Ladies due in Sept/Oct/Nov 2012, gather here!

Congrats on the great scan, Rainbow!

TTC5, glad you are doing better. Hope you can get be up and about soon!

Auroara, PP... sorry you are having such a rough time with the m/s! That sucks. I am constantly in a state of mild ick, but I am okay. I can still eat and function pretty well, and there is no puking or anything. I was way sicker my 2nd and 3rd pregnancies (one was a boy, one was a girl, so I don't think there is anything to go on there!).

Welcome Pinkin! Hope you baby comes on your anniversary--that would be cool!

So I made my appt for the CVS. I will be canceling it if the 12wk scan looks good and there are no concerns.... I will hope that's the case!

Hobbers, any reason why you need CVS? Did i miss this in a diff. part of the thread, and will you find out gender with the CVS, if you do it? I hope you get a good nub shot cuz I really, really want to nub obsess with you and Mocha's 12 week scans!

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Hobbers, any reason why you need CVS? Did i miss this in a diff. part of the thread, and will you find out gender with the CVS, if you do it? I hope you get a good nub shot cuz I really, really want to nub obsess with you and Mocha's 12 week scans!

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I am 39, so I am going to get a CVS if my 12wk u/s shows concerns. I won't find out gender, and I am purposely not getting a nub shot at the 12 wk scan... :( sorry! I had such bad GD last time after finding out I was having a girl at 20 weeks, it ruined the rest of my pregnancy. Since this is my last pregnancy, I want to enjoy it. I also know I will deal much better with having a baby girl handed to me in the delivery room than if I know I am having a girl ahead of time.

Rainbow that is fantastic news!!! Bet you felt so much relief to see that little heart beat!!

Thanks for adding me Mocha!!

I dont really have anything to say about my pregnancy yet except I am still crampy and feeling a bit off already!

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Congrats to the new moms who got their bfp's!



I had a horrible weekend and I am still having problems. The only good thing is DH was home to watch the boys. I have really bad non stop m/s, constipation since last thurs, can barely eat anything, and to top it all off I have a sinus cold. I want to curl up in a ball and hide for the next 8mths.

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thats exactly how I feel my constant nausea is really making me wonder how I am going to get through the next 8 months. Just want to curl into a ball and sleep. Went doctors and they can't prescribe anything unless I am excessively vomiting.

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I am 39, so I am going to get a CVS if my 12wk u/s shows concerns. I won't find out gender, and I am purposely not getting a nub shot at the 12 wk scan... :( sorry! I had such bad GD last time after finding out I was having a girl at 20 weeks, it ruined the rest of my pregnancy. Since this is my last pregnancy, I want to enjoy it. I also know I will deal much better with having a baby girl handed to me in the delivery room than if I know I am having a girl ahead of time.

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That's exactly why I'm going team green too, Hobbs! I would rather enjoy my pregnancy not knowing gender knowing I could handle the news of a girl easier if she's in my arms than if I have to wait for 20 more weeks!

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I am 39, so I am going to get a CVS if my 12wk u/s shows concerns. I won't find out gender, and I am purposely not getting a nub shot at the 12 wk scan... :( sorry! I had such bad GD last time after finding out I was having a girl at 20 weeks, it ruined the rest of my pregnancy. Since this is my last pregnancy, I want to enjoy it. I also know I will deal much better with having a baby girl handed to me in the delivery room than if I know I am having a girl ahead of time.

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same for me !

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thank you everyone :) I actually had a realisation that the bladder was shown on the top of the screen so perhaps the view was upside down... the device was constantly positioned on my left side and angled down too so maybe that means something else; either way - too many uncertainties to think more about Ramzi and I have hope of pink again until the dating scan at least ;)

MW appointment tomorrow, and bloods taken on Wed... feels like it's all moving forwards now and hope I can start to enjoy pregnancy (with nausea!)



this pregnancy feels quite different to my last one, and the one before that was different again. Anyone else finding this? (if only that meant something too!)

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your little bean looks so cute I can't wait to see mine. I'll be 13 weeks when I see it for the first time. Thats two weeks away. And yeah this pregnancy for me is totally different to my last two. :)

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That's exactly why I'm going team green too, Hobbs! I would rather enjoy my pregnancy not knowing gender knowing I could handle the news of a girl easier if she's in my arms than if I have to wait for 20 more weeks!

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Totally agree. I'm not finding out the sex this time am too afraid I'll feel disappointed but I know if I do have a girl I will love her all the same when shes in my arms.

And to top off my wonderful weekend my favorite aunt passed away this morning. She has been suffering for while now. She would have been 70yo right around #3 due date. I was suppose to be born on her birthday but my mom used Castor Oil so she could have me 3wks early. My aunt and I were very close and told everyone I was born on her birthday. She always let me take candies from her purse, she made the best fudge and cookies, and she was always fun at the family holiday parties. She lost her first child to cancer at 2yo&2mths, she lost her husband due to a hereditary condition, and 3 great-grandkids who were born at 20&24wk gest.

