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I don't have early pregnancy symptoms...and I'm not very good at "not worrying." My symptoms have included mild breast tenderness, cramping, and subtle changes in gut motility. Is this a second pregnancy? If so, how satisfied are you with your OB's care? Refusal to do any early ultrasound would not fly well with me...maybe they would do one with your first appointment ~8 weeks-ish?

Sending good thoughts! Sorry you can't get an ultrasound!

I'm not sure how things work in Canada but I am in the UK and the NHS doesn't do any scans until 12 weeks as standard. For my first pregnancy I paid for a private scan at 8 weeks - it cost me £75 which was well worth it at the time for the peace of mind. Not sure if that might be an option for you?

I didn't have much in the way of symptoms until about 8 weeks when I got the nausea ad exhaustion. I didn't worry much. I figure things are going to happen how they're going to happen and worrying doesn't help anything. And just makes me miserable in the meantime, so I just went along with the assumption that things were going fine until I had a reason to believe otherwise.

@Mrs. Champagne: did you have symptoms your first pregnancy?

@Mrs. Champagne: My first pregnancy I had zero symptoms until 7.5/8 weeks or so. I did have a bit of spotting around 6ish weeks though, ok, so maybe that was a 'symtom' but it totally freaked me out. Everything turned out ok!

My second pregnancy has also been really different from my first.

Try to remain positive! (Totally easier said than done, but try to keep busy)

I didn't have any symptoms at all other than cramping which can be good or bad. I was freaking out for a month until I could see a doctor and get a dating scan at 9wks. I don't have a lot of advice on how to remain calm, but it's perfectly normal to not have symptoms and you're much more likely to STAY pregnant!

@Mrs. Champagne: How are you feeling? Any more symptoms or do you feel the same?

None.
Not until I started to feel the baby, then the only symptoms were kicks and flutters, hiccups and at the very end swelling (pre-e).

My friend gave me a home Doppler and after 13 weeks I could find the heartbeat pretty consistently. By 18 weeks I could feel/see kicks.

@Mrs. Champagne: sorry about the pain, I hope it's nothing serious! When will your ultrasound be? I hope that brings you some good news!

I'm still haven't had too many symptoms either. I let myself read too many posts on this site so now I'm pretty anxious for my US, which isn't for another 5 days at 9w1d. I keep telling myself that there's nothing I can do about it either way and that I should just relax. deep breaths.