September Sapphires

[Sweety21]

Uni, having doppler is really comforting when haVing a quite day but, unfortunately I don't have it. About your plan. I can understand since I　have been through same situation but, not much far in pregnancy. I say it's a right step.

Mack, how sweet of finn. And absolutely agree on gender based color stuff people always talk. My dd loves blue things and I don't even care if she is a exception. Who are we to decide for their choices.

Hopie, you kept it secret this far? with all the ms you had? Wow! Hats off. I told my mil and mother as soon as I found out.

 

[mackjess]

Uni I did monitoring during birth with Finn after my water broke. It was just a light elastic belt thing and wasn't a big deal. Only bad thing was when I was resting and would nod off, he would move sometimes and they'd have to come in and adjust the monitor so I'd be woken up. BUT, I don't think you'll be in labor 2.5 days and I think you'll get the most important items on your list granted.

Sweety how have you been feeling?

 

[hopie2015]

Glad you are in a great mood, Uni! I definitely want monitoring too.
That will help ease your mind so much and I pray every day for your labor to be smooth and easy with your baby girl, as you so deserve.

I have to talk with my dr. if they will induce early b/c of my age.
I am completely clueless on the actual birth and know I need to start reading up on it!
So cute Finn loves everything purple. He sounds so adorable!

I had most realistic dream last night I had baby and was sooo happy. It was a boy! Baby keeps fluttering so much at night time. It is so cool. I was soo sick for so long as some of you can sure relate, that I am surprised to find pregnancy so enjoyable now! I think I am showing a bit now but no Sweety- I haven't told family! High risk appt. is Monday and then hopefully I can tell my mom on her birthday next week. I am just ultra paranoid with the losses, my age and possible risks, etc. I am not sure most anyone waits until 24 weeks!

Inviv- how are you feeling?

Enjoy the beautiful day!

 

[Uni tsi]

Today when I went to use the doppler, she kicked it and I could both feel it and hear it It was the most reassuring thing ever. Due to anterior placenta, it was my first time feeling a good solid kick right at center

mack, two and a half days? Wow so much respect for you!

hopie, that will be a really nice birthday surprise for her

 

[Sweety21]

Mack, I am doing good thanks for asking. Apart from being tired all the time I think I am out of ms hands now. Jow about you? You must be little closer to your appointment?

Hopie, what a big surprise that would be for her. But, seriously you are doing great job keeping it secret so far. I know it's for assurance that everything is perfect but, still. Hope your appointment with high risk doc goes well. fx.

Uni, that must be awesome. I am glad you patience finally paid off. Here to many more kicks and movements（sounds weird though lol）.

 

[Uni tsi]

Thank you, Sweety I am really impatient now for it to happen again! lol

 

[hopie2015]

That is so awesome, Uni!!!

Baby seems so quiet past 24 hours.. not sure why.

Thank you Sweety! So glad you are feeling well. The fatigue went away for me a bit but today is really bad and the fun gas pains are back!

Mack and Inviv- hope you are doing great and Inviv, I sure hope the sickness is over.

Thank you all so much for the well wishes for Monday's appt. I pray my next message brings good news. Will just try to forget about it this wknd!

Take good care~

 

[mackjess]

Uni I listened to baby girl on the doppler as well this morning. She does not like it. Always moves away and has kicked the wand hard enough to make it move. LOL. Stinker. Sometimes I just listen to her shuffle around a lot and not go for the HB. She mad, she real mad! lol

Sweety glad you are not sick anymore.

Hopie FX for your appt Monday. And I had a quiet day Tuesday. She must have needed a rest day after kicking me in the bladder non-stop Monday.

Nothing much here just being tired and glad it's the weekend. Next scan is Friday. It will make for a long week!

 

[Sweety21]

I am so so disappointed that we couldn't find gender again. Well kind of found out but, was not clear enough. First when we saw it looked like girl. But, after wards there was something there which looked like boys bits. To be honest I was hundred percent sure it was boy bits but, doctor took a stand that she couldn't confirm just yet. Since, it is semi public hospital I can't push her to confirm and next appointment is not until next month. We have a 4Dscan next month anyways so, we can find it at that time but, seriously I am running out of patience. I am gonna start looking for private scans if they are affordable I will go for it. But, I am afraid my hubby will not agree because his patience is alot more than mine. So, may be go for one without telling him?What do you ladies think? It feels kind of sneaky but, seriously 2months wait was my patience's limit.

 

[Uni tsi]

lol mack, sometimes I just end up listening to kicks too it makes me sooo happy to hear them I forget to look for the heartbeat sometimes heh

Sweety, I think you should remind hubby that it's important for the baby that you stay calm and stress free and he needs to agree to whatever facilitates that go get the scan! I can hardly stand the suspense you're in, I can't imagine how you must feel!

hopie, I'm thinking of you today. Let us know how it goes!

 

[Sweety21]

Uni, thanks alot for kind words and understanding. I talked to him and he is ready, surprise is he didn't even said a word when i brought up a topic. Looks like he is hating the suspense too. All I have to do now is find a place where they do the gender scan.

 

[mackjess]

Sweety great news! You should be able to find a place soon. I think with the private ones they'll have you back no charge if they can't tell for sure the first time.

Uni-good point!! I have spent more than I should getting both rooms ready. I want Finn to have a nice big boy room. And my DH hasn't said a word. Maybe he'll think I'll get hormonal and cry! lol

Appt this friday. Excited about seeing baby girl again.

