Showing posts with label First Trimester. Show all posts
Showing posts with label First Trimester. Show all posts

Thursday, 4 July 2019

Pregnancy - the first trimester (week 1 - week 12)


When I announced my pregnancy on here I explained how we waited to tell loved ones in person. As we waited, by the time we announced it on here and on social media I was already in the second trimester.

Even though the first trimester has been and gone I wanted to write a little about those weeks as a memory of my experience of this pregnancy.

Peeing on a stick
As I've mentioned before I suffer from PCOS (Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome) and one of the symptoms I experience is irregular cycles. Because of my irregular cycles I am never certain when I am due my next period or what length that particular cycle will be. As such it is hard to know if I have 'missed' a period.

Even though I was not sure if my period was late because of the PCOS or another reason as I had recently started having more regular cycles thanks to the metformin I am on for my diabetes I started to think there might be another reason why I had not had my period. With a gut feeling and no show period I decided that it would be best to take a pregnancy test.

Within moments of peeing on my cheapy pregnancy test two lines appeared!