Mid June and July Firecrackers Group Due June/July 2017!

[Girly922]

Girly - that's good! Hopefully we'll be waiting on our home births together in six months I've got my gtt at 28 weeks.. always nervous something will come up. I wouldn't have a home birth unsafely but I really want one

Oh absolutely, I'd never put baby at risk. But I remain hopeful


I'm right there with you on the back pain Pretty. Mine is definitely a nerve pain, it tends to kick in after a long day. But I have a history of back problems. A relaxing bath tends to help.

 

[Gagrlinpitt]

Girly Im sure that's not easy but I'm glad you know how to make it feel better.

Afm, my appointment is tomorrow and I'm going to talk with my doctor about my pelvis. I fractured it in four places back in 2004 so they mentioned just scheduling me for a C section...

Also, I've been having vivid dreams the last two night about us finding out we are having a boy.. So I'm assuming that's what we are having
..

 

[Catalyst]

Im geting over the ms period I think.. finally
And I have been feeling movements lately for over a week but it was so litle and didnt come many in a row so I was not sure untill this weekend. So I probbaly started to feel them move just before hitting 16w mark
Any of you having baby #3 or more? Do you feel you worry more than previus pregnancys? I do.. sometimes I am so afraid of what I have done.. haha afraid something is wrong, that there will be hard time taking care of them cause I am afraid it will affect my boys I have now. You know guilty feeling that if something is wrong, things will be difficult it is us to blame if the boys feel bad or feel they dont get full attention and stuff.
Also I am more afraid that somethings happens to the twins, more than I did with the boys. I am also afraid that something happens to one of them and I wont be able to tell. i try not to think about those things but they keep creeping in my mind. My midwife said I could always come to them to let them check for heartbeat to keep me calm... mulling it over if I should make an apointment for after next weekend.
19 days almost till my 20w scan!! Cant wait!!

 

[blessedmomma]

Gagrl- my dreams about my babies are usually opposite of what they are. But I also have no maternal instincts about gender haha, so hopefully you are more in tune!

Catalyst- so nice to feel them move

 

[Gagrlinpitt]

I honestly have had no feelings either way. I just know my husband had been so sure it's a boy.. And then the two dreams, so I'm just assuming that's the case. I'm 3-5 weeks away from finding out the gender.

 

[Mummafrog]

Catalyst - this is only my second baby but I'm having a lot of the same fears and guilt; worrying how it will be for my older child and also how we will cope financially and in the space of our flat. I had a good cry the other night and kept saying that we've made a mistake and we won't manage and it won't be fair on the children but I've been feeling a bit better today about things, I know things will come together in the end. I'm spending time looking for second hand stuff to lower the cost, I think if I start now I should find plenty hehe.

I'm picking up a beautiful baby hammock today (amby baby hammock) that a very kind lady is passing on for free.

I felt three quite strong kicks when I was bent over today, in the same place.. it was the clearest I've felt baby so far, so lovely. It's nice because I really didn't feel my daughter move that much x

 

[youngmamttc]

We joined team BLUE! We've chosen to name our son River Reign!

As for kicks I have an anterior placenta and although this is baby #4 I'm hardly feeling a thing. Nothing definitive yet which makes me sad.

 

[second.time]

Congratulations on the little boy, youngmam! That's a lovely name.

Both pregnancies, I had multiple dreams of both boys and girls before I officially found out. Not very useful in my case.

This is only a second baby for me too but I've been anxious! It's interesting to read about other moms feeling the same. With my first, I knew my life would change, but it would only affect me and my husband -- and we didn't really grasp HOW much it would change. This time I'm thinking of my oldest son and how it could affect him. Having a sibling will probably be wonderful for him and he doesn't care about the other changes -- I didn't blame my parents for having a large family, even though my life changed as more kids came (we traveled less, etc.). But it's interesting to see how my anxieties over a new baby are different now that I already have a child.

 

[lesondemavie]

Congrats on the boy young!

My NIPT and sequential results are in!

NIPT: Just two chromosomes (not 3) for 13,18, 21, and the sex chromosomes. For that test that puts my risk of everything at 1 in 10,000. The obgyn knows the sex from the test and reviewed the results with me, but since we don't want to know, we can't look at the report ourselves. I guess it's right on there.

Sequential: PappA - 1.19 MoM, free beta hcg - 0.73 MoM, and NT 0.77 MoM. All super low risk . That puts my risk of Down's (trisomy 21) at 1 in 12,000, and my risk of trisomy18 at 1 in 78,000!!!

