pregnancy & text buddy- aug 2010

[QueSeraSera]

ok first things first! the pictures are awesome! and so glad to hear that the bubs is strong and healthy. and your dates were almost exactly right then! thats pretty spot on. did you ask about the HcG levels and why yours were high in the beginning? i guess maybe you just have high levels normally or something. gosh that must be such a relief to have finally met the LO. thats crazy about the nurse telling you the wrong place, but i guess it worked out since the doc was late too. that would have sucked if you had lost your appointment because they told you the wrong place! so have you got a date for your next appointment?

so you ended up having language issues with the people at the hospital? i just dont understand how people who have to interact daily with customers can get jobs if they dont speak the primary language...so annoying. but i guess it all doesnt matter so much when you have just gotten to see your baby for the first time!

the thing with my professor was pretty funny. i think he had forgotten that i was pregnant when he said it. and normally im pretty soft spoken around professors, but i just snapped back at him. i think it caught him off guard. im sure he will be thinking twice about saying anything like that again in the future! haha

thats so cute that your oh took one of the pictures to show everyone at work. awww...hes the proud daddy already!

 

[dizzy65]

thanks i am so happy and so in love with bean when i saw the pic i teared up and in my head i was like "oh my gosh theres a baby inside me" i could see OH was kinda in a bad mood before the ultra sound then he saw baby and he just lit up he was smiling ear to ear. awe it was so amazing i cant wait tell you can do it and experiance it. I have another scan appointment booked For April 9th when im 20 weeks, he said i needed to book it in the middle of april but they are so busy that they only had appointments at the beging of april. I was listing this one person she cancelled her appointment for today and then they couldnt put her in tell April 19th i was like wholy crap so glad thats not me. But everything worked out and we seen bean it was a great experiance.. i love him/her already

Yes the people at the hospital where from a diff country and i wouldnt of been late but the receptionest the first one sent me to xrays then them there they were there for 20 min and i kept telling who my doc was and trying to expalin to them and then like last there like "oh your doc must be doctor wang go up to second floor he has an office up there" i just rolled my eyes. so i went to second floor and those people there sent me to the other side of town. ahh but it all worked out i was thankful he was late too hehe.

Thats awesome and it is kinda funny taken people by surprise, they dont expect it and then bamb haha. ya its pretty funny. its good thou that you told the professor wat was on your mind

I know he kept saying i got to take one to work i got to and iwas like ok but dont wreck it haha

 

[QueSeraSera]

yea im pretty sure that anyone would be happy after seeing their baby for the first time...no matter what kind of mood they started out in! im sure it was an awesome experience overall. i cant wait until april when i can do it. its crazy that the appointments are out that far already! youre really lucky that you got in when you did! its crazy, you will have already had your second scan before i even have my first! i did find out that they do the heartbeat at every appointment though after this one, which is kind of cool. so ill get to hear it next week and then a month after that and then the following month will FINALLY be the ultrasound!

i hope nothing like that happens to us, my DH would have been yelling at people after about the second place. lol. hes italian and has that quick temper about frustrating things like that. it really worked out that the doctor was late anyway, but its still really annoying not to be able to get a straight answer out of anyone.

haha! i dont blame you! i will probably be protective over the scan pictures too! i wont want too many people handling them...thats all you have to see your baby until the next scan! so glad that everything went well for you today. i love your mood, btw: yeehaw!

 

[dizzy65]

yes there is no words to discribe a mother seeing her baby for the first time (i know its just a scan but still its exciting ! ) I just keep thinking oh my goodness we created this. And it really is true that once its over and done with that you want to go back and see bubs. if i didnt have to pee so bad i could have sat there and stared at bean for ever. it was the most amazing thing to see my baby there and healthy and playing around. We could of got a video of the ultra sound but the ultrasound video was $150.00 CA so it was pretty expensive haha. Just a little while longer tell you can hear the heart beat. i am so excited for you. thats going to be great fun. hearing the heart beat for the first time you will love it. thats great that you get to hear the baby at each appointment. thats really reasuring.. yay for you its going to be a great experiance. if you break it down into months it doesnt sound as bad as weekstell your ultra sound

Oh i totally know what you mean. I was about ready to loose my temper too im pregnant and thats the last thing i wanted to happen ahh stupid people. Do they not no how hormonal people can get haha i almost started crying like omg im goina miss my appointment, then we got there and they said the doc wasnt even there i was like phew..

