Love those thin mints and those peanut butter ones. If you have an Aldi near you they have cookies that are almost the exact same!
NT scan went well. Measurements were normal, baby was moving around like crazy, it was so cool! Got a ton of pictures and got to hear and see the HB. Just a great day
So glad you ladies had great ultrasounds and appointments! Just over here trying to survive life with sick kids, so I’ve been lurking a lot to keep up!
Anybody else try to sneak a peek at other patient’s phones while in the waiting room to see if they’re bumping? No? Just me? Okay then...
NT scan was interesting, Baby was 100% uncooperative so they couldn’t see the back of the neck to take measurements. Tried both abdominal and vaginal and nothing. But the tech and my MFM doc both were happy with the pics they did get! Baby is measuring right on track and it was so cool to see him or her! Heartbeat of 165 and it was the first time we got to hear it! Thanks for the love and support ladies!
@mrsbubbles-2 baby was the same way for me last week! I had to keep coughing, moving around, and even lift my hips up and down off the bed a bunch haha. Darn this uncooperative LO's! Glad you got some good pictures though
I have an appointment at 8am today. Probably just a Doppler, but I haven't heard baby since 9.5 weeks (I'm 13.5 now) so I'm nervous/excited. I arrived 25 min early and their office isn't even open yet so I'm just sitting here bumping in the lobby.
My principal wants to meet with my in ten minutes to talk about a PD I went to a few weeks ago. My principal is super nice and literally just wants to hear about how the meeting went but my old principal was so mean that I'm still nervous.
Me: 28 DH: 29 Married: 6/2016 TTC #1: 12/2016 Benched due to deployment- Off the bench 8/8/17!
First OB appointment well yesterday! She was the OB I went to for my first BFP 1.5 years ago and she remembered me and gave me a big hug and said how happy she was that I was back. So that made me feel nice. Didn't do an US, but listened to HB - 158, so that's good. Did some bloodwork and I got to ask her some questions but that was about it.
(She sides with my RE and says I can still have sex and dance after my cerclage is placed on Friday, so my high risk doc is the only odd man out with his opinion )
I see her in about 1.5 weeks for a follow up after my cerclage. Tomorrow is my first appointment with high risk doc and my NT scan. SOOO nervous! Still no results from my NIPT. I don't have any nails left cuz I've been gnawing at them all week.
I missed you ladies! I don't bump much on the weekends, and then DS2 was home the last two days with pink eye so I was home with him. On the plus side, his pink eye was viral and super mild so we went to IKEA and got lots of stuff for his big boy room and nursery - so excited to set those up!
I have a midwife apt this afternoon but not till 3:30. I need to stop booking them for the end of the day, it's going to be so hard to focus at work until then.
So many appointments today! Can't wait to see the updates ladies!
@alinafed - I stalk other BMB's nursery threads hard core, I can't wait until we start one! Do you have a theme for the rooms? @hezzer78 - ok, so 2 outta 3, you're getting there! Will you be able to talk with your high-risk doc tomorrow about the conflicting recommendations? @doctormom33 - yay!!! So happy for you!
My cousin came over with her baby last night. We kept telling her baby to use her baby telepathy to communicate with her new best friend to find out the sex.
I was so proud of what a good boy my dog was being. He gets very excited very easily, and he loves babies and aside from a powerful lick that knocked the baby over, he was very calm (my cousin was totally cool with the dog licking the baby). He laid on the floor while she crawled around and ate all the food she dropped. I think he's going to be an awesome big brother.
Me: 28 DH: 29 Married: 6/2016 TTC #1: 12/2016 Benched due to deployment- Off the bench 8/8/17!
Had an appointment this morning. Doctor couldn't find baby, and I pointed to my stomach where I'd been hearing it on my doppler....lo and behold, there was the beautiful heartbeat! Then I said "Now baby is going to swim away." And he/she did. My doctor laughed at how well I already knew the kid and had to chase baby to get a BMP. Mid/high 160s. Appointment was great all around. Thankfully I've only gained 3 pounds on their scale, but I think it's more like 5 or 6. Meh. Last time I gained 60 so I won't be surprised if that happens again lol.
