Yay if hope you get a nub shot Angie!!
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Yay if hope you get a nub shot Angie!!
Good luck Angie xx
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Angie - Good luck at the scan next week! Reagrding Ramzi I read a bit about it after my early scan and as you say it's not applicable on sagittal scans. It's also very hard to tell from a pic, if you don't know if the scan is flipped or not, which can vary a lot. Hope you get a sneak peak at the nub!
So had my scan yesterday. I told the tech before he started we didn't want to know. He never told us yo look away at any point. Whilst he was measuring the tummy he showed us the dark area that was the bladder just below. Now baby didn't have legs open or anything but I saw what looked like a tiny drawing of Willy and balls. I saw it twice. It was just under the bladder but the shot was from the side of the baby and the bits were as if they were looking at me. I exclaimed I knew the sex and ubby who was actually looking there said he'd not seen anything. The tech said that he didn't even know the sex as he'd totally avoided that area. He even said when measuring the femur they sometimes show themselves so he does it quickly but he'd not had to. I am so confused as I saw something there. But Google most people said they'd need their legs open and there was not obvious shot like that. I pressed the tech at the end and asked if he really didn't scan over the gender and he said no but he could by lying. Surely he'd have known the gender.
Anyway good news is baby is healthy, bad news I now am feeling like this for 20 weeks x
Oh dreaming, good news healthy bubba honey , I would not worry too much a neighbor likewise was sure she had seen boy bits at her scan turns out its a little lady!!
But listen I so understand honey just got my BFP and of course sure its another boy for us, big hugs!! Try not to over think it!! Yes I have been telling myself the same we did our best and what will be will be xxxxxxx
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Oh huge congratulations kitkat!! Long time coming so so pleased for you xxxxx. I feel ok actually if its another boy. The main reason I am so gutted is that I desperately wanted a genuine surprise this time after it was spoilt last time at 37 weeks! The only way I'll get a surprise now is if a girl pops out Haha x
Hiya ladies! I have kinda been lurking around but haven't really had much to post about. Huge congrats to Andrew, Oncue, Abi, and Lala! finding out you are getting the gender you want must be an amazing feeling! Everyone I have told so far says they hope it is a girl but I am sure to tell everyone a boy would be great too. Great scans to Marika and Angie too! i love those baby scans. I got one at 10 weeks when doc couldn't get the heartbeat...the baby was moving around way too much to even get a cute baby looking scan out of it though (and it was an abdominal scan so it looked tiny).
I still don'have much to report pregnancy wise. My ds1 is starting Kindergarten next week and my youngest will be starting preschool. I have taken the full day off of work for the 1st day of kindie. I can't even believe he is going to be a school aged kid! My almost three year old is so ready for preschool though. And they are all excited about new backpacks and lunchboxes.
Being that it is the last month of summer for us, we tend to have something going on each weekend to cram all our fun in. Between all the fun and getting ready for school, I've been pretty distracted. I am grateful because when I take my mind off of thinking about the pregnancy it seems to go by faster.
Hope you ladies are doing well. I keep peeking in even when I don't post.
Futureminime- August is crazy for us too! Thanks for all of the congrats- from the start I just assumed I'd have another girl and since this was a surprise pregnancy I feel really really lucky to just have happened upon my preferred gender. Abi- we do have a favorite name though we are keeping a list as I feel so strange naming him before I see him.
Can I nubsess a bit more? :-)
I saw what hotdogz wrote about shadows and had to google it and now understand that they can make it pretty tricky. I therefore adjusted my pic a bit, made i brighter, bigger and with more contrast to see more of what's going on around the nub.
From what i see there are a lot of thing that can be shadows, both under and over. What do you experts think? Any more clues here?
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Dreaming, don't totally assume you're out just yet. My ultrasound would have been SO confusing if I hadn't wanted complete confirmation of her gender. I SWEAR I saw package there in between the legs! Turns out it was a weird angle on her cord, and the tech paused the screen on a perfect potty shot of a labia. Baby was super squirmy, so without the still shot, my untrained eye didn't catch it. She still didn't show me much of a "hamburger" or 3 lines, but the tech assured me that my Panorama was definitely correct and that this was, without a doubt, a girl.
It's not a bad idea to prepare though. Here's hoping for your happy delivery day surprise! :)
DS1 started 1st grade this week and DS2 will be starting preschool next month. I almost teared up at signing my baby up for his first preschool classes, but DH was a butt about it. He figures that I'm getting another baby, despite the fact that he would have preferred to be done, and so there's no reason to be sad because this isn't the last kid to be sent off to school. Sigh. Every kid is special!
