DD Check In: Fourth Week (w/o 12/28)

oneblessedmess

How's it going ladies! You know the drill. Let's talk about symptoms, upcoming appointments, test results, etc.

Bonus questions: 

Have you scheduled your anatomy scan? Are you doing anything special to reveal the sex?

Have you bought anything for baby?

Do you have any goals for the new year (baby related or not)?

oneblessedmess

Feeling pretty good! Can't wait to start feeling real kicks since I don't feel particularly pregnant. Next appointment is in one week just to check on baby's heartbeat.

Anatomy scan is scheduled for January 30th. We don't have any big plans to reveal but once we find out the sex we will do a Facebook pregnancy announcement and kill two birds with one stone. Right now only close friends and family know.

Since this is our second we haven't bought anything, waiting to see if it's a boy or a girl. If it's a girl we pretty much don't need anything since I saved EVERYTHING of my daughter's.
EDIT: I just remembered we went and picked up a double stroller at a consignment store because I had a coupon that was going to expire. So I guess that was our first purchase in preparation for the new baby!

For the new year we want to really get ahead financially, we do fine now but I'd like to really pad the savings account and start saving for a bigger house. We've got this.

LaceyBee522

@oneblessedmess I'm so impressed that you have been able to avoid announcing. I thought I was going to burst keeping it a secret until we saw family at Christmas.

No major symptoms. I got a wicked cold right before Xmas and that kind of knocked me on my butt. I'm back to the first trimester fun of going to bed at 8:00 and still being tired. 

I'm having one new/weird thing: I don't have a bump yet, but I find myself very uncomfortable with my knees pulled up to my chest (which is a way I sit pretty often at home) or when I'm bending over. I didn't expect to feel that until there was an actual bump down there.

We have an ultrasound next week, but we don't want to know the sexes, so I feel like a broken record every time I talk to anyone at the doctor's office. I'm just repeating myself, "please don't tell us the sex," "no, we don't want to know the sexes..."

I bought a diaper bag on black Friday because those suckers are expensive!

No goals of the top of my head. I'm just really concentrating on work since I'll only have about six months at my new job before the babies come.

katelynrae86

@LaceyBee522 I agree, how can you keep from anmouncing for so long, @oneblessedmess? I'm impressed. But I'm also impressed that you are waiting to find out the sexes! I think that takes a lot of willpower (that I don't have! haha)

I'm feeling pretty good. Just kind of bloated and lethargic, but I think that's more from a week of not working out and eating junk like its my job than from baby We'll see if it gets better now that I'm home (was at my mom's for a week for Christmas) and hopefully can get my act back together.

Next appt is next Thursday. Just a regular check up though. I'm guessing my OB will have me schedule my anatomy scan after that visit, since I won't be back to see her until 20 weeks (she sends the referral then I call the imaging center to schedule). We found out the sex through NIPT (its a girl!!  ) so family and close friends know. I think I'll wait until after the anatomy scan confirms before doing a facebook announcement. I'm paranoid after hearing about the 1-3% who are told the wrong sex through NIPT

My mom and I did buy a couple of cute girly outfits, including a little sleeper that says "little sister". I want to try to get a pic of DS holding it to announce.

No major 2018 goals, except the aforementioned getting off my booty and getting reacquainted with a vegatable or two 

Have a good weekend and happy new year!!!

izza2

@LaceyBee522 - I've noticed I can't bend over as far as I usually can while sitting (i.e. - trying to reach the wrapping paper...)


I've been MIA lately. Between the holiday and then not having internet for a couple of days, I had no chance to get online.
Next follow-up appt is on 1/8, and it's at that point I'll schedule the A/S. I was thinking of announcing for the new year, but it may just be easier to wait until after the A/S so we don't have to announce the sex again, either.

The only thing we've bought so far is a diaper bag when I went to a bag sale at a consignment shop.

Save money? Have fun. Enjoy the pregnancy. Graduate.

oneblessedmess

@LaceyBee522 @katelynrae86 We did do an in-person announcement to people we saw for Christmas (my daughter's Christmas outfit included a Big Sister shirt, we put it on her and waited for people to notice lol) so all the important people already know. I guess that tides me over until we do the social media announcement! It would definitely be a lot harder for me to wait til birth to find out the sex though!

TBH though I almost caved and did a FB announcement on Christmas mainly because my daughter's outfit was REALLY cute and I wanted to show it off, but DH still wanted to wait til 20 weeks like we did with our first pregnancy so I gave in lol. We'll take cute gender reveal pictures instead!

profmcgonagall

I announced back in November. There’s no way I could wait for that long. DH gets so excited and basically tells everyone anyway. 

While I don’t have an actual bump yet, I can tell a big difference and DH said I look bigger. I’ve definitely felt some tiny flutters the last few days. 

Anatomy scan will probably be scheduled at my next appt which is Jan 16. 
I have no idea what we will do to announce the sex. 

We bought a Graco 4ever convertible car seat about a week ago for a great price only to have Toys R Us cancel the order. They still have not gotten back to me as of why and whether they will be honouring the original price. 
I did get a few cloth diapers a local lady was selling for cheap. 

ambs33

Due June 23 here. So we are 15w 1d.
This is my 4th child, and I am 38. I had a few chemical losses before this one stuck, so Im on progesterone and lovenox. I think those two things right there are what is making this the hardest pregnancy ever.  My boobs feel like they've been beaten with a hammer and then sun burned. Omg they hurt way more than my previous pregnancies without progesterone. The way I understand it, it sort of amplifies symptoms you have. Vomiting has been tapering, but it's still sneaking up about once a day, and actually making me wretch so hard I'm losing control of my bladder.  
We had a scan yesterday, and confirmed we are having a girl! 
I have went overboard, and bought her almost her whole wardrobe already. We have 2 teenage boys, and a daughter that passed away in 2013 at the age of 19 months. She would have been 6 the 29th of this month. We are grateful to be adding another baby lady to our family. Her name will be Anastasia Blue.
I am wishing all you ladies happy healthy pregnancies!
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glitterfingers

I've been MIA due to holidays, family visiting and having a cold. I feel like I'm just getting my energy back after a week of struggling to do anything outside of the house. Also struggling to gain weight but encouraged by last week's weekly questions discussion.

Our anatomy scan is on Valentine's Day - We did a reveal at our holiday party with close friends and family. I was the only one who knew and HD opened up a box with pink balloons and I poured pink confetti over him. He was smiling ear to ear but I did warn him there's a 1% chance of NIPT error.

I haven't bought much - just some books. I've been scanning pinterest for nursery ideas.

Goals: Just trying to stay sane and healthy in 2018!

peacefuloldsoul

First time checking in on these threads. I'm still trying to figure all of this out!

peacefuloldsoul

Argghh I typed a whole paragraph and it only posted the first sentence!

LaceyBee522

@peacefuloldsoul Did you try to insert an emoji from your phone? If so, that's why you got cut off. The Bump only lets you use their emojis and it really does not like other ones.