My random- I’m super annoyed with myself that I keep scheduling appointments on days my kids don’t have school. I should have my life together and know that last week was in-service it that president’s day is in 2 weeks, but no. I just say ok to the date and roll. Ugh. So now I am sure to be the spectacle dragging the 7yo and 3yo to appointments
I haven't been keeping up lately because holy wall of threads.
But I love reading all of the appointment updates! I'm anxiously awaiting my 20 week scan and can't wait to see baby again. For some reason, this pregnancy is flying by but the time between appointments is dragging.
I was really hoping for a snow snow day because I caught DD2s cold but no such luck. On the flip side, we're halfway through the week, right?
HI ladies! T minus 2 days until I'm in Cali and I can't wait! It is the longest I'll ever be away from DS though, so I'm slightly panicking about it. I will see him tomorrow night, but I'll leave Friday morning before he's awake, then my flight doesn't get in until after bedtime on Tuesday, so that's like 5 whole days! The longest I've ever gone is a weekend, Friday morning - Sunday. My DH is awesome though and I know they'll have fun with just the 2 of them, but still, part of me is sad about it.
SO will be home tomorrow night for the weekend. Yayyyyy. Thank the Lord, the big snow fall predicted didn’t come and what little we got is melting away today!! Tomorrow will be 50 degrees. So, no chances of him not being able to fly. Going to be a cold weekend but that’s okay. He’ll be here. Keeping me warm. And snoring. And I’ll kick him. I’m so excited. At the end of the month, he’ll be home for good. Thank the Lord!!!
So this mom is pregnant with her 14th. She’s had all boys so far. She’s waiting to learn the sex. Suddenly, just having 4 girls seems breezy.
Omg, I have never experienced it but there’s no way 10 kids could be as easy as 3! Unless you just make the kids take care of each other lol
I mean I could see where at some point adding another kid doesn't materially change the dynamic in the house...but for them to say it's not a burden financially is kind of bullshit, unless they have A LOT of money. Like I'm already concerned about having to put 3 kids through college, but 14? Yikes.
I also feel bad for the older kids in families like this, because I feel like they become overly responsible for helping to raise the younger ones and therefore are losing out on part of their carefree childhood.
Since we told DS (he'll be 3 tomorrow) about the baby, he's been saying adorable things like "my baby is in your belly." Over the weekend, I used the doppler and had him listen to the heartbeat, because he's loving the doctor kit he got for Christmas and always wants to hear his. So now every morning when DH brings him into our room, he says "Mommy, can I please listen to the baby's heart beep? Pleeeease?" I'm so excited for another baby, but I'm possibly even more excited just to see him as a big brother. He loves babies SO much, it's going to be amazing.
April Siggy Challenge: April Showers
About me:
29 y/o Married 6.26.11 BFP 12.23.13, EDD 9.2.14 - baby girl, born too soon at 22w6d due to a placental abruption on 5.5.14 BFP 8.4.14, EDD 4.15.15 - rainbow son, born at 30w4d due to a placental abruption on 2.8.15, healthy 3 y/o now! BFP 2.28.17, EDD 11.8.17 - baby girl, miscarried at 11 weeks on 4.21.17 BFP 11.28.17, EDD 8.8.18, delivering in July - another rainbow baby boy!
I’m so behind. Usually I spend my mornings bored in the office but so far today I’ve been to two different police stations and an impound. One of our work vans was stolen in November and it was recovered last night. It’s so much paperwork to get it back but I’m so happy it was found.
I hope this is okay to say here but me and DH both have been a little melancholy over finding out we are having a boy. (Actually, DH does not know I am a bit sad--but he totally is not hiding his disappointment with me). We just had really built it up in our heads that we were having a girl. My sisters have only boys (4 between the two of them) and we have a son already and I just figured the odds were that we had to be the ones to have a girl (also, this is certainly the last baby on either side of the family, so it's 6 grandsons).