Nub-sess all you want :) I actually enjoy nub finding. I used to guess a ton on the ultrasound forums. But then I started getting tons of inbox messages and then I felt bad for not answering, so I stopped. Lol. I'm only on and off sporadically, so I couldn't keep up (even more reason why I totally admire atomic!)
But anyway, I really, really hesitantly want to lean pink on your nub. Even on the original, with the shadows, I wanted to say they weren't connected to the nub. And with more contrast, I actually think it looks less like they are connected or related to the nub. The part that throws me off is how active baby was. With an active baby, those captures can be off. The shadows appear, throwing everything off. Since you are on my DDC thread, ill tell you that my gut wants to lean pink. But I hate getting people's hopes up on a whim with so many "unknowns." So, don't hold me to it! Lol. I've been wrong plenty of times anyhow. But, if pressed, I'd lean more pink than blue.
Yeah Marika- nubsess away. I love guessing. Yours is a toughy- I would lean pink too though.
Thanks hotdogs and lala!
About the acitivity - I have no idea of exactly when the tech took the images - if it was during a movement or not. Baby was of course not moving the entire time, but it was first turned upside down, then on the head and finally she tried to "push" it right and get good measurements while it was looking to be in right position. Was kind of rolling between lying on back and side.
Oh, I wish I had known to look for a bump on the end, but I didn't really study nub theory that much before. Just looked for the angle or a stacked/long line. And I could only see this thin line showing up every now and then, and my first instinct was it was pretty flat. But I am absolutely not expert and in the beginning I was fully focused on the babys other parts. In fact, I was really emotional (since things didn't go well last time) and I couldn't stop crying until she said baby is alive, has a heartbeat and no signs of abnormalities. So gender at that moment was not priority, even if I am kind of hoping for pink.
But thanks for all opinions, both for blue and pink. I really appreciate them all!
I not an expert marika but I wld also guess girl xx
Thanks for guessing oncue :-)
Of course every pink guess makes me happy but I am still preparing to hear boy at 18 weeks. At this forum most guesses are cautious even if they are leaning pink and believe me, I do listen to the doubts and personally I am not very sure I'll get to hear pink. Posted at a few other places as well and at one forum in particular I got only girl guesses and no hesitations but the ones that stick on my mind most are the others, more hesitating ones. Maye it's a way to protect myself from disappointment and false hopes. The wait for next scan seem so long, but I hope my feeling of gender not being most important will be there even if it shows boy.
Dreaming - saw your post a bit late and first of all; happy to hear baby is doing good! I know it's easier said than done, but I don't think you should put too much weight in what you saw. If tech didn't realize that gender was seen, maybe it wasn't very obvious or shown at all? Thinking he should have avoided it when he knew you didn't wanna know. Keeping my fingers crossed for you!
Ladies! I have a random non gender related question. This is my 2nd pregnancy and I have been feeling WAY more attached and excited this time around. I felt fairly neutral the first time around- maybe because I know how much love we have for our little ones I know what's coming or am I already playing favorites? lol. Any mamas to more than one kiddo get more excited over subsequent pregnancies/babies?
I think I was excited for our first pregnancy and each time it has diminished a little haha! I think that's only because I have less time to think about being pregnant with LOs running around and keeping me busy. We had to do a tour of our hospital today as we don't live in the same area anymore and I think the reality set in that we are having another baby! Hahaha I mean we know we are, but there's always so much going on that this time especially it's so easy to forget!
I probably agree that as u know how much u have, and the fact that u will be giving ur LO a new sibling, it's prob normal to feel more excited! X
I felt super excited about my first son, and with my second it took me about 20 weeks to really connect with him mostly because several friends had miscarriages in the early stages of my pregnancy and I had NO symptoms so I was really nervous all the time, afraid I'd lose him. Is time I've been really excited, maybe because of all the praying and swaying, but I've also been so sick it's given me a lot of comfort that baby's ok. I don't love being pregnant, but there are parts about it where I find a lot of joy.
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Lol- so funny ladies. I think there's probably quite a few women who get less excited with subsequent pregnancies. My last one was especially unexpected so I'm sure that plays a role in it- plus I'm just so dang happy to have a son:-)
I'm sorry I'm not active.
I feel bad. I hope its over soon. I'm so damn tired. I sleep a lot. DH is very sweet. Helps a lot. Cooks takes care of the kids.
I don't have a pressent nausea feeling but its always slightly there.
I started cleaning the kitchen last week and after Five stops bc. of gagging I gave up. Smells make me gag but sometimes just seeing like breakfast cereal make me gag.
I hope I feel better soon. I feel depressed the last few days.
