[kimberf]

First of all, congratulations, and hugs to you to help get you through your worries. I remember your sad posts from a few months ago. I hope hearing from people is making you feel a little better.

I also didn't have sore boobs that early at all, and I have a beautiful little boy, so it can definitely be totally normal. My boobs did get sore later, but that was definitely a symptom that came and went (and came and went again) for me. So if you do have them get sore and then they stop, for this particular symptom, I wouldn't worry too much about it. I remember actually uttering the phrase "My nipples don't hurt anymore, do you think that means something is wrong?" to my friend. (There wasn't anything wrong, and they hurt again soon enough...)

I can identify with how you're feeling. I didn't have a miscarriage, but I had a high-risk pregnancy, so I was scared a lot of the time that something would go wrong. As emmalawyer says, it does get easier. For me, my anxiety got better little by little as I passed various milestones: second trimester it got a little better; then when I felt the baby move, it was a LOT better, since there was a constant reminder that things were OK; then when he was 24-25 weeks, I was finally relaxed because even if he came that early, he'd be viable. It's hard not to worry in the beginning when it's not tangible yet, but there's a very high possibility that everything will be just fine!

[emmalawyer]

^^^Oh my God I was so focused on ''objective'' figures (like viability at 23-24 weeks) that were reassuring to me after the first trimester that I completely forgot all about how awesome (and definitely reassuring) it was to feel the babies move... I have no idea how come I failed to think about and mention that since it's truly the one thing about pregnancy that I loved and STILL sometimes miss... That was OUT OF THIS WORLD!!! I'm curious to see how you'll feel about it, fashion16, but I honestly think looking back on it now that the feeling of the little movements in the second trimester and tumbles in the third actually more than made up for all the worry of the first trimester.

[sarahsar]

I absolutely agree with the above two posts about movement. It is an amazing, wonderful, reassuring thing. I was late feeling movement during my first pregnancy (which of course gave me something more to worry about) because of an anterior placenta. It was much earlier this time, thank goodness. But there are so many good things about pregnancy. If only there were a way to know everything would be fine at the end, it would all be much less anxiety-provoking, but of course we don't get to know that. I've been less crazy this go-around, and it gets better the further I get, but it's still stressful. There are reasons to worry right up until the baby is born, and then I guess for the next 18+ years!

[VPT]

I think people react differently to different pregnancies. Take my mum-in-law for instance, she's puny, petite and was underweight, people would associate her with preggy problems but for her first child she had none - no nausea, no cramps, nothing. Pregnancy was a breeze, not much pain nor suffering during childbirth either. Doc advised her to wait a full year before trying for another but she thought "hey I'm invincible" or something and went ahead and produced a second child right after giving birth to the first. And was she wrong, second child gave her the most suffering from around implantation right through to after delivery.