Anyhow, I will fully admit that I cried a bit when I found out I was having a boy the last go 'round and now I can't imagine not having my son so I know I will come around to the idea. And I am happy that DS will have a brother. I grew up with only sisters (the irony---all us girls only having boys!) and the same-sex sibling relationship is a special one.
That is my random share of the day. I haven't been on here much, but I am lurking, btw.
@vinerie I think it's totally okay and understandable to be disappointed and a bit sad. We are only planning on having one more after this one (our first) and since this one is a girl I know DH (and I to a lesser extent) will be disappointed if the second one is also a girl and we never get to experience having a son. I think it's totally normal to "want" one or the other when you don't know what you are having and it is hypothetically 50/50, especially if it's your last one - so you shouldn't in any way feel bad about feeling that way, it obviously doesn't mean you will love your little boy any less or be any less of an awesome mother to him when he comes.
*TTC History*
Me: 37, MH: 38; Married August 2017
TTC #1 October 2017: BFP on 12/1/2017, DD born 7/24/2018 @ 37+1 after induction due to preeclampsia
TTC #2 January 2020: AMA, dx with DOR in May 2020
IVF July 2020: 16 eggs retrieved, 14 mature, 12 fertilized, 3 blasts, 2 PGT-A normal
FET 10/7/20: BFP on 10/12/20!!! (EDD 6/25/21); First beta 10/16/20 (9dpt): 148; Second beta 10/19/20 (12dpt): 621; Third beta 10/26/20 (19dpt): 4732; Fourth (and final!) beta 11/2/20 (26 dpt): 22,000+
@vinerie I felt the same. I wasn’t unhappy I’m having another boy because I love the bond DS and I have and boys love their mamas!
but, I was a bit sad to not know what a girl would be like. Especially since we’re going to be the only bearers of grandchildren on both sides so I’ll never even be an Aunt to one potentially.
@vinerie It's absolutely ok to say here. This is exactly what we're here for, to talk about all the stuff that it's hard to talk to anyone else about.
If it makes you feel better I'm still processing my emotions on this too- we just found out we're having another boy. I'm also adjusting to the fact that DH is probably right and we should probably be done after 2. So I don't know what's hurting me more, the finality of knowing their won't be any more kids? Or the fact that I will never have a girl. Either way, I'm focusing on how happy I am for our son. He's going to have a little brother that is only 21m younger and he's going to love that.
I don't know what happened to the craving thread, so I'm just going to tell you guys here that baby really wanted some indian food today. So sorry office that this whole place smells like Tandoori Chicken now....hehe
@vinerie I 100% understand what you're going through.
*TW - loss mentioned*
I talked about this on last week's PGAL thread, because I just needed to get it out. Both of my losses have been girl, and I always saw myself having a girl first. Technically, I did, but we lost her. We were lucky to conceive DS very quickly after the loss, and we went for an early gender ultrasound to find out. I sobbed for days when I learned he was a boy. It actually felt like another loss to me, because not only had I just lost my baby, but I then lost the dream of having a little girl first. Last year I had a miscarriage and I knew that baby was another girl. I had an NIPT drawn a couple of days before I miscarried, and sure enough I was right. Devastating again. This time, this pregnancy is so different than my girl pregnancies, but also so different than my boy pregnancy, so I'm confused and also terrified that it's a boy because this is most likely our last baby due to all of my issues. I do love DS more than anything in the world, but even now I catch myself wishing sometimes that he had been a girl so we could do _____ or I could buy him _____. I definitely am an open minded parent with letting him paint his nails and getting baby dolls and pink toys, but there are just certain experiences I won't get as a boy mom. The one hardest thing for me to think of is that if we don't have a living girl, my husband won't ever get to walk a daughter down the aisle on her wedding day. That one hurts
April Siggy Challenge: April Showers
About me:
29 y/o Married 6.26.11 BFP 12.23.13, EDD 9.2.14 - baby girl, born too soon at 22w6d due to a placental abruption on 5.5.14 BFP 8.4.14, EDD 4.15.15 - rainbow son, born at 30w4d due to a placental abruption on 2.8.15, healthy 3 y/o now! BFP 2.28.17, EDD 11.8.17 - baby girl, miscarried at 11 weeks on 4.21.17 BFP 11.28.17, EDD 8.8.18, delivering in July - another rainbow baby boy!