Sweetdream, I was feeling pretty down when I was at my sickest. Now I feel like the ms is easing up (although more like it comes and goes less frequently). But I am still exhausted. I am really hoping for some more energy soon! I am tired of being tired. Fx for you that you feel better soon.
Hey ladies. It's gotten more quiet around here. Just wanted to update everyone. I had my D&C last Wednesday and it went pretty well they found all timorous tissue and no baby at all which is what we were expecting. Yesterday I started bleeding really heavy and ended up in the hospital. ..turns out more tissue passed...Tons of it. I am feeling much better now and hoping it doesn't happen again. Starting in a week or so I have to go in and get my blood checked and will do that frequently to make sure the tissue isn't growing back. After all this mess I'm scared to ever get pregnant again. I'm sure they will tell me to wait at least 6 months so we shall see how I feel then. Emotionally I'm starting to feel better...it's been a long couple of weeks though. Hope everyone else is doing well!
Can you guys start a new thread please?? 150 pages!!
Oh Rosie I'm glad you're doing/feeling better. I hope you do try again. This happening is so rare!
Thanks for the update Rosie! I'm so glad to hear that you're feeling better emotionally- what a crazy ride you have been on!
Rosie, so happy to hear you are doing a little better. I have been thinking of you, it is so sad you had to go through this. I hope your body recovers well and that you wont need any more treatment!
So glad to hear you feeling better Rosie I have been thinking of you xx
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Rosie, so glad to hear you're doing a little better. I'm sure it has been quick an emotional time for you. Thank you for the update and I hope there's no more bleeding and that everything goes as it should for you.
As for me, I'm cross posting this little rant from another board, so sorry if any of your ladies see it twice, but I guess I'm just craving a little compassion and understanding :-)
The past few days have been horrid for me. Sunday, I came down with a mild fever. I thought it was mild at least, until I googled it and it says that your should go to the ER for a fever over 100.4 when pregnant as an elevated temp over that for a period of time can cause miscarriage or increased risk for birth defects such as cleft palate, heart defects, and neural tube defects, such as spina bifida. Great. I called the OB after hours line and she said to treat with Tylenol every 6 hours to keep it down, but that if I couldn't to go into the ER. Ugh... Tylenol seemed to do absolutely nothing for me. At about midnight, my fever hit 101.7, the chills started, and I felt like I had been hit by a bus. I got in a luke warm tub to try and get it lower. I sat there for almost 3 hours as it slowly lowered. I was pretty much freaking out because it wasn't lowering very quickly, yet DH didn't seem worried at all and was more perturbed that I had woken him and asked him to run a bath for me. Nice, right? Then when I mentioned to him while I was sitting in the tub that we might need to go into the ER and that we'd have to call and wake up his parents to get one of them to come over here so we didn't have to wake up our daughter, he said that I should just go by myself. Seriously? Here I was pregnant, shaking with chills from this fever, feeling like absolute garbage, scared we were killing or harming our child, and yet he would rather me drive myself to the damn hospital in the middle of the night rather than wake up his parents, who I know would have come over in an instant! I love my hubby of course, and for the past day while I was sick, he had done everything I asked of him, from making me soup, to taking care of Lyra, to running me the bath, but he's not very compassionate and never once sat down on the bed with me and gave me a hug or comforted me. He's very squeamish and hates germs, so he pretty much just stays away when I'm sick. I found that all I wanted was my mother, lol. Anyway, after almost 3 hours in the tub, my fever finally broke. I ended up dry heaving a ton on the way back to bed, putting me in tears, but after that I was finally able to sleep a few hours, but very restlessly and then went into my regular doctor first thing in the morning. They of course couldn't really pinpoint what it was, but put me on amoxicillin just in case. So far, the fever has not come back and after an entire day in bed yesterday, today, I am finally back to feeling more decently like myself. I have of course checked for the baby's heartbeat frequently since then and have been somewhat reassured that I've been able to find it, although that doesn't mean that it didn't cause some sort of defect, which is so incredibly scary to me. But of course, there's nothing I can do about it now. I just hope that those 2 or 3 hours with the elevated temp didn't do any permanent damage! At the time though, I just didn't know that driving and waiting in the hospital waiting room for almost as long was a better route than the cool bath, and I'm crossing my fingers we made the right decision. Oh, and although the OB nurse said not to use ibprofin, my regular doctor said that you can in the first and second trimester if the tylenol doesn't work to lower a fever. Luckily the fever did not come back so I didn't have to go that route, but still, it was interesting to hear. I just get so frustrated sometimes with night nurses. We took our daughter the ER one night on a night nurse's recommendation because we couldn't get her fever down with alternating advil and tylenol, and all the hospital did was give them both to her at the same time, which did the trick. Of course we ended up paying over $1200 for those bills, when I could have done the exact same thing myself for her at home! I just wish they would tell you that stuff rather than making you go through the ordeal of the ER and all those damn bills! Of course, at the same time, when a nurse tells you to go to the ER, generally speaking, you listen. And my OB nurse pretty much didn't give me any other things to try other than going to the ER if Tylenol every 6 hours didn't do the trick. Really? She didn't even mention the bath, but my mom did when I called her. And the fact that advil could be used if needed would have been nice to know too. I just kept thinking, what is the hospital going to be able to do that I can't? They might put cool compresses on me, but a cool bath at home is essentially the same. They might give me advil in a worst case scenario, but I had that at home as well. Ugh, sorry for the rant, but it just frustrate me that they are so quick to shuffle people off to the ER. The ER is scary and expensive, not to mention full of germs and disease! Oh well, it is what it is now. I do think we made the right choice in that I don't think they could have lowered it any faster than I had, given that I would have had to drive there, wait around to get checked in, etc. From experience, I know it's not as quick as you might think :-( Again, sorry for my rant!! I guess I'm just looking for some compassion and sympathy since I don't get any from DH :-( Thanks for listening ladies!
