PAL- May 2012 babies

[Boothh]

Hi girls can I come in? Not seen this group before! I'm due 18th may, had 5 scans so far and everything looking perfect, also been listening to hb on Doppler alot so am trying to relax and enjoy now xx

 

[Semanthia]

Hi girls can I come in? Not seen this group before! I'm due 18th may, had 5 scans so far and everything looking perfect, also been listening to hb on Doppler alot so am trying to relax and enjoy now xx

Of course you can join!! Welcome! I am so glad that everything is going well for you and your little one!!

 

[lazandkiko21]

Welcome boothh!!

 

[Carry22]

Hi everyone and welcome to the new ladies

Nice to hear evryone is doing so well

Sorry, I haven't been on in a while, got a lot going on just now. The company my husband works for just went into administration yesterday - he still has a job at the minute but not sure how long for. All we need just now !!

On a happier note, I went for a private scan last week. I was worrying myself sick so I booked it at short notice (I did call my epu but they didn't take me on ).

It was a great experience much better equipment, people, surroundings etc etc. The sonographer was lovely and very thorough, I was in for about 30 mins. I even got a bit of 4D thrown in for nothing which was just amazing!!!

Semanthia - hope your NT scan goes well. I got my NT results last week which came back at 1:100,000 which i assume is pretty good?? I see my consultant next week and I'm hoping he's going to check on my cervix again.

 

[bananaz]

I had my NT scan today. I was nervous but everything was perfect. Baby was VERY active and measuring ahead by another 3 days!

Because the ultrasound went so well, I gave myself permission to make my first baby-related purchase. I think this is really happening!

 

[shangeas]

Hi ladies,

A warm welcome to all the new ladies!

Great scan bananaz congrats!

Sementhia hope you doing well.

Everyone hope you all are still good and I'm glad we all still on this wonderful journey together!

Just wanted to pop in and say hi & not be a stranger ;-)
AFM: I'm throwing up every other day, suffering from constipation & orange pee even after drinking gallons of water going to see the dr tomorrow will update soon.

Question: anyone feeling any movement from our beans at all? Maybe I'm paranoid but I sumtimz I feel flutters in my stomach?

 

[cathriena]

Hi ladies,

A warm welcome to all the new ladies!

Great scan bananaz congrats!

Sementhia hope you doing well.

Everyone hope you all are still good and I'm glad we all still on this wonderful journey together!

Just wanted to pop in and say hi & not be a stranger ;-)
AFM: I'm throwing up every other day, suffering from constipation & orange pee even after drinking gallons of water going to see the dr tomorrow will update soon.


Question: anyone feeling any movement from our beans at all? Maybe I'm paranoid but I sumtimz I feel flutters in my stomach?

hi just starting to feel a little fluttering im 15 wks tomorrow and didnt feel movemont on my last baby till 19 wks but def feeling something not in my imagination (i hope) sorry to read that ur feeling sick still heres hoping it passes soon and u can start to enjoy ur experience xx

 

[fallenangel11]

Hi girls!
Just found this thread....works been so busy I've hardly been on BnB at all.
I'm due May 11th (my birthday) making me 14w 4d today, but our baby is measuring bout a week ahead I hope this means its a nice big stong healthy baby.

We had a MMC in May this year and I'm only just starting to feel better about this pregancy.
Just like a lot of you, I was scared to get excited after my loss.

But 3 scans showed a big, healthy baby. I plan on getting a doppler for a while to help keep me at ease. And I've finally told my two best friends...and they were so over the moon for me! So I've let myself get excited. again....eventho I told myself I'd wait til after the 19wk scan.

I am starting to feel a lot better about this pregnancy and I let myself pat and stroke my belly and sing and talk to my baby I would like a bit more of a bump to pat tho!
How are you guys feeling about this pregnancy?

Tomorrow was the due date for my first pregnancy 'Baby Pip' and my hubby, my family and I are going to the beach to light lanterns and let them float to the sky (like in the movie Tangled!) so our little Baby Pip can see them from heaven! I miss my first baby (who we lost at 8 wks but only found out at 12 weeks) but we're now happy to move forward and love our Rainbow baby just as much!

I'm still reading thru these pages to get to know you all a little better.