I can totally relate to the sadness related to a specific sex for your baby. I'm a little opposite though. We have a son, and I can't imagine having a daughter, so I really want this one to be a boy. We're waiting until birth to find out the sex, and I think that's better for me, because I know I won't be able to be sad with that little one finally in my arms. I can also understand the need to find out early and grieve and get used to the idea of one sex or the other. We always said we'd have 3 kids, but now that we really understand the financial implications of one, we are questioning that number. But, I also can't imagine this being my last pregnancy. I think I would be so sad if I said, this is my last one. Like, I always imagine three little ones running around. Perhaps some of it will depend on the baby's sex. If we have a girl, maybe we will feel complete as a family. Although, maybe two boys will also make us feel complete. These are such big things and really mess with my emotions!
I downloaded one of those baby picture apps and I've been putting the stickers on pictures of my cats. They're very fitting. This may be the only use this app gets.
Me: 28 DH: 29 Married: 6/2016 TTC #1: 12/2016 Benched due to deployment- Off the bench 8/8/17!
@vinerie I can completely relate. I grew up think I’d have two girls (just like my sister and me).
Then I got pregnant with DS1, and I was a little sad but still hopeful knowing we’d get pregnant again.
Then DS2 came along and I had to grieve over the fact that I’d never get those mother daughter moments. I did get some shit over this from my moms group from DS1. But most of the people giving it had more than one sex...soooo f them.
And then surprise I’m pregant with #3 which is a girl! So maybe you’ll have a surprise pregnancy lol.
But anyway, no shame in morning the loss of what sex you thought you’d have.
Add me to the team of sex disappointment. I remember when I was pregnant with DS2 I was convinced he was a girl, like I KNEW I was having a girl. ExH and I decided to do an elective ultrasound at one of those 3d places because he wasn't going to be able to attend the anatomy scan and the second she put the want on my belly she was like "It's a boy!" and there he was legs spread with his little manhood dangling in between. I was so disappointed, I really thought I was having my girl to follow my boy. Obviously I've come around since then (I should hope so, he's 3 now) but it was a good couple of days of mourning what I thought I was going to be experiencing.
I'm going to feel the same way if this one is a boy too. Part of me will be very happy because I have so much stuff for a boy, I've been raising 2 boys so I'm kinda good at it, and I understand boys now, but the other part of me really wants a girl to dress up, get nails done with, go prom and wedding dress shopping with, etc. My mom and I are best friends so I always imagined having a daughter that I could also be best friends with like we are.
All of this word vomit to say, I get it. I think it's super normal and I think it's sad when people admit it then get judged for it.
Re: Weekly Randoms 2/5
NT scan went well. Measurements were normal, baby was moving around like crazy, it was so cool! Got a ton of pictures and got to hear and see the HB. Just a great day
NT scan was interesting, Baby was 100% uncooperative so they couldn’t see the back of the neck to take measurements. Tried both abdominal and vaginal and nothing. But the tech and my MFM doc both were happy with the pics they did get! Baby is measuring right on track and it was so cool to see him or her! Heartbeat of 165 and it was the first time we got to hear it! Thanks for the love and support ladies!
@ecwk saw your update! We did it!
Me: 37 Him: 38
Married 11.07.2015
August 18 Siggy Challenge: April Showers
@mrsbubbles-2 sorry the baby wasn’t cooperating for the scan, but sounds like it went great otherwise!!