Hugs, Crazycat! I'm sorry. I have found with my dh, who is an amazing man, kind of needs to be told directly what I want when pregnant because I think he really thinks everything is good when it's not. I have been very sick this time and have had really bad restless leg syndrome/ pained joints and it has really had me over whelmed and when I told dh he's just like "sorry babe"! I think sitting him down and telling him how overwhelming it is to carry this burden alone will help him.
That's good advice Abi :-) Thank you! Hope your issues subside for you soon. I have battled with restless leg syndrome my whole life and it does seem to get worse with pregnancy. I've found that Calm (a magnesium powder you mix with water and drink before bed) helps a ton. I haven't been able to stomach it lately because it's very minerally, but normally it's very easy to drink and I definitely notice a difference. There's also a magnesium oil I got that I spray on my legs before bed that seems to help as well. Good luck!
Oh wonderful, thank you so much! Where do I get the calm? I usually only have it during pregnancy but it's never been this bad. I feel like I can feel very individual bone and muscle in my body!
I get it on Amazon :-) http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_no...-keywords=calm They have a few different flavors and just noticed they also have one with added calcium, which might not be a bad idea during pregnancy.
Oh thank you soooo much.
I'm sorry about your dramatic time crazycat. But, rest assured, I am sure baby will be just fine. I had the flu when I was preggo with DS1 and was flipping out about the fevers that came with it. I had some trouble getting them down at times (thankfully, it was a 48 hour bug), but he was healthy and perfect. I was around 10 weeks, so even less far along as you are. I think fevers are more dangerous the earlier you get them. Since it could affect development. But I'm still sorry you had such an ordeal.
Good luck on Monday Abi! I bet it's smooth sailing and you hear pink. With a girly nub at 13 weeks, I would feel pretty confident it's your girl.
Yes Abi- Calm is awesome PLUS it helps with constipation and digestion issues which I have tons of during pregnancy. My RLS went away after the first trimester- hopefully it will lease up soon for you. Crazycat- you are not alone. Sometimes men just can't grasp what we're going through and have zero idea how nice it is to just simply get help without asking for it. As Abi said, sometimes you just have to voice that nicely and things clear up. I'm so glad to hear you are feeling better though!
Ok great. I really want to try it! Are you sure it's safe for pregnancy? My husband is worried about that. I'm so excited there could be help for it though!
I had my nt scan today. Some relief and some (probably irrational) anxiety from it. Baby has a strong heartbeat and the nt measurement was only 1.6mm which was super relieving for me. The ultrasound tech pointed out the arms, the legs, the forehead, the nose, the hands, etc. we were not detained after the ultrasound, which I took to be a good sign!
Here's the but..... And I know it's crazy talk.... But in the pics she gave me, I can't see the baby's nose, which makes me worry there is no nasal bone. They would have kept us after if it hadn't been detected, right? My Dr will be on holidays when the results come back so I'm not getting results for 2 weeks from now. And would she point out the nose of there was no nasal bone?
I kinda feel like I'm trying to find something to prevent me from enjoying my pregnancy or something. Sigh.
Oh, and the first shot of the nub I saw looked like it was on the rise and stacked, but the next time I saw it, it looked long and flat and no rise at all. So no gender clues.
Angie
Maybe it was just the angle? I think some views look "noseless" depending on how the baby is looking. I'm sure they would have said something!
I agree- I think that's an obvious thing that any tech would see right away. Abi- it's really just magnesium and it's totally safe during pregnancy:-)