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Weekly Check-in: 5/4

rosesintherainrosesintherain member
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EDD/weeks+days: 

Team Finding Out/Pink/Blue/Green: 

Baby is the size of a(n): 

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GTKY: what is something you’d like to learn to do? 
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  • rosesintherainrosesintherain member
    @readytobemama I have read that book too! I agree it’s a great read! 

    I honestly don’t remember when the line appeared on my stomach with my oldest. I haven’t seen it just yet in this pregnancy. I’m sure it will be soon I feel like I’m getting so big! 
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  • Louise_BelcherLouise_Belcher member
    @elsie42 I have been having BH for a little over a month. They are much stronger and earlier this time. 
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    #3 Due 9/20
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  • rosesintherainrosesintherain member
    @angbaby83 glad results are good so far! 
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  • Louise_BelcherLouise_Belcher member
    @angbaby83 So glad to hear you got good results today. That is great you are taking the time to celebrate that good news!
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    DS2 5/17
    #3 Due 9/20
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  • readytobemamareadytobemama member
    @angbaby83 so happy for you that it's been good results so far, prayers it continues!  Have been thinking of you a lot.

    @greyl I haven't made sourdough, but do you have a bread maker?  We were gifted one and it makes it so simple, and not so time consuming.  It saves so much money being able to make it and the smell of fresh baked bread is amazing! 
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  • pai314pai314 member
    @readytobemama I’ve never gotten that line. 

    @greyl I feel like my belly button is super close to starting to pop. It’s pretty much flat right now when usually it’s a deep innie. 
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  • balletnerdballetnerd member
    @readytobemama I never got the line with my first and haven’t yet with this one. I also never got stretch marks. So I think it might be genetic and/or how your body handles pregnancy. 
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  • swizzlemalarkeyswizzlemalarkey member
    @readytobemama I don't!! I’ll have to look into them. my H loves bread so I would like to be able to make it. 

    @balletnerd omg noooo we’ve had our washing machine leak too. The water seriously goes everywhere 😭 but I’m sorry it went through the ceiling of your new house!! Do you have to have someone come out to deal with that?  
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  • rosesintherainrosesintherain member
    @beaandthebabes that is annoy that you still have to see a specialist. I was released from MFM at the 20 week point. But they said at my 12 week appointment if my genetic results came back good then I would be released to regular OB schedules. I’m 35 also. 
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  • beaandthebabesbeaandthebabes member
    @ktholysz I feel like it is probably because the covid thing has my clinic basically playing musical chairs doctorwise. I’m hoping that my actual doctor will release me.
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  • Louise_BelcherLouise_Belcher member
    @readytobemama You are making me want a bread machine. Which is completely in opposition me also hoping I can slow the weight gain this pregnancy.  :D
    @beaandthebabes I had never heard that about fair skin. I am very pale, but got a very dark line for both of my prior pregnancies. With my first pregnancy it lasted into my second pregnancy. 
    @greyl My belly button has not popped, but has flattened so much that that top edge is sticking out a bit and is noticeable in a fitted shirt. 
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    DS2 5/17
    #3 Due 9/20
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  • swizzlemalarkeyswizzlemalarkey member
    @beaandthebabes mine is super sensitive too! Trying to get in there to clean it is torture for me, It’s a small umbilical hernia that I want to get fixed one day after having babies because I’m sure it will never look the same if it ends up popping out all the way. So far it hasn’t really moved but I’m nervous it’s going to be huge lol 
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  • rosesintherainrosesintherain member
    @greyl I have an umbilical hernia too. My doctor said to wait to get it fixed until after I’m done having babies. It does get tender and it is flattening a little with my uterus moving upward. It does look bad postpartum but after a month it’s not too bad. It’s just annoy. 
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  • momofmiracles31889momofmiracles31889 member
    @angbaby83 yay for good news! Continued prayers for your little one 

    EDD/weeks+days: 19 + 6 due September 23rd

    Team Finding Out/Pink/Blue/Green: 
    Finding out TOMORROW! 😃🙌🏻 Just a little excited lol

    Baby is the size of a(n): mango 

    Upcoming appointments: Tomorrow! Anatomy scan with maternal fetal medicine 

    How are you feeling? I’m a bundle of nerves awaiting my anatomy scan but hopefully  come tmw after my check I’ll feel wonderful! 
    Growing aches/pains on and off, some heartburn, gas, tired, mild nausea, etc but nothing too unbearable at all compared to the first 16 weeks!! 

    Raves/Rants: rant- still just bummed out DH cant come with tomorrow and I found out he also can’t call or video in which I think is dumb! Oh well, most important thing is baby still living!
    rave- so excited to find out if baby is a boy or girl! I love the nicer weather days getting to get DS out on walks. DS is talking more and more each day which is so fun. Also thank God my DH is working from home bc he’s a real life saver for this tired pregnant mama when DS throws his fits lol 

