Weeks 4 To 6 Of Spermination

So I thought I'd recount the early days of my pregnancy. Bear with me as I'm writing this from memory, I'm now 10 weeks (still uber early in pregnancy terms but ready to start blogging about things).

I found out I was pregnant when I was 4 weeks pregnant, the day before I missed my period I took a test - actually 4 of them and they all came up positive really quickly. Still not convinced I thought I'd go and get the Rolls Royce of EPT's so I took a trip to Asds and got 4 Clearblues. They came up positive saying that I was 1-2 weeks post conception.

I can't say I was excited when I first found out (which sounds awful to say) but I had a traumatising miscarriage in May of 2014 and was too scared to be hopeful without seeing a doctor and all that stuff.  Grisly - my other half - felt pretty similar to me so we kind of acted like I was pregnant, taking all the necessary precautions with diet etc. It wasn't until week 6 that we got a scan and found out the pregnancy was viable and the foetus looked healthy and we even heard a heartbeat. Grisly and I were both in floods of tears, it was probably the best day of our lives.

Symptom wise I had a LOT of pain. The reason for that is my Sickle Cell Anaemia, something that makes my pregnancy 'high risk' in terms of how it's handled with physicians etc. I deal with my Sickle Cell pain with NSAIDs and Opiate based painkillers. I knew from my first pregnancy that I had to stop taking NSAIDs but that the Opiates were 'ok' but every time I took a painkiller I felt in my heart as if I might be somehow hurting my baby. I still feel that way but I know that at this point there's no other alternative for dealing with my pain. I had a lot of nausea during week 6 and the smell of a lot of things made me retch instantly. Considering I work at a hospital where there are a lot of smells, and not all of them pleasant, it was a tough week. Luckily though there was no actual vomiting.

The worst thing about weeks 4 to 6 for me though was the fatigue. I'm anaemic with a chronically low haemoglobin and I thought I knew exhaustion but  I knew nothing. I was constantly tired, I felt like no matter how much sleep I got it wasn't enough. At the weekends if literally hibernate sleeping for 14-16 hours. There were nights though where no matter how tired I was I couldn't get any sleep. I'd be up all night.

Luckily ladies this all passes. Pregnancy so far , all things considered is pretty sweet. Me and my little dumpling will keep you updated

        xoxo