First baby in our lives

[Calyps0]

I've been on birth control implants for over a decade, and I stopped using them about 3-4 years ago. Throughout this journey, I've relied on the Natural Cycles app and taken countless ovulation tests in the hopes of getting pregnant. Our optimism was slowly fading, leading us to visit our GP and undergo numerous blood tests, both for me and my husband. The next step on our path was to seek help from a fertility clinic. To our surprise, all our test results came back normal. The GP's reassuring words were, "You are both normal; you just haven't found the right timing yet." This provided us with immense relief.

Last week, my period was delayed, and I took a pregnancy test that showed a very clear POSITIVE result. I couldn't believe it and took a few more tests on different days to confirm the good news – they all came back positive.

I immediately called our GP to share the joyous news. They congratulated me and informed me that there wasn't much more they could do at this point. They also sent me a text with a link to complete a self-referral form for prenatal care.

Since this is our first pregnancy, I'm filled with curiosity and eagerness to learn everything I need to know about this wonderful journey ahead. 😊👶

What are the next steps? I really want this to work really well for me and my baby.

Thank you for letting me share my little story

[Solly-44]

Congratulations! Such exciting times 😊

At this stage, you just need to complete your self referral for your pregnancy care and start taking a good quality prenatal vitamin (or just folic acid & vit D if you don’t like multivit’s which I know some don’t). What To Expect is a great app/website for weekly info on how your pregnancy progresses and the NHS site has info on which foods to avoid x

[Calyps0 in reply to Solly-44]

Thank you so much for this, I will definitely explore it.

Before getting pregnant I used to take the Vitabiotics pregnacare before conception only, after I read about this it says to finish the course of what I have left and move on to the next Vitabiotics after I finish that.

Shall I start straight away with new Vitabiotics pregnancy and stop the other o es?

[Seb9 in reply to Calyps0]

Congratulations on your pregnancy, the only vitamins you really neeId is folic acid and vitamin D, your pregnacare vitamins will have these in the conception and pregnancy vitamins so you can finish the conception ones and move onto the pregnancy ones. I used the Asda pregnancy vitamins as they were much cheaper and had almost identical vitamins. If you have a good diet, you could just take folic acid and vitamin D. They're the only 2 that are actually recommended as being needed. The NHS website, has a really good pregnancy section for sure, with when to expect your appointments and lots of other information. It can be hard to get your head round at first how little you're seen in the early days, but there's really very little to be done in early pregnancy. Good luck with everything

[Calyps0 in reply to Seb9]

Thank you very much for this.

I will explore it and look into the ASDA vitamins.

[Solly-44 in reply to Calyps0]

I’d finish the ones you have and then start pregnancy ones. Congrats again!

[Calyps0 in reply to Solly-44]

Thank you very much 🙏

[Jogsandwalks]

Congratulations! What a great story!My advice would be watch out for vitabiotics and prenatal vits with iron (even the smallest amount), they gave me terrible indigestion. I took just folic acid +vit d, available from Boots and it was much better.

[Calyps0 in reply to Jogsandwalks]

Hey,

Thanks for this.

Actually you were right about this, after I stopped the vita optics I started to feel a bit better and resume only to Vit D and Folic Acid.

Thank you

Week 21 and counting

[Jogsandwalks in reply to Calyps0]

No problem, glad I could help. It was one of the real pain points throughout my pregnancy up until around week, I think week 20 something. I had such terrible indigestion I couldn't breathe.

You're past the half way point, you're doing so well! Keep going, not long now 💪😄