Yes thats all we got is scan pics to hold on to tell the next scan then we just have these scan pics until baby is born then we get our beautiful babies. Thanks im so happy everything went well too and thanks hehe i know im in a super happy mood like nothing is goina bring me down today

 

[QueSeraSera]

oh i bet it was an amazing experience, even though it was a scan. just imagine how amazing it is going to be then after labor when we actually get to hold the babies for the first time! haha, i bet that once the bean came up on the screen any thought of needing to pee just kinda became not so important. that does suck though...all that running around town and then the doctor being late...i bet your bladder was literally about to burst!

i cant believe how much a video would cost! thats insane! i think if i were going to pay that much for a video i would wait until the 20 week one when you can see more detail and the baby is a bit more developed.

haha, thats what i do. somehow thinking that its 2 months til the ultrasound doesnt sound as bad as saying its 8 weeks! same thing with saying its 7 months til my EDD sounds better than 29 weeks. but with the heartbeat it doesnt matter cause its less than a week already! only 4 more days!

i think i would have been in tears about the appointment issues. i would have been scared that i was going to miss the appointment...im positive i would have started crying. youre a strong person than me. i can just see how it would have been for us...my DH would have been yelling at everyone and i would have been bawling! lol

haha...i bet you were on a cloud all day and probably will be for awhile. whenever anything goes wrong, you can just look at your scan pictures and youll definitely cheer up!

 

[dizzy65]

it kind of sucks now that its over thou. i texted OH today at work, and i was like "im sad" and he was like why? and i said cause i miss my baby and he said how he is with you then i said i know but i want to see him haha. ya i really miss my bean and cant wait just 6 weeks 6 days tell i can see him again now i know what to expect i so cant wait. And you will be getting your scan too hopefully by time i get mine that will be awesome.. when we went in there they told us that if we wanted to pee we could but we had to drink more water so thats what i did but then i had to drink 4 cups of water and i had to pee again so i did andthey told me i had to drink more so by time i got in there it had only been like 5 min since the last time i peed and i already had a full bladder i was like this is nuts so i went out to find a bathroom but as i opened the door the doc was right there i was like ahh scarey haha. but i was glad i didnt pee.

Im with you i would wait tell my 20 or 30 week scan to get a video because thats a little insane for a price for a video but it would be nice to have a video for each stage but pics are really good to have too i love my pics

haha so true i keep thinking the same that it sounds way closer to say in months then in weeks. but its goodto do weeks too OH told me he doesnt understand how long its been when they say 13 weeks so i had to explain it was cute haha

Yess i was just about in tears but im glad everything worked out hehe I guess it was just ment to be

yes you are right im stil so happy i got to see it. But now i miss him/her hehe .. i keep looking at my scan pics like awe i cant believe i created this

 

[QueSeraSera]

i think i would be the same way if i had already had my scan...its time like these that i wish i were a nurse and could just give myself an ultrasound all the time! haha. thats what my sister-in-law did when she was pregnant cause she worked as a radiologist and had access. she had an ultrasound like every week pretty much. sooo lucky! lol

the water thing sounds insane...thats a lot of water to drink. no wonder you needed to pee immediately!

i agree that it would be nice to have the video for every stage...but unless youre pretty well off i dont see how anyone can really afford it. man that seems so expensive. the pictures are just as good though...plus you can carry those around with you all the time!

i bet its an experience you wont forget like ever...what an amazing experience

 

[dizzy65]

Ah so lucky. I would be like that too if i was a nurse just because i loved seeing the little one and i am so anxious for my next scan because i miss baby already. But its kind of exciting knowing when the next appointment is and counting down the days. i really cant wait tell its born and i can see it every day

every one has been saying they think its a girl thatwould be so great if its a girl. But OH would be such a protective daddy if its a girl he already told me. He will be the scarey dad for the guys coming over to see her haha. But OH wants at least one boy he said

