Anxiety is gettin' to me!

Em&Josh99

So I just found out i'm pregnant, My LMP was 12/1, I took 3 HPT last Wednesday including one of the clear blue digital predictors that came out as 3+ weeks. I've been experiencing quite a few symptoms, nauseous (mainly when I don't eat),  breast soreness, very tired, etc. I guess what i'm worried about is that before getting pregnant my cycles were pretty out of whack, getting to the point where it was like 58 days between at one point and needless to say, we were SHOCKED that I was pregnant.  I'm worried that that will affect the pregnancy, or make it more likely to be non viable. This is my first pregnancy, so I know I'm probably more susceptible to being a worry wart. I have a doctors appt this week, but I'm sure they won't do an ultrasound or anything yet, will they? Has anyone been in the same boat??

cblakin

my cycles have been all over the place, especially the last year.  usually around 34-38 days, but i have reached over 60 a couple times.  there are A LOT of reasons that your body is irregular, stress being a key one for me, but the irregularity/length of cycles really only affects pregnancy in that it makes it harder to get pregnant since you are ovulating less.  It doesn't mean that anything is wrong when you do ovulate, just that you do it less.  Once you are preggers the corpus luteum (the part on your ovary that the egg came from) takes over hormone production until the egg implants and can do the job itself.  

when i mentioned to my doc that we were going to TTC (after a 64 day cycle) they were unconcerned.  I got preggers the first cycle, and I didn't ovulate then until CD30, which i only knew from tracking my temps/CM.  it did make it confusing for the receptionist at the clinic when i told her the day of my LMP and basically had to give into her demands that my LMP must have been two weeks later than it was, but that is the most grief it has given me to date.

Just try to relax! I myself have had anxiety for years so it's hard to wait for that first appt (mine is next week - finally!). I took one of those week predictor things (actually three) and for mine 3+ really means 5+, so you are probably at least 5 weeks along.  Just get some prenatals and wait for your apt, as the PP mentioned they will probably do an ultrasound just because of the unknown conception time.  And congrats!

Em&Josh99

Gosh, thank you so much! I feel immensely better already!