ok so who wants to get pregnant in 2011? (closed group)

[flyingduster]

I am at work, but I've just come from seeing the midwife and hearing the heartbeat again! Very cool. Will sort the video and put it up when I'm back home later this afternoon.

AND, the best bit was that while she was poking around trying to find a better sound of the heartbeat, she said, oh, it's moving I think, and BOOM, I feel a big strong kick again! Woooot! Was soooo cool to feel it, and it was right where she was listening so was definitely a 'hey! get off!' kick! heh.

Also as I think back on it, I get the really strong feeling it's a girl all of a sudden. I've not had any inkling of gender at all so far, but whenever I think of that kick, it feels like a girl... weird. But cool that I might be getting an idea now too! We'll see in Oct! heh

 

[Dew]

dew: hey wouldnt it be lovely for us to get our bfp's by fathers day fathers day is always hard for me since losing mine. I doubt I will be so lucky, I was hoping for a bfp on mothers day IF I dont get pregnant this cycle then I will be ovulating around Fathers day so hopefully that will bring me luck!

Oh yes, that would be lovely, for me because it will be my gift to DH as he is deeply and lovingly involved in our TTC process

and I think it would be perfect timing for you where your cycle is now, you could get a bfp right on fathers day praying that it happens for you, your mc story makes me sad

You are the sweetest I so want it to happen to both of us ASAP

BTW, AF is slowly kicking in, I would have hated if it waited until tomorrow to begin

 

[Dew]

Flying: that's so sweet to be able to see and feel baby's kick, may be instead of saying 'get off...' your baby was conveying his/her love to you...so cute

 

[sarahincanada]

wow flying, he/she was saying hi mummy Im here!!!! so amazing.

dew glad AF is coming quickly if she has to come, hope this next cycle is the one. any plans for anything different?

 

[Huggles]

sarah - obstetrician is usually a gynae that's specialised in pg and childbirth.
Midwife is more similar to a nurse.
I think obgyn is more what they refer to as the 'consultant' in the uk. UK pregnancies are more midwife led and people tend to only see consultants occasionally during pg, or if there are problems.

 

[flyingduster]

yeah, obstetrician (aka ob/gyn) here is a specialist and usually only called in by the rich (it's not covered by the free medical care here) for a private deal, or if there's problems or it's a high risk pregnancy. 90% of the pregnancies here are handled by a midwife, who while specialised in caring for a pregnant woman & childbirth, she doesn't deal with high risk without a qualified obstetrician hovering about too. More years of study basically! lol!


And here is the video of my midwife appointment. You can't see the kick at all (I tilted the camera as I wasn't actually looking at it, was just using it to record the sound!) but you can hear me say when it happens...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoE0tQ7N10s

 

[babyhopes2323]

over here, you see a ob gyn, and stick with them and they deliver your baby, high risk or no high risk, you are always seen to by the obstetrician gynaecologist, there are no midwives that deliver or nurses that deliver. its always the doctor.

yea we went to do the 3 hour fasting GD test today and boy i got pricked thrice in three hours, was not fun, but hey atleast im on precaution now and feel better that i have done the test. we went to the hospital where this lady doc practices and i went to have a look at the delivery room and maternity ward and liked both, you are allowed two famiyl members during labour so thats good too.

im not going to have a look at the ward in marcus's clinic for the fear of liking the room better than this one, but hey its not about the room, its about the doc you are going to be seeing until delivery and during that time.

flying, so awesome to hear HB and so happy you could feel those kicks bless.. xx

sarah/ dew, would love to wake up one day and suddenly and log on to BNB to find out that you both have got your much awaited two lines or pregnant on the digital. xx

 

[sarahincanada]

hi everyone!!

awww flying amazing video! hope this is the first of many kicks!!

preethi when is your next scan, that detailed one? thats when you make the decision right?

funnily enough the other day I drove by a 'midewifey' clinic in my home town here so looked them up. before Id looked up obstetricians and its mainly men at the hospital. I will go see the midwife clinic when Im finally pregnant and see if I like them!

going for lunch and a movie with hubby, have a lovely weekend everyone!

