March 2015 Pots of Gold

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SM I really hope you have lots of friends and family around to lean on and to help you out. Hopefully time flies by for you!

Afm I have been feeling him quite a lot this last week. Especially after I eat and sit down he flips around for a while. I have a Dr appt tomorrow at 17 weeks and will be having the Afp blood test done. Is anyone else doing this?
 
Hi Peachy, I don't know what Apf bloods are but yay for the reassurance for consistently bing able to feel your baby moving! From the looks/sounds of it you found out you are having a boy, that's awesome! Have you done any shopping since you found out?

Is everyone in 2nd tri now?
 
tmb and peachy, I do have lots of friends and family around :) its one reason why I chose not to move up there immediately with him, in addition to a few other practical, financial, prenatal-care reasons.. and yes, its crazy to think in just 2 months that he might be able to feel the movement as well!!

also, welcome to being an orange, tmb.. it seems I started feeling movement just overnight.. funny to imagine the growth in there being in spurts rather than a gradual even growth because it was literally one day no, next day yes lol

foosh, I know it was the other thread you mentioned your dream in, and I agree thats a scary dream.. but I think its more nerves than any real premonition of the future. i had a dream the other night that my midwife was drawing blood, and her 3 yr old was in the room and she was just allowing her kid to mess with the needle and tubing in my arm.. she wouldnt discipline him or anything because she didnt want to come across as a bad mom for trying to control her kid.. yet the kid was hurting me.. and I know this dream also relates to my personal feelings about women that just let their kids run wild because they don't 'control' their kids, they 'parent' them.. which I think is a load of crap... grab that running wild child, and sit his butt down or lock him into the shopping cart for gods sake.. its like parents that let their kids run circles around the tables of other diners in a restaurant, and when you say to them.. hey, this isnt cool, get your kids away.. they look at you and go 'but its a family friendly restaurant'... cue the bitch slap lol
 
Thanks, SW. You scared me though! I posted about my dream in this thread, I was worried for a minute I posted in the other one. I don't mind sharing stuff like that with you ladies because you have been through losses, I would feel horrible to share that in the regular thread as I already feel like I am bringing attention/worry to something that won't happen to most people. I went back and double checked it was this thread! PHEW
 
Lil foosh I've had dreams like that too. I think it's from being scared as well. Impossible to completely relax after a loss. The Afp checks for neural tube defects such a spina bifida. I found out I was having a boy after doing the harmony testing at 10 weeks which checked for downs and other trisomies. I am paranoid : ). I have my anomaly scan with the perinatologist and hope everything is perfect and I can finally accept he's real and he's going to be mine! I have bought a couple little things and I like to after I have good check ups. I know it's stupid but I'm still afraid to jinx anything.
 
lol sorry, foosh! blame it on pregnant brain :oops:
glad it was on this thread tho.

Peachy, I know how you feel.. its still doesnt even seem real that i am this far along, and I may actually have a baby in just a few months! I havent bought one thing for the baby yet because Im afraid of jinxing it as well.. it was tough enough buying maternity clothes, but Im starting to actually need those..
 
Peachy we do the same thing! We didn't buy anything until after our first MFM appointment. Then after the seocnd appointment we bought something else, so I think we will probably continue to get things after those appointments. We might switch to diapers though since they are weekly appointments and if we keep buying blankets and towels or other stuff we will have waaaayyyyy too many things.

We ended up doing the NT scan testing and had a blood draw the same day, I think there is a second part of the test, so we might be doing that Afp test. I haven't been paying too much attention, I just let them do it because the doc said it gives them tons of info on the placenta, since I had an undetected infection in the placenta and membranes with my loss I thought it was better to have it done.
 
SM just this morning my husband asked me if it was time I start buying new clothes. I told him I was fine but he said he would buy them himself then. I think he's trying to be nice but now I'm wondering if I'm starting to look like a sausage or something : )

Lil foosh I know what you mean on having too much of the same thing. When I bought the few things I have I didn't even buy newborn I went straight to 0-3 mos. I know how quickly they grow out of everything. What happened to you before was very rare wasn't it? My one miscarraige was from trisomy 13 and apparently that was rare and would be even rarer to occur again. It's hard for me to trust statistics when I've always been on the minority side of them. My 2nd ectopic was in the end of tube that had a salpingectomy already from the first. They figured it out 2 surgeries later because it was unheard of to happen. I think we're all truly in the safe zone now though and just have to get used to the fact we are all going to he holding our perfect babies in no time!

Oh and this is probably silly but what's an mfm appt?
 
It is uncommon. The doctors I see now are high risk Maternal & Fetal Medicine (MFM) specialists.

There are a few different possibilities regarding what happened during our last pregnancy. So they are montioring a number of things every week to look for any changes that could indicate it is happening again and I am taking an antibiotic to ward off any other undetected infections (though it is broad-spectrum and not targetted to any specific bacteria - all my swabs came back negative - so they are hoping it will help but it may not).

