I did see yours Grease, and if I had to put my money on it, I would say girl too. And you will keep telling yourself it's a boy until you hear otherwise, I did the same :) wishing you luck x
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I did see yours Grease, and if I had to put my money on it, I would say girl too. And you will keep telling yourself it's a boy until you hear otherwise, I did the same :) wishing you luck x
16 and half weeks and for the first time, looking in the mirror, my tummy is doing very small waves, little one is so active! And it feels like she's all to the left because that's where I feel the movements and the left side of my tummy is harder. I guess I'm just happy to be entering that phase where I don't feel sick anymore and I can finally feel and see baby move. It's so reassuring, and so much fun! :) Wishing you girls and your bubbas a good day x
21 weeks and had my first bout of ms. WTH?! Woke up around 3am feeling very nauseous and got progressively worse throughout the day to the point I left work early. Has this happened to anyone else? If no better tomorrow I'll pop to the doctor and see if I can rule out anything else. To be honest, I'm not sure if I'd rather be told it's viral or ms. At least viral is done and out of the way in a couple of days...
i am 17 weeks pregnant and just found out i am expecting our third boy. at first i was upset but after thinking about it i realized that this new is not shocking at all. i feel like i had false hope of it being a girl.. its so hard to not daydream about a girl, that it creates a false sense of hope. i am surprisingly not taking it bad.. i think it was harder on my second. anyways, we are thinking of trying again in a few year but will prob go high tech. i can't handle the whole not knowing thing. fairly enough i didn't not sway super intensely this time around, so i guess it is what it is. i have been trying to get into boy vibes again, and i know i will get excited in a few days. anyone have a mistake boy ultrasound at 17 weeks?? lol just thought i may try to keep dream alive.
I am sorry Tand. I wish I could say I had mistake boy guesses but mine were all 100% at 12 weeks.
So cool Aidansmum that you can finally feel movement!
I totally hear you about the bulb end!!! I was looking more into nubs and it depends more on the end not the shaft so much itself.
So the girl nub is straight and flat at the end and usually has a fork in it -- like it looks like 2 parallel lines at the end. Where as a boy is generally shorter and more round or bulb-like you said.
I was comparing pics and my boys are all bulbs at the end with bulges ontop.
This one (you can see way more clearly in the actual pic, don't know why it doesn't come out as well on computer) is completely long and flat at the end and has a total fork, like you can see the line between the 2 white lines.
I guess I feel good about that cause its nothing like my boys.
Also, this baby is much thinner than my boys. Its neck is not nearly as thick and its head is smaller. It was measuring long, but its very thin and "danty" like which makes me more hopeful for girl.
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prayforprincess- thanks!! right when i got home i started googling boy ultrasound misakes.. hahah the things we will do...
who did you cycle with for IVF?
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prayforprincess- thanks!! right when i got home i started googling boy ultrasound misakes.. hahah the things we will do...
who did you cycle with for IVF?
I started spotting again today so I am going to the clinic tomorrow and hopefully they will want me to go see my Dr on Thursday so I can get another u/s to see where this bleeding is coming from. I am so tired of this not being taken serious!! I am at the point where I am seriously thinking of packing our bags and go back home to the States and leave hubby here in Africa alone! If they don't start monitoring me more I will have no choice :/ Ughhh 13 weeks pregnant and have not enjoyed this pregnancy AT ALL :(
PFP......my little girl was by far the most active inside of all three kids and the shyest about showing gender! I hope that the next 6 weeks fly by for you....and that your little miss is growing strong.
Grease - I really hope that stops for you and they can figure out what's going on!! That's always so scary and frustrating when they don't seem to be doing anything! Good luck!!
Dreams & Tand - Sorry you heard boy! :( Glad they seem healthy. I know that you guys will love your boy no matter what but I pray that your hearts find peace and closure!! It's so hard to always think about and dream about! Hugs!
Tand - My DS2's ultrasound was super obvious even to me and I STILL looked up to see if any boy ones ended up being wrong! Wondered if by chance it could be the cord or something...though it was way obvious it was a penis. Even dreamed of a surprise girl at delivery. I think girl ones have a much higher chance of being wrong though :(
PCP- that's great that things look really hopeful! No idea on nub guess. If I see one pointed out and obvious to me I can see them but honestly the one you posted of DS3 looks like a leg to me! Lol. Probably good, that way I can't miss-guess for people or obsess about my own. I even find myself looking at my 10 wk ultrasound at the end of the spine wondering if it could be a nub!! Silliness!!
Bunny - after you said that I remember with my first boy, about half-way through I had to leave work for one of the first times ever in the afternoon because my stomach was hurting and I was nauseous. I don't know if it was MS or flu because I went home, vomited and layed down for a few hours and then I was better. That was it.
