Part 4: Due January, February & March 2019

[Eighme]

Thanks, ladies! It just gets old some days more so than others! I'm glad you ladies can understand the (literal) pain!

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[ABC.2606]

Hopper - they are precious!!! Bummer the tech/doc wouldn't at least give you a guess on gender - I feel like 16 weeks is pretty reliable these days, of course if baby is cooperating and legs are open. At my 16 week ultrasound baby boy clearly showed his stuff (I didn't really see it but tech spotted it instantly) but baby girl had her legs closed so they couldn't confirm she was a girl. But from what you saw (three lines)/ didn't see (boy parts), sounds very promising that there is at least 1 girlie in there!

Simkan - ugh that sounds awful. I really hope they can figure out what is going on soon!!!

[hopper]

I hear you Eighme. My first and second pregnancies were awful hard. I felt I barely got respite between different issues where I basically felt awful. I had severe HG requiring several admissions for fluids up to 14 weeks on both. Still sick and weak as a kitten til 20 weeks. Had maybe 2-4 weeks where I didn't feel TOO bad but still not like I had heard the second trimester to be "advertised"! Then I had terrible BP issues. It was so low I randomly used to faint. It was awful. I couldn't go anywhere alone. The boys were of course worth every second and obviously considering this is pregnancy #4 (#5 I suppose after last year's mc) you do forget just how horrendous it can be the moment they are born.
Now with my third son I had the pregnancy of my dreams. A tiny bit of nausea from weeks 7-9, no vomiting whatsoever, no hospital admissions, low BP but not too low, energy levels were great I did pregnancy Pilates and walked 4 miles a day. He arrived early and was the most HORRIBLE labor ever! So I suppose each pregnancy has its trade offs. I'll be hoping you get a really easy straight forward delivery this time to make up for a hard pregnancy!!

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[hopper]

Hopper - they are precious!!! Bummer the tech/doc wouldn't at least give you a guess on gender - I feel like 16 weeks is pretty reliable these days, of course if baby is cooperating and legs are open. At my 16 week ultrasound baby boy clearly showed his stuff (I didn't really see it but tech spotted it instantly) but baby girl had her legs closed so they couldn't confirm she was a girl. But from what you saw (three lines)/ didn't see (boy parts), sounds very promising that there is at least 1 girlie in there!

Simkan - ugh that sounds awful. I really hope they can figure out what is going on soon!!!

Total bummer! She was very adamant tho unfortunately! I have a scan with my OB in two weeks but I highly doubt she'll say anything. My hospital seem to be fairly firm on not committing to anything.prior to 20 weeks! Sob sob!!
I had a bit of a Google of those three lines I'm convinced I saw last night. It does seem to be girly at 16 weeks but I'm absolutely TERRIFIED to get my hopes up. I can't even imagine hearing there's a girl in there!! How am I going to last til the end of Nov!! I'm gonna see if I can push my OB into moving the anomaly scan forward by a week lol! My issue with it is that I'll be due my OB appt AND the anomaly scan in the same week and I just won't have the childcare available to me to do both in the same week. Hopefully she goes for it haha!!

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[Throwaway_panther]

Hopper, your babies are beautiful and I definitely think you've got a girl in there!! Though whenever you all talk about not seeing stuff on scans, it makes me feel even worse about ours and how it has to be a girl. Saw my chiro today (who seriously asks what we're having almost every week and seems very into OWT like heartrate, even though we've told her we don't know and have been seeing her almost 3 months now...) and she's just full on referring to baby as she "... or he, I guess." I think between this and we took our hospital tour last night, I'm just sort of panicking now that this is going to happen and "what was I thinking keeping this baby regardless of gender." Really feeling like I don't even know how I'll get a boy after all this, and DH has been drinking more again so I look at every drop of alcohol as a strike against his sperm...

I think I'm just starting to feel anger. Anger that I've had to go through all of this to still not get what my heart is dying for. That I'm weathering this pain in pregnancy, all the heartbreak, and will now do labor again all for something I really don't want. I kept saying I needed this baby regardless for DD, but DD is not going to be parenting this baby. I am. So it will be a girl that I'd be very lucky to feel the same way about as I did DD I feel.