 

[Uni tsi]

Sweety, I'm glad he's on board with your plan

Speaking of being hormonal and wanting to cry, I was told today that I'll have to go on insulin because my fasting blood sugar numbers are creeping too high. It's really frustrating to me because I do everything there is to do to keep my numbers where they should be but my fasting numbers just keep going up. I'm scared to take insulin because I see other people in my family who are diabetic and mess up their dose all the time. It just seems like sending myself into low blood sugar would be more dangerous than blood sugar that's just a little too high. It's not like I have a big baby or anything. My numbers are the same as they were last pregnancy, and they insisted the diabetes did not cause my loss. But, they want me to go on insulin now anyway and I'm just scared about the potential irony that what if I mess up my dose with the insulin and that's the reason I lose her this time I've been trying so hard with my diet, to avoid getting to the point where they'd say I needed insulin but here I am

 

[Uni tsi]

Little update - I managed to pull myself together and advocate for a little more time and to try some other things before I go on insulin. So, they've changed the time of day I take the metformin to see if that will make a difference. I keep trying to tell them that part of the reason my numbers were going up was my work schedule was stressful, which is now much more relaxed. As soon as my hours went down, my numbers got better. But no one hears me. It was only a couple days ago, so I haven't had time to collect enough data to convince them. So, getting a little more time really helps. Thanks for letting me rant about it earlier!

Hopie, waiting to hear from you I'll try to catch up on the other board now, to see if I've missed a post from you there.

 

[mackjess]

That is good news Uni. Did you have to take insulin last time? Knock on wood I seem to be lucky enough to avoid gest diabetes so far so I don't know much about it.

 

[hopie2015]

Uni, that recent news is encouraging. I hope you can avoid taking insulin as that is what you prefer, but if it comes to it, I am sure all will be fine.
Seems that GD is quite common. I will get tested for it at next appt.

Glad everyone is doing well.
Unfortunately we didn't receive the good news we wanted at the scan. Baby only has one kidney. Scan took one hour, as baby was soo active and kicking everywhere! Dr. seemed very positive, as he said everything else looks perfectly fine..thank God. So we are going with that. Baby is also measuring ahead--- a little chunker already at 1lb 6 oz! And I feel flutters soo much now.. I just love it!

Thank you for all your well wishes and kind words. You ladies are so sweet and supportive. I know we all have our worries and I just pray for each of us every day we have very smooth third tri's and deliveries.

Inviv- sure hope you are feeling better now?
Mack- wishing you the best of luck at your scan on Friday. I know the waiting is hard. It will be here soon though!

Thanks again.

 

[mackjess]

Oh Hopie I'm sorry it wasn't the news you were wanting, but it's still good news. Baby is fine and thriving in there!! Will you still have to continue to see the high risk specialist? Even when you first said you had to go, I had a good feeling about it. I guess since I know it's not uncommon and I have a very healthy friend that's had babies and everything just fine with 1 kidney. Like I told DH it's annoying I have to worry about the chord thing because usually they don't find out until after you deliver and everything is fine, but we get so many scans that we get more to worry about!

My last scan took forever as well bc she was moving so much, it hurrrrrt so bad. I think she was having to really dig in to see around the placenta and my tummy felt like beaten meat by the time it was over. Hoping to not have that again this time around, but if that's what they need to get a better look at the chord then I'll have to get over it.

More new news here-I just got 3 giant purple stretch marks on my hip. OMG. I freaked out when I was pulling my pants up the other day. Just on the one side. they look like slugs. I've barely gained any weight with this one thanks to the first trimester taking me down quite a few lbs. Love ya baby girl. Not that I was into wearing skimpy bikinis anymore but still. lol

 

[Uni tsi]

Hopie:

Thanks to you both for the words of encouragement. As it happens, today they changed their minds again and just started me on the insulin. I feel so defeated right now. I wasn't on insulin last pregnancy but I did have diabetes which I also failed to control through diet and exercise. They had just recently started me on glyburide once a day, and then they had literally just upped it to twice a day when I had my loss. So even though I know it's totally irrational, I have an emotional association between treating the diabetes and the loss. I know intellectually it isn't actually true, but emotionally I feel like treating the diabetes is what caused the loss. I had tried so hard last time to keep my blood sugar good, that this time I thought I'd just try twice as hard. I've been so motivated to eat well and exercise to avoid needing more interventions, and now it feels like it doesn't even matter what I do. I might as well sit on my fat ass and eat bon bons the rest of the pregnancy because everything is just doomed anyway

Thanks for listening to me vent. I just wish I could have some sense of control.

 

[Uni tsi]

Mack, I meant to add a funny story about stretch marks but got too caught up in my pity party... But I wanted to at least let you know - I got a stretch mark this week too. So much for my fancy expensive oils and lotions

 

[mackjess]

Uni don't beat yourself up so much. I'm amazed I don't get GD. I'm a little overweight pre pregnancy, but exercise and eat pretty well. Once I'm prego I get the metabolism of a sloth, and mentality really and lay around a lot, don't exercise much more than short walks, and kinda eat like crap. Some of my healthiest friends, no fat on them hardly and ones that keep up the exercise, have gotten it. It's really weird and I think it doesn't get affected much by what you do so much as genetics. We are a fluffy, desert loving family and nobody has diabetes at all. Where as my friends that have had GD were already careful about weight/diet because diabetes was in their families.

But, they were treated with insulin with no issues. And no big babies or complications. Out of 4, only one got induced a few weeks early just because mom's blood sugar was so out of control. All babies were totally fine and perfect. I know how hard it is when you have the negative connotations though. I had that problem some with Finn after my loss. Surely they are unrelated if they are treating it again.