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And I totally know what you are talking about. I have been googling symptoms etc. from the beginning. Now I am comparing nub to all girl nub's and driving myself mad...
Dreams. Glad to hear your little guy is healthy and you've accepted your new addition.
Pfp. I'm not good at nubs but many of the ladies made some great guesses for you! Hope they come true!
Grease. Sorry to hear about the bleeding and like you said hopefully they take things more seriously and monitor you more regularly. That would be frustrating.
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I have so much reading to do to catch up! I have been sooooooo busy these past few weeks! Wanted to check in with you guys and give you a bump shot! It's definitely growing!
At 21 weeks? How odd! It might be just a virus or something you ate? But then again, pregnancies are a mistery and it could as well be ms! Hope you feel better soon.Quote:
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Sorry you didn't hear pink! glad your little boy is a healthy. It's a great decision to go HT next time so then you know exactly what you're getting from the beginning and you will have your little girl, for sure.Quote:
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Oh no Grease, so sorry! I'm sure you had enough of it and I don't blame you for wanting to be in place where you would be properly monitored. Hope it stops again and whatever decision you take your dh should understand as priority should be you and your baby now.Quote:
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Your bump is looking gorgeous! you must be so proud to have 2 baking in there :)Quote:
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awww thanks! I do feel very blessed but it comes with a lot of challenges and additional fears but I wouldn't change it for anything:)Quote:
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I've been so busy lately, glad to finally catch up with everyone!!
Dreams I'm sorry you didn't hear pink! I'm glad baby is healthy and in time your DD will come to terms with it and you're right, when she's a teen she won't want to be sharing a room with a baby sister!
PFP I'm no good at nub guessing so I won't even guess. However I do think it's a good sign baby was active and hard to scan. All 3 of my boys were so easy to scan and so easy to tell gender, but this little girl was VERY difficult to scan, constantly moving and took quite some time to finally see the gender! Maybe it's a girl thing?! I think you have a good chance of getting your DD!
Bunny I hope you're feeling better soon! Like Aidansmum said, could it be a virus? I had ms all 9 months my first pregnancy, but I had it the whole time, it never went away!
Grease sorry to hear you're bleeding again!! I had issues with bleeding as well and I felt like no one was concerned either. Do what you feel is right for you and baby. Is DH military and that is why you are in Africa?
AFM, I'm 19 weeks and feeling lots of movement!! DH and I can't agree on a name to save our lives, so my kids have started calling her "NoName" haha so far Audrianna is in the lead. My pick and DH says he likes it but "doesn't want to commit" yet.. Ugh! I had my dr apt yesterday and everything looked great. HB was 157, all bloodwork and urine came back good. I will call today and schedule my anatomy ultrasound - so excited to see my little girl again!
I hope everyone is doing well!! I have a lot coming up in the next month so I'm not sure how much I will post but I will definitely be checking in as much as possible!!!
Guys -- I'm just feeling so down right now.
I keep comparing nubs and while mine looks like way more girly nubs and very very few boy nubs I'm stilll freaking out.
I feel like I am no better off now than I was before my scan.
I wish it could have been clear and obvious girl or clear and obvious boy so that I could just deal. Now I have 6 more weeks of waiting and wondering maybe I have a girl or maybe it could be a boy; and I feel like if at 18wk I find out boy I am going to be so mad that the nub looked so girly (when NONE of my other boys looks girly - clear cut boys from the beginning).
Its like someone is trying to draw this out and torture me more up there!!!
I couldn't sleep before the scan and I can't sleep now.
I just wish I didn't care so much so I could let this go...
pray- don't feel down! You didn't hear boy! And, I think though they wanted to tell you pink, they also want to be more confident. You said yourself, your boys were obvious, and this isn't. Lean on that clue! Your nub is girly, for sure! I feel like my girls nubs looked like yours- they were never perfectly flat or parallel. Have hope!
Also, I think I am going to have to have a scan at 10+6 and desperately hoping I don't see a nub because I don't want to even think about it (though I know it is early). I am considering not wearing my glasses while he does it so that I can peek. :)
PFP, I agree with Spicy, I think they wanted to say girl but didn't want to be hold accountable in case it isn't, but they were leaning girl as well. I find boys nubs usually very straight forward (in the literal sense :) and easier to guess, usually the tricky ones turn out to be girlies. But, believe me, even if you had got the straighter nub in the world, you would still be obsessing, mine was pretty girlie and I got no boy guesses and I still had trouble sleeping thinking about it and convincing myself not to trust a nub. I have a good feeling on this one, but unfortunately, only time will tell for sure. Maybe you can post a skull picture as well?
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I really hate nubs, for the obsession reasons! I couldn't get into my doctor until late... I know that it isn't reliable at that point, but anything is going to make me think it's a girl!