It is insane especially when i already have to pee every 20 mins as it is then add all that water on top of it its crazy..

you are right. i love the pics any way and its good that we can take them around to show everyone. OH and i are goina get a photo album to put the pics in when we get back to our parents place in a few days

it was for sure

 

[QueSeraSera]

i know, now that im pregnant and realize how much i want to see baby...i see that she had a pretty sweet deal when she was pregnant. i was talking to DH about how its only 4 days until the heartbeat and he was telling me that when he went with my stepsons mom that they couldnt find it at first. i was shocked and thought, that must have been horrible. but apparently the heart tone machines are pretty old and just dont always pick up the sounds. and if they cant find it they will do an ultrasound to make sure everything is alright. i think it would be horrible if they couldnt find the heartbeat and i think i would be terrified, but at the same time it would be kind of cool if i ended up getting an ultrasound...as long as it turned out everything was okay and the baby was strong and healthy.

i keep calling my bump "she" im not sure why. i would like a girl too. but my DH will be super protective though too. he really just wants another boy. i think he would be perfectly happy to have a houseful of sons. i just dont think thats fair to me! having so many boys! lol

aww that will be cute to get an album. and you can put your bump pictures in there too. it will be a very good keepsake when the baby gets here. and something to look through while youre still waiting for baby to arrive!

 

[dizzy65]

That would be so awful not being able to hear the heart beat. my heart would be thumping so hard if something was wrong. but i guess sometimes it could be like a really light heart beat and couldnt be picked up as easily or it could be further back or they couldnt be using the doppler in the right spot or something maybe. It would be cool if it ended up in an ultrasound if everythng was good and okay. wow only 4 days you must be getting excited... I could watch baby on the screen all day i keep saying that baby is goina be like OH as it constantly wants food, i mean really bad in the middle of the night i wake up cause im so hungry. and i wake up early as i get so hungry. That would be really cool if you went in for your first ultrasound the day i went in for my second ultrasound i think since at 20 weeks when you go in you will have a really clear good pic unless the baby was really active (my gramma says my pics are blurry) Thats why i cant wait tell my 20 week scan for better clearer pics

I usually call my bump a "he" i have ever since i first got pregnant but it doesnt mean that i want a boy more. it just will be cool if it was a boy. or a girl haha.. I cant wait to see what it is. Maybe its our motherly instincts that tell us what we think it is thats why we say he or she

It is for sure i cant wait to do it that way the pics wont get wrecked and it will be good for when the baby is a little older i can show them what it started as

 

[QueSeraSera]

I know, thats why I kind of hope that they just find the heartbeat right away. But DH was saying that when it happened to his ex the nurse said its actually quite common because of the old equipment and sometimes its just hard to find exactly where the baby is to point the microphone at it. So, if they don't find it, I'm going to try not to panic right away and just wait until they do the scan. It will be pretty close to your appointment probably when I am going in for my first scan. I do think the pics will be good at that far along, but I think yours are great too. The baby is just smaller and was probably moving around along. But they dont look blurry to me, they look perfect! Just like your little bean!

Haha...Ive been getting really hungry lately too. Its been pretty bad. Ill eat and like 2 hours later Im starving again :-/

Some people think that we just intuitively know what gender the baby is. I don't know if that is reflected by what we tend to call the bump or not, that would be pretty cool if so.

I definitely think the scan pics will be a good way to start out a baby book for the bump. Your baby will appreciate them when it is older!