[simkan]

Oh tp, please remember I saw nothing with both my boys on scans. And ds2 had a scan every second week towards the end. Ds1's last scan he was so far down that all the tech could see was lower torso and legs and I looked even though I was team green. Please dont get yourself worked up.
Our latest theory is that my pain and the weird thing in the bowel that they put down to nothing is an ulcer. Going to see a.... gastroblahblahblah (can never remember the correct term) on Thursday and praying they can get me on the road to feeling normal. The positive thing is i think I've really learnt the whole lesson of health is really the most important thing.
I watch TV and see people eating all the time and I'm so jealous that they are just putting food in their mouth whether they're enjoying it or not. Actually such a blessing to be able to eat. Told my mom that once this is over I'm probably going to become obese because I'll be like- all the food!!!! Nom nom nom

At least for now baby is doing fine and on track... I'm trying my hardest to eat enough to sustain her. But shes definitely feeling energetic because all day I'm constantly kicked and punched.

But anyway back to you TP. Please dont let your thoughts go there. You know you're going to love this baby and some random lady calling It -she, is not any sign of gender.

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[mummaofboys]

Ugh I’m 20+1 today and the restless legs has started in full force I couldn’t sit still on the couch tonight and can’t get comfortable in bed now. Hip pain isn’t helping the matter. I can’t imagine how my body is going to be at full term if it’s this uncomfortable at half way


And TP I didn’t see anything on either of my boys scans... I was team green but couldn’t help but watch the screen in that area. I also wouldn’t let someone’s comment upset you... I had someone tell me DS2 was a girl because my butt was big... nope that was all the ice cream I was eating!!!


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[Throwaway_panther]

Thank you ladies, I really appreciate you trying to help me feel better! And haha, about the butts -- I have been exclusively making myself wear my non maternity pants and underwear to see if they still fit over my hips and butt. Which they do! My butt is just bodacious normally haha.

simkan, do you have IBD or ever been checked for Celiac or crohns? Your symptoms sound alot like friends and family I have with those conditions, and I think pregnancy can cause autoimmune issues to flare or start. I really hope you feel better soon

mumma, I feel for you! Can you do PT at all?! That's helped my issues a little bit, but mine have definitely gotten bad too. The pain is why I think my GD has gotten so bad

[mummaofboys]

Thank you ladies, I really appreciate you trying to help me feel better! And haha, about the butts -- I have been exclusively making myself wear my non maternity pants and underwear to see if they still fit over my hips and butt. Which they do! My butt is just bodacious normally haha.

simkan, do you have IBD or ever been checked for Celiac or crohns? Your symptoms sound alot like friends and family I have with those conditions, and I think pregnancy can cause autoimmune issues to flare or start. I really hope you feel better soon

mumma, I feel for you! Can you do PT at all?! That's helped my issues a little bit, but mine have definitely gotten bad too. The pain is why I think my GD has gotten so bad

Haha I love that you keep trying your pants on!!


Unfortunately I can’t do much because I have a crappy knee and ankle that need a lot of physio to correct which they all say isn’t going to help much while pregnant with loose ligaments. I probably need to walk more and do light exercises but I just don’t have the energy


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[Kelbear]

I hope everyone is doing ok and that their pregnancy aches and pains get better or at least don't get any worse, sometimes I wonder if we are all crazy putting ourselves through pregnancy more than once!

I hope your GD lessens over time TP but I know people's comments can make it worse just when you are doing a bit better. Still have everything crossed that you have a little boy onboard. I never saw anything on DS1s scans that indicated boy so not seeing anything doesn't mean girl (DS2 missed the modesty memo).

29 weeks today, started packing my hospital bag in case the scan next week or the following fortnight isn't good. Starting to feel very real now. Murphy's law I'll be all prepared for her to come early and she will make me wait til 40 weeks (but that's better than her needing to come out at 30 weeks so I'll take that