Like I shared during my two week wait, I began having the common pregnancy symptoms very early. However, since I’m undergoing assisted reproduction I take oral and injected hormones that cause the very same symptoms as pregnancy, I can’t really trust them to be an indicator of anything. In fact, assisted reproduction pregnancy symptoms aren’t as reliable in the first weeks and really up to the 12th week of pregnancy for those of us who could not conceive naturally. At 12 weeks, I will stop all oral and injectable hormones, the placenta takes over manufacturing those hormones, and I will then have more reliable symptoms that indicate what actually might be going on in the pregnancy.

Having said that, I feel terrible. Not like ‘over 40 and terrible’ because I’ve done that already. This is different. The nausea is far worse. The pressure in my uterus on my bladder THIS EARLY has me in the bathroom every hour to empty my bladder. The fatigue is extreme. My skin is becoming drier than a soup cracker. My hair is falling out. My sleeping is already interrupted by pregnancy induced Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS). I’m beginning to wonder what we were thinking. Can I really do this? Or is something off…. and so begins the worry.