Pregnancy diary: symptoms and pregnancy progression

 

 

Wk5

5w1d: morning sickness on waking up.

5w3d: a different smell to my discharge, which is smelly to me but others cannot smell it.

5w4d: sudden wave of severe nausea.

 

Wk6

6w2d: waves of nausea and can still eat a lot. Very sleepy.

6w5d: strong fetal heartbeat on ultrasound scan.

 

Wk7

7w2d: brown vaginal discharge morning, severe nausea late afternoon.

7w5d: loss of appetite and worsening reflux.

 

Wk8

8w: my first obstetrician appointment. No appetite, everything tastes gross.

 

Wk9

Nausea improving.

 

Wk10

10w: very bad nausea late afternoon.

10w1d: morning nausea, very hungry late morning and ate lots of biscuits at work.

10w6d: brown and pink PV spotting all day.

 

Wk11

11w: ultrasound scan 50mm sized bouncy fetus consistent with 11w4d size, small subchorionic bleed.

 

Wk15

Noticed my waist disappeared at 15weeks.

 

Wk16

16w ultrasound: the fetus is double the size of last time and too big to bounce now. Just kicking his legs a lot! Saw something between the legs! He's sitting on the placenta and finding it a good cushion.

16w4d-6d: very dizzy on waking up.

16w6d: a sensation in the suprapubic region on and off, more towards the left side.

11 week, 12 week and 16 week ultrasounds:

 

Wk17

No more morning dizziness.

 

Wk18

18w4d: clearly feeling fetal movements in suprapubic region at times, and can palpate kicks.

 

Wk23

23w: very stressful day, fetus kicked a lot. 17 June mom obtained visitor visa to Australia and plans to come to Sydney late September.

 

Wk25

25w: cold-like symptoms, viral infection vs vasomotor rhinitis? The weather has been very cold, down to 3oC sometimes.

 

Wk26

26w: significant veins on breast and belly. My weight increased to 70kg!

26w5d: 2 red lines on my abdomen, stretch marks?! Quickly used horse oil and dermaroller on those lines!

 

Wk28

28w3d: 1st dose Pfizer 1pm. Fatigue and nap 3pm. Low grade fever on and off the next two days. Fatigue for the next few days but still able to work.

 

Wk29

29w3d: constantly feeling full, reflux.

29w4d: mild pitting oedema in shins.

 

Wk30

30w4d: headache since waking.

30w5d-6d: diarrhoea.

Baby kicking, visible from the outside:

 

Wk31

31w: severe diarrhoea once every 10 min in the evening, BP 128/94, HR 89, went to birthing suite for CTG, baby fine. Accompanied by severe anal skin irritation/tear, and urine frequency/ incomplete emptying. No sleep until 31w1d noon when diarrhoea is stretching out to once every hour.

 

Wk32

32w2d: the obstetrician ordered a repeat stool test which subsequently turned out to be Clostridium difficile w/ toxins detected. Low dose Metronidazole commenced 32w6d.

 

Wk33

33w3d: on 28 Aug second dose Pfizer. Meanwhile, it doesn’t look like my mom is coming in late September anymore, due to the worsening COVID situation and the cessation of the Australia New Zealand travel bubble.

 

Wk34

34w4d: feeling like an elephant. Pelvic floor pain, difficult to walk, lots of stretch marks suddenly appearing in suprapubic region and I no longer bother trying to use the dermaroller.

 

Wk35

35w1d: got my husband to take some maternity photos for me at home. My abdomen has become significantly larger.

Photo album:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/nZ3LEbgXN7DsYoEb7

 

Wk36

36w: sudden enlargement of abdomen, increasingly difficult to walk, left SI joint pains giving me a limp, baby movements more prominent due to larger size, 3100gm +/- 459gm on ultrasound.

 

Wk37

37w2d: Cervix 1cm dilated today, so if next week baby is too big, can potentially induce labour next week! But there’s possibility baby may even come out before that.

37w5d: severe leg cramp for a few seconds on waking.

 

Wk38

38w2d: my last day working, getting increasingly difficult to walk.

 

Wk39

39w1d: bad cramps at night and poor sleep.

39w2d: cervix >1.5cm dilated in the morning, a blood stained discharge in the evening: bloody show?

39w4d: labour 10 October