I am 15+2 today and started showing signs of labour at 16+5 last time. Only time will tell, but I am really hoping that it was a fluke. I get what you mean about being on the crap end of the statistic though. :hugs:
 
geez that is so scary to hear about pregnancy loss at over 16wks.. no woman should have to go thru that kind of physical and emotional trauma... the midwives test urine everytime I go in, but I guess that isnt even an indication of an infection in utero? I'm just taking it on faith, one day at a time, that everything is fine.. but still!!

Im so glad I've made it this far.. I'll be 16 weeks tomorrow. I had a midwife appt today, and I got to listen to the heartbeat on the Doppler! It was so cool.. at first the baby swam away from the doppler, but the midwife found it again in the right side of my uterus, and then it stayed there long enough to get a HB: 153bpm!

Peachy, Im sure you dont look like a sausage just yet, but maybe your husband is trying to be nice lol.. I'd let him spend as much $$ on me as he wants too tho if I were you haha :)
 
Hi ladies how is everyone? I just got back from my 16 week appointment with the midwife which went well and we heard a healthy heartbeat! Yay! She started talking to me about birth and telling me about relaxation classes and it all felt a bit real. That actually I might have to give birth and I may have my little one in March. Even though I'm definitely looking pregnant and I've seen bub twice, I still don't think I really believed it is happening.
 
Flou congrats on another good appt! I had mine at 17 weeks on Tues and everything looked as well. My big scan is at 19 and while I still can't believe it as well, after that I am going to just go crazy and start buying all the things the little guy needs : )
 
I have my next scan on the 3rd November and I will be 20 weeks. After that we are going to start buying stuff and thinking of possible names. Because I know its going to take me for ages to decide on a name. I keep changing my mind!
 
Flou - Yay for a wonderful appointment. Hearing the HB on the doppler is wonderful! Names are tough for sure....I'm happy that DH and I have aleady picked out names for each sex!

Peachy - Looks like you'll be one of the firsts in our group to get the 20 week scan! I can't wait for all the updates once we all get them :)

Afm - Appointnent is on Monday. I'll be bang in 16 weeks. I'm excited to meet my new doctor and to hear bubs heartbeat :) Unfortunately I'll be going alone as DH is working. I'm really looking forward to winter so that he will be around more....the busy spring/summer/fall sure is wearing on us as a couple right now. Sigh :( It's all good though....winter will be here in just a few short weeks!
 
hi ladies

flou, I feel the same way about it becoming more real.. even though Ive seen the baby twice and heard a HB just a few days ago.. its still so hard to believe I might actually really be having a god-honest baby in March!!!

peachy, you just had your scan?! did you get to hear the HB? what was it, if so?

tmb, can't wait to hear your scan results :)
 
Tmb I can't wait to hear everyone's as well! Especially when I've already known what I'm having for so long it'll be fun to hear others that want to find out!

SM no I didn't have a scan but yes we do listen to HB and his was 160. I have more visits because of the gestational diabetes. Hopefully none of you have to deal with it.
 
Just checking in, appointment yesterday was fine

The bad: I had some brown discharge in the morning- at least it was while I was at the clinic!

The good: Cervix is still closed and long though so they said not to worry about the discharge too much.

The awesome: I got to see baby waving!

We also got the call for our anatomy scan, Oct 27th! I keep telling myself we can make it that far... my last 20 week appointment turned into a 2 week pp-WTF happened appointment. Seems so close.

DH is now on board for me redoing the nursery! I'm going with yellow & gray, that is making things feel more real.
 
Sorry to hear about the discharge. It sounds like it's nothing to worry about but I can imagine how much you must have freaked out when you saw it. Congrats on everything else though! And to everyone else :)

I had a midwife appointment on Thurs at 17 weeks and heard the heartbeat which was incredible. I have my next scan mon 20th so only 2 weeks to wait!

On Fri night I felt really ill, not quite sick, not quite tummy pain but really unwell. Then I woke up yesterday morning with a full on baby bump. I can only assume the 2 were connected. It's so strange what our bodies go through when we're pregnant! Had anyone else ever experienced anything like this?
 
hi there

lbrum, I've actually been feeling pretty well for the last few weeks other than still pretty tired. Thats pretty neat you just woke up with a baby bump lol

I hope the 2 were connected.. the illness then the bump popping out.. its hard not to worry over every little thing. How far along are you now? I noticed your ticker is gone.

Today i've been feeling these sharp little twinges and pulls, I know its probably just RLP, but it still worries me
 
That was the weird thing, I'd been feeling much better too! They must have been linked in some way. I've tried to stop worrying about every little twinge or funny feeling cos there are just so many! From what I've read rlp are the strongest ones so I'm sure that's what you're feeling. I never had a ticker. I didn't want to do one before 12 weeks and then I was worried in case it jinxed it - so stupid I know! I'm 17 weeks 6 days now so 18 weeks tomorrow :)
 
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