March rainbows 2018

[xkirstyx]

What a nightmare about the fleas sweetkat!

I'm officially 100% feeling baby move now! Only feel baby a couple of times a day but it's starting to help me relax! We drive to Disneyland on Sunday and the plan is to do a pregnancy announcement while we are there. Got ds2 a tshirt to wear saying I'm going to be a big brother 2018 on it and I'm thinking of getting him to wear it standin infront of the castle. I'll post pic on here if I do it!
3 weeks today till gender scan!!!!!!

 

[Myshelsong]

That pic and trip sounds adorable! Hope you can post it would love too see it.
Yay gender scan!! Do you have a guess?

 

[xkirstyx]

I'm very sure it's a boy but I have never got it right yet lol

 

[karoolia]

I hope everyone has been having a good few days!

Our vacation home is almost over. Both of our immediate families know about the baby now and are all very excited. We have had to tell them not to tell anyone else yet. DH's parents are eager to spread the news. They think at this point we should tell the world. I'm just getting to the point where I am relaxing and starting to enjoy the idea of a baby though. I want to have that for ourselves for a few weeks before everyone knows.

Very glad we got home and could tell everyone in person.

 

[Myshelsong]

Karoolia - sounds like you had a great vacation with family. Glad you felt comfortable and told family. Hopefully they will keep this little secret private too you.

Long weekend here in Ontario and hubs has a head cold so I think it will be a stay inside or around the house weekend.
I am officially 12w now and starting to freak out because I feel less and less pregnant. I lowered the progesterone I am on and will be off it completely by next week. Not quite sure how to get out of this funk I am in with this pregnancy. It almost doesn't feel real.... anyone else still having anxiety and being worried?

 

[xkirstyx]

I'm 15 weeks and still having so much anxiety. Now that I feel baby move I now get in huge panics when I go days of not feeling anything. I know it's still because baby still has so much space of course I won't always feel it!

We leave for Disneyland tomorrow morning! Kind of dreading it but also looking forward to getting away for a bit! My angel baby should of been due in two weeks so I'm looking forward to getting away and taking my mind off it for a few days.

 

[Sweetkat]

I haven't even felt baby move. Sometimes I think I can but then i think it's just wind. I am 15&3 and for some reason a lot of people have recently asked if we are thinking of having a second lol. I just avoid the question or say sth elusive. No way am I admitting I am pregnant. Maybe after 18 weeks when I am planning to do a private anatomy and development scan.

I do still feel nauseous in the morning, anxious all the time and bloated too (especially in the evening).

Still fighting fleas - i could kill the people who looked after our cats while we were on holiday. They have other cats and a flea infestation and they didn't warn us our cats were full of fleas. I would have taken them straight to the vets for a flea treatment but now we have an infestation and professional heat treatment (which is better than chemicals and obviously I don't want chemicals being pregnant) is 1200 pounds , which is crazy expensive so I have had the cats treated, hoovered a million times, treated carpet with soda and salt (supposed to kill them), washed the bedding and the cat bed and bought a carpet steamer.

I am trying to avoid spraying insecticide as it's so toxic

 

[Myshelsong]

Ah the fleas! That is crazy I can't believe those people didn't tell you. That is so inconsiderate.
I am only 12w and haven't felt baby. Don't expect to for a long while tbh.

Have fun in Disney land Kristy! Angel due dates are very hard sometimes. Hope you are able to enjoy your rainbow while remembering the date.

It is cool and rainy today so we are going to just hang in and do some inside stuff today.

 

[karoolia]

Those fleas sound terrible! I hope you get them dealt with soon Sweetkat!

Enjoy your vacation Kirsty!! I have only been to Disney World in Orlando, but I am willing to bet I would love any Disney Park. I'm sure you will all have a great time!

As for me, I'm back from our vacation home. Totally exhausted, but happy for every minute we were able to spend with friends and family. Only 10 more months until we can move back permanently!

Also I'm 14 weeks today! So no matter how you measure I am definitely 2nd tri now!

 

[maryanne1987]

Enjoy your vacation Kirsty. Can't wait to see your announcement!

Sorry about the fleas sweetkat. I hope you find a solution soon.

Happy second tri karoolia. I'm 14 weeks Thursday, cannot wait to make it that milestone now. Must change my ticker as it confuses me.

Enjoy your day myshelsong.

