Girls-I am still on knickerwatch too! Every time I go to the loo-(I am starting to talk like I'm from the UK now!) I check my undies and my tp! It's crazy. I was just having a talk with myself about this yesterday-like, ok, it is time to stop this!!
Good luck for your gender scan tomorrow Deb!
You must be so excited. Mine is in a little over 2 hours! I hope baby cooperates today.
Happy 20 weeks Lianne! So exciting!
Jenny-So glad you were able to get an appointment so soon. I will be watching for your update.
It is encouraging that some of you gals are older than me (I'm 35) because this will be my first for keeps baby and if all goes well, I would like to try to have one more. You gals give me hope that this will be possible in my late 30's. Thank you!
AFM-I had a nice weekend. My good friend (Dawn) came to visit me. At first I was dreading having a house guest because I just feel so boring and lazy right now, not my usual hostess self, but it turned out great. My friend is very self sufficient and low maintenance so it was not stressful at all. It was actually very therapeutic! Dawn is also a mental health counselor like me and I think talking to her helped me to relax a little. She has three kids (20, 15, and 11) and she had two miscarriages, one between her first and second and one between her second and third. Knowing she had two losses (which I never knew before) but three healthy kids gave me a new perspective. She also loved being pregnant and said she was never anxious or worried while pregnant, even after her losses. I found that amazing.
Also, three years ago at the age of 37, she was a surrogate for her (now ex) husband's sister. She gave birth to TRIPLETS for her (bless her soul) and she says she would do it again! So, she has a lot of experience with pregnancy and talking to her was so comforting and wonderful. I really needed that! None of my friends have kids so my chances to talk about pregnancy and my fears (aside from with you lovely ladies of course) are very limited.
I am going to try very hard to worry less and just try to believe that everything will be ok. I am trying to tell myself that if something bad is going to happen, it is going to happen and no amount of worrying is going to stop it. It's not like it would hurt any less because I worried so much. I have also been hearing a lot lately on the news and such about how anxiety and stress is so bad for pregnant women-I guess it can actually cut off the blood supply to the baby. I think hearing that is helping me to chill out. So, that is my epiphany for now. I know that a couple of weeks ago I thought I was going to freak out. I am happy to say that I am feeling calmer girls and I hope this feeling stays. Hugs all around.
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, I'll be 39 1/2 when baby is born.
and the other is a shot of her girl bits. You can see three little white lines which is supposed to be a girl (they say it looks like a little hamburger). For boys, you see a little turtle head. So here's to hoping they got it right!