    Questions: I don’t think I have any right now 

    GTKY: what is something you’d like to learn to do? 
    I agree with those who have said it would be neat to know a second language for real. I took 5 years of Spanish in school and at my school it was honestly a joke bc half the year each year was review and I didn’t become anywhere near fluent. Also, learning to sew again! I have a machine from each of my grandmothers and don’t remember how to use them anymore 
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  • elsie42elsie42 member
    @greyl my belly button took a while to pop out last time and then it never quite went back to the way it was before haha. Like it went back in but... differently. So this time it’s not “out” yet but it’s kinda halfway in and halfway out.... idk how to explain it. It’s very weird lol. I think it will be fully popped out pretty soon. 
    DD born 6/21/2018
    DS born 9/24/2020
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  • mflowers929mflowers929 member
    I can talk French like a 2 year old? lol. It's just enough to get me by here
    Momma to 3 angels and two amazing children
    F born June 2018
    W born September 2020
    #3 due November 2022
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  • Louise_BelcherLouise_Belcher member
    @momofmiracles31889 Sorry H cannot go or facetime. I had the same rules and it was crushing. You got this though! Are you finding out the sex at the appointment or later together?
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    #3 Due 9/20
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  • linz36linz36 member
    EDD/weeks+days: 20w1d, sept 21st

    Team Finding Out/Pink/Blue/Green: Green

    Baby is the size of a(n): banana

    Upcoming appointments: thursday with OB for regular checkup

    How are you feeling? Freaking exhausted and cannot concentrate on anything.  However, I'm feeling all the little kicks now which is really nice. 

    Raves/Rants: The twins are in the 18mo sleep regression and I'm so over it. My daughter won't go to sleep until 9ish (before was 7-7:30) and she fights it the entire time and her brother wakes up 3-4 times a night. Sometimes he's hungry but most of the time he's just awake. This time needs to be over...fast.

    Questions: nothing

    GTKY: what is something you’d like to learn to do? Surf...I've never had the opportunity but now I live far enough north in florida that we get waves that are surfable so I might try it after this baby. 

    Two Furbabies: Mika (american eskimo) and Gypsy (wire-haired terrier, dachshund mix)

    Twins: Kaiden and Zara born 10/2018 conceived after 6 years of infertility via a medicated IUI


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  • momofmiracles31889momofmiracles31889 member
    @Louise_Belcher and @linz36 thank you!!
    our original plan was to find out the sex at anatomy scan and then do a reveal with my parents and our DS when we get back and video it to send or repeat on FaceTime for others. My DH said he wants me to still be able to findout during the scan if I want to. and I’ll reveal it to him with my parents and our DS. But I keep going back and forth bc I know it’d be special to just find out with him first too.  What did the rest of you do who couldn’t have your husbands along?? And when you don’t find out the sex during a scan do you have to look away a lot of the time/miss out on seeing baby for more time? 
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  • megsmcpmegsmcp member
    edited May 2020
    @momofmiracles31889 we didn't find out gender for either of our babies so I don't have any advice on how to share with your husband, but for both of my anatomy scans the tech had the monitor turned towards them for the entire scan to ensure they were getting the images correctly. Only at the end of the scan did they turn the screen towards me to see the baby, and when they went past the genitals they told me to look away for a moment.
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  • readytobemamareadytobemama member
    @momofmiracles31889 we're team green so didn't want to know the sex, and still got lots of time to see baby.  If the tech took note of the sex it was at the beginning of the session before she turned the screen for me, and when I could see the baby, she made sure it was only side profiles in that area. I got a USB of pictures after and she made sure not to include any that would make the sex obvious. 
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  • momofmiracles31889momofmiracles31889 member
    Thanks ladies! My scan is at maternal fetal medicine and I know at my 13 week scan with them they actually have the ultrasound showing on a second screen that you can watch the whole time like a tv! And the tech has their own screen right in front of them. But it’s good to know that there’s plenty of pics/views of baby without sex being obvious. I wasn’t sure how obvious it is this far along haha 
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  • Louise_BelcherLouise_Belcher member
    @momofmiracles31889 I found out alone during the scan (3rd child). During our scan for our first we didn't find out at that time and had them write it down and put it in an envelope. For us the monitor is in full view the entire time, so we had to look away for what felt like forever while the tech got the pics she needed of legs and belly and such. Because I didn't want to look away this time I opted to just find out alone at the ultrasound. For our first we did a reveal and found out at the shower. A friend ordered handheld confetti cannons that the grandpas set off at the end of our shower. This time I ordered a cheap balloon drop off amazon and we did that on Easter. My boys loved it so much we did it like 7 more times. 
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    DS2 5/17
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  • pai314pai314 member
    @momofmiracles31889
    I’m sorry he can’t go with you! I go Thursday and I’m sure it’ll be the same but of course they’ll wait til last minute to tell me anything. 

    We also have a big screen where we go & with our 2nd daughter we had them write it on paper and put it in an envelope and then we did something fun as a family to find out. We had a fetal echo that day so couldn’t take our 1st and wanted to find out together. I had to look away but it wasn’t for too long. We got to still see the baby moving a ton and got lots of photos. 

    This time the kids definitely won’t be able to go and my guess is H won’t either. I’ll have them put it in an envelope again and then we’ll all find out together that afternoon. My friend is going to fill squirt guns with a watered down paint mixture and we’re going to wear white TShirts and squirt each other. We did silly string last time and just wanted something fun again this time. 
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  • balletnerdballetnerd member
    @momofmiracles31889 ugh I know how you feel. I called ahead and asked if I could FaceTime with DH and they said yes. But when I got there the tech said no it’s against policy. So I ended up doing the envelope thing. I basically only had to look away for 2 min out of the 20. It was nice to find out together. 

    @greyl luckily it doesn’t seem too bad. I think it might be ok without someone coming in to fix anything
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