Belle, I only realized this morning your scan is today, good luck!!
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Belle, I only realized this morning your scan is today, good luck!!
Oh girls, today was an experience. First of all Im glad all looked healthy. The tech was not helpful at all she almost refused to give me a nub shot but I almost cried and refused to leave, so she gave me two without my baby's head (stupid b%^&*) she did that on purpose. I also wanted a potty shot which I know can still be similar at this stage and boy do I regret that shot just look at it. I added in a picture of the skull incase anyone is familiar with that theory. Please take a look and give me your honest opinions I've just posted them on the ultrasound board.
Indira good luck with you tomorrow... I'll be thinking of you and hoping for a better experience for you then mine.
Belle Iīm sorry the tech was such a ******.
For having an unhelpful tech you good some pretty good and clear pictures though!
I posted on the ultrasound board, she looks very girly!!
I wonīt be asking specifically for a nub shot or a potty shot tomorrow, too scared! I will just look at whatever is there to see.
Belle, sorry to hear about your bad experience! I don't understand why some medical staff are so rude! (It's their job!)
Looked at your pictures on the ultrasound board. I don't think it gets any more girly than that!! You must be so excited! :cheer:
belle it looks very girly to me...:) how exciting.....!!!
good luck to everyone else with your scans, fingers crossed for lots of pink bits...:)
Girls to be honest I was excited to see the nub but when I saw the potty shot BOY just came to my head. Doesn't it look like balls and a penis? So I'm back to square one. Everyone has guessed girl so I'm hoping your all right but you can't help but feel like it can't be if ykwim.
Indira thinking of you today honey, we have to think positive.
Applesoup stop knitting that blue beanie Monday is your day. Praying for all of us to get a clean run on pink, well whoever wants the pink that is.
Dannikins and applesoup you both look really good, very neat bellies.
Indira, how'd your scan go?
Belle I donīt get skull shape theory but I think your babyīs face looks girly too!
:bigsmile: I agree, you have to start a new one on Monday anyway!Quote:
Originally Posted by Belle
Thanks for thinking about me girls.
So basically I didnīt see the nub. She didnīt measure NT, the scan was like 3 seconds! The baby was lying upside down so I needed that time to understand where his head and where his feet were, didnīt see any nub and whoops, she already pulled the scan thing out! I did get a picture but I canīt post it now, Iīm in a hotel for schooling tomorrow, when I get home on Sunday I will scan it and show you.
The picture isnīt very clear and I think thereīs no nub. The baby has a curved spine and you donīt really see the profile either.
At first I was very disappointed that I didnīt get a nice picture with a profile and that the scan was so quick that I didnīt even feel connected with the baby, you know that happy feeling when you see your baby.
Afterwards however I enjoyed watching the picture and got feminine vibes looking at it (I know it is risky to allow myself to feel this). And I was happy knowing Iīm still on team green and that it still might be a girl. Seeing a straight boy nub was my biggest fear and that didnīt happen.
Then I realised if I donīt see a nub in this picture then thatīs probably because it isnīt flat but sticking up and the leg is covering it!
After looking 2000 times at this pic (God Iīm going insane!) my conclusion is (besides that the dad must be an alien) that the baby is directed with his back towards the īcameraī so few changes we can see a nub. There is a small white thing in the lower area that better not be the nub, īcause itīs pointing up 120 degrees but itīs in a weird place.
Oh and now I know this dr. wonīt do any prenatal risk test, Iīm fine with that, but I have to find where I can get a good 20-22 week scan.
Now I have to go nubsess and compare..
:fingers:Quote:
Originally Posted by Indira
Sorry to hear that she didn't let you see the baby longer. I don't know why they always rush those first few scans? The trans-vaginal ultrasound is really awkward too. You'd think they'd spent 10 seconds turning the ultrasound screen towards you & say "see? here's your baby!" At least you got a picture! Sorry there's no nub, but maybe that's a good thing? After all, you'd spend the next 7 weeks obsessing if everyone's right or not! Let us know when you post the picture!
I can't believe there's only 3 days until my ultrasound. We're stuck on boy names. So stuck that DH (who said he'd spend time thinking about it) suggested a name that was written on the storage room wall in our basement. :rolleyes: The kicker, it had 60% of the same letters as 2 of our sons names! grrrrrrrrrrrrr. DH told me he's "bored" of boy names. NO KIDDING! :shrug:
Sorry Iīm laughing but that is so funny!Quote:
Originally Posted by applesoup
I hope your weekend will fly by.
I canīt wait to hear your news Monday :fingers:
O yes no nub is a good thing.
And Iīm having indeed a wonderful evening nubsessing :) Iīm only page 7 of the ultrasound gender board so a lot more to go. And now I think the white thing on my picture isnīt the nub but the coccyx, thatīs good news.