DS: 5.28.15
DS#2: EDD 8.31.18
Me: 37 Him: 38
Married 11.07.2015
Married: 6/2016
TTC #1: 12/2016
Benched due to deployment- Off the bench 8/8/17!
(She sides with my RE and says I can still have sex and dance after my cerclage is placed on Friday, so my high risk doc is the only odd man out with his opinion
I see her in about 1.5 weeks for a follow up after my cerclage. Tomorrow is my first appointment with high risk doc and my NT scan. SOOO nervous! Still no results from my NIPT. I don't have any nails left cuz I've been gnawing at them all week.
I missed you ladies! I don't bump much on the weekends, and then DS2 was home the last two days with pink eye so I was home with him. On the plus side, his pink eye was viral and super mild so we went to IKEA and got lots of stuff for his big boy room and nursery - so excited to set those up!
I have a midwife apt this afternoon but not till 3:30. I need to stop booking them for the end of the day, it's going to be so hard to focus at work until then.
@alinafed - I stalk other BMB's nursery threads hard core, I can't wait until we start one! Do you have a theme for the rooms?
@hezzer78 - ok, so 2 outta 3, you're getting there! Will you be able to talk with your high-risk doc tomorrow about the conflicting recommendations?
@doctormom33 - yay!!! So happy for you!
Me: 37 Him: 38
Married 11.07.2015
I was so proud of what a good boy my dog was being. He gets very excited very easily, and he loves babies and aside from a powerful lick that knocked the baby over, he was very calm (my cousin was totally cool with the dog licking the baby). He laid on the floor while she crawled around and ate all the food she dropped. I think he's going to be an awesome big brother.
Married: 6/2016
TTC #1: 12/2016
Benched due to deployment- Off the bench 8/8/17!
But I love reading all of the appointment updates! I'm anxiously awaiting my 20 week scan and can't wait to see baby again. For some reason, this pregnancy is flying by but the time between appointments is dragging.
I was really hoping for a snow snow day because I caught DD2s cold but no such luck. On the flip side, we're halfway through the week, right?
DS: 5.28.15
DS#2: EDD 8.31.18
I totally just ate the entire thing for lunch. Now I need a nap.
So this mom is pregnant with her 14th. She’s had all boys so far. She’s waiting to learn the sex. Suddenly, just having 4 girls seems breezy.
I also feel bad for the older kids in families like this, because I feel like they become overly responsible for helping to raise the younger ones and therefore are losing out on part of their carefree childhood.
About me:
Married 6.26.11
BFP 12.23.13, EDD 9.2.14 - baby girl, born too soon at 22w6d due to a placental abruption on 5.5.14
BFP 8.4.14, EDD 4.15.15 - rainbow son, born at 30w4d due to a placental abruption on 2.8.15, healthy 3 y/o now!
BFP 2.28.17, EDD 11.8.17 - baby girl, miscarried at 11 weeks on 4.21.17
BFP 11.28.17, EDD 8.8.18, delivering in July - another rainbow baby boy!
August 18 Siggy Challenge: April Showers
Anyhow, I will fully admit that I cried a bit when I found out I was having a boy the last go 'round and now I can't imagine not having my son so I know I will come around to the idea. And I am happy that DS will have a brother. I grew up with only sisters (the irony---all us girls only having boys!) and the same-sex sibling relationship is a special one.
That is my random share of the day. I haven't been on here much, but I am lurking, btw.
DS: Born 5-17-16
Me: 37, MH: 38; Married August 2017
TTC #1 October 2017: BFP on 12/1/2017, DD born 7/24/2018 @ 37+1 after induction due to preeclampsia
TTC #2 January 2020: AMA, dx with DOR in May 2020
IVF July 2020: 16 eggs retrieved, 14 mature, 12 fertilized, 3 blasts, 2 PGT-A normal
FET 10/7/20: BFP on 10/12/20!!! (EDD 6/25/21); First beta 10/16/20 (9dpt): 148; Second beta 10/19/20 (12dpt): 621; Third beta 10/26/20 (19dpt): 4732; Fourth (and final!) beta 11/2/20 (26 dpt): 22,000+
but, I was a bit sad to not know what a girl would be like. Especially since we’re going to be the only bearers of grandchildren on both sides so I’ll never even be an Aunt to one potentially.
