Hi Ladies
just checking in on all of you!
CONGRATS Birdie! Wonderful news, I hope everything goes really well for you!! Keep us posted!!
We havn't heard from a few of us in a while (Shana and Waitress?) Hope everyone is doing really well!
Leeze: I can't recall many of my dreams, I don't think I have had any significant ones or strange ones that I remember. I DID dream about eating one of my favorite childhood breakfast cereals (honey smacks!) and then just HAD to buy it when we went shopping and DH didn't believe me that it was because I had dreamed about it! LOL
Pink Sparkle: I am SO sorry about your friend and her baby. How devastating. Things just don't make sense sometimes, I'm sure it makes you worry. I am glad you're getting a nice early scan this weekend! lucky you!!
I REALLY can't wait to have my "20-week" scan (but I'll be 19w) and find out what I have in there!!!!!!! I am also anxious to feel some movement!! I keep pressing around gently hoping to notice a flutter or poke or something but so far I don't think I have felt anything. At least not anything that I noticed as 100% baby!!
Krissi wasn't hearing the heartbeat wonderful!! I had the idea too to record the sound on my phone especially since DH couldn't make it to that appointment but we only heard it for a short time before my shy little babe kept trying to hide lol
I also had sad news from a friend last week. She is 20 weeks and went for her scan last week and found out that her baby has a life threatening birth defect. Called congenital diaphragmatical hernia where the baby's diaphragm has a hole in it or doesn't form at all. This allows for abdominal organs to drift up into the chest and impair development of the lungs. So it's one of those things that they don't know how severe the situation could be yet because it depends on how much this interferes with the lung development and how much trouble it will cause with breathing and other functions. What really knocked me over is that it's "bad" enough to begin with that they wanted to discuss "termination" with her. She is adamant she will not terminate but just the fact that they raised the subject is frightening. I'm so devastated for her, but still hopeful :-/
It's hard when something like that happens to a friend. I am torn between feeling absolutely devastated and feeling slightly relieved that it isn't me. But then that makes me feel guilty because it can happen to anyone. Just so no one here goes panicking, that particular condition only occurs in 1 of every 2500 babies.
So enough sad talk. I'm doing well... trying to keep really active (as I'd always been) but may have overdone it when I went swimming with DH this past weekend and did lots of breaststroke laps in the pool. I hadn't been swimming like that in a VERY long time and may have pulled or irritated some muscles. My groin hurts like the sore feeling after sitting on a bicycle seat for a very very long ride! I panicked a little as you can see in my thread on 2nd Tri "did I cause SPD" lol. I don't think it is SPD (at least I hope not) because it's not as painful as the descriptions but I'm hoping it goes away soon!!!!
Well girls, I hope everyone else checks in with us soon who we havn't heard from in a while. Take care!