Indira so happy to hear from you glad it's over and all went well and you couldn't see an obvious nub, that's a good thing. This nubsessing is going to eat us all alive! why didn't she take nt measurements thoroughly? Mine I think went for 15 minutes or so.
Applesoup you can't find a boy name because there is no need.
I posted the picture in the ultrasound board!
Yeah the nubsessing is going to kill me! But a lot of fun too. Belle they didnīt do measurements because itīs not a standard procedure here, I didnīt knew that. Itīs the first time Iīm having a baby in this country.
Applesoup at what time is your scan tomorrow? I actually start feeling nervous when I think about it, 3 boysī mums have very good rates on here for their 4 th :fingers:
Hi Indira, looked at your scan. Ultrasounds can look wonky really quick--especially when the tech isn't trying to get a good picture. Baby looks normal, but I didn't see a nub. Sorry! (Or, maybe that's a good thing?)
My scan is really late tomorrow. It's supposed to start at 7:30 ET (I actually live in MT, but thought it'd be easier to convert for ya'll.) I actually have to check into the hospital, wear a bracelet, & wait on their perpetually late staff to get me in. They've never gotten me in on time. So...by the time I have my scan, pick up my kids, get home, put them in bed & look at it...and cry about it...it may be 11 ET before I get to post about it. We'll see.
Thanks for your good thoughts. I just. I'm at the point where I just. I don't want to think about what's next. If it's a boy, what then? Honestly, part of me wants my husband to go get a vasectomy & just be done. I'll just be so hurt & devastated to hear boy that I'll just be done. Do any of you feel like you could hit that point? But if I'm done, then what then? I spend my life eternally wishing & sad that I don't have a daughter? UGGGGGGGGGGH.
I hope you guys are right. I can't convince myself it's a girl, yet I'm still going to be really upset to have them TELL me it's a boy.
Thanks for having a look, yes, no nub is good!
I converted it and I will be thinking of you at that time.
I completely understand what you mean with how youīre feeling. I donīt know how to respond to that, I donīt want to diminish your feelings about wanting a daughter. Iīve read from some all boy moms saying that the longing for a daughter does get less with time, at a certain point other things happen and become more important as our kids grow up. I will try to see the advantages of having an all boy family and I know I could be proud about it in the end. To prepare for the possible disappointment Iīm really working hard at focusing at and enjoying all the positive things about my boys, DS2 in his caracter is totally how I imagined a daughter to be. I actually got the child that I was hoping for, except for wearing dresses. How I hope you can forget about all this tomorrow :fingers::fingers::fingers:
goodluck apple!!!!!
we will be stalking the thread waiting for your PINK update.....:)
Thanks, girls! Not sure how I'm going to sleep tonight...or not totally lose it all day tomorrow...or if I'm really going to be able to wait to read the card that she writes it down on. Part of me just wants to see it with my own eyes--especially since I'm so good at reading ultrasounds. I'd be devastated if they told me girl & it came out boy... So many worries. Is it really realistic to find peace with this whole thing if I never get my desired gender?
Indira, I think you're right. The more kids we have & the older they get, there will reach a point when it'll just make more sense to focus on what I do have. But won't the pain be there still? It's hard not to be slapped with the opportunities I don't get...especially when adorable girl scouts show up on my front door selling cookies...like they did today...
it is totally realistic to find peace with it!
i know a few ladies in the same situation.
they say that once the boys grow up, and i gain all these daughter in laws, it will all change.
and apparently the mother-in-law/daughter-in-law relationship is always a good one when the mother in law never had daughters.
this also happens to be correct for me, my hubby was an only child, and his mother wanted a daughter her whole life.
she never got one obviously, but she treats me as her own, and we get along really well.
Applesoup I'm glad I didn't miss out on wishing you the very best of luck and were all here thinking of you. I'm a day ahead of you I'll have to check back on Tuesday FX XO
I love reading this. I am a bit worried that I wonīt be closed to my sonīs families and daughter in laws, but thatīs based on my own relationship with my MIL that is okay but not that great, but DH is one of a pigeon pair.Quote:
Originally Posted by dannikins
Me and DH always get a bit of a feeling that MIL has a preference over her own daughter and those grandchildren (another pigeon pair ofcourse). Not that Iīm jealous of the PP, Iīm glad we donīt have a PP in the end, the ones I know donīt bond as much as same gender siblings.
So dannikins what you wrote really gives me hope!