I couldn't be happier. I have started telling everyone. This is our 🌈! 😂

 

[second.time]

Awesome, lesonde! Enjoy the fun of sharing the news!

 

[blessedmomma]

Gagrl- my husband is almost always right about gender

Congrats youngmam!!! beautiful name

Leson

 

[Maries_s]

Congratulations on team young

 

[808malia]

Leson- That's amazing news!!!

youngmam- Congrats on joining team blue!!!

 

[Aphy]

Youngmam, congrats on team blue!!!

Leson, so happy your results are so positive. Enjoy the relief of it and the fun times now of telling the world!

Afm, I am just waiting around for next week wednesday when we go for our next scan and hopefully hear which team we will be on. MS hasn't been too bad in comparison to previously. Still vomit most mornings but at least the constant nausea is gone. Woke up today though with no energy at all. Feel so run down and exhausted. Still got a long day of work ahead of me...

I hope everyone else is doing well xxx

 

[Gagrlinpitt]

Aphy, so glad ms is toning down.

Afm, Had a doctor's appointment today. Measuring 16 weeks and baby had a 152 bpm hb. Doc is very happy with everything but did say I had a small trace of swelling in my legs. Wants them up as much as possible... Happy for the good report! 5 weeks before I can find it gender at anatomy scan.. They make you wait until 20 weeks here in PA...😔

 

[lesondemavie]

Gag - my anatomy scan is at 20 weeks as well, but the NIPT checks the sex chromosomes to make sure there are just two and in doing so can tell you boy or girl. So lovely that you had an ultrasound. After the NT ultrasound (typically around 12 weeks), we don't get to see baby again until the anatomy scan at 20 weeks. I was so spoiled before with my weekly ultrasounds up to 14 weeks!

Aphy- My MS is similar now, except I throw up in the evening. Every now and again the nausea will pop back up, but it's definitely not as bad as it was. I wish I could have your positive outlook on it, and I did when the nausea first started to ease and I thought just another week or so and it'll be gone...but nope hasn't gotten any better since. I just hate vomiting. I seriously want it to stop. It's not like a one and done and then I feel better. It's the worst vomiting of my life, and I certainly had my share of hangovers in college. It's a let's throw up for 15 minutes straight until all your insides feel turned inside out. The heaving is still so bad sometimes that I pee my pants 😱. I don't miss the nausea, but now the vomiting just hits me out of nowhere. 10 weeks straight of throwing up nearly every day sometimes more than once a day, and I'm just so tired of it. Ok pity party over. I still love this baby and pregnancy and am so thankful for the reassurance ...lots and lots of reassurance. It could have been worse. I could have ended up in the hospital. I honestly believe that going on diclegis early saved me from that. I'm still on it, and scared that I'll go back to not being able to eat if I go off. My coworker who took several trips to the ER before finally going on the meds said that she was on it her whole pregnancy 😬. I'm really crossing everything that this all eases and I can go off by 20 weeks.

 

[blessedmomma]

Gagrl- when I lived in Kansas a couple ob's I had made me wait until 20 weeks for the anatomy scan. They said when you look earlier some things aren't as developed as they like to see. So maybe that can give you some positivity about waiting. It drove me crazy when I had family and friends that got to see baby at 16-18 weeks for theirs. Felt unfair lol. I don't know about here in my new state, but I won't even get a date until I go in for my next appt at 17 weeks so I don't expect it to be too early.

Leson- that sounds so horrible! I have had hyperemesis with several of my pregnancies. With one I counted throwing up 17 times before 1 pm after that I quit counting, it was too upsetting. I've ended up in the hospital and dehydrated before. The meds can be a godsend. And with one of my pregnancies I was sick the WHOLE time. I seriously threw up the morning before my water broke that day and even after I had him. I felt nauseous for an entire week after having him. It really drains your energy being sick all the time. I hope it doesn't last too much longer for you!

 

[Thejoie]

Leson- I'm so glad everything looks good!!

Young- yay!!! Congrats on your baby boy!

 

[PrettyInInk42]

I was told I could book my anatomy scan anytime between 18 and 20 weeks. I'm choosing to wait til 20 in the hopes that it easier to tell the gender and count fingers and all that good stuff. lol

 

[blessedmomma]

Pretty- do you have any feelings of which gender you're having??