. They scanned me and it was all ok, which reassured me.
Please try to distract yourself so you’re not thinking about it 24/7! Make plans, go to the cinema, anything!
I hope you are feeling OK and best of luck with this journey ☺️
Thanks for replying <3
I think its still disbelief as well that its actually happened! so then when cramping starts again you cant help but think the worst.
Trying to just imagine its all baby growing and my body changing and each day is a day closer to the scan. Just wanting and needing to see that little heartbeat <3
I will be 6 weeks on Friday and have a busy weekend ahead thankfully 
Thanks again <3 Kat
Hi first scan is on its qay. I do hope all is well and continues as it should. I leave the charity at the end of the month, so have a happy thought to take with me. Diane xx
Hi Diane, thank you! your well wishes are appreciated <3 best of luck in your next venture, Kat xx
Hi Kat, I can't offer much advice because I'm in the same boat, so at least you're not alone. I believe I am 7w3d now, and it is dragging soooo much! Miraculously, this is also a naturally conceived pregnancy after 3 failed IVF cycles, so as much as I'm super grateful, it also means we don't have the extra support of the clinic and won't get a scan until the standard 12 week NHS one. Its been a battle since testing not to go out of my mind thinking about the what ifs and worst case scenarios. I've been lurking on here a lot, and the mumsnet pregnancy forums, and googling etc etc.
I know I just have to be patient, be grateful for every day we get and distract myself as much as possible. Tell myself that I am pregnant and should assume all is healthy and well until proven otherwise. It's just easier said than done isn't it, and it's hard to think about anything else! If it helps, I'm doing a little better now than I was at 4-6 weeks, am a little more relaxed, but I am desperate for the later milestones to come!
Oh wow, what a little miracle!!!
It’s true it’s hard not to be constantly thinking about it and wanting everything to be okay.
Like you, I’m wanting each milestone to come and at least aiming for that is something ❤️
Can’t imagine the extra hardship of waiting 12 weeks and sending lots of luck 🍀
Kat x
Hi KatChatt👋 in the same boat. Currently 6w2d this is worse than the 2ww I find. I feel like o need to share with some friends but I'm two minds because I don't have any IVF friends and so what they may say may annoy me more than comfort me. So far I've only shared with one and not sure it has helped..this is so hard! Where do you stand in terms of talking to people ?
Hello!
I literally said that yesterday about this being harder than waiting to test!!!! There’s even more to it now that we’re waiting for that little heartbeat.
Absolutely happy to talk as someone going through the same, via insta work for you? If so I’m @sewingandtea
Kat x
Hey KatI'm just a few days ahead at 6 weeks pregnant and I have my viability scan a week today.
This is my second IVF pregnancy and I had my little boy via IVF in 2023. Firstly, the anxiety is totally to be expected when you're finally pregnant after a battle for your much longer for baby. I was a bag of nerves the first time due to my first pregnancy ending in miscarriage and I've been a bag of nerves this time too. To put you at ease though, in both my successful pregnancy and my current one, twinges and heavy womb were /are my main symptoms. Your womb is expanding and your body is doing amazing things!!! When I lost my first pregnancy, I had a sudden very sharp pain followed by bleeding. With my previous successful pregnancy, I bled 3 times in my first trimester so you can imagine how nerve-wracking that was (all was well and light bleeding is common and often normal in IVF pregnancies). Thankfully this time round, no bleeding yet so far. Try occupying yourself as best you can fir the next two weeks. If it's something that helps, pregnancy apps give you daily updates on what's happening inside that I find interesting (I use Ovia and Baby centre and they're both free). They also tell you babies size week on week.... Our little bubs are currently lentil sized, soon to be blueberries !!
The 2WW is awful but then the wait for scan seems to last about a year!!!
Good luck and congratulations Xx
Hi Sarascottxox
I don't know why I never anticipated the anxiety being this bad but its mad isn't it!
