January Blizzards - 2016 Rainbows

[sportysgirl]

Such a cute bump Lock!

 

[Heather.1987]

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[bunyhuny]

Hi rainbowdrop! :wave:

 

[Bushmumma]

Oh there's a bump, there's a bump, there's a bump!!! Lock it's oh so beautiful .

Hi and welcome rainbow

How's everyone doing??

I've got a bunch load of study to do its due in 10 days and I've got no drive to complete it at all ��, feeling doo tired and sore and lazy! Haha

 

[bunyhuny]

Hey bush. I feel you on the laziness, and the things I need to do are actually in preparation for something fun. I've got to get up off my butt here in a few or the next 24 hours are going to be a mess.

I've got either the beginnings of a bump at this point, or just awful bloat, and I have no idea which. I'm plus size, so I feel like I just look extra fat now. Usually, I carry all my weight in my hips/legs, and my stomach (though flabby) is usually pretty much straight up and down. Well, it is not straight up and down any more! But instead of looking pregnant, I just look like a much larger plus size woman who carries a bunch of weight in her gut as well. Bummer.

DH and I are leaving tomorrow to go to Electric Forest Festival. I'm super stoked. This is our big summer trip. We got VIP tickets and everything- which means breakfast in the mornings, warm showers 24-hours a day, a nice campground with tons of space and trees (not like the tiny, hot, treeless, sites in GA), a big bbq pool party the day we get there, and air-conditioned bathrooms throughout the venue. WOOHOO!!!!

Oh! And my faintness is going away! It turns out it may be due to the anticoagulant I was on. I switched to a new one a couple days ago and the faintness is gone! I went shopping for maternity skirts yesterday and was able to be up on my feet for over 45 minutes before I started feeling sick enough that I had to sit down Yayyy!!!!


My new skirts (images pulled off of Motherhood Maternity website):

 

[bunyhuny]

Okay... that turned into what probably should have just been a journal entry. Sorry for babbling on.

 

[Heather.1987]

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[Fit_Mama2Be]

Welcome rainbow!

Cute bump Lock.

Love the skirts Buny.

Kd and Sportys, thanks so much for the prayers and positive thoughts. I am so thrilled to be able to say that my baby's anatomy scan couldn't have gone better!!! Baby was measuring 12 w 1 day (I'm 11 weeks 6 days), the nuchal translucency measurement was great, Baby had a visible nasal bone, a perfect heartbeat of 158 bpm and brain, spine, bladder, stomach, kidneys, blood flow etc. all looked perfect. Baby also gave us a nice show, kicking and waving hands and arms.

We got our bloodwork back as well and it was great too - I was really nervous because I turned 35 last month but the individual results were *way* better than my age-related risk and Baby is extremely low risk for chromosomal abnormalities. This is the polar opposite of what happened during my last pregnancy, where everything that could possibly be wrong was.

I've attached a couple of photos of our rainbow miracle. Very proud momma here.

 

[bunyhuny]

Congratulations, Fit!! Wonderful pics or your rainbow babe! And awesome news from your blood work. What sweet, sweet relief. Do you know when you go in for your next appt?

I'm just chilling online tonight.... Managed to get some of the house clean, but it was exhausting, so I think I'm pretty much couch-bound for the rest of the evening.

 

[smurfy]

joinin the group

 

[Heather.1987]

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[Heather.1987]

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[sportysgirl]

So glad everything went well fit, gorgeous photos.

Welcome Smurfy.

Love your photo Heather

 

[Bushmumma]

The skirts are fab lock! Love them .

Fit how good your feeling better woohoo!

Welcome smurfy

Haha still didn't get any study done �� bloody lazy bones!
Just booked tickets for my boys to see their Aunty in first week of holidays, starting this Friday. So they will go from Friday to Friday, the boys don't know yet it's a surprise!!

Bubs hb is still up in the high 150's loving that. Liking forward to tomorrow I'll be 12 weeks!! Yayy!!

Hubby and I are looking at nursery theme ideas and as we are team yellow atm it's a liitke tricky. Oh funny thing is dh says last night, maybe we should find out at 20 week scan?? I said hmmm not able to wait hey? ���� he had the big idea of waiting and I'm kinda thinking how amazing it would be to find out once bubs meets the world.

Can you ladies help me with pros and cons on waiting / not waiting to find out gender?

What you all think ??
Have a great day ladies talk later xxx

 

[kdmalk]

Welcome new ladies!! Let me know your due date and I'll get you added to the front page!

Having a decent day today FINALLY. I decided to weigh myself this morning and I have lost 9 pounds since my last appointment. Yikes.

 

[kdmalk]

Bush, I have no pros/cons on that. We are finding out!!! It is so hard to find gender-neutral stuff and I just don't want to deal with that! I want a fully stocked closet and nursery ready to go when baby arrives home. I just think it is easier to know ahead of time! But more power to you if you manage to stick through it as team yellow!

 

[Heather.1987]

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[kdmalk]

Heather, try not to panic. I had this random sense of dread the other day and baby still seems to be fine. I did actually switch doctors because I felt like my other doctor wasn't giving it to me straight when she was worried about my first pregnancy. That annoyed me because I am an adult and I can handle it. And I really liked her, too.

That being said, my new doctor is very different. I love her and she has assured me that everything looks absolutely perfect this time. I have even asked her several times if she is just trying to keep me from worrying or if she is truly being honest, and I believe she has been completely honest with me throughout this pregnancy. I made the decision that I valued honesty over "liking" my doctor. And I ended up loving my new one so much more!!!

I'm not advising you to switch--I'm just giving my experience. What I think would be the first step is having a conversation with doc at next appointment and telling her that you would prefer that she (he?) be completely honest no matter what. Because the fear that she is hiding a concern from you is worse than actually knowing the concern. THAT is what my other doctor couldn't take seriously..... she actually couldn't take anything I said seriously, which is another reason I moved. She always thought I was worrying over nothing and then I always ended up being right. So she finally pissed me off after my second loss and I took my business elsewhere.

Again, I'm not saying you should leave. I got off on a rant there. Lol. Start with a talk. And go from there. Because then you won't have to panic if you know that she will always be honest with you. Just my long-winded thoughts.

 

[Heather.1987]

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[Fit_Mama2Be]

Aw, sorry you're feeling worried Heather. I agree with kd, it sounds like being honest with your doctor about how you're feeling might be in order. Personally if a doctor ever kept something like that from me I know I'd always feel super paranoid, and when you're PAL there is already more than enough paranoia to go around.

DH and I have nothing but respect for the doctor who gave us our horrible diagnosis last pregnancy because even though he was very compassionate he was also completely honest about how bleak things looked for our baby and didn't give us any false hope. So we weren't blindsided when we lost the baby the following week. I do understand what you mean though about not being sure you would have wanted to know.

Hang in there, the second trimester is just around the corner.