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Any happy stories for spotting women?

Hi, I am pregnant for the second time - the first time I miscarried at 5 weeks, and I am now at 7 weeks on my 2nd pregnancy. I have had some light spotting for the last couple of days - mostly pink, though the other morning it was a little red - and not really enough to even use a panty liner. No cramping. I went to the midwife today and am going to get an ultrasound on Monday - but that is 4 days away. I know it is possible that a miscariage is in the works, but I also hear that half of women who have spotting don't miscarry. I guess I am just wanting to keep a positive outlook and hearing from anyone who has had spotting and a successful pregnancy would help.
Thanks!

E

First Pregnancy

My name is Angela and my husband, Andy, and I have been married for 7 years. We waited a long time to start having children because I wanted to make sure my teaching career was underway and we could buy a house. We bought our house 2 years ago and so at Christmas time we decided to start trying.

Just before Easter I started to have my suspisions that I was pregnant. A good friend of ours was turning 30 the next day so I thought I should find out for sure before I went out to "celebrate" with him. That Wednesday night I bought a "two" pack pregnacy test. I took the first test as soon as I got home and it was positive. I was in shock! Just as I got the results, my husband called and needed me to pick him up at work. It was so hard for me to not blurt it out as soon as he got into the car. We got home and I told him. He immediately made me go to the bathroom and take the second test so he could see it for himself.

At that point in time I realised I had been spotting for the last couple of weeks. The next day I took myself to a clinic and after a 3 and 1/2 hour waiting period they told me that I would have to go back the next day for an ultrasound. We had to go out and celebrate my friend's birthday all night without saying a word (and my husband ordering me non-alcoholic drinks on the sly!). I had always told my mom she would be the third person to know (behind myself and my husband)

We went to the ultrasound the next day and they told me everything was looking great and that I was 6 weeks and 3 days along. I was shocked that they could narrow it down to the day!

One week later I was playing volleyball (something my doctor told me was fine to do in the first trimester). During warm up I jumped to hit the ball and came down off balance. I twisted my ankle. This meant a second trip to the clinic in 1 week! The doctors chose to not do an x-ray to see if it was broken. They told me they could but why take the risk. They had me in a cast for two weeks, then in a removable splint. I am going through physio to get the strength and balance back but things seem to be going well.

We have since told the family and all of our friends. I go to my first gyn. appointment tommorrow.

Things in my life are finally coming together!

Angela

Scared

Well, I just learned this week that I'm 5 weeks pregnant. This is my husband and mine 1st child. I'm scared about having a miscarriage so, I've only told the potential grandmothers. I've been having slight pain on both sides of my uterus, so I'm praying this is not the beganing of a miscarriage. We're just waiting and praying that everything is ok. Our first pre-natal visit is June 15, 2006, so I'm waiting.

Lawanna

Too gassed up

My husband and i found out that we were having a baby a week ago. I am now six weeks pregnant. I knew I had to be pregnant before I found out because my face all of a sudden started breaking out. But that is not the worst part.

I became so bloated that I looked six months pregnant and i only weigh 124.. I have never been in so much pain. as i type to you I am alll gassed up. I called my my mom in the Bahamas and she told me to boil some dill seed/ dill weed in water, then sweeten like tea. I have to tell you that it is such a relief when I drink it because it takes care of the problem ASAP. I drink it ali the time and it tastes really good too.

I am also constipated and that is the worst kind i am not one to become constipated so now I find myself eating prunes or whatever it takes to relieve it. I can't wait to pass my first trimester, because I go through tons of mood swings and even the little noise that my five year old or my dog make rings in my head and give me a headache...

Other than what I am going through this trimester, I am happy that God has blessed me with another child.

mary

Mania

My boyfriend and I were not "trying." Indeed, we were trying to avoid, but we were handicapped by my inability to tolerate the PIll and the chafing of all the other devices: condoms, spermicide, etc.. My body is extremely sensitive to chemicals and very allergic. So after a while, when we both knew we were STD free, we tried what we call "The Excel Spread Sheet Method." We called it this to avoid calling it The Rhythm Method, thereby lying to ourselves and also demonstrating our total ignorance - we did not know (and have since learned) that even if woman has the same length cycle every month, that doesn't mean ovulation time doesn't vary every month. Nor did we have any idea how wide the buffer around the mythical "Day 14 guarantee" needed to be. After six months, maybe we were also being careless, in part I suspect to an anxiety on my partner's part that we were not fertile, since "an accident" should have happened by then. I think he was tempting fate. Still, I had started to suspect I was infertile, so with sadness I eased up on minding the spreadsheet.
A week before I was due for my period, I noticed with anxiety that my behavior was becoming "manic." Somewhere on the order of alphabetizing the furniture. I was also unusually hungry. I was writing lengthy essays in my e-mails to friends, all the while panicking because I have a (non-blood) relative who is manic-depressive, and my surges of creative energy and verbiage reminded me of her in her manic phases.

Also, I have a bladder condition called "I.C." which results in frequent urination and is often accompanied by vaginal soreness (vulvodynia) and urethral spasm. It had been in remission for over a year. I was sleeping through the night, I no longer needed any muscle relaxants or physical therapy. I could even drink coffee and I could usually get through a movie without a restroom run. Suddenly, it seemed to be back. I was peeing constantly, my vagina was irritated. I rushed to my loving urologist for a UTI test, praying it was positive because the alternative would mean the I.C. was back. It was negative. She prescribed a few Valium, to be taken in tiny doses before bed to break the cycle of spasm and halt the return of the I.C. The valium didn't work.

After I was officially late for my period (by a week) I had noticed that I was extremely tearful without exactly being sad- that was the most unusual feeling! I seemed to feel highly energized and independent one minute, and sleepy or tearful the next. Often all at the same time. I thought, this is one doozy of a PMS. Finally we dragged ourselves fearfully to the drugstore. The bright purple plus sign sprang up INSTANTLY. I had felt falsely reassured by minor cramping, which suggested the onset of PMS. But unlike with PMS, my breasts DID NOT ENLARGE OR BECOME SORE. Every month I had that symptom very emphatically. Also, normally my cramping is severe and begins about half an hour after the blood flow on day one of my period. This was more like an old man grunting and mildly whining in my uterus. The cramping was painful in a different way, an annoying, hard to walk up the stairs without bringing them on way, but not the usual agony that requires heavy doses of Advil and a heating pad that I get every month.

For reasons we don't yet know (but hope to uncover) I miscarried. The O.B. predicted it, based on falling progesterone. He later used the term "chemical pregnancy" to describe what had happened, but subsequent reading (in "Taking Charge of Your Fertility") seems to indicate that there is no such thing. The HCG that causes the positive test only is produced after implantation. Hence I am certain that it was a blighted ovum, or some other problem subsequent to at least the fragile beginning of implantation.

I am writing this because my experience with an early pregnancy produced symptoms I had not known could be indicators: Mania, increased mental organization, clarity of thought, raising of ability to speak extemporaneously with ease, etc... And I was not at all nauseated. Oh, and my vagina became itchy, and I was given Diflucan without a yeast test being taken. The itching took many days to subside, and was unresponsive to Monostat. It passed after about a week, but was a quite distinct feeling.
Have any others felt these symptoms?

Leslie