 

[dizzy65]

Ya if thats the case its best not to get worked up about it as it probably happens to most that go in there. some times with sum women it takes longer to find the heart beat then after a bit of trying they can find it. But hopefully they can find it right away just so that it doesnt send you into a panic. i know if it was me i would still be in a panic even thou i know its probably just the equipment. The baby will be fine Its getting close you must be getting excited hey? i would be it will be an amazing experinace for you guys something you'llremember for ever and thanks hehe my grandma was just making a fuss probably cause she wanted to see the baby bigger or something. oh well hehe. she said she hopes the next ones are better lol

Ah your lucky u can wait 2 hours mine is after 1/2 hour im already hungry and looking for food. oh my its bad. i dont like being so hungry all the time

Im not sure if i know what the gender is but it doesnt really mater to me. just as long as its healthy. i would like to know if im buying blue stuff or pink stuff thou

Ya for sure then i can just say this is where you started out, look how small you were haha it will be great

OH and i are going maternity shopiing in the next couple days as my pants are all getting too tight, ugh it sucks so bad but im excited to get bigger. I texted him saying i need mat clothes and he just laughed lol.

 

[QueSeraSera]

yea im just trying to prepare myself for if they cant find it right away that it will be okay and everything will get worked out, that its just the machinery. im glad DH told me that story though rather than if it were to just happen and i thought it had to do with the baby...i think i would have a heart attack! hopefully its just not an issue. oh my god i am so excited. i need to be working on school stuff, but instead i just want to be thinking about wednesday! haha. im just ready to have some peace of mind that the baby is doing well and everything is okay

yea...the hungry thing pretty much sucks. i dont know if they have them there, but here they have these 100 calorie snack packs..different things like cookies or crackers. theyre the perfect size to curb hunger for awhile...thats what ive been snacking on. cause then, even if i eat one an hour...its not like youre taking in that many calories

im very excited to know if im getting pink or blue too and im so ready to start decorating a nursery...even though i know its still really early and everything.

i think the baby book thing is a great idea. im pretty sure the journal i got has a place for scan pictures so ill probably put mine in there for safe keeping

haha...finally had to break down! once the clothes get too uncomfortable its impossible to wait anymore. youll feel so much better with them. dont worry my DH laughed at me too when i told him i need some

 

[dizzy65]

haha ya i bet you must be super excited i know i was when i knew that i would get peice of mind the next day. Tuesday night you prob wont be able to sleep because you will be so excited about hearing the heart beat. I was tossing and turning all night the night before i got to go for my ultra sound .. its just so exciting to know that you will get to see or hear the baby and that everything will be ok. my main concern before my ultrasound was that the baby had passed on and my body didnt recognise it. but when they started searching for bean it took them maybe 2 seconds to find him and his first words were "wow you relise you have a very active baby" i was like "yes" and was so happy just to hear those words that my baby was okay. Its going to be a great relief for you too..

I think ive seen those but thought they looked disqusting but i will try them maybe that will help me out a bit i hate feeling hungry like this. ive eatten like all of mine and OH's food even the food for OH's lunch haha i phoned him at work and was like u need more lunch stuff haha he just laughed and said glad to see your eating good

I know what you mean i cant wait to get started buying stuff for baby and decorating its room and all that stuff im going to go baby crazy after my 20 week scan

Thats a great idea too. i want to get one of those pregnancy journal things i think im goina try to convince OH its a good idea haha

Oh i no it sucks so bad. I was like ugh maternity clothes but i cant wait to be comfortable again in big clothes that are ment for the stretching hehe

 

[dizzy65]

haha ya i bet you must be super excited i know i was when i knew that i would get peice of mind the next day. Tuesday night you prob wont be able to sleep because you will be so excited about hearing the heart beat. I was tossing and turning all night the night before i got to go for my ultra sound .. its just so exciting to know that you will get to see or hear the baby and that everything will be ok. my main concern before my ultrasound was that the baby had passed on and my body didnt recognise it. but when they started searching for bean it took them maybe 2 seconds to find him and his first words were "wow you relise you have a very active baby" i was like "yes" and was so happy just to hear those words that my baby was okay. Its going to be a great relief for you too..

