@LarZ84 - Welcome and congrats! I added you to our 1st post.
And regarding genders, I have a boy already and all his friends are girls. The girls are great of course but I'm definitely nervous about having a girl this time, it's the teenage years I'm scared of! But having a boy so far has been a blast.
@DaTucker - I had a very noticeable Braxton Hicks the other night too, it was just like you described, tightening on the front of my belly. I was walking back from dinner at the time so I got home and sat for a while, it was gone almost right away.
@Babybump87 - Great boy name! We have a lot of James in our family too so we named our son Jameson just to change it up a little. So he's Jameson Thomas.
AFM - 20 weeks today! I started feeling baby girl really good last week when we went and saw Bohemian Rhapsody, she was going nuts in the movie and since then I've been feeling her consistently when I'm resting. I think she's a Queen fan.
And about births, I'm hoping for a VBAC this time. With my son I was in labor for days. My water broke and nothing happened til the next morning when contractions started, I labored at home for half a day and at a birth center for half a day and through the night (I wanted a water birth). I got to labor in the water for a few hours but I wasn't progressing enough so the next morning I went to the hospital and got induced with pitocin and got a spinal (epidural failed). I labored all day and stood my ground against a c-section and finally baby dropped and they were able to manually dilate me the rest of the way (a lot of hands in my vagina). I pushed for 4 hours but he wasn't coming out even though we could see his head and then my contractions stopped. So I was resigned to the c-section at that point. Turns out he was turned posterior so his head was pushed up and his big ass head was stuck in my pelvis. It was the oddest sensation feeling the doc brace his arm on my chest and pull the baby out of me with the other hand, I could feel almost the suction of him coming out.
I'm not certain I'll get my VBAC, especially if my waters break early again. They have a lot of rules for VBACs; I can't go past my due date (by the time DS was born he was 40+4 even though my water broke 40+1) and they won't induce. I'm planning to eat a lot of dates and protein since that supposedly helps keep the water bag strong and last time I did EPO and had sex and stuff to help my cervix but I might have screwed myself over that way so I'm going to avoid anything inside towards the end including examinations. I'm also going to look for a chiro that specializes in positioning baby. Other than that all I can do is hope the second time around is better. Oh, and if the stupid nurse tells me to lie on my right side against my better judgment I'm going to tell her no, I knew he'd always flip the wrong way when I lied on my right side. So trust myself, don't be afraid to stand my ground and hope things go a lot smoother this time around.
hubby is one of 6 boys before his mum had a girl so not holding out much. Plus it took 2 years to conceive my first and 3 years for my 2nd due to my stupid cycles
been feeling lots of kicks and movement, I love it so much. Trying to ease away from the Doppler, try to trust she’s okay and be reassured by movement.
