Oh wow, I'm so happy for you! Congratulations!
Not wanting to hijack your thread, but I have been quiet on here lately because .... I am pregnant too! I also had a miscarriage last year and so I totally understand how anxious a time it is. But you are in a much better place health-wise now and you are doing everything you can for your baby with being back on the diabetes wagon. Make sure your diabetes team know and get some early scans.
We had a scan at 6 weeks and I was just in limbo beforehand not wanting to get my hopes up. They said the heartbeat appeared too slow, although that could be because it was too small to see properly, so we had to go back at 8 weeks. I was convinced it would have gone wrong again (we lost the last one at 8 weeks) but at 8 weeks all was fine 🙂🙂🙂 then we had a scan at 13 weeks and the little chap/lady was wriggling around all over the place, amazing to see. I've got my 16 week midwife appointment this morning, so it's all starting to seem a bit more real now, but I don't think I will relax at all! Don't want to take anything for granted until the baby is in my arms.
So my advice is stay positive, allow yourself to get excited because it IS exciting, but get all the help and reassurance with it that you can too. We never told our families about the pregnancy last year so it has been lovely sharing the news with them all this time. Although I was a bit freaked out when my mother-in-law started buying baby-grows already! She meant well though, but it's obvious there's no doubt in her mind that positive result=baby, whereas unfortunately you and I know that's not always the case, sadly.
I am massive already because I have fibroids, there were 3 that were bigger than the baby at the last scan! I felt a bit awkward telling people at first as everyone at work asked the due date and I was explaining to everyone that I can't go beyond 38 weeks because of diabetes etc and I'm big because of the fibroids. Felt like a bit of a reject! I felt a bit better after speaking to 2 other girls who are pregnant at work, both younger than me, and one has got gestational diabetes and one has got a hormone problem which means she's having extra checks and neither can go beyond 38 weeks either so it made me realise that no-one has an easy pregnancy and everyone stresses about stuff.
So that was a long message but massive congratulations, I hope everything goes well for you and pop on here to rant/stress/ask questions whenever you feel like it!
Take care, xxx