Talk soon
xx

 

[Semanthia]

Carry22- I'm glad your private scan went well! Also 1:100,000 sounds like a wonderful number!! I won't get results until I get my second blood drawing at 16 weeks.

bananaz- YAY!! That is great!! After my NT scan I also felt the urge to buy baby something. However I am waiting until after I get the cerclage put in and things are looking good.

shangeas- I am sorry to hear you are still suffering from "morning" sickness. Hopefully your symptoms have started to ease up. I hope your doctor's appointment went well.

shangeas & cathriena- I am so jealous that you are starting to feel flutterings. I can't wait to feel my little one!!

fallenangel11- Welcome!! I am so sorry to hear about your loss but am so excited things are going well for you and your little one. This February will be our little Charlotte's first birthday and also 1 year since we lost her. We were thinking about doing the floating lanterns also (super cute idea). I know it may be a rough day for you and your family so I'll keep you in my thoughts


I had my NT screening yesterday so far I think everything is well. Hubby and I invited my mom to go and baby put on quite the show for her LOL. Baby was super active, so active that they couldn't get what they needed. Finally after a while he/she settled down. It kept facing us or turning its back to us making it very difficult for them the measure the NT (which was 1.20, the doctor said that was good). It curled up and looked like it was sucking its thumb and just holding it over its face. They were having trouble seeing the nasal bone because of its hand in its face and it was curled up and the ultrasound tech said they needed it to lift its chin a little for longer than a second. So the ultrasound tech was bouncing the wand thing on my stomach and the baby would move a little but not how they were wanting it to. I guess they accepted what they got even though it was the most ideal position. I guess I'm going to have a very active, very stubborn baby LOL. I have to go back for the rest of the blood test at 16 weeks and then I will get results.

My pic is not as clear as some other on here but its clear enough.
https://i1215.photobucket.com/albums/cc514/cmcm02162011/IMAG0474.jpg

I def. drank too much for this appointment. I seriously thought I was going to wet myself sitting up after the ultrasound LOL. I felt like I had to use the bathroom but when I sat up it was a million times worse. I seriously sat there for a second thinking there is NO way I can get up and walk to the bathroom without losing complete control and peeing myself. Ugh lesson learned pay attention to measurements when drinking don't just be like "there, that has to be about 20- 24 oz" LOL.

 

[Carry22]

Hey everyone - so nice to read everyone's updates and that all is well

That's a lovely pic semanthia!!! I did the same as you in my first preganancy and drank far too much before the scan - the sonographer actually had to tell me to go and pee as the poor baby was so squished up by my bladder!!

Welcome fallenangel, so glad to hear your baby is doing so good. Your lantern idea is great - hope you don't mind if I steal it?? I would love to mark the due date of our little girl on 10th Dec and wasn't sure how to do it. I've told a couple of friends as well who are so happy for us but I still find it quite hard to talk/get excited about.

As for me - well I'm 16+1 today. Had a scan and consultant appt yesterday which all went well and baby looked lovely!

But I woke up today with a funny pain, quite high up and to the right of my belly button. It went away pretty quickly so I'm hoping its just stretching but it did make me panic a bit! Has anyone else had this?? My bump has changed a bit today - it seemed to have moved much higher up just overnight!! I've got the midwife on Thurs so hoping to hear heartbeat then. I had to put back my rented doppler and have ordered a sonaline B model but its not going to be here until friday

 

[Carry22]

Wasn't finished my post!!

Bananaz - that's a really clear scan pic for 13 weeks, baby looks gorgeous!

Shangeas - how did you get on at the doc?? I thought I was feeling flutters a couple of weeks ago but now I'm not so sure as haven't had anything in a while. I'm so impatient - can't wait to get kicked!!!

xxx

 

[Semanthia]

Its been a bit quiet on this thread lately so I thought maybe it'd be fun to start a little side topic. Personally I haven't told very many people about baby yet so I don't have a lot of people to talk to and bore with talking about baby and baby stuff.

Who has already bought things for baby? What have you bought?
I thought it would be fun to share what things we have bought so far.

Most of what I have for baby I bought before I was pregnant for our rainbow baby! Here is what I have bought so far and I can't wait to be able to buy more!!

Newborn Bunny knit hat with matching diaper cover for newborn pictures
https://i1215.photobucket.com/albums/cc514/cmcm02162011/bunnyhatanddiapercover.jpg

"Someone Came Before You" picture book. I sobbed the first time I read through it.
https://i1215.photobucket.com/albums/cc514/cmcm02162011/someonecamebeforeyou.jpg

This somewhat gender neutral scrapbook paper
https://i1215.photobucket.com/albums/cc514/cmcm02162011/sweetpea.jpg

and a I'm Pregnant page kit for baby's scrapbook
https://i1215.photobucket.com/albums/cc514/cmcm02162011/impregnant.jpg

 

[shangeas]

Hi Ladies,

Update: my apt went well i have good and bad news. 1stly baby is fine still measuring ahead and as active as ever. I have a liver infection and they have stopped me from taking any medication even prenatal vitamins for two weeks before they can prescribe something to clear the infection. Since stopping my preogesterone and prenatal vits my pee has gone back to a normal pale/water like color which is reassuring.

@ Cathriena it comesand goes so fast but def therelike something scratchig me from the inside cool feeling.

@Fallenangel11 welcome and a happy and healthy pregnancy to you, so glad things are going well with this pregnancy and i really love the lantern idea.

