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ivyvines6

If we start another board later and do it more frequently that's fine. We just don't have a dedicated random board going since Monday. 

ivyvines6

Literally me today 

sparkymcgeee

On a pregnancy tracker app I have on my phone someone legitimately asked if you can feel your baby's heartbeat by feeling your stomach. 

sandbar517

While I was still TTGP, I used to lurk on Babycenter.  Probably for the same reason people watch reality TV.  It's so bad, it's good.  I would get so mad when people would be asking questions about ovulation kits or pregnancy tests.  I would scream to myself (in my head, of course) "If you're too stupid to read and follow directions for the tests, you shouldn't be having kids!!!"  

yesthisiskim0401

@sandbar517 BC is where all the crazies go 
its so bad, it's good. 

yesthisiskim0401

I am listening to DMX "Party Up" in the preschool parking lot with my windows down. 
Enjoy, children. 

sandbar517

sparkymcgeee

I really like my app for the articles and tracking abilities but the questions from the community are driving me insane. Like:

1. How long do inductions take?
2. I have nausea and food aversions at 7w. Is that normal?
3. Are women more sick with boys or girls?
4. I'm 37w. I thought I would have a baby by now.
5. Is it possible to hear your baby move inside of you?

Like are you effing kidding me people? 

glitzandglitter

I am so bloated today! It needs to chill - I am not even close to wanting to tell.

artlea2013

@sparkymcgeee On my last BMB, one lady swore she could feel her baby breathing. She got seriously flamed here, but I can't imagine the kind of responses something like that would get elsewhere. Sometimes you just want to throw books at everyone and tell them to educate themselves!

@glitzandglitter Girl, same. I wore a long shirt (LulaRoe Randy for the win) so that I could unbutton my pants at my desk and no one would know. I dug my Bellabands out of my maternity box and put them in the hamper to be washed this weekend. It's sad

artlea2013

How can I be this bloated and uncomfortable, but still want fried green beans? The thought of eating them makes me both salivate and nauseous

sparkymcgeee

artlea2013 said:

@sparkymcgeee On my last BMB, one lady swore she could feel her baby breathing. She got seriously flamed here, but I can't imagine the kind of responses something like that would get elsewhere. Sometimes you just want to throw books at everyone and tell them to educate themselves!

@glitzandglitter Girl, same. I wore a long shirt (LulaRoe Randy for the win) so that I could unbutton my pants at my desk and no one would know. I dug my Bellabands out of my maternity box and put them in the hamper to be washed this weekend. It's sad

Everyone has been nice in the answers for the most part but it's still so ridiculous to me. 
Also, totally rocking a Randy too. They are so soft. I bought a Perfect earlier today. It has arrows. It's super cute. SNS. I bought it big so I could use the whole pregnancy. Pretty excited about it. 

Poppy0419

Can you die from exhaustion? I wasn't this tired with my first. There's NO WAY I was this tired with my first. 

In other news, I told my family and they're SO excited. Which I wasn't expecting. I was expecting drama. 

sparkymcgeee

Poppy0419 said:

Can you die from exhaustion? I wasn't this tired with my first. There's NO WAY I was this tired with my first. 

In other news, I told my family and they're SO excited. Which I wasn't expecting. I was expecting drama. 

I feel like yes. Because I wasn't this tired with any of my previous pregnancies. But two kids on top of this has to change that right???

ivyvines6

If you ladies haven't checked out the real answers tab at the bottom of the app it's always good for a doozie or two.

dinonugget

@artlea2013 I pulled mine out last week because my pants buttoned looked ridiculous.

@Poppy0419 glad to hear it went good! We told my parents last night too and their reaction wasn't as bad as I was expecting.

rachelg777

Does TB eat anyone else's phone battery? 

sandbar517

@rachelg777 I'm rarely on mobile, but yeah I feel like it does a little bit.  Probably all the gifs! 

sparkymcgeee

I'm not on mobile. So I couldn't tell you. 

dinonugget

@rachelg777 yes! I'm only on mobile and it kills my battery.

FrancisD.

artlea2013 said:

@sparkymcgeee On my last BMB, one lady swore she could feel her baby breathing. She got seriously flamed here, but I can't imagine the kind of responses something like that would get elsewhere. Sometimes you just want to throw books at everyone and tell them to educate themselves

It's not out of the realm of possibility.  Babies do practice using their lungs, and they inhale amniotic fluid.  That's why babies who stay in the womb too long can get pneumonia after birth.  They sometimes inhale fecal matter which stays in their lungs and rots, fostering infection.

sparkymcgeee

sparkymcgeee

Also, I took a 15 minute walk during my break at work. I came back and it made me so sick. That's what I get for trying to be healthy. 

