September 2013 babies!!

[Salsa]

Can we all post dates of our gender u/s! Anticipation kills me and I like to schedule everything in my head lol... And it will help pass my next 19 sleeps a bit faster

Mine is April 8th!

Mine is April 17th! Feels like a long way still, but we are NOT finding out the gender so mine isnt as exciting as the rest of yours!! Cannot wait to hear how the rest of you go

[Mum to three girls]

Good luck Northern!

Well I had my nuchal today at 12+3, or 12+0 (I've posted it in USS pics) and feel exhausted now. Overall my risk of trisomies is still "low risk" but much higher than it was with the others. It's not just my age either, the bloods gave me a 1:30 risk of Down Syndrome although this risk hugely improved after my normal scan. I feel worried though and DH and I are in the midst of a huge chat of what to do... THe Maternit21 test is now available in Australia but REALLY expensive but obviously pretty accurate and non invasive. I'm booked in to have it done on Monday but may still change my mind. The fetal medicine specialist didn't seem to concerned but gave us all our options; I do think it's his job not to sway people with their decision making.

DH is reassured by my overall risk but I'm fretting and he's trying to be rational which isn't my strong point at the moment.

The first thing I saw during the nuchal was a long, flat forked girly looking nub and I felt very deflated but then a second later it seemed more angled so the whole hour was very tense. The baby was very active so the fetal medicine specialist finished off (and he always liked to scan brains and hearts himself) and offered to give us a gender guess if we were interested. DH was so nervous that I realised how much it all meant to him. Anyway, the specialist kept on scanning and I thought he'd forgotten about the gender altogether when he said that he'd been going to say boy but some shots threw him whereupon he showed us the world's girliest looking nub. Two seconds later he showed us how "boy" it looked and he said that given that he wasn't 100% sure he didn't want to hazard a guess.

Ill try to attach the only 2D pic we got.

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[Northern_Shutterbug]

Thanks Mum, and I'm sorry about your risk news. I'm terrified about this low PAPP level but until late in the second trimester they won't even monitor it.

I'd be doing the Materni21 test if we could afford it and my risks were high. I admire people that could cope with a child with DS or other genetic disorders, but we personally couldn't do it, especially with having two children already, we just don't think it would be fair.

I wish you all the best.

[Thorz300]

Mum, I really hope all turns out well!!

In this pic the nub looks boy!

[Mum to three girls]

Thanks, "risk" is a funny thing to quantify, isn't it? My overall risk is still ok but I'm not sure I'll be able to relax until I have a normal result.

[Mum to three girls]

I think it looks boyish as well but at times it looked so girly!

Your turn tomorrow Thorz! And Northern, must be soon? It's Thursday night in Aussie.

[fish2012]

Northern how did you sleep?!

Mum to three lovely to see your passenger at last xx

[Wanting-a-girl]

Mum I think you have a boy cooking in there

[Northern_Shutterbug]

I actually slept really well and didn't even have any weird dreams!

7.5 hours left!

[Wanting-a-girl]

Yay that's awesome! Glad you slept well! Can't wait