pre-IVF anxiety... Help!!

Thank you everybody! We are definitely getting a lot more excited now. I can occasionally feel her from the outside now when she kicks but I feel her internally ALL the time. We've got a ton of clothes for her and recently went a little crazy with the Carter's semi-annual sale lol. @WinterBub I think I gained about 7 pounds during stims! It was mostly bloat and water weight but it did take a little bit to get back to normal. I was pretty uncomfortable at the time I went in for my fresh transfer, I was still a little tender in the abdomen and had some weight gain. My FET was much more comfortable and easy than my fresh transfer, especially because you have to go in with a full bladder and they do an abdominal ultrasound, which still was really sore after my egg retrieval. That's a good idea to start walking! Don't do anything more than that until you feel ready Your body did just go through a lot between the massive influx of hormones and the egg retrieval, which is technically a small surgery. Since I did go right into a transfer, I don't think I really did any physical activity other than normal daily tasks

@elencor how are you feeling?

@elencor Thank you! It's starting to feel so real now that I can see her face so clearly and I'm feeling a ton of movement constantly. I totally understand your concerns about work. My contract just renewed last week, but I told my boss when I was 7 weeks pregnant because I work with a lot of hazardous chemicals and needed him to know that I would no longer be able to do certain duties and I needed to be more careful. He ended up being incredibly understanding and has allowed me to do some work from home on days when morning sickness was really bad etc. It did relieve some pressure after I told him because my morning sickness was all day starting around 10 weeks, so there were some days I just could barely function at work. And I started having migraines during second trimester, which sometimes render me useless when they get really bad, so it helped to have him in my corner. It's totally understanding if you want to wait until after your contract renewal to tell your boss though. Unfortunately I couldn't wait because I had more than 3 months from the time I found out and I would have been working with some very hazardous chemicals otherwise. It's good that you are starting to have morning sickness symptoms, that means things are progressing! But yes, I know those can definitely interfere with normal day-to-day functions. I refused to let myself vomit at work in our public bathrooms, so I either went in after I was done vomiting (which was usually 4-5 times in the morning), or I would try to work from home if I wasn't feeling better. And don't worry too much about the fetal pole, for many people it isn't visible until 6 weeks or later. My friend's wasn't visible yet at 6 weeks+1 day but it was visible at her next ultrasound and they found a heartbeat . It's very difficult not to worry though, especially at those early ultrasounds. I was always a bundle of nerves until the 20 week mark, and even now I feel nervous before ultrasounds!

@elencor I absolutely understand your worries, but try to take a deep breath! Your scan was very early, so it is totally possible that your yolk sac just became visible via scan. We don't know exactly when implantation took place, and that could make a difference too. The good thing is they saw a gestational sac, the beginnings of a yolk sac, it is intrauterine, your beta levels are very good, and you are having normal pregnancy symptoms . I honestly don't know anything about irregular-shaped yolk sacs but it's very possible that they just couldn't get a good view of it yet because it's so early. Very early scans are super nerve-wracking because there's very little they could see. My first scan was 3 days later than yours and the heartbeat had just become visible, and they saw strange debris in the gestational sac that they said could be nothing or could cause problems later on. By the next scan, that strange debris was gone! Like winter said, Google is not your friend this early, trust me! I lived on Google during early pregnancy and drove myself absolutely crazy. I was always coming up with crazy scenarios in my head because of the stuff I read on Google. I had spotting at 5-7 weeks and I convinced myself I was going to miscarry, I would Google every little twinge or cramp but ultimately, every single person is different and every pregnancy is different. I find myself going on Google now whenever I have weird pains and have to force myself to get off because I'm literally growing a human inside me and figure it's normal to have lots of stretching and abdominal pains. Try not to worry until the doctors tell you you have something to worry about. Ultimately it's out of your control right now unfortunately, as difficult as it is. I have a feeling your next scan will be great and they will find a heartbeat!