I thought the TWW was bad

[Anonymous]

I thought the TWW was bad, but then we had to wait from beta test (initial was positive but low), to beta test (3 additional tests - doubling each time), to the first sonogram (which showed a sack but nothing else -- though doctor said he expected we would be behind schedule since we had the slow start) and now waiting for the second sonogram (doctor said we have a 50/50 chance, which isn't bad I guess given my wife's age). I don't know why I thought once we got past the first beta we were in the clear.

Just wanted to vent.

[Anonymous]

Sorry - it sucks. Part of me actually didn't want to be pregnant last month when my period was two days late because I knew that getting through the first trimester would be stressful, and I wasn't sure if I could handle it.

Best of luck.

[Anonymous]

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Sorry, OP, but, unfortunately, even once you make it through those hurdles, the anxiety doesn't end....there's the waiting after the release from the RE to the next time you might get a sono....to waiting for the magical 12 week sort-of-out-of-woods mark...to the should-I-or-should-I-not-do CVS/amnio/nuchal trans/quad screen...then waiting for the results, then waiting for the results from getting the inevitable complication checked out (bleeding, not feeling kicks, gestational diabetes, high blood pressure, low fluid) to the actual birth & all the anxieties associated with that...to money anxieties...to raising the child to....


Ok, deep breath in, deep breath out...One day at a time.

[Anonymous]

OP, I was just like you! Until I got pregnant.... waiting for betas, then waiting 4 weeks for 1 sono, then waiting 2 weeks for another sono, then waiting for 1st Ob visit, then waiting for 12 weeks for Nt, then waiting to 13 w. to "get out of the woods", then waiting until 16 weeks for amnio, then 20w for big u/s, and now just waiting..... And I know it will be worse when baby is born.