 

[babyhopes2323]

sarah, this lady doctor on thursday when i went for the pain, scanned me quite thoroughly and it was almost a detailed scan itself. but i do have a pending one with marcus to go to on the 7th of june which will probably be my last appointment with him / decision wise and the only reason im going to that one is because i wanted hubby to be there for the detailed scan and did not know she was going to detail scan me when she did on thursday. we also want to find out the gender that day if possible so we will be going on the 7th of june and then back to this woman for an echocardiogram on the 21st of june. echocardiogram is basically checking the babys heart in detail and she wants to do it on the 21st when i will be 22 weeks and 1 day because by then the babys heart would have matured enough. so these are the two scans lined up for june.

hoping to be able to find out the gender on the 7th. cant wait !

enjoy your lunch and movie. im off with hubby myself to the cinemas to watch hangover 2 tonight.xx

 

[sarahincanada]

enjoy your lunch and movie. im off with hubby myself to the cinemas to watch hangover 2 tonight.xx

thats what we are going to see too!! hope its good

 

[babyhopes2323]

oh it is, we loved it , although i have not watched part 1, it was easy to follow as ive seen clips from part 1. enjoy xx

 

[flyingduster]

geepers guys, it's awfully quiet in here today!!! lol!

I got belly pics this morning. So, here I am, sucking my tummy in as hard as I can, at 20 weeks 3 days:
https://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j162/flyingduster2/IMG_2191.jpg
it's a BUMP! You see it down the bottom as the belly band is hugging the curve of it. YAY!

compare this to my first photo sucking my tummy in at 13 weeks:
https://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j162/flyingduster2/IMG_1789.jpg


And here I am with my tummy pushed out, looking full term already...
https://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j162/flyingduster2/IMG_2192.jpg
lol!!! Right now it's still fun, cos I can make myself look soooo pregnant by pushing my tummy out, but I can suck it away (mostly) if I want to. In a few months it won't be sucking away though! LOL!

I've felt a few more kicks too! Wow, it's sooooooooooooo amazing! I'm suddenly feeling a lot more pregnant! For months now it's been a bit surreal, knowing I'm pregnant, but having little to show for it. Now it's just getting incredible! KICKS! It feels a bit like your tummy gurgling away at times, but when it gives a good kick to one side or something you KNOW it's not your tummy, it's a whole 'nother human being doing that. Inside me!

Hubby has been trying to hold my tummy as much as possible to feel a kick himself now too, I wasn't sure though if they could be felt from the outside yet cos while they're obvious to me, they don't feel like they'd be really strong on the outside yet. Until last night when we were in bed, pretty much falling asleep; I had my arm draped across my tummy (oh yeah, I find myself holding my tummy soooooooooo much more now it's kicking! I hardly ever did before! lol) and I felt a kick very easily on my arm! So YAY! Now we just need to get the timing right for hubby to be feeling my tummy at the same time bub kicks... lol!


It's monday morning here, so I'm getting ready for work. Yesterday we went for a walk up to a gorgeous reservoir that's right in our city. It's a popular walking track but I've never taken hubby up there before, so we decided to go there while we could!
https://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j162/flyingduster2/IMG_2170.jpg
It's all nicely gravelled paths all around, and hubby loved it, so I can see us taking bub up there in a pram with the dogs in the future too.



I hope everyone is well!?? Even if you're all being quiet... lol!

 

[sherylb]

I am getting ready to host friends/family for dinner so I am cleaning today. I haven't had the energy all week but I am forcing myself today with breaks between areas. The kitchen was the worst mess and that is done so the rest should be a lot easier.