Hormones and family lose is not a good mix!

Just woundering has anyone here ever had something called ICP In Pregnancy?? I had it with my ds first baby and only baby and the ICP was HORRIBLE!!!! Its to do with your liver and amount of bile it is producing... Anyway I was Miserable from 34 weeks until his birth I was so itchy all over soles of me feet and palms of my hands my legs I had no rash but would scratch the skin off my body.. Even my eye balls were itchy!! Its not a good thing to have it CAN cause Stillbirth... Just woundering if anyone else has had it and is there a chance i would get it agin.. I didnt get to the stage where i went jaundice I am glad! But I am worried I could get this again.

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And to top off my wonderful weekend my favorite aunt passed away this morning. She has been suffering for while now. She would have been 70yo right around #3 due date. I was suppose to be born on her birthday but my mom used Castor Oil so she could have me 3wks early. My aunt and I were very close and told everyone I was born on her birthday. She always let me take candies from her purse, she made the best fudge and cookies, and she was always fun at the family holiday parties. She lost her first child to cancer at 2yo&2mths, she lost her husband due to a hereditary condition, and 3 great-grandkids who were born at 20&24wk gest.

Hormones and family lose is not a good mix!

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aww my deepest condolences to you and your family. May your aunt rest in peace hun. Sending you big hugs xx

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Just woundering has anyone here ever had something called ICP In Pregnancy?? I had it with my ds first baby and only baby and the ICP was HORRIBLE!!!! Its to do with your liver and amount of bile it is producing... Anyway I was Miserable from 34 weeks until his birth I was so itchy all over soles of me feet and palms of my hands my legs I had no rash but would scratch the skin off my body.. Even my eye balls were itchy!! Its not a good thing to have it CAN cause Stillbirth... Just woundering if anyone else has had it and is there a chance i would get it agin.. I didnt get to the stage where i went jaundice I am glad! But I am worried I could get this again.

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Hello Pinkin how are you? I didn't have ICP but I did have obstetric cholestasis which caused a rash on my hands and feet. I was so itchy I kept scratching until I bled and nothing soothed it! lol looking back at old photos I laugh. I had pre eclampsia aswell so I was so swollen everywhere and itchy. I spent the last week and half in hospital and got induced due to it. My first pregnancy I got to say is my worst so far. Pregnancy doesn't agree with me well I guess. But the good thing was I didn't get it second time round instead I got high blood pressure and a retained placenta.

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Just woundering has anyone here ever had something called ICP In Pregnancy?? I had it with my ds first baby and only baby and the ICP was HORRIBLE!!!! Its to do with your liver and amount of bile it is producing... Anyway I was Miserable from 34 weeks until his birth I was so itchy all over soles of me feet and palms of my hands my legs I had no rash but would scratch the skin off my body.. Even my eye balls were itchy!! Its not a good thing to have it CAN cause Stillbirth... Just woundering if anyone else has had it and is there a chance i would get it agin.. I didnt get to the stage where i went jaundice I am glad! But I am worried I could get this again.

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A friend of mine had that with one of her pregnancies. It can be really scary--you can lose your baby. She was induced 2 weeks early once she was diagnosed. Her baby was fine, thankfully!

Sorry about your aunt PP. :(

Bumblebee I had the high blood pressure aswell.. It was 210/130 so i went on tablets.. I have only been pregnant that one time and it was just HORRIBLE!!!! I still have sort of high blood pressure now and thats 3 and a half years later so I guess it will go sky high again.. I am more so worried about the icp but I may not get it anyway!

HOB I was induced a week early because where i live that had not really heard of it and when they did the blood test they realised what was going on.. I heard only 1 in 1000 preg woman get it?

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HOB I was induced a week early because where i live that had not really heard of it and when they did the blood test they realised what was going on.. I heard only 1 in 1000 preg woman get it?

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I had never heard of it until my friend got it. She had never heard of it either. Lucky her Dr. knew about it!

Bumblebee, good news on getting a hospital :) I got a booking letter from my hospital the other day, makes it feel more real.

Rainbow, I am so glad everything went well! :) This pregnancy feels the same as my last two. It's only early though so things could change.

auroara, sorry that you are feeling so yuck. I haven't had any real nausea yet but I'm dreading it.

PP, sorry that you are feeling so lousy as well. Hopefully you feel better soon. And so sorry about your aunty :(

Hobber, hopefully you won't need the CVS. Fx!

pinkin, nope never had ICP but I know about it and how horrible it can be. I'm not sure if you've had it before whether there is an increased chance of getting it again.

5, have you been to the doctor yet? Are you going mad having to stay in bed?

So, everyone is sick on my house. My two girls and DH have been vomiting all night. I really hope I don't catch what they have. It's bad enough having to clean up the mess. Arghh!

Mocha, could you please add to the due date list that I swayed blue? Thankyou :D

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Just woundering has anyone here ever had something called ICP In Pregnancy??