Thanks Spicy -- and thanks for telling me your girls were not perfectly parallel.
The baby was also arching its spine a lot and might have thrown the angle off (so I try to tell myself. Do you still have 12 wk shots of your girls? If so, could you post them?
Thanks Aidansmum- I think you are right. Everyone was saying that could be a girl, but they can't say for sure. The doc's know what I've been threw, and I don't think they want to tell me girl unless its absolutely positive.
I don't have a skull shot! Those are the only 2 pics they gave me. I was so focused on getting nub shots I didn't even ask for pics of my baby. Oops!
I keep holding onto the fact that this one looked so much more small than my boys - and much less meaty. Plus my symptoms being sooooo different. I am over 12 wks now and still feeling so nauseous with still so many food adversions. Its terrible. I still have no energy -- I am just not myself at all.
These things make me think its going to be a girl - god I just hate waiting...
Hi ladies, I am headed for bed but wanted to give you all a small update. After my trip to the Embassy they had me go over to the Dr's office to get checked out. Turns out that the placenta is really low so every time I have a contraction is moves down and I bleed. He said there is nothing to worry about and until the placenta moves I will continue to bleed and just monitor things. Other than that everything looks good, I managed to get a video through my phone and posted in on my thread in the u/s forum!!
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menic, my husband works for the State Department and is in the Foreign Service so we are here in Africa for 3 years. Before Africa we were in Canada for 3 years.
PFP- I don't have any nub shots, but I know what I clearly saw in the US. They were very nubby girls and both at 13 weeks. I think it was more angled with DD1, so we were on the fence about that one (and both were surprised at birth). That is why I don't like nubs- because the whole angle thing is really tricky.
My god well I told him before hand that I had a girl and a boy so it didn't sway his decision or think I'm going to go completely psycho!! But he had several looks over from in front, underneath and then stopped and said "looks like where looking at your daughter" I just wanted to scream and hug and kiss him but instead I said "oh wow" lol... then I went to the bathroom and silent screamed! my 18 month old thought I was mad jumping around! It was an amazing feeling, but so many people have put doubts in my mind about the 'three lines' etc... and mine does have three lines but they horizontal? I've looked it up and it supposed to resemble a cheeseburger? All I know is I have 3 boys and I know that it was completely different to all three.Quote:
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I was devastated to hear boy with my third, I actually went into deep depression. He is now 19months old and he is a white blonde, blue eyed, gentle, smart and I look at him and wonder why I ever felt such pain. What you feel now will pass once he is born - This time around if I was to hear boy I would know for sure, there's just no pushing those sticky out bits back in!. What I did to get me through is not use lots of "hand me down clothes" in fact I went on a spending spree including little nike shoes and it really helped. People on the other hand are really rude and even said to me "was he supposed to be the girl?" "Don't you want a girl" as if it is that easy! This time round if I was to hear boy then we would be going down the road of HT in the next few years. Chin up, have a good cry, scream and punch something if you have to then take a deep breath and try to enjoy the pregnancy.Quote:
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Your pics are great and from looking up and researching many nubs I say GIRL GIRL GIRL!...Quote:
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Guess what should this baby really be a baby girl for me she too will be the only girl - but another thing my cousin she has 3 brothers but now she has two daughters and she was super close to her cousins - so we can build female relationships in many other avenues. There was 6 years between my sister and I and we're not close. So it doesn't always turn out the way you think it will anyway. Congrats non the less! I'm sure he'll be amazing!.Quote:
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Grease, I'm glad they know why you're bleeding now and relieved it's nothing serious. I'm sure they'll keep monitoring you and hopefully your placenta will behave and move up! :)
Greasemonkey I am so glad you got some answers! Praying for smooth sailing from this point on!
Greasemonkey- I am glad to hear your condition is not serious and hope that your bleeding stops soon.
Dreams and Tand - Sorry you heard boy. :sad:
Mumto3boys- Thank you for telling us about your experience with your son.
One week and one day until my 19 week scan.... I hope the little one cooperates and that we find out good news. This is going to feel like a long week!
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Thanks ladies, I am so glad there is nothing to worry about, I really want to enjoy this pregnancy and so far I haven't as I have been worried sick that every time I would go in for an u/s they would tell me baby wasn't alive :(
It was also like Angels were singing when the Dr said "I don't think it's a boy" I had my mouth wide open and said "Oh wow, seriously?" lol And as we were leaving he said "Don't worry she is fine" :) I still can't believe it though, not sure why I am having such a hard time, the video was only taken at 13 weeks 1 day :/
Oh MY GOD Grease!!! That is soooooooo amazing to hear!!!!!
I only hope and pray I hear "she"...
Glad to hear everything is ok with the bleeding. I have had bleeding so many times in pregnancy. It is scary but many times does not mean anything bad.