Any summer 2016 babies?

[LLawson]

Thanks!
I have no idea when my second scan is yet. I go for my next appt. on March 8 so Ill find out alot more.
I sure wish I was as far along as all you gals! Everything sounds so exciting with all of you! It wont be too long and youll all be holding your sweet babies!

 

[Miss Bellum]

Scan went well, little one seems to be perfectly healthy & measuring well. We had a trainee in our scan so the lady went through everything she was doing in a lot of detail which was great! It was fascinating to hear all of the things they are looking at. LO wasn’t very co-operative though and kept flipping around!

My placenta was a little low and at first, they thought it might be covering the exit a bit. They checked again and it wasn't, but they would like to have it checked so I have to go for another scan at 34 weeks just to make sure it isn't blocking anything. Looking forward to an unexpected bonus scan!

They also confirmed we are having a little girl! We are both over the moon as we both secretly wanted another girl

dimmu - I feel baby quite a bit now. The sonographer asked if I could feel her moving today as she was so active but I couldn’t feel her at al! Ditto with the bump, it seems to be stupidly huge!

Haven’t yet decided about maternity leave. I don’t think we can afford the full year this time round so I pan to start leave as late as possible to get as much time as I can with the new one. I will try to hold back annual leave so i can hopefully have a few weeks before the new arrival.

Eva - Congrats on your scan great to hear it all went well.

I’m pleased to being have a girl as it should make picking a name a bit easier. Its so hard to try to find something you like thats not too popular and no-one you know has already picked!

Lawson - The birth always seems so far away at the start, but it will come round before you know it. Not long till your next scan.

 

[LLawson]

Miss Bellum, Congrats on a baby girl! I Love the pic. That is so sweet!

 

[dimmu]

Congrats Miss B, wonderful news!! Lovely profile pic as well!

In a rush so will write more over the weekend.x

 

[MeganS0326]

MissB - Glad your scan went well. What a lovely pic!! Congrats on having a girl!! That's really cool that you had a trainee doing your scan and that you got all kinds of inside information! Also, that's nice about the bonus scan!!

Eva - So glad your scan went well too!

AFM, I got the results from my cell free DNA test yesterday and baby is all good!! I'm so happy and I think it is finally sinking in that I'm pregnant. DH and I talked about baby names all night last night. The nurse who called to give me my results asked if I wanted to know the gender. It was SOOOOOO hard to tell her no. I'm bound and determined to be team yellow though as this will be our last.

 

[Miss Bellum]

Megan - Glad your results were all fine

Have you narrowed down any choices for names yet? I always though choosing a name would be really exciting but I find so tough to decide on something!

 

[MeganS0326]

We are still working on it but so far our top choices are:

Boy: Lincoln or Noah
Girl: Jocelyn or Cora

 

[Miss Bellum]

Nice names

 

[JJay]

Hi Everyone, so much to catch up on!

Congrats on the bfp LLawson!

Congratulations on all the great scans, lovely to see lots of good results and fab news on team pink Miss B! I had a low lying placenta last time and had the extra scan at 34 weeks - all was fine and it had moved up nicely.

Megan great news about your results! I was so relieved when I got mine that I had tears in my eyes! I know what you mean about the gender - they told us we could call up to find out anytime - so tempting.

Eva so pleased to hear your scan went well too

Dimmu, lovely you can feel baby more. I'm finding movement is gradually getting stronger but still nowhere near as much as DD and DS. Most of what I feel is really really low so I think maybe baby is in a different position this time.

My scan is on Monday so hopefully I will continue the good news!

Happy weekend everyone X

 

[JJay]

Ps wow half way today! I'm on count down instead of count up now!

 

[dimmu]

Good morning everyone,

Miss B congrats again on the pink bump, so exciting! We also (secretly) wanted another girl, so pleased. Will be so nice for DD to have a sister, and as they have such a big age gap hopefully rivalry won't be that much of an issue. DD is already wanting to get a bunk bed so that the baby can sleep in her room, had to explain she will have to wait a bit longer for that!
Hopefully your placenta will move up but nice to get that extra scan anyway!!

I feel the baby now every few hours, but she's not massively active, or it could me my anterior placenta cushioning the movements. I usually just feel 5-10 kicks down below and then it goes quiet again for a few hours.

Megan Excellent news about the results!! Lovely names as well, so jealous you have them picked already, we are still completely lost. Whatever I suggest DH isn't keen on and vice versa.

JJay congrats on reaching the half way point, it feels pretty amazing doesn't it!! Now the next milestone is the V day, not long to wait for that!!! Good luck with your scan, let us know how it goes and post some pics too if you can!!