@Carry22 Hopefully themidwife will put your worries to rest, i have pains sometimes but i just brush them off as pregnancy pain. Our chances of having a miscarriage are less than 1% at this stage that's the thought that keep me going

@Sementhia Lovely pic Sementhia im happy you and baby are doing well. I haven bought anything for the baby yet. My sister bought the baby these cute little socks with smiley faces .... im thinking of getting music and belly headphones so i can play music for the baby... i want to start buying when baby is 5 months which will be towards end of december.

 

[bananaz]

I got the official results of my NT scan/blood draw yesterday - baby has a 1:10,000 chance for both DS and Trisomy 18. Hooray!

@ Semanthia -- Aww, baby looks great! I'm glad the scan went so well. As for your purchases question, I have still only bought the one little outfit, but I do have most of my baby registry on Amazon done now I LOVE that bunny hat!

@ Carry -- Holy cow, 16 weeks?? That still feels like a lifetime away to me lol. Hopefully you'll be feeling baby move soon!

@ shangeas -- So sorry to hear about your infection, but I'm glad they caught it and can treat it. All of baby's organs are well-formed at this point so I'm sure a couple weeks without prenatal vitamins won't do any harm.

 

[fallenangel11]

Hi Girls

Semanthia- I love your little bunny hat and tail! So so cute And the book made me get all teary just thinking about it! It's a nice feeling to start buying things for this baby. I have quite a few boxes of baby things that were from our first pregnancy...my mom went crazy and bought soooo much. I bought a few things for the first baby too, but not a lot for this baby yet.

I have bought a Tetra Snuggle Bed for baby as I found a new one secondhand and the reviews I read about it were so good. I'd like baby to sleep in his crib as much as possible (we have a little bassinette for our room but there's no room by our bed for it). And when we went on our belated honeymoon I bought a lot of little souveniers for Baby P! A gorgeous and sof blanket that's white with dark grey mooses on it, from Sweden. A plush moose and matching onsie. And Russian nesting dolls for the baby's room from...Russia

Like you, we haven't told that many people. Our immediate families know and I just told my two girlfriends the other day (who were super excited for us and made me feel better about it too) but that's about it.

Anyone that wants to use the Lantern Idea to celebrate their angel baby, it's a great idea.
Unfortunetly the night we went to do it was really windy. We went down to the beach and tried lighting one (we brought along 8 as baby died at 8 weeks). But it only lifted up for a little while then the wind caught it and blew it away and my brother had to chase after trying to push it back up into the air! It was really funny and I think our Angel Baby would have had fun watching us fail!

I got the lanterns off Ebay from hong kong. They were a lot bigger than I thought. We're gonna try again sometime, but as we're getting into summer I'm worried about starting a fire. If we ever get a sucsessful run, I'll post the pics


Has anyone thought about the nursery yet?? I had started thinking about nurseries before we even began TTC! My ideas are constantly changing but it keeps my mind of worrying about Baby P....and I've made a few small purchases so far

 

[fallenangel11]

Good to hear everyone seems to be going really well.

I'm going to be getting my hire Doppler next week. My hubby's agreed to let me have one for a few months so long as I don't obsess over it or freak out if I can't hear the heartbeat.....of course I will.

Baby P was 15 weeks yesterday, but in scans measures bout a week ahead of schedule

We are calling our little bub Baby P (our last name starts with P) and we refer to him as a 'him' as both DH and I think it'll be a boy (so it'll probably be a girl ). But we're not actually going to find out the sex of the baby.

I had always thought I was going to find out as soon as possible as I love planning things and want to buy clothes (baby clothes are my favorite!) but DH said 'wouldn't it just be a nice surprise to find out after the labor'....and it got me thinking....it would! DH said he just wants a happy healthy baby, so we're going to wait and see what happens!

I'd love a boy as I have a 4.5 year old step-daughter already. But as I have a step-daughter I'd like a girl so I can use all her old things as we saved lots of them (my step-daughter wants a sister she said). Plus I love little girly things

What is everyone else going to do? Will you find out the sex? What do you want, boy/girl (obviously after a loss everyone just wants a healthy baby...but what would be your prefered choice)?

 

[ClaireRSA]

Hi Ladies

I havent posted on here for quite some time!
I have my 16 weeks scan tomorrow (though only 15w4d) and I'm so scared...that's where it all started going wrong with my last pregnancy.
So hopefully tomorrow I can post some good news, we will also try see the gender of the baby tomorrow.

Semanthia, that bunny suite is the cutest thing I have EVER seen! I want one!!! *grin*

xxx

 

[shangeas]

Good Luck with the scan tomorrow Claire hoping for the best news tomorrow.

 

[ClaireRSA]

Hi Ladies, so far so good. I'm so happy. Doc thinks its a little girl! yay for team pink!

 

[lazandkiko21]

Yay Claire!!! Congrats on a good ultrasound and for team pink