Hi everyone

Thank you for your replies, I appreciate more than you'll ever know.

The cramps were REALLY bad this morning- subsided overnight but this morn felt like the start of a m/c....but still no bleeding, so think I'll go to the hospital this morn to get it checked out. They have once again subsided and still no bleeding but I took 2 panadol a few hours ago so that might be heloing.

More bad news though- we had a visit from the Police at 3am advising us that my DP's brother was dead.     He is the biological father of our wee boy so I just don't know how we are going to handle that conversation.

I can't believe what life is throwing at us lately. This is meant to be our happy time.

Hi ladies

Thank you for your replies, they do reassure me somewhat. It just does really feel like AF is gonna turn up or they're gonna get stronger and become another mc is all.

I guess all I can do is get a wheatpack and pop it on my tummy and just lie down and watch some bad tv lol. No doubt i'll know in the morning if it's just baby burrowing in cramps or something else.

Please stick little baby!  

Hey cuppatea, thanks heaps for that ((hugs)).

Haven't got a mw yet, still in the process of finding one! To be honest I'm too scared to take another HCG test, partly cos I'm very aware that they nor scans will protect me from losing my baby so I don't want to falsely get my hopes up, and also if the levels *aren't* rising as they should, then I don't want to feel even more stressed and helpless IYKWIM?   I am not usually this despondant but I want this baby so much and we keep trying to get pg so when it happens I get so scared!

It is also unfortunate that this beautiful event of expecting our baby has happened at the same time my Pop died (on Sunday), we're moving house in 4 weeks, DP has horrible divorce to go through and I have uni exams the day after we move.  I sure can time it lol   

I am trying to get bed rest and put my feet up etc..... listen to soothing music....but every time I feel like my bbs are a little less sore or I get a cramp (and they *are* quite painful- I'm not imagining it), I just freakin worry like anything.

I did take one panadol this arvo cos I am tired and worried and I thought it would help settle them cos they were borderline painful. Not painful in themselves had they been intermittent but cos they felt like they had been so constant it was getting tiring and sore IYKWIM?!

Sometimes I get what feels like stretching and I can identify that feeling, but mostly its an ache or a heavy feel in the middle above the pubic bone. Uncomfortable, not painful...even for a big girls blouse like me lol.

I have been trying to relax heaps this time around and getting lotsa rest, put my feet up etc, but I have had insomnia which may well be making things feel worse. At the moment the ache/cramp seems to come and go and I am so damn worried.

Yep totally normal, that little baby is getting itself nice and comfy in there so is finding the best place for it settle in.

Hello all my lovely pg friends

As most of you know by now I am *finally* pg again...woohoo...but the last couple of days have got me a little worried and rather than continue to be paranoid around just the May Mummies (bless them), I thought I would cast my net wider to get your views as well...

I think I am about 4.5 weeks pg, give a day or so. Had my first (and last, hopefully- I don't want to 'serial test') bloods yesterday and I am bang on the 50th percentile for my dates. So all good there.

But I am *SO* worried about this cramping I have been having.

I know some is normal throughout pg, and in the early days I understand it happens a bit more often perhaps. When AF was due (I got my BFP about 11DPO), I had some pretty uncomfortable hours of almost AF type pains...but they went the next day and died done mainly for the next few days other than intermittent twinging, aching and the odd little cramp. Because of my previous m/c (and my old age of 34) the Dr has said I'm fairly high risk.  Not music to my paranoid ears lol.

Anyway, I just want tonknow *how* normal is cramping and to what degree? Today I've felt pretty blah- ms type blah- and a bit shakey, which I also thought were early pg symptoms. The cramps got worse this arvo so I lay down with a wheat pack and they subsided alot. Once I got up though they were back in an hour or so and I had to take a panadol.

I have had mc before and the pains are nothing like that severe at all. More centred and uncomfortable than anything. Today they did get sore though and I'm wondering if that's within the realms of 'normal' or is it cos I am hyper-sensitive  and feeling every tiny twinge?  My bbs seem slightly less sore, but again that soreness comes and goes and is worse at night. The sick feeling is def still here. There is absolutely no sign of bleeding or spoting.

Sigh. What do you all think? Experiences? Is it normal for these pains so early in pg?!