Eva that's amazing you can take your baby to work with you!!! I don't think my work would be too keen on that as I'm in an open plan office lol!
I'm currently thinking of starting my maternity leave 1st of July with the baby due on the 13th, DD was a few days early so wonder if this one will be the same. I still have four weeks of annual leave as well so would take them at the end, so in theory could start the leave early June. I'd like to spend some more time with DD before the baby is born, would be nice to be able to pick her up straight from school and go to the park and such. I'd also like to do some painting in the flat, or nesting they might say, so could do that when she's at school. I thought it's light enough to do even when heavily pregnant. I will get the standard UK maternity pay, so 6 weeks at 90% of your salary and then the statutory for another 33 weeks (think it's about £135-140/week so not much) and you can be off for up to a year. I'm saving as much as I can at the moment as would love to have 10-12 months off...

Hope you all have a lovely Sunday! x

 

[eva1978]

Hi there! Wow some great news since I last checked in. Congrats miss B on the girl! Megan that is great news about your results!

I like the name Cora - we have one in our family!

I'm not checking this site much these days since I'm busy finishing up a monster job application (this one for a non-permanent job - but the application is a lot more work than the other job I had an interview for)! I'll try to catch up again later in the week.

dimmu - so cute your LG wants a bunk bed already Will the age difference be about 5 years?

Good luck at your scan JJay! (I think it's tomorrow)?

Quick update about me - saw an OB friday and she wants me to come in again in 8-9 weeks (and every few weeks after) to check the growth of the baby since I have a history of small babies. Otherwise things seem good!

 

[dimmu]

Eva- yes the age difference will be 5+ years, well actually closer to six as DD has her birthday in September. Never planned for such a long age gap but guess it's just one of those things, hopefully they will still get on just fine.
Good luck with this new job application, whereabouts is this job based?

I have a midwife appointment tomorrow but it's mainly just to get the paperwork that I need for triggering the maternity leave. Then I won't have any appointments until I'm 28 weeks, seems like a long time!!

Today I finally felt the baby a bit higher up for the first time, just below the belly button level on the right. I managed to see my belly move as well but she only does a few kicks and then stops so DD and DH haven't been able to see it yet.

 

[Miss Bellum]

JJay - Hope your scan goes well tomorrow x

dimmu - Thanks seems we were both lucky! Your LG sounds so sweet, how lovely that she is so excited.

We still have no idea about names yet either!

Your maternity plan sounds good. I’m hoping to have a bit of a break before lo arrives but still spend as much time with new one a possible. Will have to start thinking about it soon.

Eva - Glad everything well with you. Good luck with your job application x

 

[Mrs W 11]

Hi all,

Sorry it's been so long since I checked in! So many of you are already half way, time is flying by!!

Dimmu - congrats on having a baby girl! Great news!! I'll have a 4 year gap between my dd and this baby which is twice what we planned but so many people have told me about how close their children were with a similar gap. Plus it will be nice in a way to have time to do classes etc with our babies when our dds are at school.

Miss Bellum - congrats to you too on being team pink!! Names are always tricky, we had the same girls name all the way through for my dd and then changed it at the last minute!! I find boys names harder although we currently have one of each picked out!

Lawson - welcome and congrats! I see so many stories of ladies giving up ttc and bam bfp! The early weeks are tough but you are nearly there!!

Jjay - how did your scan go today?

Eva - good luck with the job! Well done on staying team yellow!! We did with dd but not going to this time!

Megan - congrats on getting to 12 weeks and fab news on babies results all being normal!!

We've had a tough few weeks. My nt results came back as 1 in 110 chance of Down's which is partly my age and partly that I had a very low Papp-a in my blood. Aside from being linked to chromosomal abnormalities it's also linked to iugr, pre eclampsia and other poor outcomes so I'll need regular growth scans every 3 weeks from 28 weeks. It's odd as my dd was a big baby and was 16 days late but they say every oregnancy is different. Re the Down's risk we had a harmony test and it came back as failed, apparently I had a vanishing twin and extra DNA in my blood so they wouldn't do the test. We've decided to wait for the 20 week scan and see if any markers or abnormalities are highlighted there but hoping all will be ok with our much longed for rainbow xx

 

[JJay]

Hi Everyone

Nice to hear from you Mrs W and sorry you've been going through such a stressful time. My odds before any testing were 110:1 due to my age. It's still over 99% chance that all is fine - although I know you must still be feeling worried. Do you have a date for your 20 week scan yet?