I will be 6 weeks tomorrow <3 Thankfully I haven't experienced any bleeding and am beyond grateful for that. I just wish I knew how my HCG levels were doing following my second and last HCG last Thursday. Strangely I had little to no cramping yesterday which feels both good and bad, its all mind tricks isn't it!
Your right, watching the days rack up on the apps and the developing baby really helps.
The scan wait really is torturous!
Sending you lots of luck with yours too and congrats <3 Kat x
When is your scan booked for? Mine is on 27th. I didn't even get Hcg bloods this time. My clinic don't offer them as standard and I only got them last time cause of bleeding. If you've had tests and Hcg doubled in 48 hours, then you're definitely in a good position!!! Xx
Hello
Scan is booked for 01st April and I requested the HCG bloods as they weren’t offered which I think is crazy after IVF!! I am wishing the next lot of days away.
Hope your scan goes well, not too long now!! 🫶🏻
Kat x
It is crazy that they don't offer Hcg as standard. I've had a traumatic few days as had a bleed on Friday, thought it was game over and rang my clinic to see if they would bring my scan forward... Earliest they could fit me in was tomorrow so I booked a private one. Was so not hopeful but there was tiny bub measuring bang on track and we saw and heard a heartbeat 💓 We're still going for our clinic scan tomorrow and hopefully all still on track but that hasn't helped the anxiety!!!! Hope you're still doing ok and counting down the days till scan day!!! X
So pleased that baby is okay ❤️❤️ thank you, I’m nearly there now 🥰 x
Hey x congrats on your pregnancy 💗
It took me four years and 7 transfers to get my BFP which was with my very last embryo at 43.
I also had a bleed at 7 weeks right before my first scan
Bub was completely fine.
I think the anxiety is higher for us who have worked so hard to just get a positive and at first I was really anxious but then a friend told me it never stops and she’s right.
I then decided if anything was going to happen it’s out of my control so it did help me relax a bit and enjoy being pregnant.
I hope you have a healthy and happy rest of your pregnancy 💫💕
Hi Beclp
Wow that must have been incredibly hard so my hat is off to you and I hope that your little family are all well <3
It is so true, trying to explain the fear to anyone that has not gone through this is just impossible!
You are so right about not being able to control it and I need to focus on that.
Thank you so much! here's to all of us in this boat that don't realise how strong we are <3 Kat x
Hoping this is allowed . . . to further my post and help anyone with the same anxieties, I ordered 2 more ClearBlue Digital tests with weeks indicator. I tested my urine this morning and have gotten the 3+ reading indicating that I am 5+ weeks pregnant and I will be 6 weeks tomorrow. This has given me so much reassurance and to follow it up I wanted to share this post I found on an explanation of the HCG levels required to detect each of the ClearBlue readings as it has been of great comfort to me;
community.babycentre.co.uk/...
Hope this helps you too 🥰 Kat x
Glad you’re feeling better. Just to add, I felt exactly the same and incredibly anxious and had a few private early scans too (my symptoms would disappear, but all completely normal). I couldn’t shake the anxiety but spoke to a fertility/pregnancy therapist at about 14 weeks and even just the one session helped me SO much. Appreciate very lucky to be able to speak to a professional, but I’d recommend if you can. Hopefully you’ll find it helpful to know that the anxiety really did pass, at the beginning I genuinely didn’t think it was possible. I’ll be 37 weeks on Saturday 😊 Good luck with everything x
Oh wow, baby will be here soon!!! Congratulations and best wishes for a great birth experience and safe arrival of baby.
I am feeling so much better today having taken a ClearBlue digital and gotten the 3+ as I know things have progressed ❤️
As of tonight I am now part of Fertility Action Networks pregnancy after IVF group and it has really helped ❤️
Thanks for your well wishes, advise & support ❤️ Kat x
5 weeks + 6 days sac and yolk but no embryo 💔
very anxious as symptoms subsided today! 
Brown discharge 5-6 weeks?