If it makes you feel better I'm still processing my emotions on this too- we just found out we're having another boy. I'm also adjusting to the fact that DH is probably right and we should probably be done after 2. So I don't know what's hurting me more, the finality of knowing their won't be any more kids? Or the fact that I will never have a girl.
Either way, I'm focusing on how happy I am for our son. He's going to have a little brother that is only 21m younger and he's going to love that.
Me: 37 Him: 38
Married 11.07.2015
Me: 37 Him: 38
Married 11.07.2015
*TW - loss mentioned*
I talked about this on last week's PGAL thread, because I just needed to get it out. Both of my losses have been girl, and I always saw myself having a girl first. Technically, I did, but we lost her. We were lucky to conceive DS very quickly after the loss, and we went for an early gender ultrasound to find out. I sobbed for days when I learned he was a boy. It actually felt like another loss to me, because not only had I just lost my baby, but I then lost the dream of having a little girl first. Last year I had a miscarriage and I knew that baby was another girl. I had an NIPT drawn a couple of days before I miscarried, and sure enough I was right. Devastating again. This time, this pregnancy is so different than my girl pregnancies, but also so different than my boy pregnancy, so I'm confused and also terrified that it's a boy because this is most likely our last baby due to all of my issues. I do love DS more than anything in the world, but even now I catch myself wishing sometimes that he had been a girl so we could do _____ or I could buy him _____. I definitely am an open minded parent with letting him paint his nails and getting baby dolls and pink toys, but there are just certain experiences I won't get as a boy mom. The one hardest thing for me to think of is that if we don't have a living girl, my husband won't ever get to walk a daughter down the aisle on her wedding day. That one hurts
About me:
Married 6.26.11
BFP 12.23.13, EDD 9.2.14 - baby girl, born too soon at 22w6d due to a placental abruption on 5.5.14
BFP 8.4.14, EDD 4.15.15 - rainbow son, born at 30w4d due to a placental abruption on 2.8.15, healthy 3 y/o now!
BFP 2.28.17, EDD 11.8.17 - baby girl, miscarried at 11 weeks on 4.21.17
BFP 11.28.17, EDD 8.8.18, delivering in July - another rainbow baby boy!
We always said we'd have 3 kids, but now that we really understand the financial implications of one, we are questioning that number. But, I also can't imagine this being my last pregnancy. I think I would be so sad if I said, this is my last one. Like, I always imagine three little ones running around. Perhaps some of it will depend on the baby's sex. If we have a girl, maybe we will feel complete as a family. Although, maybe two boys will also make us feel complete. These are such big things and really mess with my emotions!
Married: 6/2016
TTC #1: 12/2016
Benched due to deployment- Off the bench 8/8/17!
Then I got pregnant with DS1, and I was a little sad but still hopeful knowing we’d get pregnant again.
Then DS2 came along and I had to grieve over the fact that I’d never get those mother daughter moments. I did get some shit over this from my moms group from DS1. But most of the people giving it had more than one sex...soooo f them.
And then surprise I’m pregant with #3 which is a girl! So maybe you’ll have a surprise pregnancy lol.
But anyway, no shame in morning the loss of what sex you thought you’d have.
I'm going to feel the same way if this one is a boy too. Part of me will be very happy because I have so much stuff for a boy, I've been raising 2 boys so I'm kinda good at it, and I understand boys now, but the other part of me really wants a girl to dress up, get nails done with, go prom and wedding dress shopping with, etc. My mom and I are best friends so I always imagined having a daughter that I could also be best friends with like we are.
All of this word vomit to say, I get it. I think it's super normal and I think it's sad when people admit it then get judged for it.
August 18 Siggy Challenge: April Showers