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HGRich
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PGAL Check-In 11/7
HGRich
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1. How far along are you?
2. Symptoms?
3. How are you feeling physically/emotionally?
4. Rants/Raves/Questions
5. GTKY: What is your proudest accomplishment (so far) and/or what's one item on your bucket list to accomplish with your life?
2. Symptoms?
3. How are you feeling physically/emotionally?
4. Rants/Raves/Questions
5. GTKY: What is your proudest accomplishment (so far) and/or what's one item on your bucket list to accomplish with your life?
Re: PGAL Check-In 11/7
2. Primarily a lot of aches and RLP. Tiredness. Feeling more hormonal with the emotions lately. But could also be work stress.
3. Overall much better physically. Even the poison ivy seems finally to have let up some. Nausea is much less than it used to be though I get full really fast. Emotionally I'm hormonal as stated above, but doing better. 17 weeks seems like a milestone for some reason. It just feels so close to halfway!
4. Raving about finding out baby is a girl. I'm still over the moon about that. My question is, for STMs or those further along--could this tiny feeling like fluttering or a muscle twitch be little girl? I'm just about convinced it is since I feel it a few times a day. But I guess it could just be my uterus stretching??
5. I guess my proudest accomplishment so far is graduating college and grad school without debt and graduating with honors. But as my life moves out of academia and I look ahead, I'd love to publish a book, have 3-4 children, and be married to DH for at least 50 years.
2. Symptoms? Heartburn at night and having a hard time getting comfortable.
3. How are you feeling physically/emotionally? Pretty good on both!
4. Rants/Raves/Questions: Rave is I just started to be able to feel baby kick from the outside which is cool. It's so random and will happen once so I haven't even had my husband try to feel it yet. Soon though!
5. GTKY: What is your proudest accomplishment (so far) and/or what's one item on your bucket list to accomplish with your life? Well, considering I never graduated HS or went to college I'm pretty proud with the little bit of success I had in my career (when I worked). The fact that I was able to save and buy our house myself (DH and I only just started dating when I bought the house) is a big deal to me. Bucket list item, I'd really like to successfully home school my kids, travel the US and Canada with my little family and have a small farm.
Family med nurse called this afternoon and said ultrasound of my bladder and kidneys was all normal. The nurse said my OB had to review the fetal ultrasound to sign off on it but he was in surgery all day so it would probably be tomorrow before I heard back on that. Then about an hour later my OB called....the actual dr not the nurse. Not good. Apparently the "shadow" or whatever the tech saw was nothing. But the ultrasound showed extra fluid behind baby's neck. OB said it could be (insert some large medical term here that I can't remember) but is also associated with Down's Syndrome. Apparently they did the same measurement they would have done at NT scan? Anyway he recommended the Panorama testing and then we will proceed from there to decide about amnio etc. My mind is just racing. Everything from it could be nothing to downs with severe heart problems, how a diagnosis would affect baby's life, our DD's life etc etc. I know I need to wait to see what we find out but it's so hard to not be flooded with worry and thoughts. We weren't going to do any testing and didn't with DD either so this is all new territory.
I burst into tears, it's just a lot to process and it's hard when you can't get answers right away. I couldn't get ahold of DH right away either. Then I had a pity party for myself about how we can't catch a freaking break- it just seems like one thing after another since my ectopic. My DH is so worried but is trying so hard to be strong for both of us but I can just see the worry. We're both bottling it up at least until DD goes to bed. I need to focus on fact that it could be nothing and even if it is a Down's diagnosis is not a worst case senerio. This baby will be happy and loved, period.
Also to add to my stress, my SIL (brothers wife) is in the hospital at 28 wks preg with twins. Her BP is high and she is having other complications. They gave her steroids to ripen the babies lungs in case they have to deliver but we are praying the babies can stay put at least a couple more days if not weeks.
So tomorrow we see OB to ask questions and do the panorama paperwork and then then do the blood draw. For those who have had this testing, how long did it take to get results?
1. How far along are you? 36 weeks
2. Symptoms? Fatigue (it's hard to do everything), lower back pain, Braxton hicks contractions, inside movements have become painful.
3. How are you feeling physically/emotionally? Overall feeling excited and uncomfortable.
4. Rants/Raves/Questions. I had my first "painful" contraction yesterday, by itself it does not mean anything but it kinda gave me a preview of what it is to come. It was kind of exciting because it means my body is gearing up. Getting closer to meeting this baby girl!
5. GTKY: What is your proudest accomplishment (so far) and/or what's one item on your bucket list to accomplish with your life?
I am proud that I finished my life as a student: college/grad school/postgrad and have landed a great job where I can grow in my career. But I am still early in my professional life so I have some additional aspirations and room to develop. I would love to have one to two more kids after this one (if possible) and be able to show them the world through books and travel.
BFP1 04/24/2015 EDD Dec 2015 MMC 10W5d;
BFP 2 09/25/2015 EDD June 2016 MMC 9wks;
BFP 3 03/22/2016 EDD Dec 6th 2016
Anyway, if you want to PM me for any more details/support feel free. I was completely obsessed with all the testing and different syndromes out there while going through all this.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3279164/
6 weeks or so
2. Symptoms?
Sore breath and very slight nausea, heaviness in my abdomena and a lot of bloating!
3. How are you feeling physically/emotionally?
I'm feel like a fatty physically, and emotionally all over the place.... my typical self.
4. Rants/Raves/Questions
Nothing in my head now.
5. GTKY: What is your proudest accomplishment (so far) and/or what's one item on your bucket list to accomplish with your life?
I guess there's a lot of things I should be proud about but I just don't like to say it.
@HGRich. Congrats on finding out about having a girl!
@Bok Bagok DH wants to travel US and Canada as well. He just moved here 3 years ago so he's obsessed with trying to put together a road trip!
thanks again for all the love and support, you guys are the best!!
Im 15 weeks today! I have 4 and 6 year old boys and have been trying for 3+ years for #3, with 4 losses along the way.
feeling much better these days, just suffering with awful sinus congestion which makes me feel and look gross.
i have loved feeling our little baby move for the past week or so - I forgot what a great feeling that is!
my proudest accomplishment? I guess it would be having such great kids and also such a wonderful and satisfying career (I am an ER nurse). I feel very lucky
@Bok Bagok with my first son he had echogenic bowel as well as high NT and abnormal femur measurements on the detailed scan. The radiologist at the women's hospital told me he would definitely be affected in some way. Anyhow we had everything reviewed by the prenatal diagnosis and genetics team and they were less worried, saying he just had. 1-2% chance of chromosomal abnormality. In the end he is healthy, so please do not put too much weight on one abnormal measurement, it's not an exact science.
happy to join you all here!
thanks for the encouragement! I'm feeling pretty good about it all since the amino results came back normal and all the markers are gone.