I think ive seen those but thought they looked disqusting but i will try them maybe that will help me out a bit i hate feeling hungry like this. ive eatten like all of mine and OH's food even the food for OH's lunch haha i phoned him at work and was like u need more lunch stuff haha he just laughed and said glad to see your eating good

I know what you mean i cant wait to get started buying stuff for baby and decorating its room and all that stuff im going to go baby crazy after my 20 week scan

Thats a great idea too. i want to get one of those pregnancy journal things i think im goina try to convince OH its a good idea haha

Oh i no it sucks so bad. I was like ugh maternity clothes but i cant wait to be comfortable again in big clothes that are ment for the stretching hehe

 

[QueSeraSera]

yea i already know that tuesday night is going to be a no sleep night. ill be lucky if i get any tomorrow and monday too! i can hardly wait. i think im really nervous too because i keep reading these forums of ladies who go in for their scan and nothing is there. but i still have loads of symptoms so i definitely dont think theres anything wrong. but it will just be good to know for sure. once we do, im having pregnancy announcements made to send to our families. most everyone already knows, but i just thought it would be a cool thing to do. but i wanted to wait until after the appointment and the 12 week mark.

haha. this morning we went to breakfast and i ordered pancakes and when they came to the table i was like "man these are huge! were gonna have so many leftovers" but by the end i had eaten like 3/4 of the meal! my DH laughed and asked me if the baby was particularly hungry this morning. hah. oops.. :-/

same here...im holding off buying anything until the gender scan. but after that i just know that im going to go crazy getting ready for the baby. i want to start buying already, but im making myself wait. its difficult though. lol

the maternity clothes are great. they arent confining and plus, if you buy the stretchy kind they should last throughout the entire pregnancy. i really dont want to have to spend too much money on maternity clothes...at least not more than we already have. im sure ill have to pick up a few things here and there...but hopefully just enough to get me through.

 

[dizzy65]

i was reading that too that so many people go to there first scans and find out the baby died a few weeks before. thats what had me in a panic, as i was loosing a lot of my symptoms heading into second tri. But everything was okay. its best not to worry about that kind of thing. I really feel for those ladies that happened to but am glad im one of the lucky ones that made it out of first tri. That is a great idea to send people pregnancy announcments and stuff. its good to do it when you know bubs is going to be okay... My original plan was to wait tell after my first ultra sound but i couldnt hold it in i told everyone right when the doctor told me i was pregnant i was so excited. i was nervous to tell everyone but it all turned out okay its hard to keep something like this to our selves hehe. Who else do you have that doesnt know?

Haha nice. Thats awesome. It was funny we went out to eat at a resteraunt when we were in BC and we went out for breakfast and i ordered the Pancake breakfast then it came to me and i looked at it and was like ew this is grose i dont want it and i didnt eat any of it. OH just looked at me like are you serious lol. i was like it looks grose lmao

I know what you mean i want to go out and buy so much baby stuff but i dont want to tell after my 20 week scan so i know that i have a real chance of keeping bean. OH thinks it s a good idea. we wont be buying a crib or changing table tell im like 30 weeks probably. but we will prob by small stuff like clothes passifiers and a tubby and all that sort of stuff

You are right i dont want to do that buy so much maternity clothes. I just need some to get me threw the next 9 months hopefully i can just buy a bit, find a cheap store or something and stock up.

 

[QueSeraSera]

yea i think this forum makes it seem like the missed miscarriages are really common because you see people post about them all the time. but i think in reality they really arent all that common. but just reading about them makes me nervous as a possibility. but in only 53.5 hours i will hear the bubba's heartbeat and know that everything is fine!

these cards i ordered for the announcement are so cute...they have an oven on the front and you pull theoven door open and it has a little bun in there and says "hooray" i thought they were adorable. i know theyll be redundant because most everyone knows...but i thought it would be a nice formal way of telling everyone. because we really only told my parents and grandparents and DHs parents. so everyone else has heard through them. the announcements are a way for us all to semi-personally tell everyone we didnt call or talk to or that heard it second hand.

i think i want to avoid restaurants for the rest of the pregnancy. everytime i walk inot one i feel sick. i think its because there are so many smells. yesterday i could smell the ketchup some little girl was putting on her meal and she was three tables away...i almost got sick. its ridiculous! plus it has happened to me a few times, the thing where you order something and it sounds good but once it comes to the table you can barely make yourself take a bite.

