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Wow. I suck. I've been sitting on the couch, doing truly almost nothing, since the end of January....and I still just had to read through almost 20 pages of thread to catch up. I'm sorry!! Seems like everything is going pretty well for all you mamas though, which I love to see!
I guess I've just been kinda blah lately. Hubby has worked LITERALLY every single night (and therefore slept all day) that I have been on bed rest. I've told him how miserable, isolated, lonely, etc. I feel, but it hasn't really helped. I guess it would help if there were a larger number of people who know I'm pregnant. Plenty of theories have been supposed, like he feels the need to provide, or he's worried and this is his escape, and so forth. I got to the point where I don't care. I get no escape whatsoever. And to be quite honest, he was a workaholic when we met and this shouldn't surprise me. Most of the schedule was already set when I went on bedrest, so I guess it is what it is.
In happier news, I had an ultrasound yesterday- baby measured 11 weeks (a whole day ahead as I'm 11 weeks today) and was moving around like crazy. Even looked like s/he was waving! So cute, looks very much more person-like than even the last ultrasound at 9+3. Good strong heartbeat with a rate of 169. Angel Twin's empty sac is still very much an empty sac and not a hemorrhage. It appears now to be somewhat distorted, possibly by this baby's growth. Apparently it looks like my placenta may end up being anterior which is slightly disappointing because I really REALLY want to be able to feel this sweet baby moving around in there like I know it's already doing. But in the end....what I want most is just a take-home baby, so as long as that anterior placenta keeps doing what it needs to, I'll be fine. There is a chance it could move a bit anyway.
Unfortunately, we didn't actually get to see or talk to a doctor afterward, so for the time being I'm still on house arrest! I would also like to know if I still need to be on pelvic rest as pregnancy has bestowed upon me plentiful sex dreams that I can't do anything about for the time being. Our next appointment isn't until the 25th, and I'll need to go back to work the 22nd (if I am in fact cleared to do so) so I will call in a little bit and try to get some clarification.
Keep going back and forth about when to publicly announce. I feel like we're probably (?) pretty safe now at 11 weeks, having seen and heard (at least daily on the Doppler, lol) baby's heartbeat. And then I think, maybe I should just wait until the "magic" 12 week mark. OR maybe I should just wait till the end of the first trimester? According to perinatology.com the first day of my second trimester is 2/28. That's not so far away. Then I think I should just do it and get it over with, now or never. Apparently most of the people hubby knows, already know, and know about the loss of the twin. I've been far more tight-lipped than he, both this time and last. So if lots of people already know, I might as well?
And then I say "just another week or two" every time, so maybe I'll just regale FB with a picture of a newborn sometime in early September ;-)
Speaking of FB, if anyone wants to be friends, I'd be up for that.
some pictures, because everyone likes pictures?
me at 10+4 a few days ago- it was a struggle to find the proper layering combo and angle to make me look even slightly round and not just like I'd been putting away one too many quesaritos!
and baby yesterday at 10+6. I'm amazed that there's a little person in there with a face, and little fat tummy, and hands....with fingers! I hear it's got a couple legs in there as well but we didn't see those ;-)
I guess I've just been kinda blah lately. Hubby has worked LITERALLY every single night (and therefore slept all day) that I have been on bed rest. I've told him how miserable, isolated, lonely, etc. I feel, but it hasn't really helped. I guess it would help if there were a larger number of people who know I'm pregnant. Plenty of theories have been supposed, like he feels the need to provide, or he's worried and this is his escape, and so forth. I got to the point where I don't care. I get no escape whatsoever. And to be quite honest, he was a workaholic when we met and this shouldn't surprise me. Most of the schedule was already set when I went on bedrest, so I guess it is what it is.
In happier news, I had an ultrasound yesterday- baby measured 11 weeks (a whole day ahead as I'm 11 weeks today) and was moving around like crazy. Even looked like s/he was waving! So cute, looks very much more person-like than even the last ultrasound at 9+3. Good strong heartbeat with a rate of 169. Angel Twin's empty sac is still very much an empty sac and not a hemorrhage. It appears now to be somewhat distorted, possibly by this baby's growth. Apparently it looks like my placenta may end up being anterior which is slightly disappointing because I really REALLY want to be able to feel this sweet baby moving around in there like I know it's already doing. But in the end....what I want most is just a take-home baby, so as long as that anterior placenta keeps doing what it needs to, I'll be fine. There is a chance it could move a bit anyway.
Unfortunately, we didn't actually get to see or talk to a doctor afterward, so for the time being I'm still on house arrest! I would also like to know if I still need to be on pelvic rest as pregnancy has bestowed upon me plentiful sex dreams that I can't do anything about for the time being. Our next appointment isn't until the 25th, and I'll need to go back to work the 22nd (if I am in fact cleared to do so) so I will call in a little bit and try to get some clarification.
Keep going back and forth about when to publicly announce. I feel like we're probably (?) pretty safe now at 11 weeks, having seen and heard (at least daily on the Doppler, lol) baby's heartbeat. And then I think, maybe I should just wait until the "magic" 12 week mark. OR maybe I should just wait till the end of the first trimester? According to perinatology.com the first day of my second trimester is 2/28. That's not so far away. Then I think I should just do it and get it over with, now or never. Apparently most of the people hubby knows, already know, and know about the loss of the twin. I've been far more tight-lipped than he, both this time and last. So if lots of people already know, I might as well?
And then I say "just another week or two" every time, so maybe I'll just regale FB with a picture of a newborn sometime in early September ;-)
Speaking of FB, if anyone wants to be friends, I'd be up for that.
some pictures, because everyone likes pictures?
me at 10+4 a few days ago- it was a struggle to find the proper layering combo and angle to make me look even slightly round and not just like I'd been putting away one too many quesaritos!
and baby yesterday at 10+6. I'm amazed that there's a little person in there with a face, and little fat tummy, and hands....with fingers! I hear it's got a couple legs in there as well but we didn't see those ;-)
strangely relieved it is over with and that I don't have to hide my running to the bathroom to puke at work lol
So happy for your Maryanne!! You soo deserve a rainbow!!
