![]() ![]() “There was no heartbeat,” was her second. “I’m so sorry, you’re having a miscarriage,” was her first sentence. I was weighed at first, and my blood pressure was taken – it was normal. But if it was measuring three weeks behind, surely that must be bad? “The measurements don’t always add up”, the technician said. I saw a little bean on the screen wiggling about, thinking that it must be moving and so it must be ok. She said they didn’t try and find the heartbeat at this stage. The technician told us that the baby was measuring at seven weeks, and not much else. “This was too good to be true.”Īware that spotting can be normal in pregnancy, we went in for a scan at local urgent care the next morning to make sure. “Argh, I knew it,” I thought, sighing out loud. ![]() And after we looked at our less than 5% chance of miscarrying on the first day of the 11 th week, after my husband went to work, after I had a glass of kefir with my breakfast, I went to the bathroom and saw the faintest brown-red tinge on the tissue paper. Each day that passed without any serious sign of anything being wrong – no spotting, no cramping – we pulled up an online miscarriage risk calculator, and watched our chance of miscarriage go down, waiting for our 12 th week scan and the opportunity to share our news with the world. My husband wasn’t worried at all and did his best to encourage me to relax. It was around the seventh or eighth week that I began to worry my breasts didn’t feel as full anymore. No nausea, just a healthy appetite, a new aversion to chocolate, and a big thirst for kefir. If anything, I had slightly bigger and fuller breasts. I thought I was lucky when I had next to no symptoms during my first pregnancy. Were there things I wish I knew before it happened? That I wish others had told me? I think most of all, I wish someone told me not to be afraid of the pain. Simply Say – supporting someone you know. ![]()
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