PTSD after miscarriage

Maura • Labor and delivery nurse. August 2020 Angel baby Rainbow baby June 2021 💙

I’m 6 weeks 3 days today with my second pregnancy after miscarrying my first at 5 weeks. My labs have all been great so far (got 4 week and 5 week labs done) progesterone and hcg all normal and actually above! I’ve also been having nausea badly with sore breasts so I was feeling so good...But today I started having brown spotting. Like tan mucous basically which is exactly how my first miscarriage started. I’m bad at telling if I’m cramping or not so who knows. I texted my OB in a panic (I work with her so I have her number) and she got me in for some blood work so now it’s just a waiting game. I have another blood draw Monday and then we will decide if we need to move up my first ultrasound. It’s scheduled for the 6th...

It’s just so hard not to immediately disconnect myself from this baby and assume I’m miscarrying again. It sucks being robbed of that ignorantly blissful first pregnancy with no complications. I’m a ball of emotions and I just don’t even know what to think anymore. I know if I’m miscarrying there’s nothing I can do but I’m terrified something is wrong with my body and that’s why I can’t keep a pregnancy. I don’t want to go through this again. It just the miscarrying but the tracking and trying to get pregnant again. Just having a pity party thinking why me?