luckily we already have a crib and changing table from my stepson. i figure that we will do a lot of buying around week 23 because my whole family is going to be here and my mom has already said she wants to go baby shopping. i figure she will probably throw us a little bit of a baby shower at that time while the family is here too. after that i know i wont be able to hold off getting everything else we need! lol

yea for the maternity clothes, i know they are necessary but i hate spending too much money on something that i only need for the next 7 months or so. i guess though, they can be used for following prgnancies too, so that makes it kind of worth it.

oh, did i mention...only 53.5 hours until the heartbeat appointment!! haha...yea, im just a little bit excited...

 

[dizzy65]

yeah i think your right i think they seem more common just because thats what we seem to look for the most subconsiously, there is probably a precentage that happens to. I think that just need to relax so theres less stress on the baby and just enjoy he ride. but it will be a lot easier to relax after you hear the heart beat and know that its living and kicking in there, that will be the biggest relief ever i know when i had my ultrasound and it took to seconds to see the little one running around in side me i felt a big sigh of relief. like i really actaully made it out of the misscarriage stage wow you are getting so close to hearing the heart beat

Awe that sounds so adorible, i wish i had thought of that. and then if u have an extra one you can keep it as a keep sake. Its areally good idea that way they can say that they herd it from you guys instead of word from mouth. who all are you giving cards to? work and every one like that or just imediate family, and friends..? they are going to love the idea of those cards hehe. i never thought about doin sumthing like that

I totally know what you mean i feel so sick when i smell french fries im like eww, and i used to love the smell of french fries. i do the same thing order something and i tell OH im like this actually looks really grose, and he sigs and he just says "waist of money" haha i feel bad but icant help it. My main thing is i cant smell jalapones or eat them or anything i throw up..

That will be awesome to get to go baby shopping with you mom, you are so lucky that you already have some of the big things those are so expensive. You will get to go baby crazy when you mom is over there you are so lucky haha it will be so much fun for you to be able to do that

Ya thats right i guess you dont really wear you maternity clothes

haha ya i bet you must be really excited for it.. i cant wait to hear all about it you wil have a blast hehe

 

[QueSeraSera]

i know i just cant wait for it. its a really weird feeling because its not like i have any reason to think anything is wrong, but just because i dont know for positive that its all alright, i worry. im sure the second i hear the heartbeat all my worries will calm down and then i can just focus on being excited. i know its not good to worry, but its hard not to!

we got the cards in the mail today. woohoo! i ordered two extra for us..one for the fridge and one for the baby book. i have a list that im send to...i think there are 45 different addresses on it. its mostly family and extended family, some friends, and then people who have been in our lives like godparents and things like that. i ordered one to send to work..i think i will just send the one to the firm and they can post it on the bulletin board. it would have gotten way to expensive to get one for everyone since there are like 80 people who work there. and then if you pick and choose who you give one too, i always feel like im hurting people's feelings.

ahhh...some smells are the worst. for me its anything with tomato. i dont know why, i love tomatoes usually! its very strange. my DH is getting frustrated that i never think anything sounds good and im so picky lately. i told him to get used to it, theres about 7 more months of this to come! lol

yea i think it will be great when my family comes out. my mom already said shes saving up money for a shopping spree. oh man...from the way she is talking this kid is going to be so spoiled. i think my parents are almost more excited than me for the baby to get here! haha. im scared about bdays and christmases now...im sure its just going to be ridiculous for this kid. they already spoil my stepson, and now with a new baby its all just gonna get worse. we are gonna need a new, bigger house!

yea...the appointment is getting closer and closer and im getting more and more excited. tomorrow at work is just going to be unbearable im sure...ill just be wanting it over so wednesday can get here already.

oh, so new pregnancy symptom...my face is totally broken out. i havent gotten a break out like this since i was like 15! i woke up this morning and almost cried. haha. but thats nothing new...doesnt take much to make me cry lately! lol