Poppy0419

@ivyvines6
 I just wasted a solid hour reading the Real answers. Some people y'all. Some people. *facepalm*

Poppy0419

@dinonugget
Cheers to parents letting us be the adults we are and making our own adult decisions! I'm glad it went okay for both of us. Mostly because I can't drown myself in wine after if it didn't. 

artlea2013

FrancisD. said:

artlea2013 said:

@sparkymcgeee On my last BMB, one lady swore she could feel her baby breathing. She got seriously flamed here, but I can't imagine the kind of responses something like that would get elsewhere. Sometimes you just want to throw books at everyone and tell them to educate themselves

It's not out of the realm of possibility.  Babies do practice using their lungs, and they inhale amniotic fluid.  That's why babies who stay in the womb too long can get pneumonia after birth.  They sometimes inhale fecal matter which stays in their lungs and rots, fostering infection.

Oh, I'm not saying babies don't take practice breaths and inhale amniotic fluid. That's definitely true. I'm just saying that I'm highly, highly doubting that she could specifically feel and distinguish whenever her daughter took those breaths. Maybe if the baby was stretching and relaxing a little bit with each breath, maybe. But just feeling the lung movements, probably not

dinonugget

@Poppy0419 agreed! And I definitely miss my glass of wine after the kids are in bed.

FrancisD.

@artlea2013 Well, I haven't read the comment in question, but we can feel our babies hiccup, so it seems pretty reasonable that a woman could feel other diaphragmatic expansions.  It's easy for groups of people to get carried away judging that kind of unusual observation.

sparkymcgeee

Yeah I'm still gonna call BS. Hiccups are very different. The entire body jumps. Not just the expansion of the chest. I've had two children and I can unequivocally say I've never felt my child take practice breaths. 

heelsidehero

glitzandglitter said:

I am so bloated today! It needs to chill - I am not even close to wanting to tell.

Yes. So me today. 

FrancisD.

@sparkymcgeee Everybody has their own perception, I guess.  One no more valid than the other.

cups4

sparkymcgeee

I'm pretty sure it's not a matter of opinion but okay. 

ivyvines6

sparkymcgeee said:

Yeah I'm still gonna call BS. Hiccups are very different. The entire body jumps. Not just the expansion of the chest. I've had two children and I can unequivocally say I've never felt my child take practice breaths. 

Thank you. This is nonsense and is giving me all the side eye. Pregnancy is weird enough without making shit up.

sparkymcgeee

ivyvines6 said:

sparkymcgeee said:

Yeah I'm still gonna call BS. Hiccups are very different. The entire body jumps. Not just the expansion of the chest. I've had two children and I can unequivocally say I've never felt my child take practice breaths. 

Thank you. This is nonsense and is giving me all the side eye. Pregnancy is weird enough without making shit up.

cups4

It's too early for this shit. #notalternativefacts

ivyvines6

Here: No snark required. 

sparkymcgeee

More from the aforementioned article 

Your baby’s organs are buried inside its own body, then covered by layers of amniotic fluid, amniotic sac, uterus, muscle and skin. The most common reason for seeing regular rising and falling motions in your belly include:

• It’s your own heartbeat. The aorta is pushed closer to the surface of a woman’s body in pregnancy.
• It’s baby kicking or experiencing the hiccups.
• If you have an anterior placenta, you may be able to feel the placental beat, in rare cases.

FrancisD.

LOL I'll remind y'all of this thread in about eight weeks when everybody's posting about feeling the first kicks.

Logic dictates that you can't prove a negative.  You can argue about what you think is likely, but you can't prove that a woman can't feel her baby's practice breaths.

Are there any scientific studies that specifically say that a woman cannot feel it when a baby's abdomen inflate?

In fact, if you think about the way that babies are balled up, and that their elbows and knees are probably going to be pushed out a little when those round tummies expand, it's hard to believe that there is no woman in the history of humanity who has felt their baby inhale amniotic fluid.

You'd almost have to be trying very, very hard to convince yourself that hundreds of women, whose experiences are available on Google for you to peruse, are all imagining a gentle, rhythmic motion that has been scientifically proven to occur.

sparkymcgeee

https://departments.bloomu.edu/philosophy/pages/content/hales/articles/proveanegative.html 

cups4