My scan today was great, baby was bouncing around like crazy and all checks fine. Measuring average for dates which is a first for me as both DD and DS measured big. Placenta is low lying but not covering but needs to be checked again so they will do this at my 28 week scan which is booked for 21st April.

I looked away when they checked the baby's bladder but DH had a sneaky peak and thinks he maybe saw boy bits! I am not so sure as the sonograper gave us a full run through of all the body parts at the end of the scan and pointed out the baby's bottom. She knew we were team yellow so I'm not sure she would have done that if there was an obvious give away - still we will know in 19 weeks or so for definite- in the meantime I'm enjoying comparing scan pics to DD and DS to try and guess!

 

[Mrs W 11]

Awww lovely scan pics jjay, so glad all went well!! Another team yellow, were you team yellow with your other 2? The surprise was nice when we were team yellow and dh told me 'it's a girl!!' Magical xx

My background risk was 1 in 450 as I'm 35 so the low Papp-a really bumped the odds right up, as you say I'm just thinking it's still less than 1% chance of Down's. Scan is 31st March so not too long to wait now, 4 weeks and 2 days!! X

 

[JJay]

Thanks Mrs W

Not too long to wait - I hope the time passes quickly for you, the odds are in your favour and chances are, all is fine. It will be much better when harmony is available on NHS for high risk cases so there is not so much waiting and a more definite result.

We were team yellow with DD and DS too - I love the guessing and wondering and it makes me so so excited to find out on the day. I think it helps me get through the last few uncomfortable weeks and the birth. That said I'm struggling this time as i feel really impatient to know. As this will be our last I feel a little sad that either DS or DD will miss out on a same sex brother or sister. I've got 4 brothers and 2 sisters and can't imagine not having both! Of course I'll be delighted whatever we have and know we are very blessed but I think there will be a small part of me that feels sad never to have another boy or never to have another girl.

 

[dimmu]

Jjay - so pleased to hear the scan went well, that's such a lovely picture! I admire you for being able to stay team yellow, I just wouldn't have the willpower! It must be a lovely feeling to find out on the day he/she is born. How are you feeling these days in general, getting uncomfortable at all?

I feel like my bump is growing exponentially now, I feel quite achey down below most of the time, guess it's the stretching. I can only walk slowly or my bump starts hurting, and I get out of breath easily. I plan to do a bit more walking when the weather gets warmer, I've been pretty lazy of late and only done the essential. Think should exercise a bit more..

Mrs W sorry you have been having such a hard time. But just as JJay said the odds are still on your side, it's not like it's 1:3 chance of Down's or anything. But I would be the same as you and feel nervous. Not long until your 20 week scan now, it's March already and the time will go quickly! At least I felt like the time between the 12 and 20 weeks scans went pretty fast.
It will definitely be nice to be able to attend all the baby classes during the day when DD goes back to school, I'm looking forward to that. I would have preferred to get pregnant a couple of years ago but DH wasn't ready. In fact he's still not 100% ready, he is quite concerned about our finances but also just about coping in general, we have no family here to help so will be hard with two kids. Thankfully DD is very independent now and doesn't need help with getting dressed or anything, so hopefully it won't be too bad with her and the baby.

 

[eva1978]

Hello all,

that is cool you could see the baby move, dimmu! I've seen that a couple of times but DH has only seen it once. I wish it happened more A 6 year gap seems nice! Perhaps in about 6 years your oldest can babysit your younger one? There will be a 5.5 yr gap between our oldest and the baby, similar to you. It will be increasingly difficult to travel too see family though with 3 kids. We're planning a trip to Europe when the baby will be about 2 months, but it's so far in the future and there's much uncertainty, we'll have to see if the trip really happens.

Thanks for the luck Miss B! It's basically done now.
The job application is for Australia. You specify which institution you want to be at, so I've applied to stay where I am now (near the capital). However I won't know the outcome for another 8 months :-/

Mrs. W, 1/110 sounds scary but like JJay said and experienced, chances are good that things will all be fine I ended up having IUGR with my first but it wasn't an issue until after my 30th week. So if that ends up being a problem they should be able to catch it with frequent third tri scans.

Good news about your scan JJay! Hopefully the placenta doesn't decide to come down lower! At least nowadays they can check for that possibility. One of my friends had placenta previa, though I guess it's quite rare (1/200?)

I had a bit of a scare with my doppler yesterday. I tried to find the heartbeat in the morning before going wee... well it usually takes me under a minute to find the HB but I was trying for 5 mins with no luck, and starting to panic slightly. I decided to wee and then tried again and bam - there it was! So maybe my huge bladder was pushing the baby out of the way? lol