Indira I just saw your baby and it's so cute and I'm glad all looks normal. I don't know much on the skull theory but comparing it yours doesn't look masculine
Thanks Belle, I hadnīt thought about looking at the skull yet, I will now :)
Well. Waiting for the banana bread in the oven. Wake kids up. Drive forever to babysitter's house. Drink a ton of liquid. Drive forever back to hospital. Check in, sign tons of paper work, sit nervously. Wait for ultrasound tech who's first question will be, "Do you want to know the gender??" & "How many boys do you have at home?" Lay down. Pray I don't lose it & baby shows itself clearly. Last thing I need is a shy baby!
I'm so nervous, it's starting to affect my GI tract. I can't help but think about the first time I had an ultrasound. I was so excited just to find out who'd be joining our lives & who was inside of me. We asked everyone their guesses on gender. We called everyone immediately after finding out. It was an exciting day. No worries. No dreading. No tears.
the funny thing? I wasn't excited to hear "boy" that time. I was "ok" with boy, but my first thought was, "I'll have a girl next time." I was really shocked that the thought crossed my mind. Now? "next time" has turned into thinking "never." I just need to knock any thought of girl out of my head before this ultrasound. I need to know it's a boy before I walk in there. Then, maybe, I won't cry in the room.
If you pray, please pray I'll have strength. Thankfulness. And immediate love & bonding with my baby.
Praying for pink wouldn't hurt either. :XX:
crossing everything for you ...:)
and im sure you will love your little one to bits and pieces, no matter whats between the legs.
By the grace of God, it's a GIRL!!!!:XX::awe:
SO shocked. SO excited!! I'll post a picture in the ultrasound forum just to make sure you all agree!
huge congrats, :)
see, we all told you, you were worrying for nothing!
now you can go out and buy all that pink stuff you have been eyeing off...:)
Applesoup I've posted on the other board but just wanted to congratulate you again I'm so happy for you how is your husband feeling? Have you told the kids and other people sorry I love details take care hon and go shopping xo
Thanks girls! I'm really hope my pink wears off on you girls too! :HH:
DH is in denial...cautious denial. He didn't know what to look for & I had to explain it to him when we got home. I'm not sure I'll believe it either until the baby comes out as a SHE!
We're a little anxious since the ultrasound showed a cord around the neck. I know this happens a lot, I'm just not sure how tight it is...how many times around...and how much jumping around the baby will do. The baby wasn't moving very much in the ultrasound either...it's still a little early...but has me worried. Measured perfectly on schedule. 18 wks 0 days.
Our boys were really excited--especially my oldest. I don't think our gender preference rubbed off...I think he just did the math and decided we needed another girl. (I agree!)
We'll tell our families this week...probably tomorrow. I need to go buy some PINK shoes & take a picture with the boys' feet.
:cheer::cheer::cheer::cheer::cheer::cheer:
YAY!!!!!!!! I am so happy for you !!! Congratulations! I love seeing 3 boys moms get their girl, because itīs what you deserve! I was actually tearing up when I saw your pink GIRL, I can so immagine how you must feel now knowing it is a girl and how you would have felt if it had been a boy.
Enjoy!
I think your baby will be okay with the cord, Iīve read that one of every fourth baby has that when they are in the uterus, itīs only at birth I think that it can become dangerous.
I love the idea of the pink shoes with your boyīs shoes:awe:
Huge congratulations Apple, so super happy for you, you must be over the moon!
enjoy buying pink! So glad you didn't have to go through all that GD and your dream came true, enjoy every minute :HH:
Reading all your posts has now got me worried about my scan next week, eeek, can't believe I am here again. So nervous to see a nub. Really trying to get my head around this being a boy (feels totally boy) but of course there is this teeny bit of hope. I knew at ds2's scan that he was a boy from his nub so I'm pretty sure I will know this time next week.
congratulations Applesoup! so happy for you!
Lots of HUGS, Indigo. And apparently I have some pink dust to pass on to all of you. :HH: I really hope that we're the board where EVERYONE hears pink!Quote:
Originally Posted by indigoviolet
Thanks for your congrats, ladies. I really can't believe it. Went to the store & bought PINK shoes today for our announcement. We'll announce via e-mail picture to our families tonight. Eek! Part of me wanted to wait until the end to announce it's a girl, but I'm just ready to move past all of my GD bitterness.
All I can think about is the umbilical cord around her neck. I need to e-mail my DR.
So...Indigo is going to get a scan (when's your scan?). Belle, Indira, & Dannikins have already had your scans, right? Anyone else?
ohhh i absolutely love that applesoup! such a great idea!!!! :)
Aaah I love the pic applesoup!
Must be a great feeling to finally be able to spread pink dust :)
Great that your scan is coming up Indigo, so we have another one to get excited about and obsess over :)
When is your scan? Did you post your sway?
Littlemisswilko will you have a scan at 13 weeks?
applesoup, love the picture!! what a great idea! :)