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5 weeks pregnant - first trip to the ER

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Hello everyone! So today I am actually 5w6d days pregnant and almost missed my 5 week updated, because it has been quite the eventful week. I almost didn't post anything because I didn't want to jinx myself...but here is what happened. On Thursday (5w2d pregnant), I started to have the tiniest bit of spotting...like literally one drop of light pink when I wiped...I know that some spotting is normal, so tried to calm myself down. That didn't work and I continued to be a crazy wreck that whole night. The next day, I started to have some dark brown discharge...again not a lot, but some. From everything that I have read, dark brown means  old blood, so again tried not to let myself worry. The next day, same thing but a little bit more of the dark brown. At this point, I had read about 10 hours of articles about miscarriages and read so many different women talking about how their miscarriages started with brown discharge progressing to bright red blood and then severe crampin...

I can't believe it, but....We are pregnant!

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I am truly shocked that this happened so quickly, but with so much excitement, I am so happy to type that we are pregnant! I found out last night after coming home from a week long vacation to the Grand Canyon and Lake Havasu. My LMP started 5/2. My hubby S got me an Ava fertility tracking bracelet for my Birthday on May 12, so we were starting to track my cycle for a few days before it said I was in my peak window.. I never in a million years thought this would happen for us so quickly. I was incredibly anxious about the chances of being infertile, even though I didn't really have a huge reason to be so concerned. Anyways, I took my first pregnancy test yesterday 5/26 in the afternoon while my hubby was sitting by the TV watching the Warriors game. I wasn't even going to take one, but did it on a whim while I was going to the bathroom anyways. When I saw the faint two pink lines within a few seconds after using the stick, I let out an "omg omg omg" to myself. I cou...