I got a quart of ice cream from Marble Slab and am trying to not tell Hubby how much it was b/c he won't let me get it again. I paid almost $12 for a quart of birthday cake ice cream with 2 pieces of cookie dough mixed in but it's worth every penny when it makes me happy. I only eat a little at a time so when I compare it to paying $5 for a small ice cream there and having to force myself to overeat to justify the $5 it's worth it to bring some home.

 

[Huggles]

flying - that is a definite little bump there! Yay!
that reservoir looks so nice - think it'll be lovely walking there with the pram one of these days.

Sheryl - enjoy your ice cream!

 

[babyhopes2323]

so my results are back and YAY !! i dont have GD and my blood sugar is normal, im immune to rubella as well, the only issue is im not immune to toxiplasma, which means if i eat food from hotels or outside, ill have to be very careful that its all fresh and clean.

flying, that bump is so totally there !! and yay or feeling kicks from outside, i am so happy for you !! those pics are lovely ! ive been trying to feel kicks but i cant, sometimes,,, very rarely i feel tiny gurgles but refuse to believe that it is bub !

yay 19 weeks for me today and in one more week i will be half way through !!!

 

[sarahincanada]

hi everyone!

flying yay thats a definite bump!!! and now that you are over half way its definite you are growing a human and loved the photo, awww so cute you are picturing you hubby and bubs walking there. Im starting to picture a baby in our life more, before I couldnt imagine it and wasnt sure if I even wanted it. we have a great life, hard work but also lots of fun and travel. seeing as the bfp is taking a while its given me time to adjust and picture it.

preethi so glad the tests were good! so will you eat at home most of the time now? loved the hangover 2, I know a lot of critics didnt like it as it was the same as the first one, but I thought it was very entertaining!! it was like a crazier version of the first and nothing wrong with that. and yay you are almost half way....you've had quite the journey and Im praying the second half flys by with no worries!

sheryl b...if you like that ice cream then forget the price and enjoy! life is too short to worry about that. I know you have to be careful with the job situation but Im sure it wont break the bank. any news on jobs for hubby?

Im now half way through my 2ww grrrrrrrrr! this week is always the worst but Im trying not to think about it too much. my temps seem a little better than last month in that they are not as erratic with big dips. I have a pretty busy week and I think we are going over the border shopping to buffalo on the weekend so that will be good. I have a load of IC's that came free with my ov tests so I may start testing on Thursday, Ive never been into the poas thing but I might as well use them.

huggles how has your bed rest gone, do you feel ok?

dew what CD day are you?

mummy any news from you?

have a great week everyone! any scans this week? I think ndh and sheryl are due but I cant remember.

 

[Huggles]

i had another scan this morning - it was my follow-up appointment post-stitch. All was good. Baby was sleeping AGAIN. I swear this child does nothing but sleep.
The week of bedrest has been wonderful. Just the antibiotics made me feel horrible and really nauseous, but the dr said this morning that i can stop taking them now
they were just precautionary anyway and since the swab they did in theater came back clear and i have been taking them for a week already, just in case, he said i can stop. SO happy!
Back to work tomorrow

next scan is in 3 weeks - i think it's 23 june - will be my 18 week scan.

 

[sherylb]

No word on a job for DH. The furniture is coming along well and he goes back to school tomorrow. My prayer right now is that he makes it thru June classes and then is either able to find a job in July and take the online class in the Fall or take the in person class in July and find a new job quickly using his degree. FXd.

 

[babyhopes2323]

i love eating out sarah, so its going to be tough, well as long as the food from restaurants are freshly cooked and clean, it should be ok is what she said.

enjoy your shopping trip, sorry your 2ww is being a drag but im praying that you get your bfp soon and well before your folks arrive and hopefully you wont have to go to FS in sept. xxx FX'D for you big time, you so deserve this and im sure you will get it.xx

where is nyp, its been a while.. and mummy too..

huggles yay for your scan today and that everything is alright !

 

[sherylb]

The main source of toxo in food when I was looking into it is things like fast food hamburgers where they have mixed beef and pork. Can't say I know what the food is like where you are though.