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Good morning ladies,

I tried my doppler again last night after not trying for a few days and I found the heartbeat!!!! :happydance: I was 9 weeks on the nose yesterday and it only took a couple minutes. It was unmistakeble when I found it. I started crying. LOL!!! Absolutely amazing!!!

DSemcho, congrats on being in the 2nd trimester!!! :happydance: I'm so glad your husband is showing interest. That's great!!

Radiance, beautiful scan!!!! :thumbup: Love the girl name you have picked out!

We have our names picked out too.

Girl: Samantha Faye (Faye is my mom's middle name and she passed away a bit less than 3 years ago).

Boy: Lincoln or Landon Terence (Terence is my dad's name).
 
Beautiful name Radiance.

Squig how are you and your back today?

D, fab name. I like Colby but DH didn't. We've not agreed on names yet but have a boys and girls name if baby was to come soon.

Florida, fingers crossed.

Afm - had a private scan today it was lovely. Baby is about 11cm not including legs. It's head is right behind my belly button despite bump being low. Kept rubbing it's nose and I'm so in love. Here is baby.

https://i723.photobucket.com/albums/ww235/Tasha_Adams/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zps7cd9c512.jpg
 
Im in love with Rudolph too, i think we all are , you have waited so long for this and we have all been waiting with you xx its looking very positive and not long till V day too, i wish it could mean more to us than it does x
 
Mrs R I missed your post, such a special moment isn't it? :hugs:

Thank you so much girls. Hope that is such a lovely thing for you to say. Yesterday was six and a half years of trying to bring home a baby, it feels like I've waited forever for each of these milestones. I'm so glad you're all here with me and we will all be with you every step of the way.

It's so odd to see you guys say not long until v-day :haha: it feels forever away for me. Next little milestone is a week today, I will be half way to 37 weeks, the furthest I will go :shock:

How are you all doing?
 
Aw such a lovely scan, Tasha - how cute that baby kept rubbing his nose! Looks like measurements are spot on too?

Thanks for asking about my back. A good bit better today though I've been trying not to sit as much & move more. I think I'll take tomorrow too though as I have a desk job, so sitting all day, but I'd expect to be ok by Thursday & even if I'm not, I'll have to go back anyway as my colleagues are all away.

MrsR, great that you found the hb :)

Question: when did you all start feeling movement? I know they say the standard for first timers is 18-20 weeks. By my dates- which baby was more or less in line with at 12 weeks- I'm 19+1, but as baby had fallen behind at 14 weeks, my dates were changed so from that scan, I'm only 17+6. It's been 3 weeks since my last scan & I'm starting to get anxious again as I haven't felt anything, especially cos of my dates changing (I know mine are right but can't argue with the baby's size, it did fall behind!) I have a scan on Friday week, but it seems so far away!
 
Tasha, that scan is so beautiful!!!!!!! I think it's a boy!! :thumbup: Finding my baby's heartbeat was absolutely amazing to me. Fantastic moment for my husband and I. Also very reassuring knowing it's beating away in there.

Squig, I've never had a baby before so I can't comment on when I felt movement, but I know some ladies don't feel movement until the 3rd trimester sometimes depending on where your baby is. I'm sure all is well and it's good you have a scan Friday to show you everything is perfect.
 
MrsR: so so happy for you!! It's fantastic.

Same to you Tasha! Gorgeous baby you have growing in there. It seems a long way, but you'll get there, one little step at a time.

Squig: dates are a funny thing sometimes. They kept changing mine with my 2 boys. For this one, the first doctor I had told me that dating with the scan can be off more or less a week. I can't remember for first baby when I felt movement, but I think it was way past 18 weeks, and even then was only flutters. I felt much earlier with ds2, and later again in this pregnancy. It can really depends.
I hope you get reassurance at your next scan.
 
hopeful23456 said:
mrs r - glad you found the heartbeat!

hope - how are you doing?
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Hi hopeful

I'm ok, trying not to think about the fact im pregnant again, i do forget a lot of the time and then it pops into my brain and i convince myself this is a non starter

Im just being a twonk, i know, i have no symptoms and i knows that because of the steroids and i had none with isaac too but i cant help but think the worse

We just keeping ourselves busy with Earth Monkey :)
 
Squig i think i was about 16w when i felt isaac. I only use to feel him at night once i got in bed, i would lay there really still on my back and sort of concentrate. I always got a little flutter, then i would turn on my side and go to sleep. Those flutters got a bit stronger by 18w , i remember becuase it was when i announced to everyone on a family hol in wales. They just got stronger after that

Do you know if your placenta is anterior or posterior, that makes a difference too

xx
 
Hope: your reaction is perfectly understandable. I'm sending you lots of positive and sticky thoughts.
 
Squig-Having an anterior placenta can cause movement to be fainter feeling and really, unless you know what you are feeling, it's hard to tell what's baby and what's a gas bubble or your guts gurgling. I've felt my babies the first time around 14-15 weeks but only if I'm sitting down and bent really far forward (like sitting on the floor and trying to keep a wriggly toddler still whilst changing a dirty diaper :haha:) For me, it's never been flutters. You know how it feels if you stretch a rubber band a little too far and then let it go? How you get that 'snap' but it's not a hard OUCH type snap? That's what it feels like to me. I feel more regular movement later, usually around 18 weeks or so and only if I'm *really* paying attention. I've had anterior placentas with my girls and I'm a bigger girl myself so it's harder to feel with the placenta and my own belly padding things.

Tasha-LOVE the scan picture. I'm so excited for you and I love seeing your updates. And the things those little ones do are so much fun, aren't they? DD1 kept her hands up like a boxer every time I saw her and LO was thumb sucker in utero. DS liked to turn away which is really funny to me because he's such a big ham now when it comes to pictures. :haha:

Hope: I think we all feel that way at some point. It's our way of insulating ourselves in case things do go wrong because for many of us, it usually has. Even when I was excited with my last pg, it was in the back of my mind that the bleeding was going to start sooner rather than later so what was the point of being happy about it? It sucks because that innocence is gone for us but it helps to know that you have so many ladies rooting for you and are here for you when you are feeling apprehensive.

MrsR-that thub-thub is the most beautiful sound in the world isn't it?

AFM-Doing pretty good actually. It was rough last week but I'm feeling better now that taxes are done and I've got a month and a half of fun stuff planned. And my hpts are almost negative already. The last time this happened, I found out I was expecting LO 4 weeks later. Oh boy...Wonder if I'll be back on this thread sooner rather than later...:dohh: :haha:
 
So nice to hear lots of good news here today!

I ended up in the hospital today for tests---all looked good in the end but I'm glad I went. Called the doctor in the morning and they managed to squeeze me in just after lunch. She didn't seem too concerned with my dizziness, increased breathing troubles and throbbing calves. I figured she would just send me home but then she told me to go the hospital! Surprise! Ended up having an ECG, heart rate monitoring and a leg ultrasound. Everything seemed to be fine so I guess the diagnosis will be "two large babies sitting on your lungs making you really uncomfortable". These two had better be cute!
 
Thanks for the responses. I'm not sure if my placenta is anterior or posterior; at 12 weeks it was around the left but that's probably not very helpful to mention! Hopefully I will feel something soon. I get a lot of cramps & RLP so I guess sometimes I'd be hard pressed to feel anything else!

Hope as Dairy said, you have so many people rooting for you. I hope the time flies for you in this pregnancy.

Glad you're feeling better Dairy.

Glad to hear all was well Mowat.
 
Your antenatal notes should say Squig whether its anterior or posterior x
 
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