Oops - Pregnancy Check In

Two*True · February 2013

You all should feel free to start this whenever you want. Sometimes my Mondays get booked solid with meetings.

How are you doing?

QOTD - Will you (or did you) have a shower? If so, who is throwing it for you? Is DH/DW/SO involved? Shower games - yay or nay?

2MamazInSeattle · February 2013

Thanks for kicking us off!

We went for our NT scan and baby measured spot on at 11w1day, but was 2mm too short for the scan. So, we get to go back this Friday to have it at 12w1d. The tech said she didn't see anything to worry about. More exciting was seeing the kiddo punching and kicking up a storm! I picture sleepy slumber but nope, baby is duking it out in there! It was really cool. I also got the blood draw for the cell-free DNA test (like the Materni21) and so we'll know the gender next week it looks like!

I have a little plan to reveal to J, it involves little wee converse sneakers (her only footwear are her zillion pair of converse). I am going to work it out with the shoe store to have them wrap up purple for a girl or blue for a boy - but have the nurse call them for me (or put it in an envelope and then I'll drop it off) so I don't know either. Then we can open the shoes together and find out together.

I am on day 8 of the wicked Seattle cold going around, which when my midwife said lasts 3 weeks and I lol'd at her - alas, I am eating my words. She did say people tended to feel better by day 9, but this has been brutal. I can't wait to just feel mildly crummy/pregnant again. I don't think I fully appreciated the symptom relief of the OTC drugs I cannot take. I have broken down and taken a few (approved list) things after exhausting home remedies (neti pot, cold/hot packs, etc.). I feel guilty for that.

Shower question: Yes, we'll definitely have one. Being older, most of our friends don't have kids but are SO excited for our LO (until it cries and poos on them), My bff from college already offered but he has no idea what to do, so likely he and my sister will put it on for us. We are also getting married in April (the theme: Shotgun Wedding ), and figure if people choose to bring a gift a lot will be baby gifts vs. wedding gifts - our union is not exactly new and exciting, though the baby is. Games at the shower, oh god please no.

We are also on Craigslist already seeking to outfit the nursery. While there are a few items I want to buy new (breast pump and car seats, for example), there are plenty of things that need not be new and we are happy to re-use. So we will hopefully find our big ticket items there!

clairmeij · February 2013

I would have started it, but I was in the same meeting boat as you Two*True, now I'm waiting for traffic to die down before I head out, so I'll add my part

So far the baby is moving around quite a lot, and I can feel him. Last night I had the first 'weird' movement where something sharp, I'm thinking either elbow or knee, poked out at my belly-front while my hand was there. Seriously bizarre people!

We put a deposit down at a daycare today, we found one that we LOVE that has a waiting list for September already. This is all getting very real!

I'm considering myself very lucky to not be experiencing much in the way of the horrible pregnancy symptoms like constipation, heartburn and varicose veins - yet...there is time!

V is so excited to know that the baby is a boy, I feel great about finding out the sex even though I didn't want to to start with.

Oh, and we were given two huge tubs of baby boy clothes, starting from 0-3 right up to 18-24 months. What a great gift! We're lucky our friend's little boy is two years old!

We are having a shower, my friends are hosting for us, and I am so blown away by the work they are putting into it! We're having the shower on the 9th of March. As far as shower games, I think that they will play to the crowd, keep it quite low key and have maybe one or two games, but nothing crazy.

jennicole85 · February 2013

Not much new here. We go in on Thursday for the anatomy scan. I'm so, so excited to find out if its a boy or girl!

We will be finishing our regestries right after the scan as well! We wanted to keep most baby items gender neutral, so we started to regester a couple weeks ago, but we want a few gender specific things on there as well.

I'm still waiting to feel movement. My doctor says its normal, especially with a first pregnancy so I'm not worried.

My parents started buying baby things as well. We have the car seat and stroller already and the crib and mattress will be here shortly! We are so lucky and thankful for them.

Shower... Eh, no one has offered to throw one. I'm sure J's work will have a small get together for us, but that might be it. My parents live a few states away and J's parent still aren't on board with this pregnancy. As for our friends, we're the first to settle down and start a family, so they don't really know how all of this works lol.

JoySeattle · February 2013

We're 14 weeks tomorrow and it's so nice to be out of the first tri. I'm definitely feeling better/more energetic. I had a blissful day including acupuncture, a yummy lunch, a workout training session with a perinatal fitness expert and colleague, a walk and then a massage. I'm planning on a bath and hopefully a really good night of sleep (which has been elusive lately). I'm looking forward to more activity (yoga, swimming, walking and now my new exercise routine).

We picked a midwife and are just waiting for our appt, which is a couple weeks out due to C's new work schedule.

QOTD - I don't know if we'll have a shower. It will depend if someone offers. One friend asked about it, and would be a great hostess, but she doesn't live locally. I think many of our childless friends would be oblivious to the idea of hosting/attending showers. If so, I'd ideally like it to be a co-ed party with C involved and no shower games. If one of my female/mom friends wanted to throw a traditional women-only, classic games shower, I don't know what I would want to do. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a small work shower at one of the two non-profits I work with, but I don't expect anything at all and would be pleasantly surprised.

thiswillbe · February 2013

I obviously have nothing real to contribute, but I just have to say the post title made me laugh. I read it as "Oops-pregnancy check in" and was wondering how many oops-pregnancies there were on this board, lol! Stick out tongue

Sidenote: Two, it's so neat to see your second ticker!

songbird31 · February 2013

Also not a lot to report on my end for this week. I feeling "better" than I have been for the last couple of weeks. And while I'm very thankful, of course this has made me more nervous. Right now I'm just waiting for my 2nd u/s and release to my OB on 2.25.

I'm sure we will have a shower or two when the time comes, as we had a village of folks rooting for us to get pregnant, which most of them still don't know! But we have talked about having one with just me for the games and one for both of us with alcohol served to everyone else, etc. LOL. More of a celebration than a typical shower.

jenheartsmonsters · February 2013

DP is almost 18 weeks now, & we have the anatomy scan in 2 weeks. She reports lots of stretching and some remaining nausea. (I just had to order more ginger gum.) LO is moving around a lot. I think my partner's stressing a little about when to tell her supervisor at work. She insists she's not going to tell her coworkers and might deny it if they ask outright.

I don't know what our shower situation is. My sister offered to throw us a shower, and her mother offered to throw her a shower (to which I would be invited, though not technically, uh, showered). We're pretty nontraditional, and I know my partner hates most shower games, so I have no idea what the shower experience is going to look like for us!

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