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Hi, Me an my hubby have been trying now for about 7 months and in September I got a positive test..unfortunately it was a chemical pregnancy and i had an mc at 5 weeks. I took one of those clearblue tests when i was due and therefore i knew straight away but i also knew something was wrong...i had cramping pains like stitch which i hoped was implantation pains but deep down i knew they weren't. I wish i hadn't have taken the test so early...this month i feel different, i'm only due on today but i've been feeling really sick for days, i have butterflies and i had all my usual AF symptoms last week which are starting to fade off, i daren't take a test though in case it's chemical again but i work in a job where i need to know ASAP due to working with chemicals etc. I am trying not to get excited or stressed but it's so hard and i had to tell someone before my head exploded! i don't know what to do!

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Congrats! xxx

Congratulations, I am so pleased for you :-) You should def get weekly pamper sessions off your cousin and lots of tlc from OH x

thanks everyone, im sat at work and i cant tell anyone..feel like im goign to burst! just put a post up about looking things up on the net...had a few of those sharp pains from earlier on in the feed but tried to stay calm and put it down to things stretching and moving about...then i looked it up and results all came back with ectopic pregnancy and pending miscarriage! i wont be doing that again! i hope these pains are normal, i just assumed they were! xx

Congratulations, I am so pleased for you :-) You should def get weekly pamper sessions off your cousin and lots of tlc from OH x

hi yep i am pregnant! it's a long feed over many days of "am i or aren't i" you'll have to scroll through a bit of it to get the jist lol
a chemical pregnancy is when you conceive but for some reason the egg doesn't implant maybe due to mutation or something similar. it normally leads to miscarriage at around 5 weeks which is like a really heavy period. you normally get a positive test but only a faint line due to the hcg not being produced in normal amounts...bear in mind this is only what i've found out from other people and the net so it's not a docs opinion...hope i've been helpful xxxxx

Hey chick,

I've been following this thread for a while. Glad its all worked out! congrats xxxx

thanks chick how are you doin? xxx

just seen your message ill message you xxx

oh yay thats wonderful news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thanks chick how are you doin? xxx

Of course you're not weak, i still think about it all the time it takes everyone different amounts of time to get over it and for hormones to settle, to be honest i sort of forgot about trying as i was worried it would happen again and the got pg! im only 5 weeks though and still getting twinges so i'm stressed thinking it could happen again, i'll be more settled when i've had my first scan. had a strong line this time though on test which is better, i now it probably wont help at all but the only consolation i could give myself is that my body didn't let it take in sep for a reason, something was obviously wrong and everything happens for a reason so just know it was nothing you did and good news will come soon xxxxxxxxx :)

oh yay thats wonderful news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, is helpful, that's exactly what I had... though hormones drove me round the bend... took me three months to recover... am I weak or do other people struggle as much as I did?

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