All good here. Baby very wiggly but I can go a day or two without feeling him or her. Officially don't fit in any of my non maternity trousers now. I'm glad people know so I don't have to hide mini bump. Scan on Wednesday and I can't wait to see my mini one again. Hope the bleed hasn't grown again. It worries me.

 

[Sweetkat]

I am at the EPU and going to ask for a scan - I hope they do it. Haven't had a proper scan for 3.5 weeks - last one was 2 minutes without measurements and just checking the heart rate. I am feeling generally worried. Wish I could be like Kate Middleton who has announced every pregnancy before 12 weeks.

It's funny actually because my DD is a couple of weeks younger than Prince George and had I not had the MMCs my second child would have been 6 months younger than Charlotte and now that I am expecting Kate is copying me lol

Still fighting fleas. I am soooooo annoyed with those people.

I will update here after the scan

 

[Sweetkat]

Scan was ok - they measured heart rate, head circumference and checked no bleeding. A private scan would have been more detailed but I can't afford it , will go at 18 weeks for one.

Hope everyone is ok.

 

[maryanne1987]

Glad all went ok sweetkat.

My scan tomorrow. Nerves are setting in now.

 

[Myshelsong]

Glad scan went well sweetkat - Canadian here, what is an EPU?

Good luck Maryanne on your scan tomorrow. I am sure everything will be great for you.

I am taking myself off progesterone as advised my by healthcare team now that I am 12 weeks, but I find my emotions have surged and gone bananas. I am crying at everything and it is annoying, I know it is the hormones, but I feel so out of control. Just trying to keep sane until the 29th. Don't know if I can request another ultrasound before than. I wouldn't even know how.

 

[Sweetkat]

Maryanne, could luck with your scan. They were saying to me today that miscarriages during the second trimester are very rare and you have to be very unlucky.

Myshel, EPU is an early pregnancy unit at a big hospital (National health service hospitals i.e. state ones).

As for me, went to a Greek place for lunch and asked for all meat to be well done. Then after a couple of mouthfuls noticed the lamb meatballs were pink inside (toxoplasmosis risk).

Also, I don't have chickenpox but I am not immune, so I have to be really careful And my fleas are alive and well

As if I didn't have enough to worry about with this pregnancy.

 

[karoolia]

I hope the scan went/goes well maryanne!

Sweetkat - that's funny about you and Kate with the babies. As for her early announcements, I bet she doesn't have much of a choice. If she kept it secret and was sick in public all the time or cancelled all her events to stay home people would start talking. If I were her I would rather announce than deal with gossip.

I still worry a lot as well. DH's parents were annoyed with us for not telling the entire extended family. They kept saying there was nothing we could do to prevent a miscarriage and it probably won't happen at this point anyway. I'm just not ready to share widely yet. Mainly because if something did go wrong I would want to grieve privately first and that doesn't happen if the world knows. We're also enjoying having this as our happy little secret. We didn't enjoy it the first several weeks because we were both way too nervous.

 

[maryanne1987]

I've had 3 second tri losses so for me I just can't relax yet. I dont start to feel better until I feel a regular movement pattern that I can monitor and then I feel less anxious. I will also get put on the monitor every Friday from 26 weeks at antenatal clinic which checks babies movement and heartbeat and then scans every two weeks so all that helps to make me feel better. Just need to get through the next few weeks.

I'm not immune to chickenpox either, never had it.

Do you have a doctor you could ask for a scan myshelsong? Things work so differently over here that I wouldn't know what to suggest.

Karoolia take as long as you need. I still wouldn't have announced if my sil hadn't taken it upon herself to announce for us. Don't feel pressured into it.

 

[karoolia]

Thanks maryanne! We told them they could share with their siblings after our next appointment on the 14th. We'll probably still wait a few weeks after that before making a public announcement.

 

[maryanne1987]

It's such a special time that sometimes it's nice not having the world knowing. It's nice to have that secret. I think people would have guessed for me now anyway as I have a very clear bump but I still wouldn't have confirmed it yet. We usually announce publicly at 20 weeks but this time I wasn't sure if I was going to do it at all.

 

[karoolia]

I'm glad someone understands. 20ish weeks is when I was thinking too. Probably shortly before since we will be on a trip around 19 weeks and I won't be able to resist sharing pictures and I'm sure it will be pretty obvious by then haha.