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Glittergirl in my old due date buddy group recently thought she had this. I don't remember her ever reporting the results of her tests, though and whether she really had it. Here was the thread where we discussed this:

http://genderdreaming.com/forum/due-...thread-16.html

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Mocha, could you please add to the due date list that I swayed blue? Thankyou :D

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Done :bigsmile:

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Glittergirl in my old due date buddy group recently thought she had this. I don't remember her ever reporting the results of her tests, though and whether she really had it. Here was the thread where we discussed this:

http://genderdreaming.com/forum/due-...thread-16.html

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Thanks Mocha , I will have a look!

Just woundering is it normal to be so crampy i am 15 dpo?

I had bad cramps on and off up until a couple of weeks ago. It's probably just your bean settling in.

the cramps arent there all the time they come and go and its a crampy feeling right along like hip area right along to other side.. lower part where all girly parts are... I read the jan posts look like GG did have icp and doula did mention it can get worse with each pregnancy.. I HOPE NOT!!!

I have had cramps since O. Same thing with both my other pregnancies as well.

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Done :bigsmile:

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Thanks :)

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the cramps arent there all the time they come and go and its a crampy feeling right along like hip area right along to other side.. lower part where all girly parts are...

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I was more crampy with my first pregnancy...but still have a "burning/itchy" uterus feeling with this one.
Could be round ligament pain, too. I'm getting that already (but didn't really have it my first time...just sciatic pain with that one, haha).

I managed to hear baby's heartbeat on my fetal doppler! I'm pretty impressed with my skills. I didn't expect to find it yet (especially because my uterus is so tipped).

How many weeks are you laughinglynxie?

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I managed to hear baby's heartbeat on my fetal doppler! I'm pretty impressed with my skills. I didn't expect to find it yet (especially because my uterus is so tipped).

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How exciting! I hired a doppler with my second pregnancy but I was always picking up my own heart beat and getting stressed when I couldn't find the baby's. So I swore I wouldn't do it again!

Wow - that's exciting, laughinglynxie! The earliest I was able to find my baby's heartbeat was 9 weeks 4 days.

I found my doppler yesterday and used it. I am really starting to wonder about twins because my lower left side was about 130 and my high upper right was 150. I checked it several times yesterday and again this morning and it was the same. But I think hearing the HB has started the dreams for me... I think the dreams started with my boys after I heard the HB, so maybe I needed that connection.

I had dreamt part of this dream before but it wasn't clear... I was at home with DS2 and a 2yo girl wearing a pink tutu, pink bow, and ballet slipper socks. I had two friends visiting but they were GD friends. Both of them had boys that were close in age but a little younger then mine. I am not telling who they were at this time, but one of them knows and the other mom named her boy Matthew. We were talking and joking around when my DH walked in holding a 2yo, couldn't tell the gender because I could only see the white shirt but lots of hair.

aww lucky ladies finding HB so early! I tried yesterday at 7+0 and didn't find the heartbeat, but it was there on the scan so baby must just still be too low behind the pubic bone for me at the moment

pp20 - really does sound like it might be twins if you hear two distinct ones at different rates!! when are you finding out?

3/2 early morning here on the west coast. I will post right away but I don't know the time differences to well but my scan is at this time now.....

I should be done and home and posting 2hrs later... I may get an early lunch for the boys.

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I should be done and home and posting 2hrs later... I may get an early lunch for the boys.

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Can't wait to hear how things go at your scan!
And, wow, you were able to find a heartbeat really early! I wish I had a doppler to use at home, but when I've looked into them with previous pregnancies they were too expensive. If I had gotten one with #1 it would have been worth it to use over and over with each pregnancy, but since we think this is our last (#4) I can't justify the cost. :/

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How many weeks are you laughinglynxie?

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I'll be a full 7 weeks tomorrow! Which is why I'm so surprised! I'll admit I had to squish down through some of the bloating. ;)

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Can't wait to hear how things go at your scan!
And, wow, you were able to find a heartbeat really early! I wish I had a doppler to use at home, but when I've looked into them with previous pregnancies they were too expensive. If I had gotten one with #1 it would have been worth it to use over and over with each pregnancy, but since we think this is our last (#4) I can't justify the cost. :/

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Maybe this is still too expensive, but I got mine for $30 including delivery from eBay. I had no idea you could get them so cheaply or I would have gotten one for my earlier pregnancies!

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Can't wait to hear how things go at your scan!
And, wow, you were able to find a heartbeat really early! I wish I had a doppler to use at home, but when I've looked into them with previous pregnancies they were too expensive. If I had gotten one with #1 it would have been worth it to use over and over with each pregnancy, but since we think this is our last (#4) I can't justify the cost. :/

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I am borrowing it from my OB Dr. DS2 was so calm that I was always concerned if he was still alive. The Dr got a discount when he ordered these new fancy ones ($3,000 each) he paid 40% of the total price. Since he ordered about 50 of them he allows some of the people he trust to use them. He knew that as soon as DS2 was a boy that I wanted another one so he let me keep it until I am done. I like it because it has a 9mth memory so if I see something wrong with the HB I can show it to him.